KVR Audio

reflekshun · Post by **reflekshun** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:07 am

I was wondering whether any of you out there have any advice / tricks / tips on ordering album tracks?

I've trialled it a few times on material i'm not releasing, but it seems like a whole artform just choosing the right tracks, then getting them in the right order!

I know its a super broad topic.. Lets say we're working with electronic freestyle music here (god that doesn't help does it). Well any tips from any style will be useful to know for sure

Thanks to anyone who can their wiseness!

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:50 am

You're right, it takes a lot of effort but you'll know when you have the rigth order because the whole album will just flow beautifully. What I think works best is to build up to your best track, which is about Track 3 or 4, then mellow out so that it can build up again to a big finish. I like to put a song with loads of energy as the last track so that listenders will be tempted to go straight back to Track 1 and start again.

Peel · Post by **Peel** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:53 am

I'm old school like Bones; I think an album should have a flow to it -- build up to high-energy songs, release down to a more mellow mood, build up again. For me, I tend to think about how I want to start & finish the album first.
Somewhere in the past few years, however, it seems to have become an unwritten rule that every album's best 3 tracks MUST be the first 3 tracks on the album (the corollary being that the other 7 tracks can be thrown on in any order at all since they're just pulp anyway). This drives me batty, aesthetically, but I do think that if selling albums is your first concern, it's probably more effective.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:21 pm

I also still think of an album as having two sides. Deep, huh?

grillo · Post by **grillo** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:07 pm

I just think about it and write it down and burn the cd. Then i take the cd with me in the car. I'll listen to it a few times, and maybe after a week everything suddenly looks a lot clearer and i'll immediately know where i made a mistake, it simply screams at you 'this track can't follow this other one!' and stuff like that

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:20 pm

BONES wrote:I also still think of an album as having two sides. Deep, huh?

woah dude...

Ordering Album / EP tracks