SAP Music Christmas Mix 2021

Happy Christmas!  It is Christmas music time again and I think I've got a fun mix or holiday merriment to kick of this holiday season.  This year has a lot more modern Christmas tunes than I've ever included before.  I realized that in the last 20-30 years there actually have been a lot of fun Christmas tunes released and I don't get to listen to them much each year because I don't have them on any of my mixes, which is what I tend to put on each year.  So this year I made a conscious effort to program a lot of "modern" artists into the mix.  I realize that something that is 20-30 years old isn't actually modern, but I think you know what I mean.  Don't worry, there are still some older tracks and some nostalgic commercials and video clips to keep things interesting.

Tracks are listed on the artwork and again I am providing links to various formats for your listening pleasure. You can have the mix broken into 30 individual tracks or I have to files here that have everything in one big file.  You can choose between MP3 or the Apple iTunes format.  So Enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

Download here: SAP Music Christmas Mix (broken into 30 m4a tracks) 2021
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: SAP Music Christmas Mix 2021 MP3
Entire mix in one m4a track: SAP Music Christmas Mix 2021 m4a


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SAP Music Halloween Mix 2021

Happy Halloween everyone!  This year I started this mix nice and early.  Working from home has been great in terms of giving me more time for projects like my music mixes and other projects so I was able to start this mix back in May and I finished up in June.  I was so far ahead of the game that when it came down to the artwork I decided it was time to actually draw something.  I came up with this idea of the Bride of Frankenstein holding the hand of a child "monster" like a mother early one morning and this is the resulting drawing.  I'm pretty happy with it.  I framed the original sketch so that I could put it up for Halloween.

This year's mix as per usual is a mix or music and trailers and movie clips.  I think I have more trailer clips than usual this year.  I think this also was the result of the pandemic and having more time on my hands to scout youtube for clips.  Tracks are listed on the artwork and again I am providing links to various formats for your listening pleasure. You can have the mix broken into 45 individual tracks or I have to files here that have everything in one big file.  You can choose between MP3 or the Apple iTunes format.  So Enjoy.

Happy Halloween!

Download here: SAP Music Halloween Mix (broken into 45 m4a tracks) 2021
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: SAP Music Halloween Mix 2021 MP3
Entire mix in one m4a track: SAP Music Halloween Mix 2021 m4a


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Hold Music Volume 18

This is a mix that I actually have been working on for several weeks.  I started it before I had the idea for volume 17, which I threw together in one afternoon after having the idea.  This mix represents a broad spectrum of the music I've been listening to the last six months or so.  There is quite a bit of music that is me digitizing old vinyl records this past year.  There are several tracks from 78s.  

Another interesting track from a record I thought I'd share the background to is the Doug Kershaw track.  This past month I decided I was going to digitize a bunch of records that I had together in a box in my record room vaguely under folk music.  Now the things in that box aren't all really folk music, but they were sort of unclassifiable, or to be honest I just hadn't listened to the records closely enough to know where they should be filed.  There are few tracks from that box on this mix.  The last track with is some steel drumming music.  I had some records by Guela Gill that I digitized as well and one track "La Mer, L'Amour Et La Mort" shows up on here.  In that box was a record by Doug Kershaw. I digitized that record and within the week a friend of mine recommended the "Cocaine and Rhinestones" podcast which is a podcast about the history of country music.  I was super excited to see that there was an episode in the first season dedicated to Doug and his brother Rusty.  So that album that I had just digitized because I liked it and found it really interesting suddenly got really, really interesting after listening to the podcast.  This album that I had thrown in with other folk and world music because I think I had just thought it must be a "Cajun" record turned out to be much more than that.  That is a long way to say, the record was great and that is why I put "Diggy Diggy Lo" on this mix.

You'll also see quite  few tracks from the 60s and that is because I am still working my way through that 1001 albums to hear before you die list and so there are some tracks from those albums.

