Ok, so it’s playoffs time in the world of American football, so it’s not too surprising that I’d have a football reference somewhere in my mix title nomenclature. The end of this year’s college football championship game was amazing. Alabama brought in a freshman quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa for the final game. In overtime, he gets surrounded by defenders. Instead of just taking a knee, he keeps running backwards in hopes of buying enough time to make a big play. He doesn’t. Instead, he takes a sack some 17 yards back. The play was a disaster.
However, on 2nd down, he throws a 60 yard pass for a game ending touchdown. Amazing! In sports, they always say put the last play behind you. I think that’s a pretty good metaphor for life.
Not that anything has gone dramatically wrong for me lately, but I do have my share of day in/day out challenges. I need to do a better job of putting them behind me and continuing to persevere towards larger goals. Hopefully that play and this mix will serve as reminders.
As for the mix, it’s pretty simple. Something of a return to form. After taking a DJing class for weeks and feeling like I was perpetually trying to exercise new skills. This time around it’s just a fun little mix.
The anchor point of the mix is actually the last track. Early last year I heard a commercial for Home Shopping Network with a pretty catchy beat. I had it in my mind for a while but could never find the artist behind it (still can’t). So, I added it to my mix and trying to find a bunch of pop tracks with a similar vibe. A HSN commercial beat. How’s that for digging in the crates!
I kept my ident from Homework #3. I dealt with the massive tempo jump between Alone and Milky Way with an effect and manually looping my intro cue point. And I used a loops on both US and the HSN beat to transition. So, some use of new skills still at work.
Enjoy!
