Hold Music Volume 25

This is the first part of a long mix I created in December.  I initially wanted to do some house cleaning of a sorts.  I had been setting aside songs for a long while and I had so many I wanted to just get as many or them out there as possible so I could in a sense start fresh.  So I put together a playlist that was about seven hours and forty-two minutes long.  I shared that long playlist with people at work and then over the holiday break I broke that long playlist into six volumes.  They make up volumes 25 through 30 in this series.  So this is the first of that series.  The idea, though, is that if you play these all back to back, they do flow into each other.

As I was putting together this post I see at least one typo.  I mislabeled a Black Sabbath track "The Thrill Of Is All" instead of "The Thrill Of It All."  I thought about correcting it, but honestly it was just going to be too much work and so I thought I'd just write about it.  If you end up downloading this, feel free to fix the mistake.  This of course isn't the first and only typo that has ended up on one of my mixes. They do show up now and again.  Sometimes when I catch them, I try and go back and correct them and other times I just let it go.  

Enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 25 (Broken into 22 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 25

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Hold Music Volume 24

I can't quite remember what prompted this mix other than I wanted to put together a bunch of songs that I had been listening to that were leaning toward the funky side of things.  I think I had shared some funky music with someone at work and they mentioned that they were really listening to a lot of funk music and so I went down that rabbit hole for a bit.  I put this together November 26th, 2021.

Enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 24 (Broken into 21 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 24

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Hold Music Volume 23

The spark for this mix was the very first track on the list.  One day I was going through music files on my computer.  I was doing some file clean up and I came across a folder with Alan Hackshaw and that Dave Allen At Large theme.  I loved Dave Allen At Large as a kid and thought I should give that a listen.  I couldn't remember how that music went. So I clicked on the track and it literally made my day, because the track was one that I had been hearing for the past couple years and wished I knew what it was.  The Pure Cinema podcast uses that track for their New Beverly calendar episodes and actually had thought several times about tracking down that opening music.  Little did I know that I had the track and that it was actually to a show I watched growing up.  So I wanted to put that song on a mix so that I could have a reason to listen to it more often.  So I started with that track and the just built from there.  I listened to all sorts of tracks that I had been throwing into a folder for possible use on one of these mixes. So there are songs from my 1001 albums challenge.  There are songs from records I've digitized in the past year or so.  There are country songs that I came across listening to the Cocaine and Rhinestones podcast or the Ken Burns' Country Music documentary series.  There are also just tracks that I came across just in my normal random listening habits.  All that is to say that it is my usual eclectic mix of genres and time periods, with a main goal of kind of working together.

Enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 23 (Broken into 35 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 23

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Hold Music Volume 22

I can't remember any one driving theme behind this mix other than it was a collection of songs that I liked and thought worked together well as a mix.  I released this mix I believe back in September of 2021.

Enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 22 (Broken into 31 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 22

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Hold Music Volume 21

The inspiration for this mix came from an episode of Hit Parade this past year that focused on Yacht Rock.  While listening to that episode I realized that I probably could put together a pretty interesting playlist of just songs where Michael McDonald was involved.  Once I put my mind to it, it was fun doing the research and tracking down the songs.  Many I had already, while others I had to find online from various sources.  This playlist has the parenthetical "Michael McDonald Monday" because I released it to my friends on a Monday.

Enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 21 (Broken into 20 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 21

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Hold Music Volume 20

This past summer I spent many weeks digitizing a big stack of Hawaiian records.  To be more specific they weren't all strictly Hawaiian, so perhaps more accurately it would be better to call them Pacific Island records.  Anyway, I digitized a bunch of them and then in the fall I threw together this mix of some of my favorite tracks.  I could make a few of these types of mixes to be honest.  So don't be surprised to see another one of these in the future.  I've also been working on another large stack of Pacific Island records.  I've done about 30 so far and will have to break them up and get them into individual tracks.  I imagine I'll slowly do that this year.  My goal is to digitize all of those records eventually, but I imagine it will take me into 2023 to get through them all at the rate I go.  All that is probably a bit too much behind the scenes info.  Needless to say, here are some of my favorites from 2021.

Enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 20 (Broken into 26 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 20

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Hold Music Volume 19

Happy New Year and I'm kicking off the new year, resuming the posting of the Hold Music series.  I've continued making these playlists for myself and for friends at work.  I've currently shared with friends up to volume 24, but privately I have another six done and ready to share.  In fact I was just working on the artwork and tracks this past week.  So I should be able to post something regularly for a few weeks.

