In the previous post (the tagging thing), I brought up the Weasel's Mix series - my self-named collection of mixed music CDs. Since 2004, I've made... roughly 14 of them. Not all of them exist as CDs, and not all of them would fit on one either. The need to make CDs largely stopped once MP3 players became convenient enough to connect to cars, and eventually, cars became able to play music off of thumb drives. But these are special enough to me that I want to at least share the track lists and thought processes that went into them. Where applicable, I'll try to leave links to the songs themselves.

(Why not recreate them as Spotify playlists? Because fuck Spotify. Why not recreate them as YouTube playlists? Because not everything is even on YouTube.)

Weasel's Mix

The original cassette tape mix, actually my second-ever foray into creating a mix tape. The first was not called Weasel's Mix and is - to the best of my knowledge - lost to the mists. As an audio cassette, this has two sides, a fact that I didn't really take into account at all - I'd just record until I ran out of tape.

A thing to realize about me in my early mix-making career is that I was very single-minded. This was an era in which I had been obsessing over all things MegaZeux, and for what it's worth, consuming as much MegaZeux as possible did introduce me to an awful lot of good tracker music. That said, a lot of the songs chosen for this mix are things that had been used in MegaZeux games, often ripped from demoscene productions or even other games, but at least a few were original compositions made specifically for them.

    Side A

  1. Mystical/Purple - Something Slightly Silly
    • This one, and Tikki on Side B, were pulled from zaratustra's side-scrolling MegaZeux parody game, Zeux's World - later renamed Zeta's World for an updated version. These days they're much better known for the jam game, Eversion.
  2. Karsten Koch - aryx
    • Lest you suspect 14-year-old me of actually being original: Aryx was the bundled demo song in ModPlug Tracker. There are a crap ton of remixes of this song now because of that.
  3. Bazaar - Freak
  4. Firefox / Tip - Phenomena 'Enigma'
  5. inmate2993 - Badness!
  6. inmate2993 - Da Zixyer Rave
    • Original compositions made for the game Cans 3. I'm not sure if I ought to be ashamed of how much influence those games had on my sense of humor in my teenage years.
  7. REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
    • Not my pick - my older sibling told me "come on, you need to put some real music in here too."
  8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Living Sin

    9. Side B

  9. 4mat - 6beat
    • Found in a MegaZeux game demo entitled TGOMDDAD - "The Game of Murder, Death, Doom, and Destruction." I didn't know at the time that 4mat also composed for a Micro Machines game that I enjoyed years earlier.
  10. major tom - bad karma
    • Was used in the MegaZeux game, Darkness. The author of that game went on to run one of the Web's longer-running conglomerations of legal DOS games, DOSGames.com.
  11. Chris Jarvis - Blue Flame
    • A lot like Aryx: this song was a demo track included with Impulse Tracker. It's at least a pleasant and soothing one to listen to.
  12. Jonne "Purple Motion" Valtonen - Skyrider
    • I think by this point I had actually learned who Purple Motion was, but this track probably came from the MegaZeux game, Seiken Densetsu: Blade of Islan, that I think I played for five minutes.
  13. chromag - voodoo people.
    • Wait, wasn't this a Prodigy track? Well, yes, it was - chromag sampled and remixed said track. It's one of the many MegaZeux cliches, soundtrack-wise, right up there with Killing Floor 2.1 (funny enough, a sampled and remixed Jimi Hendrix riff).
  14. nhp & bkh - epsonic
  15. Weevil - Tikki
  16. xtd - economy

Weasel's Mix II

The first CD-R - this was a new frontier! No more manual stopping, no more remembering to leave a gap so you don't cut off the track before it, no more losing your place if you needed to ever rewind and listen back. Unfortunately, I still didn't have a CD-burner of my own by 2003 when I made the disc, and I was borrowing my older sibling's computer to burn the discs. But as with the tape, most of this was still tracker songs - just this time around, they were tracker songs I'd downloaded from Mod Archive, all by myself.

