I absolutely love sending and receiving mixed CDs — so I used this ‘signment as an excuse to compile a materialities/mail-related mix to send to you via this blog.

Link to mix (it wouldn’t embed for some reason): http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Materialities+Mix/96473783

Rather, I meant to arrange song titles to mimic a letter, but the intention traveled, and now it’s more of a materialities-of-travel mix, which I suppose is still appropriate to the idea of sending? I tried — and yes, I was inspired to make this after a weekend of music exchanges in long car rides thanks to Cs this past weekend.

Normally when making a mixed CD, it takes hours to factor in every consideration: how well the song titles, lyrics, songs themselves, etc. work alongside each other, along with the individual music tastes of my music-exchange partner(s), among other things. For this mix, I tried not to be obsessive, and sorted my music mostly by song titles relating to mail/networks/materialities (and thus apologize if I overlooked vastly inappropriate lyrics, clashing songs, etc.)…

I’ll burn the tracks onto a blank CD to make it a non-digital thing, as well — I’ll probably fidget with the tracks a bit beforehand — suitable for long car rides in the future. The faux album cover as follows is tribute to my first-year comp friends — I dedicate this mix to you, especially, as materialities of travel caused unexpected hijinks in our conference adventures last weekend.

Enjoy — or something like it!