Sometimes when someone has a crush on you, they’ll make you a mixtape to give you a clue
muxtape and the likes seem to be all over the place now and I find it incredibly interesting. Apart of burst of nostalgia and remote memories of romantic cheesiness carved on 60min phillips cassettes, it got me thinking: Has the concept of a mixtape, such a prominent social and cultural commodity of my teenage years has change in quality when it all went playlists or is it a case of “technology changes, people don’t”?
In other words are there any significant differences between the current playlist generation and the 80’s mixtape generation? (I’m interested mainly in the private and personal type of mixtapes)
I wish I had more time to explore this one. I bet you that of the 550 blog posts linked to Muxtape and similar number of posts posts referencing Mixwit the average age of the bloggers will be 30 plus.
I have to ask my 14 years old friend Jules about it. Of all the range of mixtape functions/purposes - from a casually selected list of favorite songs, to a conceptual mix of songs linked by a theme or mood, to a highly personal statement tailored to the tape’s intended recipient - which one remained and which one have lost?
and here’s another piece of beauty
Cheers for the link and the mixtape Nicks!
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My 15 year old daughter and her friends all clubbed together and bought a boombox at a boot fair last month. Since then they’ve spent hours making mixtapes. The funniest thing is that they do it by downloading from their iTunes onto a CD and then copying the CD on to cassette!
Posted 29 Mar 2008 at 12:41 am ¶Haha…thats really sweet
but do they experience the playlist as an expression tool as we experienced the mixtape?
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