Superdragon DJ: Summer 2002 CD Mix

CD Cover image for Transnational Psychedelia Mix CD, circa 2002.

SUPERDRAGON DJ CD ARCHIVEs

I started making CD mixes in 2001 after I got my first CD burner - part of a custom built computer tower I had made specifically for music production. While all computers at that time had a CD-ROM drive built in, CD burners were not at all standard equipment and neither were audio cards with midi and 1/8”jack inputs. My good friend and collaborator J Mundok was the first person I knew who had a CD burner and audio interface on his computer, and I got addicted to using his when we worked on Jesters Longevity music in his studio.

Where the cassette mixes were similar to a radio show with songs blending into each other, the CD mixes were actually similar to the old fashioned mix tape. I didn’t do any track mixing or sampling on these CD mix “tapes”, I simply picked out the tracks, uploaded them to the computer, shuffled the playlist (with a few changes), and started burning.

This unmixed CD compilation is heavy on the indie rock selections and a real snapshot into the songs and bands I was listening to everyday, as opposed to what songs “worked” well together on a continous mix. “Transnational Psychedelia” (the name of the CD mix series) is basically all over the place, and that’s part of the fun.

Tray card for “Transnational Psychedelia Summer 02”

Inside of CD insert, “Transnational Psychedelia Summer 2002”