I only recognize a handful of artists on there and don't think I'm familiar with any of those specific tunes, so it's all greek to me. :le gran shruggo:
I've definitely seen the "random singles we could cheaply acquire rights to" format before. It's why the Now! CDs continue to exist, as probably the most famous example.
But like, the Family Dollar in Palmerton sells this one called like "R&B Top Hits!" or something and a clean version of "Bedrock" by Young Money shares disc space with an old Four Tops song, to give you an idea.
I have a CD from the mid-90s with a similarly odd lineup - Jethro Tull with Lenny Kravitz and Pat Benatar and I forget who else. My mom put it in my Christmas stocking one year
That said, the choices are still really strange. It's like an introductory crash course in the history of experimental dance and electronic music, but in non-chronological order. Which makes sense if this came with Mojo: It probably was a companion piece to an article on goth culture or something. Ending with Boyd Rice is certainly striking, though. And "Oh Yeah", while not a serious Can deep cut, is still about as weird and trippy an album cut from their discography as a less-than-ten-minute time restraint would permit. None of the choices seem *bad,* either, for the record: "Der Mussolini", "Hamburger Lady", "No Escape", "Losing My Edge" and "Oh Yeah" are all pretty great.
ELECTRONIC 50: From Neu! to Hot Chip, Brian Eno to Burial, MOJO writers pick the most important tracks of the mechanical age. Plus: Terry Riley, Manuel Göttsching, Derrick May, Alex Paterson, Martin Gore and Alexis Taylor report from the front-line of the digital music revolution.
So the theme is "electronic". Or uh, "mechanical", which makes me think organs but then I'm not the music magazine here.
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^ Flow is important here.
still friggin weird seeing moby and throbbing gristle on the same anything
these are for the most part exactly the exact opposite of deep cuts
Der Mussolini, Losing My Edge, Honey, Spastik and Let Your Body Learn are arguably the most widely known tracks by their respective artists