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.

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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.  

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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.

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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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