There are also some newer tracks of things that I've been into or have come across and stood out to me in 2021.  I made an insert for this as if this could go onto a CD, but to be honest the mix runs closer to two hours and so this would never fit onto a CD.  I guess I just like doing the format.  So as always, enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 18 (Broken into 33 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 181

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Hold Music Volume 17

Volume 17 of this series was created as a music challenge for my coworkers.  All the tracks are instrumentals and the challenge was to identify them from the single MP3 of the entire mix.  As you can see all the artists are pretty major artists and the tracks are a mixture of deep cut album cuts and B-sides.  Feel free to download and do a similar challenge with your friends. Of simply download and enjoy the music.

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 17 (Broken into 21 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 171

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SAP Music Summer Mix 2021

I'm back.  I spent the last few weeks since my last posting working on the Halloween and Christmas mixes for this year.  I am happy to say that I have squared them away and I am excited to share those later this year.  I am also happy that it has freed me up to work on some more immediate mixes.  For the Summer Mix this year I decided to work around the theme of songs from films from the 1980s.  The inspiration for the theme was that i was watching Dragnet recently and the Dragnet music in the film was so 80's and loved it.  I also had also recently watched Rocky IV which also has some quintessential 80s sounding music.  And that just made me think of all the great movie tunes from the 80s and so I started pulling together some tunes.  Next thing I knew I was making a playlist and I decided it was going to be the basis for the Summer mix.  I had to cut the list down to fit into 80 minutes.  I know no one is going to burn this to a CD these days, but I still like working with that restriction sometimes.  So have fun with this slice of nostalgia and have fun identifying the films these tunes are from.  Some of obvious while others may be a little more obscure.  Have fun and as always, enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: SAP Music Summer Mix 2021 (Broken into 22 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: SAP Music Summer Mix 2021

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Hold Music Volume 16

Volume 16 is the last part of the trilogy.  Volumes 14, 15 and 16 were originally put together as one huge playlist.  But after putting the 75 tracks together I thought it probably would be best to break it up into 3 volumes.  So if you want the full epic musical journey, play these three mixes back to back.  It may be a beat before I put together another one of these Hold Music mixes because I'm going to go into Halloween and then Christmas mode in terms of searching for music and putting together mixes.  I may also try and put together a Summer mix before returning to the Hold Music series.  So until then...

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 16 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 16.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 15

This is the continuation of Volume 14.  It continues with the pop music where volume 14 left off and then moves a little darker and end with a series of instrumental pieces.  It definitely continues the musical journey and has something from each of the last 6 decades of music.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 15 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 15.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 14

This is a mix I made just this last week.  I finally finished all of that FLAC file converting and labeling and so last weekend, I started mapping out some mixes.  It started as one big long playlist, but then I decided to break that up into smaller mixes.  25 tracks seemed to be a good number and the run time is a about 86 minutes.  This one is heavier on rock, but there are some other things thrown in there for variety.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 14 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 14.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 13

I spent a good portion of the month of April labeling and converting FLAC files.  To give myself a break from all the researching and labeling I made a new mix.  I started pulling this together Sunday April 18th and then worked on it through Monday and published it out to friends by the end of the day.  I had several hundred songs set aside for a mix and so it was just a matter of pulling songs for a flow.  This reflects some of the recent pop songs I like as well as some of the old tunes I've been listening to.  

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 13 (Broken into 50 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 13.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 12

Somewhere in mid February after shortly after finishing volume 11, I thought about putting together a playlist of songs with a song for every state.  It took a few weekends to pull it all together, but by March 9th, I finished. This volume 12 is the result of that work.  50 songs for 50 states with a few bonus tracks.  The mix clocks in at almost 162 minutes which is the longest volume to date.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 12 (Broken into 54 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 12.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 11

I released this mix of songs less than a week after "Volume 10" because I wanted to get it out before Valentine's Day.  I had been listening to a lot of jazz and blues at the time.  My wife and I had been rewatching the Ken Burns documentary Jazz at lunch, so I was listening to a lot of Louis Armstrong.  Then because of my 1001 Albums project I has been listening to a bunch of other jazz and for whatever reason that lead me to wanting to throw together a mix of the blues for Valentine's Day weekend.  I got the idea for the mix the day after finishing volume 10.  I spent a bunch of hours Sunday afternoon listening through a whole lot of music and setting aside candidates.  Then early the following Wednesday I got up and sequences the tracks, mixed them together and made some artwork all before work.  I shared it with coworkers the following day after I had listened through it and thought it was ready to share.  It all came together quite quickly, but I was really happy with the results.  

