“Sound Sculpture” in my Mixes

Dear friends.

A friend of mine asked me recently why I do not produce more new Mixes these days given the fact I am stuck at home, so here is a bit of an explanation.

On top of the obvious songs selection, order and mixing, which are actually the easy parts, I spend a lot of time doing what I like to call “Sound Sculpture”, which consists of adjusting the sound level within each song, as shown in the example above by the fluctuating line in the middle that represents the volume. This gives a smoother listening experience by for example lowering the volume in the parts of the song where the singer screams or any other big variations, this of course depends a lot on the song and is normally more intricate that in the example above, but bottom line I do some on every song in my Mixes, which is why it takes me on average 2 days to create each Mix, so please bear with me.

Stay Home, Stay Safe

Pascal’s Music history, statistics and future

Pascal's Music

Dear friends.

When I first started the Pascal’s Music website at the end of 2017 it was mainly to share with my friends my old music cassettes I digitized and memorabilia, but given the poor sound quality of some of these cassettes I was easily convinced to replace them by new Music Mixes. But when I started, I soon realized I had so much music I would like to share it became a much bigger project of basically creating an anthology of music.

Now some two and a half years later the website main purpose has become to share these Music Mixes I keep creating and already have 111 on there in various music genres as shown here:

for a total of nearly 152 hours, yes almost a week, and 2,164 songs.

Even though I am done covering some genres like Disco, New Wave and Synth Pop, I not only still have a lot to offer in other genres like House, Dance, Techno, etc. but will eventually also cover new genres like Punk, Post-Punk, Reggae, etc. I haven’t started yet, so I will continue producing new Music Mixes, but most likely for the near future focusing on the House genre I have so many songs to mix. And who knows one day I might even finally get back to the memorabilia part of the website I neglected.

My target audience has always been my friends that as shown by these statistics on my website views show where most of them are located:

but if you like my website feel free to share it with your friends, as in those days of isolation there has never been a better time to listen to music to cheer you up.

Time to get back to creating new Music Mixes.

As always, I hope you enjoy!

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New House, Techno and Dance Mixes

Dance (5)

Dear friends.

As I know most of you are still stuck at home for the coronavirus quarantine, either forced or self-imposed like me for now more than 5 weeks, I am happy to offer you the following 2 new House Mixes from 1992, you can listen to at House Music Mixes:

I also offer you the following new Techno Mix from 1990 and 1991, you can listen to at Techno Music Mixes:

And the following new Dance Mix from 1991, you can listen to at Dance Music Mixes:

I hope you enjoy and stay safe stay home!

New House and Dance Mixes

Dance (2)

Dear friends.

As I know most of you are still stuck at home for the coronavirus quarantine, either forced or self-imposed like me for now 3 weeks, I am happy to offer you the following 2 new House Mixes from 1990 and 1991, you can listen to at House Music Mixes:

And I also offer you the following 3 new Dance Mixes from 1988 to 1990, you can listen to at Dance Music Mixes:

I hope you enjoy and stay safe stay home!

New Techno Category and House Mixes

Techno (1)

Dear friends.

As I know most of you are stuck at home for the coronavirus quarantine, either forced or self-imposed like me, I am happy to launch my new Techno category, which might not be for everyone but I know some of you will appreciate, in which I offer you the following new Techno Mix from the mid and late 1980s, you can listen to at Techno Music Mixes:

House (10)

And I also offer you the following 2 new House Mixes from 1988 and 1989, you can listen to at House Music Mixes:

I hope you enjoy and stay safe!

New House Category

House (1)

Dear friends.

This week I am very happy to finally launch my new House category, which will most likely become my biggest one due to my love of the genre for more than 3 decades and its variety, in which I offer you the following 2 new House Mixes from 1986 and 1987, you can listen to at House Music Mixes:

I hope you enjoy!

A lot, lot, lot more to come soon!

Disco Mixes completed

Disco (4

Dear friends.

This week I completed the Disco section and offer you 5 new Disco Music Mixes: 2 Disco Party Mixes containing the top Disco Hits mixed ‘more aggressively’ and a bit louder than the anthology Mixes, making them ideal for your party, and to complete my anthology Mixes from 1980 and 1981, and a special Space Disco one, you can listen to at Disco Music Mixes:

I hope you enjoy!