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Soundtracks for 2013

Tom-B — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:24:33 -0800

High quality ecletic mixtapes by Luanda Baldijão. Lounge, jazz & rare finds.

the mixtape recession

xcasex — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:28:01 -0800

the mixtape recession mac miller's got 99 problems but a [censored] aint one. mixtapes under fire for non-cleared copyright use, making other artists such as whiz kalifa delay his next mixtape project.

Blood Bros, for all your training needs

Tom-B — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:38:15 -0800

Blood Bros make mixtapes of the best of 80s action movie soundtracks. Part 2.

Wake from unconsciousness, disoriented on a strange island. Apprehension and confusion fill the mind.

Lovecraft In Brooklyn — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:42:39 -0800

Cryogenic Husk features themed mixtapes, mostly of the metal or punk variety. Check out mixes based on being shipwrecked, Egyptology, or Nikki Sixx in '87.

Some Nice Background Music

netbros — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:13:38 -0800

The Illuminated Mixtapes — a running series of playlists for streaming, with hand illustrated covers for each one. Some nice background music while enjoying your MeFi.

"From Vinyl, To Tape, To You"

dhammond — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:04:47 -0800

Pates Tapes is an online music project from Charles Pates comprised of hundreds of hours of mixtapes culled from vinyl and cassette. Just click and play.

Halloween Mixtapes

filthy light thief — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:10:26 -0800

The pumpkins are mouldering or smashed, candy wrappers are strewn about, and your costume is tossed aside. Keep the mood going for a bit longer with some Halloween mixtapes, from film composer Alan Howarth (credits, IMDb), and three^(tracklist) streaming mixes from electronic/breakbeat producers Evil Nine. If you are looking for more beats and rapping in your mixtapes, here are three volumes of Night of the Living Dead (NSFW), from Cookin' Soul.

How is mixtape formed?

