I'm Steve Boyette, and this is PodRunner.

Hey everybody, welcome to PodRunner and an hour at 141 beats per minute, called,

KID UP.

It's called that because it's kind of an experiment.

Since I can't bring energy to a fixed tempo mix by actually speeding it up,

what I've done almost from the beginning is to arrange the tracks from lowest energy to highest,

going from simple to more complex to increase the energy and even give the illusion that the mix

is accelerating.

But there's another trick that some club DJs use to increase energy.

They bring in a new track that's one or two simitones higher than the one that's playing.

The idea is that going to a higher key adds a kind of emotional elevation, a feeling of climbing.

I am a huge fan of anything that gives you a boost to help get you through your workout,

so I thought I'd give it a try here.

And if you think this mix does bring that heightening, that energy elevation,

definitely let me know.

Email me at Steve at podrunner.com or visit the podrunner website and email me from there.

That's my clever way of getting you to the website so that you'll visit the donate page and

make a contribution so that I can keep trying new things to help make your workout,

well, just better, more efficient, more fun.

I'd like to think that's worth a couple of bucks every now and then.

I wanted to talk about the playlist because the tracks themselves are some serious energy

bombs in their own right.

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