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Ok, I'll make another guess. The evidence is the same as my previous guess, it it the second half of my secret Santa gift from @Kris! Everything But The Girl – Fuse Not sure I can match the clues, but here goes... #1 Baby goat falling --- "Time And Time Again" get back up after the fall? #2...

Day 12 - The world music mix “Music of the soul” – Winston, as he hands over a mix CD containing tracks from Mulatu Astatke and other Ethiopian artists to his neighbor Don Johnston, who is about to embark on a quest to find the son he just found out about, Broken Flowers (directed by Jim...

Day 11 - The pencil & the cassette Everyone that grew up in the 80’s and 90’s is very familiar with the relationship between a cassette tape and a pencil. Those born later, maybe not. Play something with album art that has hand-written or drawn elements, preferably with pencil. (Yes, I know, the...

Day 10 - The Walkman “Walkman. It’s like a stereo. Play your own cassette tapes.” (Super 8, directed by JJ Abrams, 2011) Released in 1979, that iconic yellow plastic Sony Walkman is essentially the first truly portable music player where you are the DJ, and is just as responsible as anything...

Day 9 - Sound bites and interludes Did you add sound bites or various interludes to your mixes? I used to find ways to record various soundbites out of my favorite films to add quirk to a mix. I remember spending quite some time trying to lift the “Let me tell you about my mother” line off a...

Day 8 - LORAN brand tapes The company Loran made cassettes that were as tough as they get. Their outer shells were extra strong and heat-resistant. The tape material itself was not thought of as being very good for making quality recordings however. Play a record housed in a tank of a sleeve...

Day 7 - Copyright infringement Some record stores like Toronto’s Play de Record became the pinnacle of local club scenes and promoted local emerging artist by selling their mixtapes. Unfortunately, the samples on these tapes are not usually cleared, which is copyright infringement and can lead...

Day 6 - Mixtape downloads “If you order a Rick Ross or Macklemore CD…” “…I would not order a Macklemore CD. That would never happen.” – Malcolm Adekanbi, avid old-school hip-hop and mixtape download fan, cutting off a music-based analogy about selling dope, Dope (directed by Rick Famuyima...

Day 5 - Normal and High Bias There were four types of cassettes, all comprising some sort of magnetic coating on a polyester strip. Type one is Normal Bias and include ferric oxide. The others are High Bias, with type 2 being a chrome tape, type 3 a ferro-chrome-cobalt mix and type 4 being a...

Day 4 - Philips The compact cassette tape that became synonymous with mixtapes was first invented by Lou Ottens at Philips in 1962. Lou Ottens lived until the age of 93 when he passed in 2021. Play something released on Philips records. Or play something that includes someone named Philip or...

Day 3 - Sequence it how you want it “I love this. I make these little mix tapes together. You know, I put all my favorite songs together. Hey Cosmo, what number is this? Number - number eleven, yeah. I love it. When you buy a tape or something or an album, you know, you put it on and the songs...

I will guess Cesaria Evora – Café Atlantico, because it is great and also because an awesome black cat avatar person gifted it to me last Christmas! ;)

Day 2 - Track two As Rob Gordon said, now you have to hold the attention and take it up a notch. Play an album with an amazing killer second track. Rage Against the Machine Track 2: Killing in the Name

Day 1 - The opening track “To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention, and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or...

I see you were were protected from foul balls as well! lol That netting was the only gripe I had about the show in Cincy.

So is it a G.O.A.T. that has fallen?

Today I learned Imagine Dragons are corporate shills that only produce "butt rock corporate ideas and mostly just a dumb singles" So here I am enjoying "butt rock" lol