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 19 (Broken into 28 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 19

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SAP Music Christmas Mix 2021

Happy Christmas!  It is Christmas music time again and I think I've got a fun mix or holiday merriment to kick of this holiday season.  This year has a lot more modern Christmas tunes than I've ever included before.  I realized that in the last 20-30 years there actually have been a lot of fun Christmas tunes released and I don't get to listen to them much each year because I don't have them on any of my mixes, which is what I tend to put on each year.  So this year I made a conscious effort to program a lot of "modern" artists into the mix.  I realize that something that is 20-30 years old isn't actually modern, but I think you know what I mean.  Don't worry, there are still some older tracks and some nostalgic commercials and video clips to keep things interesting.

Tracks are listed on the artwork and again I am providing links to various formats for your listening pleasure. You can have the mix broken into 30 individual tracks or I have to files here that have everything in one big file.  You can choose between MP3 or the Apple iTunes format.  So Enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

Download here: SAP Music Christmas Mix (broken into 30 m4a tracks) 2021
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: SAP Music Christmas Mix 2021 MP3
Entire mix in one m4a track: SAP Music Christmas Mix 2021 m4a


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SAP Music Halloween Mix 2021

Happy Halloween everyone!  This year I started this mix nice and early.  Working from home has been great in terms of giving me more time for projects like my music mixes and other projects so I was able to start this mix back in May and I finished up in June.  I was so far ahead of the game that when it came down to the artwork I decided it was time to actually draw something.  I came up with this idea of the Bride of Frankenstein holding the hand of a child "monster" like a mother early one morning and this is the resulting drawing.  I'm pretty happy with it.  I framed the original sketch so that I could put it up for Halloween.

This year's mix as per usual is a mix or music and trailers and movie clips.  I think I have more trailer clips than usual this year.  I think this also was the result of the pandemic and having more time on my hands to scout youtube for clips.  Tracks are listed on the artwork and again I am providing links to various formats for your listening pleasure. You can have the mix broken into 45 individual tracks or I have to files here that have everything in one big file.  You can choose between MP3 or the Apple iTunes format.  So Enjoy.

Happy Halloween!

Download here: SAP Music Halloween Mix (broken into 45 m4a tracks) 2021
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: SAP Music Halloween Mix 2021 MP3
Entire mix in one m4a track: SAP Music Halloween Mix 2021 m4a


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Hold Music Volume 18

This is a mix that I actually have been working on for several weeks.  I started it before I had the idea for volume 17, which I threw together in one afternoon after having the idea.  This mix represents a broad spectrum of the music I've been listening to the last six months or so.  There is quite a bit of music that is me digitizing old vinyl records this past year.  There are several tracks from 78s.  

Another interesting track from a record I thought I'd share the background to is the Doug Kershaw track.  This past month I decided I was going to digitize a bunch of records that I had together in a box in my record room vaguely under folk music.  Now the things in that box aren't all really folk music, but they were sort of unclassifiable, or to be honest I just hadn't listened to the records closely enough to know where they should be filed.  There are few tracks from that box on this mix.  The last track with is some steel drumming music.  I had some records by Guela Gill that I digitized as well and one track "La Mer, L'Amour Et La Mort" shows up on here.  In that box was a record by Doug Kershaw. I digitized that record and within the week a friend of mine recommended the "Cocaine and Rhinestones" podcast which is a podcast about the history of country music.  I was super excited to see that there was an episode in the first season dedicated to Doug and his brother Rusty.  So that album that I had just digitized because I liked it and found it really interesting suddenly got really, really interesting after listening to the podcast.  This album that I had thrown in with other folk and world music because I think I had just thought it must be a "Cajun" record turned out to be much more than that.  That is a long way to say, the record was great and that is why I put "Diggy Diggy Lo" on this mix.

You'll also see quite  few tracks from the 60s and that is because I am still working my way through that 1001 albums to hear before you die list and so there are some tracks from those albums.

There are also some newer tracks of things that I've been into or have come across and stood out to me in 2021.  I made an insert for this as if this could go onto a CD, but to be honest the mix runs closer to two hours and so this would never fit onto a CD.  I guess I just like doing the format.  So as always, enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 18 (Broken into 33 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 181

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Hold Music Volume 17

Volume 17 of this series was created as a music challenge for my coworkers.  All the tracks are instrumentals and the challenge was to identify them from the single MP3 of the entire mix.  As you can see all the artists are pretty major artists and the tracks are a mixture of deep cut album cuts and B-sides.  Feel free to download and do a similar challenge with your friends. Of simply download and enjoy the music.

