Welcome...

...to the 52 Mixtapes project. oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR! :D

I'm Marky de Sade and over the coming year i'm embarking on a little project that will hopefully see me record and upload (for your consumption) one musical mixtape every week. This isn't really a New Years Resolution because, in the main part, i'm not giving anything up. It's more a chance for me as a working DJ to give myself some regular turntable activity at home, as well as come up with something mildly entertaining for the listener*.

So if you really insisted on tying it into a New Years Resolution, i'd prefer you viewed it as a musically-obese DJ joining the tune-gym to shed some pounds in the form of mixes.

This is also a chance for me to claw back some of the fun I used to have doing my regular Friday night radio shows on Purple Radio, and play the kind of music I don't get chance to play when i'm catering for the average commercial club audience. That's not to say there won't be pop elements here and there, or even one or two out-and-out pop mixtapes - but you can hear that stuff anywhere and i'll try to keep it to a minimum.

Some of the mixes will be genre-led, others might have an overall theme like "summer" or "running" or "food", some might be producer-focused and others might be eclectic, random, all-over-the-shop messes. I have some vague plans in mind, but mostly i'll be taking each week as it comes and following my nose.

I'm going to impose SOME RULES so the project stays as consistent as possible and we don't get any bitching:

1. All mixtapes will be at least 30mins in duration.
2. Each new mixtape will be uploaded by the Saturday ending that week. So for this first week, my deadline for upload is: Saturday 7th January 2012.
3. Each mixtape will be uploaded to Mixcloud for streaming (and possibly one other download site), as well as being added to the excellent selection already present on the Purple Radio listen again server. If you follow me on Mixcloud it should automatically email you when each new mix is added.
4. Each mixtape will be prefixed with 52M- and then the number of the mix...001, 002 and so on. I trust most of you know how number-ordering goes. If not, pop into your local primary school (make sure they know you're arriving first - clambering over the fence at playtime isn't recommended).
5. Requests will be dealt with at the DJ's discretion. Some of you have requested personal mixes in the past and I might take this opportunity to sort them out and get them uploaded. Any additional requests received this year of this ilk will be scowled at, sniffed, licked, and then considered for consumption. I'm going to be pretty busy so i'll do what I can, basically.

Seems fair? COMMENT NOW if you're already not happy with something. ;)

Right, i'd better get busy then. See you at the weekend with 52M-001...

xx

* this isn't a guarantee, more a distant dream.