Introducing: Track Notes
Warning: Strong Language
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What to Expect
(~5 minute read)
Welcome to the world behind the mixes. These notes are your guide, a backstage pass if you will, to each Lost Keys Experience. They’re built to be read while listening, reflect in the moment. Words and sound layered together. But I'm not here to tell you what to do and how to experience something, it’s entirely your choice.
Here’s what you can expect to find inside Track Notes:
1. Behind the Mix
Often the same sets of questions every mix gets interrogated by; from mood, to memory, from meaning, to emotional anchors . Essentially the background to where it started forming, what it captures, and what part of the soundtrack translates in to something I (we) can understand.
2. Target Questions
Depending on the type of mix and the layers, there maybe some follow on questions, to probe deeper - kind of like therapy. Helping me more than anything face up to the truth and the meaning behind the music. Perhaps unexpected revelations lets say.
3. Technical & Production
The action and craft behind the mix, from setup, to process, from gear, to recording & mastering. A look at performance and production, where I expand on the arc of the mix and what it means, how it flows, and what its trying to say or symbolise. This is the creation process, translating felt sense and feeling in to sound. Consider this the journey the music takes you on.
4. The Moment
Each mix is built around a moment; a memory, a feeling, a place, a time. It’s life translated into sound. Not just a playlist, more like the film score to whatever the fuck was going on at the time.
For me, music isn’t something you just hear — it’s something you picture. A mental scene where the tracks can live, breathe, and lodge themselves in your memory. I’m always trying to give a mix a cinematic identity, so it doesn’t just exist in your headphones, it exists in your head. In your nostalgia. In your emotional muscle memory. The scene becomes the anchor, the sound becomes the trigger, and suddenly a mix lives inside you like a charming house-mate.
This is where I express creativity in a different way, storytelling. It’s a glimpse into the way I experience music and, by extension, the way I experience life. The tones might be funny, chaotic, soft, heavy, hopeful, absolutely ridiculous, or quietly devastating. There’s no set emotional dress code. It just goes wherever the music pulls me, and carries whatever the tracks seem to know that I don’t fully articulate until later. So, yeah… expect the unexpected.
5. Reflections
A closing beat, what it meant, what I learned, and what I hope to take away from it. Maybe what you can take away from it also, more than just a bangin’ mix. There might be some shared links, or other items that back up any of the content shared behind the mix for further exploration and context.
6. Track List
Exactly what it says it is. Credits to artists, labels, producers and contributors all in order of set list.
Why Track Notes?
(~5 minute read)
Why do Track Notes exist?
Because a mix doesn’t start with sound, it starts with a moment: a mood, a memory, a head-fuck, a spark. Track Notes capture that origin story so the music makes sense to me not just sonically, but emotionally. They give language to feelings I had at the time, but couldn’t always explain as they were happening.
They exist because music is how I feel and see the world. It’s never just audio, it’s a journey. Music can pull you backward into the past, ground you into the present, or push you gently toward the future. It can even lead you to different parts of yourself, grounding you, shifting you, or holding you still long enough to finally take a breath. It’s powerful not because we hear it, but because we feel it.
The mixes were born from self-regulation. My way of navigating the noise and chaos of a neurodivergent brain that often feels like 86 browser tabs open at once, all prompting you immediate action before it times out.
The music becomes my steady point, the safe corner of the room that lets me reconnect when everything else feels too loud, too heavy, or too difficult to process.
Track Notes are my maps to those mixes. Where I was, what I was feeling, what mattered, and why those sounds pulled me in. Writing them gave me a place to hold the context, so I can return to the music later with memory, story, and emotional direction attached. So I can revisit it not just to listen, but to feel whatever I need to feel again when I need it.
Why are Track Notes important?
Because I believe context is what makes music stick, what connects us to it. Why is your favorite track your favorite track? Because it makes you feel something, it holds something that means something to you.
The difference between a track you enjoy and a track that haunts you for a decade often isn’t the beat, it’s what it meant when you found it. Track Notes turn a mix into something I, (you), can anchor yourself to, return to, and recognise yourself in.
How are Track Notes different?
Most music shows up in our lives polished and fully formed. Polished, mastered, edited into emotional neutrality - Not a dig, by the way. Track Notes show the opposite - The unfiltered mood logic, the personal meaning, the chaos behind the curation, and the cinematic thread that gives each mix its identity. They’re honest, reflective, chaotic, funny, sad, weird, or all at once, depending on where the mix took me. Its that unfiltered, honest truth laid bare. Like it or not. Honest.
I don’t think we get that with music very often. It’s always a smoke screen that shows us what they want us to see, and not always the truth and the reality behind it. Not always, of course. But often we only get the finished article with the narrative that is agreed to be shared.
This was always for me, kind of like a journal or diary of life against a soundtrack as that how my mind reads things best. I figured maybe I am not alone in this method and others may connect with it too.
What do Track Notes give the listener beyond the music itself?
Connection. A deeper way in. Mood validation. Emotional anchors. Memory connection. Immersion. There’s a lot here I think. The feeling that a mix has a setting, a landscape, a lived moment. Not just a play time on a platform.
When I listen to music and follow artists, I like to know more about what's going on behind the music. I feel knowing that stuff builds stronger connections to the music and shapes our interests further either in to that artist or in to the genre itself.
The Outcome and value to the listener?
You don’t just hear the mix, you step inside it with me. You understand the emotional wiring behind it. You connect more deeply. You borrow someone else's headspace for a minute and realise, just maybe, you’re not alone. You’re not the only one using music to survive yourself.
This was always intended for me to connect with myself…. But if just one person can feel something that helps and that can be shared to another, then its worth sharing.