  1. Jogeir Liljedahl - superfly
  2. Mark "Disturbed" Dillon - A Rare Find [Composition In Q] OC Remix (Tyrian)
    • This was the year I discovered VGMix, and this particular remix comes from the DOS game, Tyrian. It does seem as though its author, and the song itself, have undergone some name changes in the time since I found it. I wonder if the song itself changed in that time.
  3. LaSombrA - Nes RPG Medly (sic)
  4. Jonne "Purple Motion" Valtonen - Charts Overdrive
  5. Zepsi - Images of a Forgotten Era
  6. Mellogear - Goomba Goes Beach (Super Mario 64)
    • A VGMix of "Dire, Dire Docks" from Super Mario 64 - this one doesn't seem to have been uploaded to OC Remix. I'm not sure if it can still be found online anywhere.
  7. Jogeir Liljedahl - guitar slinger
  8. Beat - Celestial Fantasia
  9. Taro Bando - Crazy Call at Cry (F-Zero X)
    • The actual CD has a rendering of a MIDI file, which somebody overlaid MIDI-powered motor noises over parts of it. In all further versions (like the thumb drive in the car) I just put the original OST version on it.
  10. Jonne "Purple Motion" Valtonen - Seaside Hotel
  11. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
  12. Jonne "Purple Motion" Valtonen - New Beginning
  13. Alan Parsons Project - Re-Jigue
  14. Boston - Foreplay / Long Time
    • A song that played so rarely on KGON-FM that it was an occasion worth cranking that volume.
  15. Necros - Energia
  16. Kenny "C.C.Catch" Chou - Danger Room (One Must Fall: 2097)
  17. Nobuo Uematsu - Another World Of Beasts (Final Fantasy VI)
    • A game with which I was completely and utterly obsessed that year.

Weasel's Mix Episode III (A Jedi's Worst Fear)

The subtitle for this one was a joke that perhaps was only ever aimed at me. Star Wars Episode III was still in the "rumor" stages when this disc was burned, and the rumors floating around were that the subtitle attached to Anakin Skywalker's "final" film was going to be "A Jedi's Worst Fear." My elder sibling - still the keeper of the CD-burner - had remarked at the time, "I hate it. It sounds like a kids' book." I think I wrote that on the disc to piss them off. I don't think it actually did.

The majority of these were sourced from Mod Archive, a lot like the previous volume, but this time around the effort was made to avoid putting in too much Purple Motion. He still showed up once, though.

  1. Victor "Awesome" Vergara - Galicia
  2. Timelord - Disillusion
  3. Edge - Armani Showers
    • I'd only learn a very long time later that this track was the included demo song with Scream Tracker 3. I forget why I had it back then, though.
  4. (M)Rated - "You Did," Said I
  5. Virgill - back to my roots
  6. Jogeir Liljedahl - Keys to Imagination
  7. Dan "Basehead" Grandpre - flowers in the abyss
  8. Stig "jerry" Frydenlund - back_for_good!.ed2
  9. World of Wonders - echoing
  10. Fabien del Priore - \/aURORA bOREALIS\/
  11. Lipid - cv_magla
    • This one came from an ancient MegaZeux fan site called CV_SHRINE - now archived at DigitalMZX. Fans of the built-in worlds sometimes composed their own covers and remixes of them, and this smooth-jazz number was one of them.
  12. Hilander - Space-expedition to nowhere
    • The track itself is incredible, but my favorite part of it is this little bit of prose that's tucked away in the sample names:
      As you sit by the window, a shooting star penetrates your consciousness. Slowly, it fades into oblivion. You wonder - where did it come from? Where will it go? Is it on the same mission as you are? - To boldly go where no-one would want to go? For that is your destination. The universe is so vast. And of all places to go to, you chose to go nowhere. You turn your attention back to the instruments lining the interior of your vessel. A vessel of such power. And yet - It takes you nowhere.
  13. Timelord - Mystique (Part II)
    • I discovered this one by looking up the music credits for Introversion's Uplink.
  14. Jonne "Purple Motion" Valtonen - The Probe
  15. Freeloader - Raindance
  16. RibinaBJ - Particle System
  17. Necros - Metroplex

