Superdragon DJ: Summer 2002 CD Mix

CD Cover image for Transnational Psychedelia Mix CD, circa 2002.

SUPERDRAGON DJ CD ARCHIVEs

I started making CD mixes in 2001 after I got my first CD burner - part of a custom built computer tower I had made specifically for music production. While all computers at that time had a CD-ROM drive built in, CD burners were not at all standard equipment and neither were audio cards with midi and 1/8”jack inputs. My good friend and collaborator J Mundok was the first person I knew who had a CD burner and audio interface on his computer, and I got addicted to using his when we worked on Jesters Longevity music in his studio.

Where the cassette mixes were similar to a radio show with songs blending into each other, the CD mixes were actually similar to the old fashioned mix tape. I didn’t do any track mixing or sampling on these CD mix “tapes”, I simply picked out the tracks, uploaded them to the computer, shuffled the playlist (with a few changes), and started burning.

This unmixed CD compilation is heavy on the indie rock selections and a real snapshot into the songs and bands I was listening to everyday, as opposed to what songs “worked” well together on a continous mix. “Transnational Psychedelia” (the name of the CD mix series) is basically all over the place, and that’s part of the fun.

PLAYLIST:

808 State - “Lopez (Metamorphic Mix By Brian Eno)” 1998

Shrimp Boat - “I Swear Happy Days Are Mine” 1992

Him - “Sworn Eyes” 1999

Guided By Voices - “Acorns & Orioles/Look At Them/Perfect Life” 1996

Afterlife - “Dub In Ya Mind (Beach Club Mix)” 1999

Cold Water Flat - “Virus Road” 1995

Brian Jonestown Massacre - “Jennifer” 1998

Alastair Galbraith - “Song to the Third” 1998

Ultramarine - “Queen of the Moon” 1993

The Minders - “Build” 1998

The Minders - “Black Balloon” 1998

Prefab Sprout - “Bonnie” 1985

Ebeling Hughes - “Transformation” 1998

Pressure Drop - “The Sound of Time” 1998

Schooly D - “PSK What Does it Mean?” 1985

Husker Du - “Eight Miles High” 1984

Bongwater - “Havana” 1988

Tray card for “Transnational Psychedelia Summer 02”

Inside of CD insert, “Transnational Psychedelia Summer 2002”