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 11 (Broken into 33 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 11.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 10

This mix is from early February 2021.  At this point I was on a roll with making these mixes.  I was doing a lot of clean up of music files on my computer and I had amassed a lot of songs that I set aside for mixes.  So I had a large pool to pull from.  Plus I has just gotten the new Weezer and John Carpenter releases and I wanted to share some tracks from those records.  Also in February I started listening to albums from the "1001 Albums You Should Hear Before You Die" book.  I started listening to an album a day with some coworkers.  From that project I listened to Fats Domino and Buddy Holly and The Crickets and so they make appearances here.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 10 (Broken into 24 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 10.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 9

"Hold Music Volume 9" followed pretty quickly on the heels of "Volume 8" because I kind of put it together at the same time.  While making "Volume 8" I was going to have some instrumental tracks, but I ended up pulling them out and started putting them into another mix which ended up being "Volume 9."  I still ended up using tracks I had used before because I still had not gone back to all the previous volumes and broken them down to see what exactly I had used before.  So the opening track by the Grateful Dead is an instrumental, but I had used the album track before.  Originally Track 8 was a track from "Tales From The Loop" that I had used before.  Once I realized that I swapped in the Max Richter track.  Overall I think the flow works and is a nice mix to work to.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 9 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 9.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 8

There was another long gap between volume 7 and volume 8.  I made this mix in January and by this time I realized I needed to start listing what was on the mixes so that I didn't repeat myself.  This mix just reflects a lot of the music I was listening to at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021.  There are some current pop songs.  There is some Bee Gees because I had recently watch the Bee Gees documentary on HBO.  

At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 I watched a bunch of Elvis movies and listened to a whole lot of his records.  The track on this mix was a new discovery for me.

Also at the time I was going down a Dwight Yoakam rabbit hole listening to a lot of his music for the first time.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 8 (Broken into 24 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 8.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 7

The artwork for this mix is a photo I took in October, but the mix wasn't made until November.  After the previous epic release there was a gap of a couple months.  By November I was ready to put something new together.  This mix reflects a lot of music from films I had been watching.  Tony! Toni! Toné came from watching "House Party II."  David Bowie is from "Labyrinth".  Jerry Blaine was "Blood of Dracula."  There are also tracks from "Bill And Ted Face The Music", "Grease II", "The Apple", "Thank God It's Friday" and "Explorers" which were all films I had watched around this time.  The Bob Hope and Bing Crosby track wasn't because I had watched the particular Road movie from which that song came, but I had just watched "Road to Bali."  L7 makes an appearance because I watched a documentary on them last spring had been listening through their catalog and so I finally found a place for one of their songs on this mix. 

This mix also has the repeat inclusion of "Here She Comes" by Slowdive.  I know that was because I forgot that I had used the track before.

The track by The Hu was included because I had just purchased that record and wanted to share it. Other recent purchases at the time were records by Khrungbin and Tones and I so they make appearances as well.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 7 (Broken into 36 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 7.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 6

After "Hold Music Volume 5" I was on a roll and had a whole lot more music to share.  And I do mean a LOT OF MUSIC.  This is like two and a half hours of music. 

I also started playing around more with Garageband at this time and I wanted to share my experiments.  This mix starts off with a loop that I made one evening, just to teach myself how to actually do something like that.  Later in the mix I played around with a track by 101 Strings to learn more about Garageband.  In the end I feel like made something kind of cool.

Another thing that was happening last summer was that I spent the month of June digitizing all the 78s in my collection.  I then spent the next 6 months cleaning up, and labeling all the tracks.  From that project I got really into Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys because I had a bunch of his records that I only first listened to last year.  So there is a Bob Wills track on here.  

There is also a track from a Godzilla film, because last summer I bought the Criterion collection of Godzilla films and my wife and I were watching all the films in order.  That was a fun journey and so "Go! Go! Godzilla" made it onto the mix.  

There is a track from Judy Garland because I watched the movie "Judy" around this time and so she was on my mind.  