Weasel's Mix IV (λ)

In case you wondered about the lambda: no, I hadn't suddenly been pursuing a career in science. It was 2004, and Half-Life 2 had just come out. This, I believe, was the first Mix that I created 100% on my own, using my own computer; well, it used to be my mom's (a Dell Dimension from 2003, with a GeForce FX 5200 and a Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading), but it had a CD-burner, and that thrilled me like nothing else. I was also heavily going through an OverClocked Remix phase at this time, on top of having really gotten into Castlevania, finally, with the release of Aria of Sorrow.

  1. Russell Cox - Prelude to Darkness OC Remix (Castlevania III)
  2. Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary
  3. The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
  4. Télépopmusik - Breathe
    • This one, and Days Go By below, were noted at the time for being used in Mitsubishi commercials. They're great moods.
  5. Nigel Simmons - Into the Corridor of Shadows OC Remix (Super Castlevania IV)
  6. Raymond Scott - Powerhouse (Long Version)
    • The CD has Cartoon Network's version of the song. I'm linking whatever version seems like an original. Ultimately doesn't matter - you get the gist of it anyway.
  7. Kenichi Tokoi - Mt. Red: a Symbol of Thrill ...for Red Mountain (Sonic Adventure)
  8. Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
    • Another one of those rare treats to hear on the rock station. Crank it, dude.
  9. AmIEviL - Battle Rocks OC Remix (Super Mario Bros. 3)
  10. Tuatara - Goodnight La Habana
  11. Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
  12. Johannes Brahms - Hungarian March No. 5
    • This is roughly where this edition of the mix gets very, very strange. If I had any kind of theme going on here, it was very much lost by the halfway point.
  13. Terry S. Taylor - Confused And Upset (The Neverhood)
  14. Corran - Tetris X-3 (Nintendo Tetris)
    • Seemingly never made available on OC Remix, but thankfully, composer Corran uploaded it to YouTube some years ago.
  15. Hot Butter - Popcorn
  16. Sai'ke - 6 AM Busride
  17. Mark "Disturbed" Dillon - A Rare Find [Composition In Q] OC Remix
    • Good lord. I broke the cardinal rule of mix tapes by including the same song on two different mixes.
  18. Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok (Long version)
    • The song just isn't the same without the "Bangkok" intro. You NEED that wind-up. It's like playing "Long Time" without "Foreplay," man, come on.
  19. War - Low Rider
    • Every Hollywood movie from 2002 to 2005 had to have this song in it. Well, I'd been loving it for a lot longer than that. It goes in the mix. Non-negotiable.

Weasel's Mix Five

I actually spelled out the word "five" on this one.

