@emenel two answers to how you ended up first, one flattering, one practical.
Firstly, it’s a great track, full of excitement, the kind of thing that you want at the start of an album to get people ready for more. Good job.
Secondly, the practical reason, @ingMob 's Forgotten Tea is one of my top tracks of 2017, and was going to be up first, but introducing a mostly instrumental comp with a mostly vocal track could be divisive, and misleading. So we needed something exciting, and representative of the comp to go first.
It was a toss up between you and Ghost Hunter. My only reservation with either of tracks is that they’re both bloody long, but sometimes greatness is not brief.
Also, you’re an established member of the community, a respected artist and bloody good at what you do. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be first up. it’s not an honour, it’s a great choice. I think we all need a bit more Kanye attitude about us.
more notes on sequencing
Call me old school, but even on a comp for CD and mp3 I still like to think in terms of an A side and a B side. I often even have separate chains with different mastering sounds for each half of an album. It’s also just an easy way to show progression in an album and provides a nice rise and fall rise and fall. So I start by dividing the tracks in two, and deciding which half should go first. I then sequence the tracks on each side separately.
This time round side B started with @rick_monster, for anyone that’s interested.
I probably put most thought into which track goes last on an album. It has to be something that makes you want to push play again straight away!! @ioflow and @ikjoyce were both strong contenders, just because both tracks sound like nothing else on the album. I’m going to admit fanboy-ing all over ioflow’s track, so that made it last. Also he had requested I didn’t squash his piano’s attack with a compressor, so his track is quieter than the rest, and worked better there.
Great work everyone!