There is a track from Coriky which at the time was a record I had just gotten in the mail.  I ordered it earlier in the summer and it took a month or two to arrive.

Tracks from "True Romance" are at the beginning and end of the mix because I rewatched that film last summer and was revisiting Hans Zimmer's score.

For some reason I put the non remix version of "Favourite Shirts" by Haircut 100 after putting the remix on a previous mix.  I honestly can't remember if I did that consciously of whether that was a case of just forgetting.  It is worth noting that when I was initially making these mixes I was releasing them as one track and I wasn't publishing any sort of track listings.  So there are times where I forgot that I had used a track.  So there are tracks that show up on multiple mixes.  Besides the Haircut 100 track, the Le Matos track shows up later.  The Tiny Deaths track was used on Volume 4.  And the Tales from the Loop track was on the first version of Volume 9, but by that time I realized I needed to track what was on the mixes better and I replaced it and so it isn't on the final version.  It was also at that point where I thought I could break up the tracks, make track listings and post this on this blog.  I then spent a couple weekends prepping this mixes to share and so here we are.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 6 (Broken into 48 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 6.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 5

In August of 2020 my wife went out of town to help my daughter  and son in law move into a new apartment.  That weekend I went to a thrift store where records were on sale for ten cents.  I bought a box full of records and spent the day scanning through them for interesting tracks for a mix.  The project started mid afternoon and I was listening and digitizing tracks into the wee hours of the night.  The next day, Sunday, I took the fruits of my labors and made this mix.  So the music really is all over the place, but is all from ten cent records from that haul.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 5 (Broken into 28 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 5.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 4

Baby Yoda made another appearance for the artwork of an "Hold Music Mix."  In May and June of 2020 I was taking a lot of photos of Baby Yoda in so I ended up using some of the photos for my mixes.  This mix was thrown together in July.  There was a gap between volume 3 and volume 4 because I was working on the Halloween Mix for 2020 and a SAP Music Summer Mic.  By mid July I was back to the "Hold Music" series.

At this point in the summer, Covid fatigue was hitting the world and Black Lives Matters owned the headlines and riots were affecting cities across the country. So a lot of this music reflects some of the feelings and frustrations swirling at the time.  It serves as a nice time capsule of the summer of 2020..

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 4 (Broken into 38 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 4.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 3

"On Hold Mix Volume 3" has a bunch of tracks from vinyl records I was listening to and digitizing May of 2020.  I remember listening to a lot of The Supremes and digitizing all of the records that I owned.  There are also a bunch of tracks from Jazz records that I was digitizing at the time. Ray Martin, Maynard Ferguson, Sonny Rollings, Tom Scott & L.A. Express, Grover Washington Jr. and Sergio Mendes were all artists whose albums I was listening to around that time.  The Paul Williams track is on here because I watched a Paul Williams documentary on Amazon around this time and so I was listening to his music and digitized one of the records from the collection.  In looking back I can see that I reused some a couple of these tracks on future mixes.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 3 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 3.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 2

This is the second "Hold Music Mix" that I made last year.  If I remember correctly a lot of these tracks were things I was listening to at the time and were tracks I was playing before meetings with coworkers.  I made this one fairly soon after the first one, in May.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 2 (Broken into 28 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 2.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 1

Last year when we entered into quarantine and started working from home I began playing music on an open mic before video call meetings for work.  I thought of the music as music for everyone while we were on hold waiting for a meeting to start.  The early birds to the calls seemed to enjoy the music.  By May I decided I could put some music together in a mix to share with them.  This is the first mix I made and I named it "Hold Music Volume 1" because I knew this was going to be a series.  This first mix doesn't hold with some of my usual rules of not repeating artists on a mix.  That was because I was putting this together around May The Fourth and Cinco De Mayo and so putting on multiple Star Wars tracks or Yolanda Del Rio was less of a concern.  Also at the time I thought I'd never be sharing this beyond sharing with coworkers.  Also when I first made this I release is as one MP3 track and I didn't give any listing for the songs on the mix.  The other tracks on the mix were songs I had played before meetings around this time.  

Over the coming weeks I will be sharing all the "On Hold" mixes I've made.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 1 (Broken into 30 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 1.mp3

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