  1. Kenny "C.C.Catch" Chou - Theme from Zone 66 (Sound Blaster version)
  2. Rob Dougan - Chateau (The Matrix: Reloaded)
  3. Alexander Brandon - Invisible War Title Theme (Deus Ex: Invisible War)
  4. Tuatara - Saturday Night Church
  5. Takayuki Hattori - Sign (Intelligent Qube)
  6. Takayuki Hattori - The 1st Tide (Intelligent Qube)
    • These two really ought to go together. The orchestral soundtrack to Intelligent Qube feels like a mix between Donald in Mathemagic Land and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which is really the perfect accompaniment to the existential terror of being trapped in an endless void with giant marching cubes encroaching upon you.
  7. Gecko Yamori - Funkdreamer OC Remix (Streets of Rage 2)
    • An excellent remix that was seemingly pulled from OC Remix's website, probably out of interest of the composer reinventing themselves. They're these days releasing new stuff under the moniker, Savaged Regime.
  8. The Black Mages - Zeromus (Final Fantasy IV)
    • I used to listen to this mix in my senior year of high school. This is the track I'd put on to hype myself up for finals week.
  9. gorgonian14 - Kirby's Kossack (Kirby Super Star)
    • Seemingly unavailable, now; I think it used to be on VGMix before they went down for good.
  10. Michiru Yamane - House of Sacred Remains (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence)
  11. housethegrate - La Hora es Tarde (Castlevania III)
    • This one was a Dwelling of Duels submission, evidently; or at least, that's where I ended up finding it again.
  12. Norihiko Hibino - Alternative Mission - Photo Shoot (Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance)
  13. Kaertsy Hatakka - Max Payne 2 Theme (Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne)
  14. Disco Dan - Triforce Majeure OC ReMix (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past)
  15. Go Shiina & Tomoko Tatsuta - Sweet Laboratory (Mr. Driller)
    • I don't know why this version of the song isn't on any of the soundtrack albums...?
  16. The Humble Brothers - Epicenter (Sim City 4)
  17. Sai'ke - Guitar by the Fireplace
  18. Michiru Yamane - Requiem for the Gods (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
  19. Simo Virokannas - porrasturvat (Stair Dismount)
  20. Nemo - Dude, Where's My Alibi? (Deja Vu: The Nightmare Begins)
    • Try as I might, I can't find this one on the internet. It's a slow-jazz (possibly MIDI-based) take on a song from the NES version of the game.
  21. Michiru Yamane - Tower of Evil Mist (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)

Weasel's Mix Volume Six

I liked the way it rolled off the tongue when written out in exactly this way. I steered away from the tracker music this time around and made a mix of nothing but Classic Rock. Well. Except for that first one. But that still has David Gilmour on it. He's in this mix three separate times.

  1. Alan Parsons - Return To Tunguska
  2. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
    • Another one worthy of the highest volume. If you have never tried to air-drum along with the ending section, I do not even know.
  3. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
  4. Hawklords - (Only) The Dreams of the Cold War Kid
  5. David Gilmour - All Lovers Are Deranged
  6. Steely Dan - My Old School
  7. Traffic - Glad
  8. Yes - Heart Of The Sunrise
    • Come on, weasel, everybody knows you don't put 11-minute epics on mix CDs. ;)
  9. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (single)
    • A song that was not actually on the album, Brain Salad Surgery.
  10. Genesis - The Return of the Giant Hogweed (Live 1974)
  11. Rush - Witch Hunt (Part III Of Fear)
  12. Pink Floyd - Sorrow

Weasel's Mix VII - The Black Gate

Any guesses which once-popular computer RPG series I was really getting into at this point? (A slightly expanded version of this mix was put on a flash drive for my mom, and entitled "Weasel's Mix VII Part Two: The Serpent Isle" - I don't remember exactly how I expanded it, so this reflects the original track listing.)

  1. Télépopmusik - Genetic World
  2. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
  3. Richard Jacques - What About The Future (Jet Set Radio Future)
  4. Hideki Naganuma - Shape Da Future (Jet Set Radio Future)
  5. Tepid & Jredd - Fly Through the Forest OC Remix (Threads of Fate)
    • I think the remix on this disc was removed? It's pretty close to the original, so why not listen to that instead for the same effect. God, this soundtrack was amazing.
  6. Tangerine Dream - White Eagle
  7. Eric Serra - Five Millenia Later (The Fifth Element)
  8. Moby - Porcelain
  9. Sai'ke - Suck Those Lollipops
    • I honestly don't know if Sai'ke still has these lying around or uploaded anywhere public. None of the ones I put on my CDs are on the Bandcamp page at all.
  10. Elemental Harmonics - Vision
    • This track is supposed to have an introduction, Cosmic, that I blatantly ignored in putting it on here. There I go violating my own precedent again.
  11. Crispin Hands - Monster (Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit)
  12. TBF - Relax and Chill
  13. Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
  14. Pat Metheny Group - Last Train Home
  15. Virt - Funky Pills OC Remix (Dr. Mario)
  16. Jonathan Benton - Tiny Little Lifeforms
    • A trance remix of Data's "little lifeforms" song from Star Trek Generations, downloaded from - of all the places! - a YTMND page. How's that for dating the mix?

