On Wednesday I finished my response mixtape to my friend Travis. The mix was a two parter, as I felt like I needed to give him one mix of “hardcore” stuff and a second of non-aggressive/heavy/screamy music so to more fully show my tastes. The first mix proved a bit difficult. I realized while putting songs in iTunes and auditioning their transitions that tons and tons of songs begin and/or end with guitar feedback noise. This fact made it kind of difficult to have one song seamlessly skip to the next. Lucky for me, and thanks to Travis for pointing this out, in iTunes I can set a songs beginning and ending times. I was able to trim a few moments off the beginning and endings of songs that were swelled in harsh feedback, as well as speed up fade outs or portions of silence. What a convenient little trick. Anyway, here’s a list of the songs I put on the mix:

1.) “Just Do It” by Breather Resist from Only in the Morning.
2.) “Suicide Soundtrack” by Scarlet from Cult Classic.
3.) “Framce” by Botch from An Anthology of Dead Ends.
4.) “Gleamer” by Intronaut from Void.
5.) “There Will Be No More Scum” by Frodus from And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea.
6.) “The Deadly Rhythm” by Refused from The Shape of Punk to Come.
7.) “Gift” by Old Man Gloom from Christmas.
8.) “Eagles Become Vultures” by Converge from You Fail Me.
9.) “Guignol Serene” by Trap Them from Seizures in Barren Praise.
10.) “Go Ape” by Spitfire from Self-Help.
11.) “Hexagram” by the Deftones from their self-titled LP.
12.) “I Hate Almost Every Person I Come In Contact With” by Curl Up and Die from We May Be Through With the Past… EP.
13.) “43% Burnt” by the Dillinger Escape Plan from Calculating Infinity.
14.) “Mirrorf***** ” by Young Widows from Settle Down City.
15.) “January 1979″ by mewithoutYou from Catch For Us the Foxes.
16.) “D.E.A.D.R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” by Modern Life is War from Witness.
17.) “Cayman Tongue” by Cave In from their brand new EP Planets of Old.

Overall I’m pretty satisfied. For my taste in hardcore and metal it was pretty difficult to get the mix to breath a little and not have every song hit like a sledgehammer. I also included a few cuts that I hoped my intended audience would enjoy since he’s not entirely “into” hardcore. The Frodus song and the mewithoutYou song I might have saved for a different mix, but they definitely helped keep things more varied.

Anyone making any mixes lately?