PROJECT: CONFESSIONS OF A LAST.FM ADDICT


Ever felt like you wanted to listen to 3 tracks at the same time because you loved so many different songs so much? Ever felt like you are lagging behind and you cannot keep up with the amount of releases that surface every week? Ever thought that today's listening habits don't match the fast-paced world we live in?

Well I have, and I always wanted to resolve this major problem sometime. So I decided to sum up my year in music by putting my top 30 most played songs - whatever their release date is - on top of each other. Thus, 30 tracks became 10.

“Project...” is my experimental musical autobiography, which is generated by a couple of clearly defined rules:

1. The project is based on my “Top Tracks of Last 12months” last.fm chart, which recorded how many times I played each track throughout the year. Untitleds and my own tracks are excluded from the chart.
2. Each track is generated by putting 3 tracks on top of each other. No effects, no panning, no cut and paste, nothing.
3. The shortest piece (of the 3) determines the length of the generated whole.
4. Every 10th track on the top list is chosen to be put on each other. (First track will consist of the songs that are standing in the 1st, the 11th and the 21th place on the last.fm chart, the second track will be made up of the 2nd, the 12th and the 22th etc)
5. When there are multiple tracks with the same amount of listens on the toplist, the alphabetical order determines which one is picked.
6. One artist can only appear once in the top 30.
+1 Ten tracks are a LOT for this project, but I wanted to give coincidence a chance.

This is pretty easy to do, so, instead of listening to my list (which is probably interesting only to those, whose taste is similar, or to those who are definitely out of their minds), create your own! It shouldn’t take more than 2-4 hours. Devour it all at the same time and have fun!
If you follow these easy steps, you should probably end up with 20-25 minutes of equally disturbing, barely listenable non-music. Hooray!

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