Weasel's Mix 8

I couldn't come up with a silly subtitle to go with this one, so I just drew a great big number 8 on the disc.

  1. Underworld - MMM Skyscraper I Love You
    • A song I discovered through a remix by Necros. The original track is better, honestly, but Necros did a bang-up job getting it to sound great in Scream Tracker format.
  2. Sai'ke - Guitar by the Fireplace
  3. John Powell - Selenium (Evolution)
    • From the soundtrack to the movie starring David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, and Orlando Jones. I learned of it because of the Game Maker game, The Sandbox of God. These days it's on Steam, albeit with the soundtrack replaced.
  4. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
  5. Necros - Paranoid Android
    • A remix version of a song that I previously featured on another disc; funny enough, this remix is the reason I know the original song in the first place. In retrospect, I prefer the remix.
  6. Ween - Ice Castles
    • This is the only Ween song I have.
  7. Liam "The Lemming" Hesse - Tearing Up Spacetime (Acid Tetris/Super Acid Block Attack)
  8. Straylight Productions - Versalife (ambient) (Deus Ex)
  9. Elemental Harmonics - Theta Dreamz
  10. Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines
  11. John Powell - Cells Divide (Evolution)
  12. Enya - Aldeberan
  13. Shpongle - Divine Moments Of Truth

Weasel's Mix IX

I could get really pretentious here and declare "actually, it's pronounced ix and not nine" - but I'd be lying.

  1. Koop - Absolute Space (Jazzanova Mix)
  2. Röyksopp - Your Hands
    • It took me ages to pin this one down; I keep finding it under the title "Arctic Circles" when that was (almost) the name of the album it came from.
  3. John Powell - Cells Divide (Evolution)
    • Geez, I did it again, this one was on the previous mix. Come on, dude.
  4. Télépopmusik - Mathematics
  5. Tangerine Dream - Canyon Carver
    • The album version is what I put on the CD, but the link goes to the segment from the film, because the song will never not remind me of white-water rafting.
  6. Mannheim Steamroller - The 7 Chakras of the Body - Chakra 7
  7. Geoffrey Oryema - Makambo
  8. Motoi Sakuraba - Pyroxene (Star Ocean: The Second Story)
  9. RibinaBJ - Particle System (Weasel's Drumless)
    • At some point, I realized that I liked this track (that previously appeared in Episode III) a lot better without the 90s-trance drum section, so I deleted everything but the 303 kick. That link just goes to the original - I wouldn't dare upload "my" version.
  10. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
  11. Röyksopp - Remind Me
    • Okay, I admit it - I got into Röyksopp because of the Geico commercials.
  12. Roland Orzabal - Hypnoculture
  13. Vangelis - To the Unknown Man
    • I had a vivid dream about this song when I was very young, about climbing to the top of a hill in an open meadow, at dusk, to make first contact with a species from beyond our world. I never got to see them. The bulbous saucer that landed on the top of the hill just sat there, and never opened. The wind picked up, the sun went down, the only light was the high-beam lights pointing down the hill. I never met them. And then I woke up, and the song was still playing - on a boom box in the next room.
  14. Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
  15. Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
  16. Jethro Tull - Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die
  17. The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
    • There is no better way to end an album, or a mix tape, than with a poem, an orchestral flare, and a gong. That's something my dad taught me a long time ago.

Weasel's Mix [ten]

Yes, I wrote in the brackets. Yes, I was being a goober.

