Memorial 4-CD Set exposed!

[zrath]

Wow, putting together these Memorial CD-sets is hard work!
That's why I'm not posting much on LJ! I'm assembling these things!
There's the burning, the printing, the drying, the cutting, the folding, the assembling.
Then there's keeping track of names and addresses and e-mails and how many CD-sets.
And the obtaining of mailing envelopes and the packaging and the actual mailing.
Stupid post office raised all its prices last year. 1st class stops at 13 ounces now!
And my local post office never seems to restock its shelves with padded envelopes and stuff,
so I actually wound up buying supplies from the other post office, the one I have my P.O. Box at.

And that reminds me, the following people should keep an eye on their mailboxes:
m_tiger - kibbles - theresamather - palabrajot - moonscream - dronon

For those who were waiting to donate until the Memorial CD-Sets were done and ready to ship, wait no more!
They're already ready already and going out the door!
Here's a photo of a completed CD-set:



The open case with front and back covers (printed on pro photo paper, see my previous post for cover designs),
the card with track listing and bio of DJ Pascal on the back, and the 4 CDs.
The music on these CDs is from DJ Pascal and I's extensive vinyl and CD collection.
No MP3s here! The music is on there in its full glorious uncompressed, urrrrrrr, glory!
Also, the artwork is printed directly onto the CDs. No messy paper labels that can cause jams in car players.
Here are the first two CDs:



"Roots" is a compilation of various tunes from the '70s and '80s that had an impact on DJ Pascal.
The 18 tracks run the gamut from "Year Of The Cat" by Al Stewart to "Rebel Without A Pause" by Public Enemy.
There's also "The Dreaming" by Kate Bush, which introduced us both to the didgeridoo.
And "Planet Claire" by the B-52's, "Fight Like A Brave" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Ashes To Ashes"
by David Bowie, and more obscure fare like Von Magnet's "Genius Never Dies" (Flamenco Industrial!).
There are also a couple of songs in French: the epic "Night Bird" by Bernard Lavilliers, and the musical
tribute to French pulp fiction hero Bob Morane by Indochine: "L'Aventurier". And so much more!!

"My Planet Rocks" contains two tracks.
The first track is a 74-minute mix of recent House and Trance tracks that DJ Pascal enjoyed.
There are some really excellent tracks in there, including "Flashing For Money" which combines Deep Dish's
"Flashdance" with Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing". Other House scorchers include "Funky Planet" by
Powers That Be VS Roland Clarke, "Take Me Higher" by Brown Sugar, a new remix of the seminal club hit
"Plastic Dreams" by JayDee, a nice retro bopper called "Ain't Got That Swing" by Greenskeepers, and more!
Then it goes into Trance with a BT remix of "Break On Through" by The Doors, "After Love" by Blank And Jones,
"Maid Of Orleans" by Watergate (which is inspired by a really old Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark song!!),
"Freedom From The Fresh" by Graham Wood, and it ends with Infected Mushroom's superb "Becoming Insane".
The second track on the CD is "Presidents Dub" by DJ Pascal And The 13th Tribe.
As mentioned in a previous post, this is the track that wound up in the Luc Besson film "Angel-A".
The version on the CD is not the film version, it's an earlier edit from 2003 that runs 3 minutes long.
I wish I had the film version on hand. I need to get it from the production company.

Here are the other two CDs:



"Closer To The Sun" is a global chill-out mix put together by DJ Pascal last year.
It's the last such mix that he ever did. There are others before that and I'm sorting through them to see
which ones I will offer up for sale again. His mixing skill was truely flawless and more people need to
experience it. It's hard to describe the music and the mix, you need to really experience it.
His mixes make the "Buddha Bar" compilations look like the cheap rip-offs of Pascal's style they really are!

"Last Rodeo In Grandville" is a more personal mix.
(Yes, those are the two Ghost Riders from the recent "Ghost Rider" movie. Pascal and I both love it. Not a word!)
("Grandville" is Pascal's fictitious city, the opposite of "Smallville", a TV show we used to watch religiously.)
Pascal selected a bunch of his favorite rock'n'roll tunes, both old and new, and put them all in this mix.
You'll find David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Brother, Def Leppard, The Doors, Midnight Oil, The Cult, Texture,
Nirvana, T-Rex, The Beatles, and artists I don't even recognize. And it all flows in its own peculiar way.
That was DJ Pascal's real talent: taking different tunes and making them work together somehow.

So voila, that's the Memorial 4-CD Set.
A donation of $50 or more will make one of these beauties magically appear in your mailbox.
For $50, you get one. For $100, you get two. And so on and so forth.
The CD-sets are shipped in big padded envelopes via USPS 1st class if it's one, or USPS Priority if it's two.
For details, e-mail me at zrath at toast dot net.
Or log in to LJ and read the next post, which is friends-locked.
Merci!

Comments

[theresamather.livejournal.com]

I just got mine and it looks great! What a wonderful tribute! I'm about to start playing it. :)


Thank you!