Making music to climb walls to

A lot of good music lately. Just burned M.B. a disc with several of my favourites, but, because I'm indecisive (or perhaps because of the surplus of excellent music), I was 2 minutes over. The obvious solution : mix some tracks together and thus shorten the whole. Since I only have one turntable, no microphone, and not very much time, I just figured I would drop the tracks into Ableton Live and stretch/compress/repitch them until they sound right-ish. However, Live being utterly gross, the above wasn't necessary. I dropped each track in approx the right place and simply played it and the tempos matched, the pitch hadn't changed... I was actually worried that I had selected two tracks with the exact same beat.

Here's a simple fade from 'The Juan MacLean - Dance With Me' into 'Bochum Welt - Arnos Park' This isn't horrendously difficult to do on decks, but you can be right stupid and do it on a computer. I wonder if scratch purists are pissed that their craft is so easily automatable. 2007: DJ robots take over club scene. "Fa-f-f-...BUFFERING 90%...-reshhhh"

Some other tracks on that CD:

Junior Boys - More Than Real
Boy Robot - Invaders of Vanity Club Land (oddly poignant)
Isolee - Face B
Vladislav Delay - Kotilainen (I love this - very nordic)
Marc Leclair (Akufen) - 114e Jour
Phonem - Euphrates
Boards of Canada - Circle (1994, off a TAPE)
Boards of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat (2005)

As an appendix, I threw in 'Hung up' by Madonna and 'Drop the Pressure' by Mylo. Thank you Ben for supplying me with moving music. Click here.

Jah bless