five hundred rolling-stone redit by simondodson

I have the list down to about 240 tracks that i want to use and slowly but surely importing them one by one and prepping, warping and setting, at my current rate, its looking like months, i intend to make them all work somehow though, for a podcast, although that may never eventuate, as the task may get the better of me.

Remember i said that back in February or something, about how i set out to edit the top 500 songs voted by rollingstone down into an hour or so, well i was right, i started this project early december an thought id chip away here n there an finally get it done, wishful thinking, after i got about 200 songs sorted, everything got really really tedious and not fun, the bpm spread and arrangment was really doing me in with such a wide sound palette. i would work on it , then leave it an do other things an then come back to it, only to sorta go somewhere, nowhere else on it … just a nightmare in the end… and much too ambitious … and ive decided to pull the plug an never go back into that file.

It is the biggest non event ive worked on, ive spent a crazy amount of time not completing it… you can see some of the ground work here and here.

And whats even worse, it just sounds so really bad… I wasn’t going to post it because of it, but meh. Kinda a bummer…

Above is a sample of what i did happen to get moving, its fairly rough an still in draft arrangement, but you will get an idea on what i was trying to do …

Peace… actually just listen to this ..