  1. Jethro Tull - The Minstrel in the Gallery
  2. Alan Parsons Project - Psychobabble
  3. Necros - Shadow Of The Mind
  4. ZZ Top - Heard It On The X
  5. Tsuneo Imahori - Dr. None (Gungrave)
  6. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
  7. Santana - Everybody's Everything
  8. Rush - Jacob's Ladder (Exit...Stage Left)
  9. The Moody Blues - Question
  10. Juno Reactor - Angels And Men
  11. Ian Anderson - Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song)
  12. Genesis - Squonk
  13. Apollo 440 - Stop The Rock
  14. Tears For Fears - Badman's Song
  15. Michael Land - Ship Song (A Pirate I Was Meant To Be) (The Curse of Monkey Island)
    • I think this track is the reason why this one is Mom's favorite mix.
  16. xoc - deathjingle
  17. xoc - gameover

Weasel's Mix XI - Machina Melancholia

The most recent of my mixes, and to date, the only one I assembled in a digital audio workstation. I wanted this mix to flow seamlessly, from start to finish, with the tracks crossfading into each other without any gaps or sudden cuts. Also, I themed it specifically around electronic music with a somber, rainy-day feeling.

  1. Royksopp - I Had This Thing
  2. CCP Games - Tomorrow's Neverending Yesterday (EVE Online)
  3. Miami Horror - Sometimes
  4. Purple Motion - Starshine
    • Specifically the remixed version from his ultra rare CD album, "Musicdisk."
  5. Stéphane Picq - Water of Life (Dune: Spice Opera)
    • From the arranged soundtrack album of Cryo Interactive's Dune.
      • Rest in peace, Stéphane.
  6. Sarah "esselfortium" Mancuso - Waiting / Undersea (BTSX Episode 1)
    • A combination of two tracks from the Doom 2 megawad, Back to Saturn X: Episode One, which can be found at Esselfortium's bandcamp page, though the versions I put on the disc were rendered on an OPL emulator, contrary to what's on the official album.
  7. Ryan Cramer - Digital Serenity
  8. Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan - TRON 2.0 Menu (TRON 2.0)
  9. Wendy Carlos - Theme from A Clockwork Orange
  10. Enya - Boadicea
  11. Ray Lynch - Tiny Geometries
  12. Wisp - He Was a Happy Man
  13. Shinji Hosoe - Tranquility (Zero Escape: 999 - 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors)
  14. Kenichi Tsuchiya - Heretic Mansion (Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne)
  15. Elias Holmlid - Continuity (Soft/Beat) (Continuity)
    • The ArcadeMode and PuzzleMode tracks from the Flash game, Continuity, fading from one to the other. The game does that neat thing where it's playing two tracks but fades between them as you zoom in and out, so I tried to bridge them together in such a way that it'd flow. I didn't quite pull it off - it just kind of ends. I couldn't think of a way to flow it into the next track.
  16. Daft Punk - Nightvision
  17. Tangerine Dream - Cool At Heart
  18. Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe 8 (Aero Mix)
  19. Trammell Starks - Evening
    • Trammell Starks is a musician whose smooth jazz is most well-known for playing on The Weather Channel throughout the 1990s. This track came from Trammell's self-distributed CD collection, "Music for Local Forecast." Learn more about him and his work at TWC Classics.

Weasel's Mix: Missing Perspective - Tech-Noir

Actually side A of a cassette tape - I was returning to my roots! Dad's the one that had the stereo this time, and honestly I should have paid more attention to the recording level, because a lot of this stuff was overdriving pretty badly and the actual tape sounds like garbage if I try to play it. However, I was smart enough to keep the tracklist written down, so I did not need to actually listen to it to recreate the mix as a playlist file.

The overarching title of the tape, "Missing Perspective," was borrowed from the title of a song on the Parasite Eve soundtrack.

  1. NATT021 - RYDEEN on Nintendo DS (Korg DS-10)
  2. Bag Raiders - Nil By Mouth
  3. Jean Michel Jarre - Geometry Of Love Part 1
  4. Hunch - Visible from Space (Aquasky Mix)
  5. Jakatta - It Will Be
  6. Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
  7. Elemental Harmonics - Skythrone
  8. Yoko Shimomura - The Absolute Primitive (FM Sound Module Maniax)
  9. Hacienda - Late Lounge Lover
    • Another fun track I heard in an unusual place: as background music on somebody's robotics project that involved a lot of Altoids tins. I can't find the project again, though.
  10. Delerium - Incantation

Weasel's Mix: Missing Perspective - Rock Resistance

Side B of the same tape - each side's subtitle was meant to evoke one side of the future war from the Terminator movies. Even though T2: Judgment Day is the only one of them I've seen all the way through. "Tech-Noir" was meant to be more electronic music, while "Rock Resistance" was meant to be more guitar-driven, more human songs. I broke that rule at least once per side.

