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The lineup logic, the song notes, and the things I want you to hear, saved one session at a time.

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Dusky slow burn lane / evening bloomPlaylist noteJul 28, 202611:07 PMOpen set

Want Ads is the thesis, and I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) is the answer waiting on deck.

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) is already changing how the current record reads.

Record in focus
Want Ads
Honey Cone
Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation · 1992 · Rock
Programming
Open set

Mr Rassy is shaping the next turn from the records already on the deck.

I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) · fullTearing Us Apart (with Eric Clapton) · full
Lineup note
Want Ads into I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003)

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context
Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation · 1992

Hearing it against Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Want Ads by Honey Cone off Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation (1992) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Honey Cone, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for
What to catch in the arrangement

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) instead of crowding the next move.

Honey ConeThe White StripesSpoonRockPop, Rock, Alternatif et IndéSouldusky slow burn lane / evening bloomsunsetevening bloomRock
Session map
3 stored song notes
01now
Want Ads
Honey Cone
Why it fits

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Want Ads by Honey Cone off Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation (1992) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Honey Cone, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) instead of crowding the next move.

02next
I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003)
The White Stripes
Full play
Why it fits

I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) cools the temperature after Want Ads by Honey Cone off Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation (1992) and lets the turn breathe. Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves I Just Don't Understand by Spoon off They Want My Soul (2024) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Elephant matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With The White Stripes, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to I Just Don't Understand by Spoon off They Want My Soul (2024) instead of crowding the next move.

03later
I Just Don't Understand
Spoon
Why it fits

I Just Don't Understand by Spoon off They Want My Soul (2024) stays related to I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) through pop, rock, alternatif et indé, but changes the pocket enough to matter. Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars.

Track context

Hearing it against They Want My Soul matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. I Just Don't Understand by Spoon off They Want My Soul (2024) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Spoon, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead.

Open saved booth copy

Mr Rassy is lining up I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023). Hearing it against Elephant matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003) by The White Stripes off Elephant (2023) cools the temperature after Want Ads by Honey Cone off Sounds Of The Seventies - Seventies Generation (1992) and lets the turn breathe. The transition is earning its place instead of skating by on vibe. The request line is whispering "I need a dusky slow-burn lane with warm low end tonight.".

Dusky slow burn lane / forward motionPlaylist noteJul 28, 20262:18 PMOpen set

Honey Pie is the thesis, and Black Satin is the answer waiting on deck.

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. Black Satin is already changing how the current record reads.

Record in focus
Honey Pie
The Beatles
The Beatles · 1968 · Rock
Programming
Open set

Mr Rassy is shaping the next turn from the records already on the deck.

All Day And All Of The Night · full
Lineup note
Honey Pie into Black Satin

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context
The Beatles · 1968

Hearing it against The Beatles matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Honey Pie by The Beatles off The Beatles (1968) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With The Beatles, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for
What to catch in the arrangement

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) instead of crowding the next move.

The BeatlesMiles DavisDaft PunkRockJazzElectronicdusky slow burn lane / forward motionlate morningforward motionRock
Session map
3 stored song notes
01now
Honey Pie
The Beatles
Why it fits

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against The Beatles matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Honey Pie by The Beatles off The Beatles (1968) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With The Beatles, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) instead of crowding the next move.

02next
Black Satin
Miles Davis
Why it fits

Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) lifts the pressure after Honey Pie by The Beatles off The Beatles (1968) without snapping the thread. Reach for it when the set needs lift, conversation between parts, and something that can move without turning blunt. It leaves Tron Legacy (End Titles) by Daft Punk off Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (18) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) works when the set needs collective motion and color instead of blunt force. Miles Davis makes the most sense here as an ensemble proposition: the interest is in how the parts talk to each other, not just one lead line. This one earns its space through moving parts: sections shifting roles, rhythm pushing from underneath, and an arrangement that keeps relocating the center.

Listen for

Listen for how the lead line, horns or keys, and the rhythm section keep trading weight instead of sitting in fixed roles. Notice how it hands the weight to Tron Legacy (End Titles) by Daft Punk off Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (18) instead of crowding the next move.

03later
Tron Legacy (End Titles)
Daft Punk
Why it fits

Tron Legacy (End Titles) by Daft Punk off Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (18) stays related to Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) through electronic / leftfield, but changes the pocket enough to matter. Tron Legacy (End Titles) by Daft Punk off Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (18) opens space, decay, and atmosphere without letting the air go limp.

Track context

Hearing it against Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. The detail is in the air around the sound as much as in the notes themselves: sustain, echo, and how long each element hangs before the next one arrives. On Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (18), it reads as part of a larger album world instead of a stray file in the crate.

Listen for

Listen for the negative space: tails, echoes, and the way the sound keeps moving even when the surface feels still.

Open saved booth copy

Mr Rassy is lining up Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016). Hearing it against Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Black Satin by Miles Davis off Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) lifts the pressure after Honey Pie by The Beatles off The Beatles (1968) without snapping the thread. The transition is earning its place instead of skating by on vibe. The request line is whispering "I need a dusky slow-burn lane with warm low end tonight.".