Comments on: Music Mixing

Music Mixing

nola — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:35:46 -0800

Do you mix your own? Welcome to the website dedicated to making mixed tapes and cds. i like to use this site along with AMG (as a reference tool) to come up with much needed new ideas , and share them with people of similar tastes. just copy the names you find in AOTM (the ones you have no idea who they are) paste in the search engine at AMG and then listen to a sample of music from said group , to see if its your thing or not. here is a group i was introduced to a few years ago . found them ( you guessed it) on AOTM . when you find a mix you like offer to trade one of your own for it and use this site or some thing like it to share with your new friend.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:46:25 -0800

Ah.... a hit from May 2001. (But still good. Glad to see they're still going.)

By: swinginjohn

swinginjohn — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:50:48 -0800

I don't believe in mix tapes/CD's. I like albums; especially concept albums (a la Abbey Road or The Unauthorized Biography of Rheinold Messner). Mix tapes are the equivalent of listening to Top 40 radio. IMNSHO =)

By: fungible

fungible — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:59:31 -0800

I think it depends who's making the mix tape. Most of mine are more like silly college radio. The key to my mixes? Throw in something weird to liven things up every two songs. And big changes - go from Lawrence Welk to black metal. Keeps it interesting.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:59:44 -0800

swinginjohn: I disagree wholeheartedly. A good mixtape (like a good album) represents a value that is greater than the value of the individual songs. One could simply consider a mixtape an album of songs by different artists. It is just as possible to make a concept mixtape as it is to make a concept album.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:06:45 -0800

Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel: A Concept Album (with various artists).

By: swinginjohn

swinginjohn — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:17:28 -0800

sveskemus I guess I see your point. I mess around with playlists every now and then in Winamp and get some interesting listens. One of my favorite things to do is take all of the same number of a track from all of the albums I have. So grab all of the track 3's from every album you have and see what happens. =)

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:17:33 -0800

Bad mix tape = Top 40 radio Good mix (tape/album) = Live DJ set from a great DJ

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:07:02 -0800

I tend to make theme-related mix-tapes/CDs. The lastest one was "Mothra vs. Rock Lobster" anchored by Those Darn Accordions at one end, the B-52s at the other end, and science-fiction related music in the middle: Forbidden Zone soundtrack, some Anime soundtrack stuff, some local music no one would recognize, and of course, Frank Zappa.

By: Lord Kinbote

Lord Kinbote — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:09:47 -0800

Say what you will about this Web site, but they've been around a long time: their archive still contains a cassette mix I posted on their site when I first got the Internet in 1998!

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:15:04 -0800

swinginjohn: So grab all of the track 3's from every album you have and see what happens. =) I just made a Smart Playlist in iTunes with every track 3 in my library. If I start listening now, I'll be done in about 23 hours. Can't, though. Gotta go to school and work. :-(

By: wakko

wakko — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:17:31 -0800

I DJ (with actual turntables). Mixtapes are what little girls make for their friends. Todd Lokken.

By: Ber

Ber — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:49:45 -0800

Makes me want to read High Fidelity all over again. Mix tapes/CDs are an art form unto themselves.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:00:44 -0800

I'm tempted to take this to MeTa; what ever happened to the quarterly Metafilter mix swap? five copies of a mix got you five different mixes. I learned about a lot of great music that way. it would be super sweet if it started again. or is it still going? paging dreama?

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:04:41 -0800

carsonb: MeTa.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:04:59 -0800

I'm tempted to take this to MeTa; what ever happened to the quarterly Metafilter mix swap? There was a thread already, and you can sign up at mefiswap.ciphermonkeys.org.

By: mingusmingus

mingusmingus — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:01:13 -0800

where can i download mix cds?

By: mischief

mischief — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:28:19 -0800

I downloaded the Acoustica MP3 mixer (shareware) the other day and although the manual is a bit cryptic, once I figured things out, it's a dream for adjusting levels, fading, splicing, and adjusting tempos. It lacks a bpm analyzer but a little searching turns up a bunch. Warning: This is addictive! I have spent well over 24 hours fretting over the songs and their order of my first mp3 mix.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:43:39 -0800

Swingin' John: Maybe your mix tapes would be better if your favorite bands didn't suck. (I make MEAN mix tapes, mostly for driving. I also have a monthly free mix cd swap, which kicks some ass...)

By: solipse

solipse — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:01:00 -0800

Here's an mp3 blog for downloading lots and lots (and lots) of mixes. Its a bit more oriented towards electronic music, but you'll find yourself with a few days worth of listening time pretty quickly. Cover art, too.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:19:37 -0800

thank you, friends.

By: anthill

anthill — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:45:21 -0800

I used to make mixtapes until I started downloading mashup mixes from excellent DJs. Another case of stifled creativity. Listening to my old tapes, I realize that isn't always such a bad thing.

By: s.disney

s.disney — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:54:29 -0800

last.fm download plug-ins for players add friends