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 17 (Broken into 21 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 171

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SAP Music Summer Mix 2021

I'm back.  I spent the last few weeks since my last posting working on the Halloween and Christmas mixes for this year.  I am happy to say that I have squared them away and I am excited to share those later this year.  I am also happy that it has freed me up to work on some more immediate mixes.  For the Summer Mix this year I decided to work around the theme of songs from films from the 1980s.  The inspiration for the theme was that i was watching Dragnet recently and the Dragnet music in the film was so 80's and loved it.  I also had also recently watched Rocky IV which also has some quintessential 80s sounding music.  And that just made me think of all the great movie tunes from the 80s and so I started pulling together some tunes.  Next thing I knew I was making a playlist and I decided it was going to be the basis for the Summer mix.  I had to cut the list down to fit into 80 minutes.  I know no one is going to burn this to a CD these days, but I still like working with that restriction sometimes.  So have fun with this slice of nostalgia and have fun identifying the films these tunes are from.  Some of obvious while others may be a little more obscure.  Have fun and as always, enjoy!

m4a Files:
Download here: SAP Music Summer Mix 2021 (Broken into 22 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: SAP Music Summer Mix 2021

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Hold Music Volume 16

Volume 16 is the last part of the trilogy.  Volumes 14, 15 and 16 were originally put together as one huge playlist.  But after putting the 75 tracks together I thought it probably would be best to break it up into 3 volumes.  So if you want the full epic musical journey, play these three mixes back to back.  It may be a beat before I put together another one of these Hold Music mixes because I'm going to go into Halloween and then Christmas mode in terms of searching for music and putting together mixes.  I may also try and put together a Summer mix before returning to the Hold Music series.  So until then...

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 16 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 16.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 15

This is the continuation of Volume 14.  It continues with the pop music where volume 14 left off and then moves a little darker and end with a series of instrumental pieces.  It definitely continues the musical journey and has something from each of the last 6 decades of music.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 15 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 15.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 14

This is a mix I made just this last week.  I finally finished all of that FLAC file converting and labeling and so last weekend, I started mapping out some mixes.  It started as one big long playlist, but then I decided to break that up into smaller mixes.  25 tracks seemed to be a good number and the run time is a about 86 minutes.  This one is heavier on rock, but there are some other things thrown in there for variety.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 14 (Broken into 25 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 14.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 13

I spent a good portion of the month of April labeling and converting FLAC files.  To give myself a break from all the researching and labeling I made a new mix.  I started pulling this together Sunday April 18th and then worked on it through Monday and published it out to friends by the end of the day.  I had several hundred songs set aside for a mix and so it was just a matter of pulling songs for a flow.  This reflects some of the recent pop songs I like as well as some of the old tunes I've been listening to.  

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 13 (Broken into 50 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 13.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 12

Somewhere in mid February after shortly after finishing volume 11, I thought about putting together a playlist of songs with a song for every state.  It took a few weekends to pull it all together, but by March 9th, I finished. This volume 12 is the result of that work.  50 songs for 50 states with a few bonus tracks.  The mix clocks in at almost 162 minutes which is the longest volume to date.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 12 (Broken into 54 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 12.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 11

I released this mix of songs less than a week after "Volume 10" because I wanted to get it out before Valentine's Day.  I had been listening to a lot of jazz and blues at the time.  My wife and I had been rewatching the Ken Burns documentary Jazz at lunch, so I was listening to a lot of Louis Armstrong.  Then because of my 1001 Albums project I has been listening to a bunch of other jazz and for whatever reason that lead me to wanting to throw together a mix of the blues for Valentine's Day weekend.  I got the idea for the mix the day after finishing volume 10.  I spent a bunch of hours Sunday afternoon listening through a whole lot of music and setting aside candidates.  Then early the following Wednesday I got up and sequences the tracks, mixed them together and made some artwork all before work.  I shared it with coworkers the following day after I had listened through it and thought it was ready to share.  It all came together quite quickly, but I was really happy with the results.  

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 11 (Broken into 33 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 11.mp3

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Hold Music Volume 10

This mix is from early February 2021.  At this point I was on a roll with making these mixes.  I was doing a lot of clean up of music files on my computer and I had amassed a lot of songs that I set aside for mixes.  So I had a large pool to pull from.  Plus I has just gotten the new Weezer and John Carpenter releases and I wanted to share some tracks from those records.  Also in February I started listening to albums from the "1001 Albums You Should Hear Before You Die" book.  I started listening to an album a day with some coworkers.  From that project I listened to Fats Domino and Buddy Holly and The Crickets and so they make appearances here.

Enjoy

m4a Files:
Download here: Hold Music Volume 10 (Broken into 24 tracks)

mp3 File:
Entire Mix in one MP3 track: Hold Music Volume 10.mp3

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