Comments on: Mix It, Mix It Good

By: Tequila

Tequila — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:21:37 +0000

@the_daniel – I miss the minidisc, it was my favorite portable media, especially the intricate portable players and multi-colored disc cases. But lets not be silly…in a grand battle Metal tapes could destroy us all!

That’s what I loved about tapes…you had the low end plastic ones and the audiophile heavy as hell metal ones. They looked beautiful and their cold hardness was in direct contrast with the warm vynil of old.

Wish I still had all the ones I’d draw and paint on…they were lost many moves ago though…I still remember that old Wax Trax! Records Black Box (the rare as hell metallic version) that had its CD’s resting on layers of unraveled tape that you could spin on to a tape and listen too…

By: Shay

Shay — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:45:04 +0000

@Daniel – w00t for minidisc, the lost format of gold.

By: Paul Komoda

Paul Komoda — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:40:40 +0000

My early tapes are lost, unfortunately. These were mostly composed of mere fragments of music that I happened to come across midway on the radio, in my desperate search for anything interesting. In some cases I wouldn’t discover who the artist was until years later. Among these aural melanges were many bands that would, in the course of things, become lifelong obsessions of mine.
I’ve held on to most of the mixed tapes I’ve recieved from others.
During my art school days I was given a tape of Swans(Children of God) and Nick Cave which significantly affected my musical leanings.
There was a period when I would invest alot of time in creating text for the cassette labels, mostly in a microscopically precise, acid inspired “Famous Monsters of Filmland”/Robert Williams style. Scribbling with a Sharpie on my burned CD’s just isn’t the same, I’m afraid.

By: D

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:28:22 +0000

Best mix tape I ever got was just one song (the cover said otherwise), then some awkward scraping noise and her voice through a bad mike ‘Here’s what I didn’t dare say earlier…’ Half an hour’s confession to make me tingle all over.

Friend of mine always traded tapes with a guy in Berlin. Those tapes were the source of much goodness in bootlegs and fresh singles/LPs.

By: Ben Morris

Ben Morris — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:32:27 +0000

A mix for coilhouse is in the works. It is still in the gestational stages but its shaping up to be largely but not entirely instrumental, also expect scary folk music about a hanging.

By: Vivacious G

Vivacious G — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:36:52 +0000

Aw I miss those! The tapes have all mysteriously disappeared, though I do still have the mix cds from my husband…

I remember one tape with both Christian Death, The Exploited and Slayer on it.

And a horrible one with romantic 80’s adult contemporary that some admirer gave me. It made me want to vomit.

By: the daniel

the daniel — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:31:18 +0000

phear my mix-minidisc! i will battle your 80s-stalgia with 90s-stalgia!

By: Nadya

Nadya — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:53:33 +0000

The “originals” are in a shoebox in my parents’ basement. But I did bring lots of mix tapes that I made for myself with me to Cali… some of them were chunks re-taped from mixes other people made for me. My tape player is in my car, so all of my tapes are in my car in a big bag. A lot of these are mixes that I taped off the radio for myself when I was 12 or 13. I keep meaning to make lists of all the music, because tapes smash and break over time.

By: gooby

gooby — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:32:28 +0000

So Nadya, Do you still HAVE a tape player, then? Tell me you do, and that you still listen to your old tapes!

By: Shay

Shay — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:16:32 +0000

Zoe – I added to the DVD I sent you a mixtape in CD format (I no longer have access to audiocassette recording equipment *sniff*).
Didn’t really do anything special for the art, but I did think long and hard about the playlist. Feel free to submit it for review :) (Even though it’s a disc..)