Dim Siawns — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:40:38 -0800

Mixtapes have been a way for rappers and producers to promote their music and have it heard for pretty much the entire history of hiphop, and they're still called mixtapes even though most have abandoned tapes for CDs and, in turn, CDs for mp3s. But there's such a glut of stuff on the market - Atlanta's Gorilla Zoe, for instance, released a mixtape a day throughout February - that it can be difficult to have a clue what's going on. One site I've found useful for just barely keeping up with things is DatPiff. It's not perfect - navigating can be a bit of a pain, and you can only download tapes if you sign up with an account. But even if you don't want to, you can still listen to everything on there, and there's quite a lot to sift through. Here's a few that might catch your interest. Pill - 4180 The Prescription and 4075 The Refill. Pill's probably my favourite newish rapper, used to (I think) work with Grindtime, Killer Mike's label. His biggest song is Trap Goin Ham, which did the rounds last year and appears on both of these mixtapes, but there are loads of great tracks on these two: Glass, Okay Den *, Bunkin etc. Freddie Gibbs - midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik. Comes from the rap capital of, um, Gary Indiana. Quite similar to Pill, in that both rappers are pretty much straightahead gangsta stuff, nothing fancy, just really solid rapping. They've swapped features on their tapes, and Womb 2 the Tomb from this one is pretty nifty. I'm also quite fond of Boxframe Cadillac. Gibbs also has another tape out, Miseducation of ... which I havenae heard but gather is basically more of the same. Young Jeezy - Trap or Die. To be honest, Jeezy's a bit of an eh rapper, but he's got a pretty good ear for a beat, so there's always something to nod along to. He also can get some pretty cool guests in, like the title track of this tape which has a great verse from Bun B. Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik. Bun's also on this one (Good to Go), which got really popular last year, but which I found you can burn out on quite quickly. It does have the only Juelz Santana verse I've ever found vaguely acceptable as well (Mixin Up the Medicine), so that's something. Starlito - Renaissance Gangsta. Formerly known as All Star before some kind of copyright kerfuffle, Lito's got a wonderfully laid-back flow, never sounds rushed. Check out January Wrist or March 13th. Pink Dollaz - Mixtape Vol 1.. LA's jerk style is notable for its minimal-to-the-point-of-barely-there beats, its lofi production and its young and mostly female MCs. The Dollaz are one of the most successful groups - check out Pockets Never Hungry or All the Way Turnt Up Lil Wayne - Dedication 2. Aye, aye, aye, we've seen it all by now and he does seem to have a gone a little nuts. But if you haven't heard it, this (and tapes like it) are basically why Weezy blew up when he did. Try They Still Like Me, Cannon or Georgia Bush. Roach Gigz - Roachy Balboa. Post hyphy, a whole bunch of new MCs have cropped up in the Bay Area. Roach is one of them! Respect It is the big single off this tape. Killer Mike - The Killer. Killer's been going for God knows how long. His album Ghetto Extraordinary got tied up due to a conflict with his label, so he basically turned it into this mixtape. Get Em Shawty has a couple of killer (no pun) verses, although the 3-6 feature is a bit forgettable, and the beat deserves to be one of the absolute classics. I also love the little 8-bit crunches on Aye Oh, and My Chrome sounds like a shoulda-been massive hit. Big K.R.I.T. - Krit Wuz Here. Coming out of Mississippi with a somewhat unfortunate name, Krit was a critic's favourite earlier this year. He does all his own producing, and he's got a pretty smooth sound - a bit too sanded off for my tastes sometimes, but there are some nifty tracks on this tape: See Me on Top, Something and Small As a Giant, f'rinstance. XO - One One Ten. XO's a member of Diamond District, a fairly trad DC group, and he put out this solo tape on the first of January (1/1/10, geddit?). I found it to be quite a grower, so maybe give it a couple of chances. Here's City Shit and She Posed To (love the afrobeat groove on this one). You've probably guessed by now that there's a street/gangsta slant to most of the stuff on DatPiff, and, well, that's pretty much true - but if that isnae what you like there's some backpackerier stuff as well, like some Atmosphere outtakes or a tape by the late Dilla's brother (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) Jay Electronica. There's loads of stuff up there that I havenae had the chance to hear but is supposed to be pretty nifty - Freeway's (owner of the proudest neckbeard in rap) tape with Don Cannon, for example. You can keep a vague eye on what's the critical consensus on stuff worth hearing in a few places; I basically rely on Cocaine Blunts and ILX's stupid fruity crazy swag thread. * Phonology note - there's quite a cool thing in this track where you can hear the AAVE realisation of /skɹ/ where most varieties of English have /stɹ/ really clearly in the chorus: "Gotta keep your hand on your /skɹ/ap." But also, and something I didn't know before, was that this sound change also occurs in other contexts, which you can hear in the first verse when Pill realises <chitchat> as /tʃɨktʃaʔ/.

"I've heard all the songs about the endless highway"

litlnemo — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:47:57 -0800

"I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway, lookin' for the love getaway." These lyrics to the B-52s' "Love Shack" inspired a lengthy list modestly titled "Some Road Songs." Planning to make a road song mix tape? This is the motherlode. Surprisingly (or not?), the list is hosted on the Federal Highway Administration website. Browsing around the site, you'll also find information on the history of the Interstate System, articles from Public Roads magazine, and a selection of "Back in Time" articles about highway history by Rickie Longfellow. Now for the fun of it, just a few of the many songs you ought to to consider listening to from the Road Songs list: "Transfusion" -- Nervous Norvus "Rocket 88" -- Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats (with Ike Turner) "Crawling from the Wreckage" -- Dave Edmunds "Bitchin' Camaro" -- Dead Milkmen "Drivin'" -- The Kinks "Driving Sideways" -- Aimee Mann "Roadrunner" -- Jonathan Richman (this is the 1977 45 version) "I Drove All Night" -- Roy Orbison "Highway Forever" -- The Presidents of the United States of America "Bicycle Race" -- Queen "See The USA in your Chevrolet" -- Dinah Shore "Long Old Road" -- Bessie Smith "18 Miles to Memphis" -- Stray Cats 1952 Vincent Black Lightning -- Richard Thompson "Hot Rod Lincoln" -- Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders (Actually, it's the Commander Cody version that's on the list, but this -- the original version -- is nifty and I think you might enjoy it.) (I wanted to make a post to commemorate my 10th birthday on MetaFilter, but I didn't find something I wanted to post about until now.)

