Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Friday Music: The mixtape and me

David Hood

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:33:20 +1300

Sort of related, I have been spending this evening playing with this playlist generator toy

http://static.echonest.com/BoilTheFrog/index.html?src=miley%20cyrus&dest=miles%20davis

ma2ice beatz

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:25:44 +1300

Memories indeed, funny how there is actually nothing new, well technology, but I mean the mixtape term. Now suddenly a thing, but the actual act has existed from time.
With streaming now, I do not even bother to make a playlist anymore.

Hugh Wilson

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:48:29 +1300

I like the quote in Andrew’s blogpost about the mixtape being the most widely practised artform in America. I sense that was probably a moment in time but I guess that also depends on how you define a mixtape – I feel a degree of effort is needed to qualify,…

Jean Hughes

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:47:51 +1300

And the Mixtape still lives on ...
on Bandcamp
[ [url/https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/30/the-month-in-mixtapes-january-2017/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=Month%20in%20Mixtapes] ]

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:25:19 +1300

Posters on Trade Me for anyone interested
Playthings
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/rock/auction-1250973099.htm
just check my other listings as well for these
Tall Dwarfs
Billy & the Blue Flames

and some mid ’60s Eagle comics
(Dan Dare and the Mekon!!)

Andrew Dubber

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:36:23 +1300

That GnR 'dub your friends' comment is worth hunting down. Cheers for that – I'll see what I can dig up...

Andrew Dubber

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:21:18 +1300

I hear about this so often (and am very familiar with it myself). There has to be a name for this phenomenon of hearing the next song in your head even if the context is different – or if there isn't one we need to invent it. Kind of a…

FletcherB

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:58:43 +1300

A C90 cassette could hold a whole LP album on each side... and as an Album lover, most of the cassettes in my car (50+) were whole albums... But some artists were not up to the 3 or 4 good songs on an album that I required to keep the…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:01:05 +1300

The Bats 'practise gig' at Space Academy in Chchch last night was pretty darn fine – any readers in Sydney or Melbourne this weekend would be well advised to catch them if possible...
The new album The Deep Set is released today
http://mistletone.net/events/the-bats-sydney-festival-sydney/
also see
https://www.facebook.com/thebats.co.nz/

James Littlewood*

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:05:23 +1300

Inneresting to see some of the roots of FL's infatuation with mainstream culture.

James Littlewood*

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:02:39 +1300

Oh, crikey, memories. Thanks RB. Great post.

mark taslov

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:50:46 +1300

The first mixtapes I heard were made by dad. Things got real for me at Christmas ‘88 when I received a double deck Hitachi. Being a kid at that time there was absolutely no doubt what the second deck was for, no one I knew referred it as a piracy,…

81stcolumn

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:34:30 +1300

Yeah, we got form here….

Being an early adopter of portable music (owning a WM2 blew my mind). I wanted music my way and started mixing tapes. Then I wanted to be a DJ and started investing hard in Disx and Dex in the early 80’s. Check out the dance…

bob daktari

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:05:06 +1300

I liked how as a tape degraded the songs on a mixtape would blur and merge into one another...

quietly obsessed with getting the right flow of music... with the right amount of flow coupled with the perfect number of flow killers (floor clearers if in the dance)

Jean Hughes

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:19:31 +1300

see you at Laneways Russell – hopefully near a bar or a tree to share. Think I will start off with Car Seat Headrest and move on from there. I would like to see in person.

and…and…and.. got quite nostalgic reading about cassette mixtapes. Spent many an arvo doing it…

Public Address

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:19:31 +1300

Discussion from blog post.