Summer Muxtape
Muxtape is a good way to waste an hour or two. Basically, it uses mp3s to make the sort of mixtapes that were the common currency of friendships/relationships in the long-lost days of the analogue teenager.
Nick Hornby documents the tortuous rules of mixtapes in High Fidelity (a great summer read BTW, I remember consuming it in less than 2 days in a tent in between tropical cyclones at Mount Maunganui). One hopes that mixtape construction is not totally a lost skill…
I’ve put together a Summer Muxtape. Hopefully the mix is a little brighter and warmer musically than the weather’s been so far here in England. It’s a little all over the place stylistically (Common, Sharon Jones, Wilco, Vampire Weekend…), but it might just work.
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GENIUS!!! What a fantastic application for anyone who remembers using tapes (I believe my first tape was either Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen and I still remember the bright yellow walkman I was ever so proud of!)
thanks for the music, brightened my day for sure and suits the 30 degree weather here in Fredericton.
Check out commontone for a muxtape soon, though I haven’t decided what the theme will be yet….maybe “cool summer evening”? (read: lots of chet)
the only question: is it legal – or will this be a temporary thing between legal battles?
Glad you liked it Nick, looking forward to your mix
As for legality, well Muxtape seems to have some tie-in to Amazon’s US mp3 shop. Also Andrew Dubber (online music consultant and broadcasting lecturer) has a muxtape of his own, linked from the front of his blog. So while that’s not a legal opinion, it would seem that at least one respected name in online music strategy is doing it…