Here is my Autumn Mixtape and Cover Art. The Genre is Hard House and Electronic, But hopefully enjoyable by anyone
The download includes all 16 tracks as high quality m4a files, so you'll need a copy of iTunes to play them. I've also put a PDF file containing the cover art in there too, it's laid out in a suitable way to be cut up and put into a CD case! Just make sure that the option to scale it to fit the paper isn't ticked in Acrobat, because then it'll be too small.
Download
johns autumn mixtape 2008.1.zip - 84.45MB
johns autumn mixtape 2008.2.zip - 73.89MB
the titles on the back make my eyes cry...i'll give it a listen later. are the two downloads for the same thing? cause...exe's typically don't like mr big mac.
Damn that .exe. I want to listen to your stuff.
I'm obviously doin' it wrong.
if you've got any kind of archiver program you should be able to extract it.
I'll upload another version that's just zip files if you like
edit: If you use
File Jucer on the exe file, it'll make a RAR file that you can then extract to get the mix (Make sure both parts are in the same folder, first
you're inconveniencing the customer >:[ i dun wanna download a program, so i'll just listen to the second half.
fine. I'll upload a second version. since I think you need both parts to extract it
the titles on the back make my eyes cry...
Ditto.
I'll give the beats a listen though, I like house.
wha? what makes you cry? the design or the actual titles?
Don't let it put you off, every track on there is freshly squeezed awesome.
The white titles blend too much with the white parts of the cover art and artist names/track numbers, and the mixing make it very hard on the eyes.
The artist/track number titles should not be the same colour/font as the song title, makes for bad prsentation. A good way to seperate them would be to give them seperate colour outer glows/inner shadows to make borders between them.
Also, white outer glow on the white titles is a no-no; strain on the eyes.
To fix this you could try giving a black center stroke on the titles, then have the outer glow under that. So the border would be visible, but not so much to make it seem out of place. (Different colour stroke for track #, artist and song, but outer glow can mix.)
And cut out more black out of the cover art to give the titles more space so they'll fit without making contact with the cover art.
P.S. Liking the beats thus far.
updated with Mac Friendly files.
The white titles blend too much with the white parts of the cover art and artist names/track numbers, and the mixing make it very hard on the eyes.
The artist/track number titles should not be the same colour/font as the song title, makes for bad prsentation. A good way to seperate them would be to give them seperate colour outer glows/inner shadows to make borders between them.
Also, white outer glow on the white titles is a no-no; strain on the eyes.
To fix this you could try giving a black center stroke on the titles, then have the outer glow under that. So the border would be visible, but not so much to make it seem out of place. (Different colour stroke for track #, artist and song, but outer glow can mix.)
And cut out more black out of the cover art to give the titles more space so they'll fit without making contact with the cover art.
P.S. Liking the beats thus far.
haha, then it seems to be quite good then 
My design aim for the titles was to make them as illegible as possible whilst still being relatively easy to read.
I was originally going to use different colours but I think the white glaring style I used worked quite well for what I was trying to achieve. You'll have to believe me, it does look good printed on gloss.
i understand what you're trying to do with the titles and artists...but it still hurts my eyes. there's just so much glowing white that it all meshes together at some points. i will give you credit though, cause you make it look intentional two ways: the black bars behind the words not all lining up (and not always hitting the words at the same points) and the fact that there are places where the text is simply text and not meshed with the background.
since you dulled down the glow from the background, it may just be the fact that the glow on the text is so bright, and that's what's hurting me.
and yay mac-friendly downloads <3 i'll give it a listen tonight then.