Variety Tapes

A misfit of a mix - Variety #68

troy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:03:24 +0000

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.

The Bouche Bar Mixes

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:24:06 +0000

Pamela Caye's former New York establishment.

Radio does Mixtapes

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:22:12 +0000

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

Interesting Mix Tape Storage

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:50:10 +0000

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

Endless Mixtape

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:54:42 +0000

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

Muxtape vs. RIAA

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:52:42 +0000

Great stuff on muxtape.com about their battle with the Recording Industry. Must read for mixtape fans.

http://muxtape.com/

The Ultimate Mix Tape?

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:36:41 +0000

Apple Genius MixMaker

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:31:52 +0000

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

MixTape Radio

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:02:08 +0000

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

MySpace Makes a Mix Tape

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:07:15 +0000

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