Recently we had a little wedding party (pictures to come), and I decided to bring my own music. Just to be on the safe side, I also organized some playlists from friends – some funky stuff that is easy to dance to. We assembled playlists – relaxing music, stomping music, rocky music, oriental music, latin music... and as soon as I had to pick some non-latin music for people to dance, it all broke down. My eclectic mix didn’t catch on, I improvised and played some Shakira, people came up and made some wishes, we looked at the huge database of stuff, the mix got weirder with The Pogues, Natacha Atlas, White Stripes, and Nirvana chasing each other. Weirdness ensued. There was some dancing, but in the end all the playlist preparations were for naught. I think I’ll just keep playing Marco’s and Miguel’s tracks for a while just to discover some new music. 😄
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I don’t think it was that bad. It was actually quite funny! But of course very hard to find a music pattern which suits to all the people present (if possible anyways). I liked the evening a lot!
– 2ni 2008-07-11 07:23 UTC
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Hehe, your MTV pop collection was quite useful. Too bad the meta data is missing the artist names. I’m sure it should be possible to determine these heuristically using some online database somewhere... Hm...
– Alex Schroeder 2008-07-11 08:32 UTC
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I left pretty early on (around 1am or so), but even so I didn’t hear anything from my playlist that evening... It must have taken a few hours before you got desperate enough to open the ’Marco’ mp3 folder. *shudder*...
– Marco 2008-07-11 14:02 UTC
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Heh, we didn’t really have that much time, after all. We all left around 3am – but basically as soon as we stopped playing Latin music, people came wishing for all sorts of stuff and it was out of control. Sorry none of your tracks showed up!
– Alex Schroeder 2008-07-11 14:56 UTC
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Gah... Latin music!
– Marco 2008-07-17 22:15 UTC