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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