Rules for fanmixes:

1. Must have at least one song that explicitly references the fandom
2. Must have one song by They Might Be Giants
3. Must have at least one track of bad white-boy hip-hop
4. Cannot include two songs by the same artist
5. Covers of songs originally by artists of color must be by artists of color
6. If I am wavering between two songs, pick the one by a female vocalist
7. Fills and audio CD
8. Blend of popular and not-so-popular artists

Things that seem to happen anyway:
1. Appropriate titles
2. Repeated themes and motifs
3. blend of music styles, deliberately patterned throughout the mix
4. no love songs
5. Overarching narrative build

Genres emphasized here: 1) geek rock; 2) mathematical music; 3) Folk/filk/70s pop; 4) instrumentals
Keywords emphasized: Time; entropy; creation; spiders; immortality; bells