Changing Leaves

So as promised here is another mix.
Foliage.
This is one of my first mixes with a theme. It's meant for listening while driving around and looking at the Foliage! I'm posting this just in time to catch the late autumn leaves!
Enjoy!

Mix Cd's and Napping!

So for years I have been making Mix Cd's for myself and my friends. Mostly the mixes consisted of new music and artists that I had been listening to and wanted to share. Somewhere around 2008 I started making THEMED mixes. I'm actually surprised I didn't think of it before, it seems so natural to make a mix Cd with a theme... and I know people do it all the time... I just hadn't up until that point. First I started to make mixes that involved music that evoked the same emotions as a particular season... Those became known as Foliage, Blizzard & Spring Fever (Heat Wave is still in the works!) I will include those mixes at a later date! I just enjoy creating a feeling of sorts with a mix, intending every song to blend well with the next song that follows. Painting a musical landscape of sorts I guess! Today I'll share what my friends would call my most Celebrated Mix... and follow up with some other mixes very soon!

Napping...
So one day, as I was trying to get some much needed sleep, I decided to make a quick playlist of some gentle tunes that would ease me into a dreamworld! As the playlist progressed over the next few days my roommate at the time (after hearing the tunes and noticing me CRASHING every afternoon) begged me for a copy so he could use it to sleep. That was the day I created my first Nap Mix!

Entitled: You Want To Take A Nap?
It was intended solely for taking a Nap, easing you to sleep and then ROCKING you awake with one final song. The first song actually has to do with waking up, while the last has to do with getting to sleep... my own little "Tarantino" or "Memento" element to the "story" of the Nap!

I quickly shared it with some of my closest friends, most of whom came back to me saying that they were asleep and OUT by song 2. Some told me they had to put it on Random (a practice many of my friends know I never intend to be used with my mixes) just to be able to hear the other songs that were on the CD! But most of all, it turns out that the Final Song intended to be used for waking people up, wasn't doing it's job and most of the time my listeners (myself included) would sleep all the way through the Cd and longer!

It has now become common practice amongst a select few of my friends to use You Want To Take A Nap? to get to sleep regularly!

Over the years we have since used it at a Summer Camp (where we are counselors) to help us get to sleep when the young teens in our cabin are being too loud and raucous at night! The campers quickly became interested in the fact that the four of us would play this mix at the HIGHEST volume setting and seem to sleep like hibernating bears! After many a post-camp Facebook message about wanting to know what's on the mix so they could have one for themselves, I finally decided to share it with everyone!

So give it a try and go get some sleep!