Mink Car Collage

While mixtapes are a bit trite, I've always liked the fact that they were 90 minutes and, like vinyl, have two sides. The two-parts is a feature I've always enjoyed, and some artists take advantage of this, even in cd form (listen to Modest Mouse's Good News...). Mixtapes often have this uniqueness to them, similar to vinyl, but still quite distinct. The remix idea of albums is something else I haven't explored much, but I'd like to give it a shot, especially since I claim so often to be better at production than writing itself.

The ultimate idea, I suppose, is to take the tracks from the Mink Car companion, and make a full tape of the audio, but blurring the edges, and mixing the songs together, possibly using some samples from the original audio. The final result would be a sort of collage of the companion, wherein the distinct elements still exist, but in a sea of sounds. You'd still get the bulk of the main tracks, but with little extras here and there. It'd also probably help weed out a little bit of the repetitiousness of 5 versions of Hovering Sombrero, not counting the original version.

There's a few other tracks I might mix in or sample, if I ever get around to it, specifically some remixes, and a couple of live tracks, such as performances on Conan.

Hey, my tape deck needs to be used for something these days.

Update: 60 songs including the original album tracks. I still might be missing two though, from what I know, but 60 is such a round number. This is without repeats, by the way for sure. Songs for which I only have the album version: Yeh Yeh, Hopeless Bleak Despair, My Man, Your Mom's Alright. Alternate releases seem to just be the same versions with more blank time on the edges, or slightly less mixing. Discounting the original Mink Car tracks, the whole thing is about 100 minutes, but considering large chunks of songs are superfluous, it looks like 90 minutes is an achievable goal.