Joe Howe

vronsky — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:58:33 -0800

Joe Howe (aka Gay Against You, Joemus, Germlin, Ben Butler and Mousepad) at Silkytooth. Mixtapes -- Long Live Summer::Playberlin::Best 2009 (Eno)::Mad Swing [v]

Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?

klangklangston — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:26:42 -0800

The Beatles never broke up.

Cassette from My Ex

deern the headlice — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:29:36 -0800

Cassette from My Ex is a project to "share the stories and the soundtrack to your earliest loves." Also features a great entry from Claudia Gonson of Magnetic Fields.

Online Mixtapes For Friends & Awkward Crushes

jonson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:34:08 -0800

Have a crush on someone you only know online? Want to make them a mixtape but you don't have their physical address? Not a problem, thanks to Muxtape, an online mixtape manager. Just upload up to 12 tracks, and a custom URL is provided.Via.

What we're gonna do right here is go back. Way back.

dhammond — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:55:14 -0800

Go way back into time with a deliciously analog collection of mastermixes from 1980s-era soul radio from London. [previously, semi-related]

POLYPUNK

vronsky — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:08:23 -0800

The Polypunk mixtapes. "selected in Tokyo, designed in London, posted from Brooklyn, hopefully enjoyed around the world." From digi nikki. via. I haven't dug through all these yet (there are 25!) but there are some real gems buried in the mixes. The "By This River" (Eno) remix on the first one for example. And the J.J. Cale jam starting about 17 minutes into # 24.

Awesome Tapes from Africa

roll truck roll — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:45:28 -0800

Awesome Tapes from Africa (via)

DJ Drama - artists' friend, RIAA foe

caddis — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:25:01 -0800

Make a mixtape highlighting a young artist, have that artist proclaim his delight about the project on the CD, reignite that artist's career, repeat, then, the RIAA has you arrested for counterfieting. The RIAA continues its vain struggle to understand the new music economy. In the meantime, at least one company gets it, offering DRM-free CD downloads of obscure titles.

low-noise heaven

bunglin jones — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:50:44 -0800

It all seemed perfect: Smiths side A, Pogues side B - or whatever else you wanted. For all the folks getting nostalgic further down the page,we are trying to turn back time for 60 minutes… or, maybe, for 90...

Get your mix on

dobbs — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:33:08 -0800

My Mixtapes is a site for users of emusic. Members can post album reviews, create mixtapes, and compile thematic lists of albums, all with direct links to the songs or albums so that subscribers to the mp3 service can download directly "via" my mixtapes.

Mix Tape for Dead Girl

botono9 — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:30:40 -0800

Mix Tape for Dead Girl. Writing a eulogy used to involve hours of revising and a good thesaurus. Joshua Allen opts for a cassette of field recordings and madrigals instead. Found sounds find their way to lost loved ones.

"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter..."

jewishbuddha — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:04:36 -0800

"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter..." Subject of books, movies and songs, mix tapes are a part of our culture. Some people lament the end of the tape and the rise of the CD. Some offer tips on making the perfect mix. Still not inspired? Pick a theme and have someone else do it for you. Really inspired? Join the Art of the Mix, a community dedicated to the mix tape (previously discussed here). A little fun for folks in the MefiSwap, or anyone who loves music.

Reggie452 — Mon, 14 May 2001 13:21:34 -0800

If you like mix tapes, Art of the Mix is a must-see site. The site hosts an archive of over 9,000 mix tapes made by music lovers from around the world. You can post your own mixes and contact others for mix tape trades. There's also a discussion forum in which all aspects of making mix tapes are discussed.