If you don't like the collective works of Mike Patton, move along. There's nothing to see here.

I made this mix for a friend. I didn't want this to just be my favorite songs, I wanted to cover the wide ranges of each band. As such, I'm sure I left off something that someone out there will say 'how can you make a Patton mix and not use...' Well there's only 80 minutes to a mix, so toughen up, Nancy.

This is a hard one for me to make since I'm such a fanboy. Every track I had to cut was like giving up a family member to satiate a pack of rabid wolves. But in a bad way.
I started by listing all of the tracks I might want to use. That gave me about 6 hours of music which, as you might know, is more than a cd can handle. So from there, I went over everything again, and got the list down to 3 hours 45 minutes. Then after picking my starting point, I pretty much just tried to find what flowed nicely. I didn't worry too much about spreading the bands out because I thought it would end up too A-B-C-A-B-C..., though I didn't use the same band twice in a row.

The first arrangement I came up with was 1:20:07, so I had to find some way to chop it down. In the process I ended up reworking it almost entirely. I had 2 Bungle tracks from California that pretty much had the same vibe, so I figured I could sacrifice one to make room for some more variation. Again, this changed the whole mix. I've been working on this one since right after my monster mix, if that gives you any idea of how much work this one has been.

Plus there was the issue of which albums should be included. Should I use any of Patton's work with Zorn? Or maybe his track from Handsome Boy Modeling School? Some stuff just couldn't fit, timewise and in the flow. Fantomas' Directors Cut is absent. As is FNM's The Real Thing. But I think most of the ground is pretty well covered.

I think I've rambled on long enough. On to the mix.