Justin Cornwall: Coachella 2016 Mixtapes

Via Guest Contributor Justin Cornwall

For the last 3 years, I’ve been putting together mixess of the entire Coachella lineup. I do them for myself, to familiarize myself with every artist playing, as I’ve attended the festival every year (and have since 2010) and want to maximize my radar for new music. I look into each artist and pull tracks that grab my attention off the bat, or personal favorites if it’s an artist I’m familiar with, and mix them all into one track. There are tons of Spotify playlists where people mass copy/paste top tracks from each artist, I like to think the mixes I put together connect on a more familiar level. They’re also easy to pop on and keep on during a road trip out to the desert. Everything is recorded live, in one take, here at my home in LA – sometimes I’ll need to restart the entire mix if I screw up once – no preprogramming here. They used to be up on SoundCloud, but their new algorithms caused the mixes to be taken down and strikes put up against my account.. since then, I’ve really pulled out all support for/to SoundCloud (cancelled my subscription, not really using it to push any new content). Using MixCloud is a vast improvement, it’s a great place for projects like these. There is an active track listing displays what you’re listening to in real time, I also provide free download links in the description of each mix. Hopefully these help you as much as they help me in terms of finding new music and getting excited for the upcoming festival. See you in April!

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Justin Cornwall: Coachella 2016 Mixtapes