Dec 2

This is a variety tape that dates back to the eighties–the height of the mixtape era. What a strange bunch of songs to put together. Very classic mixtape construction from me on the B-side, but the A side is very off-balance.  Hip Hop and very hard Industrial rock will do that to your mix. The easiest solution is to avoid these hard-to-mix songs entirely–which I usually did.  I made this in September of ‘88. I was working at Montgomery Ward and had very little money to blow on records. I don’t think I had taken the CD plunge at this point. I’m sure of it, in fact. The CD era came slightly after this. I was still living on Lincoln and Diversey in Chicago. Most of these records were purchased at WaxTrax which was a few blocks down the street.  I still like most of these songs. I used the classic ‘fade out trick’ at the end of this tape of picking an instrumental (from The Style Council’s underrated piano heavy album of the same year). It was a function of my desire to fill every inch of recordable material with music.

Nov 24
Pamela Caye's former New York establishment.

Pamela Caye's former New York establishment.

Nov 11

WNYC New York Soundcheck does a show about the lost art of the mixtape.

Oct 20

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/4256/cassette-tape-closet-by-patrick-schuur.html

Oct 6
Endless Mixtape
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A new movie is about making mixtapes! 

And it doesn’t totally stink.  Discussion anyone?

Check out the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NickAndNorahMovie

Sep 27
Muxtape vs. RIAA
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Great stuff on muxtape.com about their battle with the Recording Industry. Must read for mixtape fans.

http://muxtape.com/

Sep 19

Sep 19

NPR All Songs Considered did a nice story about Apple’s New iTunes 8 ‘Genius’ feature. It sort of makes a mix tape for you on the fly that uses some Pandora-like AI to guide the making of the ‘mix’.  I’ve been playing with it for the last week or so and I have to say it’s quite good. It’s especially nice on the iPod for setting a mood. And the promise is that it will get ’smarter’ as more data is gathered from the cloud. Exciting stuff. Also, check out the mix-like offerings on this very fine site. Good stuff all around.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2008/09/itunes_genius.html

Sep 18
MixTape Radio
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WNYC New York had a story about a classical artist inspired by mixtapes today. And this archived show from June of this year is a great story about the art of the mix.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2008/09/17/segments/109129

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2008/06/19/segments/100830

Sep 17

http://www.myspace.com/channelv

I look forward to playing around with this new ‘analog’ player.

Post your mixes here and let’s share!

Here’s a story about it in ADWEEK:

http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i68343da3c822c824d2dbbd74ed268c24

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