the Mix Tape....a lost art form.....??

[scale21]

ive been doing some thinking lately.....

remember the days before computers and all this technology when you would sit down and make a good mix tape!!

Man i used to love doing this. I would go to extremes with my little dual cassette deck making mix tapes for a girl i liked back in school and just slipping it to her in class or even if we were dating i would make tapes and spend great time in doing so.

Heck i would even audio out my tv or vcr into my deck and grab clips and edit on the fly and cut and paste little messages from different things to convey a theme in between songs...

Man i didnt have a master studio setup but i remember taking old clips, songs, answering machine tapes, and small microphone and mixing all that together and giving it to that person. It was a great way to really push my thoughts....heck id even try my own backwards maskings to see if they could figure it out giving clues along the way.

Dorky i know but man i miss those days.

CDs and MP3s ruined that for me in part because it just seems to easy now...or maybe the nostalgia behind the MIX CD just doesnt work. Somthing about the mix tape says somthing.....

who is with me on this?

Dare i propose a Audio Karma mix tape contest :) I guess that would be hard...

I guess im just trying to say i miss the mix tape and the time and effort it took. What pure individualistic fun that was....

[stuwee]

I used to call 'em pause button mixes, on my old Teac I knew exactly how to match the beats, and, if I messed up go back and do it again till it was just right. Never went as far as splicing though on MA-XG's that would be :nono: Great for friends parties as you didn't have to lug around TT,mixers,LP's to the house just slap one in and :banana::D

Craig

[ampegdan]

I've been buying reusable good quality tapes at the thrifts lately and I'm kind of surprised at how many of these I've kept. Never found any like the ones you made, those are more on the creative side, but some really interesting compilations. One 80's mix tape on a TDK SA never even made it into the house after I found it--stayed in the truck.
I don't know if you could safely judge a mix tape contest. So much of that is subjective due to the personal nature of custom compilation.
I didn't really have the equipment or the money to do that sort of thing back in the day but I remember lugging all of my Stones albums to friend's house (who DID have the equipment) once to make a compilation of all of Keith's lead vocal stuff. Still have it.
Tapes are just fun to play with. And you're right, there's something non-tactile about CD mixes that isn't any fun for me, either.