  1. King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open
  2. Blue Man Group - Time To Start
  3. Midnight Syndicate - Not Your Saviour
  4. Depeche Mode - Wrong
  5. Nine Inch Nails (Remixed by Cardboard Marty) - The Perfect Drug (Binary Audio Mix)
    • Roughly around this time (would have been maybe 2008? 2009 at the latest), a friend of mine had been experimenting with making remixes using stems extracted from Rock Band and Guitar Hero games. This remix is pretty good but I have no idea where to point you to get it. I'm not sure if Marty ever intended for it to be distributed, given what it is.
  6. Kansas - The Spider
  7. Incubus - Agoraphobia
  8. The Mother Hips - Time We Had
  9. Nirvana - Breed
    • A bit out of my usual genre comfort zones, but there's a reason I have this track - I heard it in a YouTube video of a domino rally in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Watch the Adoring Fan get smashed repeatedly by trap flails!
  10. The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
  11. The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
  12. Milt Buckner - The Beast

Work Mix

That's not exactly the title of the disc, but the actual disc has my real name on it. If you want that, you gotta work for it. I burned this disc to play in the boom box at my first job, washing dishes in the kitchen at a senior care home. The radio in there could only pick up one station, and it was the iHeartRadio-affiliate country music station that played the same playlist every single day. You can imagine why I wanted to escape from that. So the picks are somewhat safer, and somewhat more along the lines of what a "Classic Rock" station would play.

  1. Electric Light Orchestra - Fire On High
  2. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
  3. Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
  4. Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
  5. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
  6. The Alan Parsons Project - (The System Of) Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether
  7. Traffic - Empty Pages
  8. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
  9. Rush - Subdivisions (A Show of Hands)
    • Rush are one of the handful of bands whose live albums almost sound better than their studio albums.
  10. Santana - Hope You're Feeling Better
  11. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
  12. Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
    • For extra joy, watch the music video wherein Phil Collins nails the televangelist archetype that the song satirizes.
  13. The Who - Pinball Wizard
  14. AC/DC - TNT
  15. The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
    • I'm going to excuse this reuse because this isn't a Weasel's Mix disc and was intended to be played around people who are not immediate family members. It's still the best way to end a mix though, and thusly, I am so compelled.

Investigation Suite for the Classy Shamus

The private eye mix, in other words. Lots of muted trumpets, lots of stand-up bass, jazz that doesn't get too jazzy. The perfect accompaniment to walking up the city sidewalk at night, under a light drizzle.

  1. John Robert Matz - Main Theme (Melancholia) (Gunpoint)
  2. Satoshi Okubo - Into Dark Shadows (Last Window: The Secret of Cape West)
  3. The Fat Man and Team Fat - Hey Conductor (The 11th Hour)
  4. Jean Michel Jarre - September 14
  5. Miles Davis - So What
  6. Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments
  7. Satoshi Okubo - Heat Up (Last Window: The Secret of Cape West)
  8. The Seatbelts - Fe (Cowboy Bebop)
  9. Toshihiko Horiyama - Drew Studio (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)
  10. Masafumi Takada - Blackburn (Killer7)
  11. Dmitriy Lukyanov - Lady Swing
    • Mom probably thinks this one's called "Little Wheel" because that's where I first discovered the song in a Flash game by that name. Said game had zero music credits and I only learned the song's real name a year ago.
  12. Miles Davis - Nature Boy
  13. Andrew Hale & Simon Hale - Tailing the Suspect 3 (L.A. Noire)
  14. Laurie Johnson - Blood In The Gutter (KPM Production Music)
  15. Shoji Meguro - This Mysterious Feeling (Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3)