More on my "hardtrance" collection

I said earlier that I like "re" discovering files that I grabbed, but which got a little bit lost in the shuffle because I was getting files to fast and furious for a while there (no thanks to Eric Holder.)  Of course, I could, in theory, do this by just playing the playlist of the whole enchilada on shuffle, but in reality, that often leads to songs remaining fallen through the cracks because they just come up and disappear again as rapidly, with only a single listen through (often while I'm distracted by driving, or whatever else I'm doing.)

So, it's a decent process, but what I really enjoy most is selecting these songs using Google sheets random sort, putting them on megamixes, and then listening to those megamixes so I can get to know the songs on them better.  Usually when I do this, a good two thirds or more of the songs selected are ones that I don't really remember very well, which gives me a chance to "get to know them" as part of creating the megamix and then listening to it.  This is why I presume that for a while now I'll continue to 1) make more megamixes at a fairly rapid pace, and 2) listen to my megamixes when listening to music to the exclusion of almost anything else.

I'd still like to make some more targeted megamxes—a tribute to DJ Wag, or Scot Project, or S.H.O.K.K. or Luca Antolini, etc.  That kind of thing.  But not yet.  I'm enjoying this too much first.

I wonder, though—will I really want to keep these megamixes on my phone all the time?  They will eventually double the data profile of hardtrance on my phone (so, an extra 7 GB).  I'll also start having enough of them that they'll come up randomly when I'm not listening them them exclusively and just shuffling through my full collection.  Of course, I could solve that by creating a separate folder for the megamixes so they can't come up during normal play.  Eventually, I'll probably want to do exactly that, actually, but in the meantime, since the megamixes are almost all that I listen to, it's not a big deal.

Meanwhile, while I'm at work, I spend a bit more time trawling through my collection and listening to songs that catch my eye.  I've been going through the Jay Walker (and JK Walker; same guy, different alias) for instance, and I've listened to my JamX and DeLeon (same two guys as DuMonde) stuff, as well as throwing the Dare Devils one hit, Daredevil on the playlist.

It's always interesting to see what random sorting does, of course.  Given how many Cosmic Gate songs I have, I'm a little surprised that I so far only have one (megamix 07 will give me a second one, finally.)  While I'm not surprised that A*S*Y*S has been regular, I'm a little surprised that I haven't had really any natural breaks where they don't come up except the upcoming megamix 06 (they're back on again for 07.)  And while I'm also not surprised to get plenty of Tommy Pulse, I've often had more than one remix of "The Answer" come up in the same mix, which should be statistically quite unlikely.

What I'm excited to have come up that hasn't yet is some more DJ Darkzone (I actually got my least favorite of his tracks that made the cut so far only), more Cosmic Gate, some more Dave Joy (although maybe that's coming up fast enough), I still don't have a single one of my "Acid Nightmare" versions yet, more Jay Walker, the one US Test song that I admitted, more Luca Antolini and Pacific Link, and I haven't really gotten anything from Derb or Hennes & Cold that's among my very favorite of their tracks.

It makes me a bit impatient to start sorting more mixes so I can have more ready to go and know what's coming up, but I'm treating it like the Marshmallow Test and refusing to sort more than two ahead of where I currently am.  Which also gives me more incentive to find time to create more megamixes, of course.

Anyway, just a reminder, I have another sort tab, and I don't use it to sort megamixes, I use it to sort the "hardtrance track of the day" (weekdays only) which I post on one of my other blogs, http://synthpop80s.blogspot.com/.  So go check that out.  So far, the tracks that have come up there are listed below.  Two of them have also come up in my megamixes so far.

• Warp Brothers - We Will Survive [D.O.N.S. Remix]
• Nightclub - French Kiss [DJ Scot Project Remix]
• Sa.Vee.Oh - Global Anthem [Original Mix]
• Warmduscher vs Derb - Untitled
• Wragg and Log:One - Terminator
• DJ Cyglass - Sweet Lies
• Tiesto - Flight 643
• Dark A.T.8 - You Better Run [Dance Mix]
• Tommy Pulse - The Messiah [Resurrection Mix]
• Scot Project and A*S*Y*S - Loco [Black Mix]
• Hennes & Cold - Can't Have Enough [Remix]
• Pro-Tech - Out of Control [DJ Wag Club Mix]
• Hennes & Cold - Journey
• Kan Cold - Requiem [Electronic Wizard Remix]
• Russenmafia - Go! [West Mix]
• Danny V & Mac Storm - Inspirations
• Dave Joy - Third Pleasure [Extended Mix]
• DJ Neo - Acid Overdose [Blutonium Boy Mix]
• Jay Walker - Strange World
• Underworld - Cowgirl [Tim Davison Remix]
• Derb - Derb (Derbus)
• RBA - No Alternative [Brooklyn Bounce Remix]