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Mixtapes! do you make them, what do you think about them etc.

i myself do mixtapes. they are called Kool Songs and for now i have created nine of them for now:

Kool Songs Vol. 1:
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - A God Called Hubris
2. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nuclear Fusion
3. Kurt Vile - Loading Zones
4. Kurt Vile - Lost my Head there
5. Tame Impala - Expactation
6. Tame Impala - Sundown Syndrome
7. Sonic Youth - Making The Nature Scene
8. Sonic Yputh
- The Diamond Sea
9. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The River
10. Jimi Hendrix
- Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) Live

Kool Songs Vol.2 :
1. The War on Drugs - Under The Pressure
2. Mac DeMarco - Another One
3. Ariel PInk - Another Weekend
4. Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing Live*
5. Tame Impala - Patience
6. Temples - Shelter Song
7. Kurt Vile - So Outta Reach
8. Coutrney Barnett - Avant Gardener
9. Wild Nothing Only Heather
10. Beach Fossils - Out in the Way (ft. Wild Nothing)
11. Pond - Tasmania
12. Sonic Youth - I Dream I Dreamed
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - PLANET B**
*- i haven't found the track that is used on the original mixtape
**- doesn't appear on the cassette version

Kool Songs Vol.3 :
Spotiy Link there is just fuckin too much stuff to find and write

Kool Songs Vol.4*:
SIDE 1
1. Kurt Vile - Hunchback
2. Sonic Youth - Candle
3. Sonic Youth - Shadow Of A Doubt
4. Pearl Jam - Even Flow
5. Tame Impala - Jeremy's Storm
6. Kurt Vile - Check Baby
SIDE 2
1. Sonic Youth - Shoot
2. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - The River
3. Tame Impala - Expectation
4. Eddie Vedder - Society
*- it was a first experimental mixtape on a cassette only. long story short: while i was tidying up the attic with my mom we found two boxes of casstettes and i started recording

Kools Songs Vol. 5 :
1. Sonic Youth - Burning Farm
2. Sonic Youth - Ca Plane Pour Moi
3. Sonic Youth - I Am Right
4. Sonic Youth - Clippers (Peel Session)
5. Sonic Youth - Coca Camera Neon Sutra
6. Sonic Youth - Come Amd Smash Me, Said the Boy With the Magic Penis
7. Sonic Youth - Compiloation Blues
8. Sonic Youth - Eyeliner
9. Sonic Youth - Eyes & Teeth
10. Sonic Youth - Hallowed Be Thy Name
11. Sonic Youth - Magic Wand
12. Sonic Youth - Out and In
13. Sonic Youth - The Eternal montage
14. Sonic Youth - The Simpsons Theme
15. Sonic Youth - Noisefest live recording

Kool Songs Vol.6 :
Temple of the Dog - Haunger Strike
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Mother Love Bone - Stardog CHampion
Green River - Swallow My Pride
Dinosaur Jr. - Out There
Gruntruck - Crazy Love
Mudhoney - Suck You Dry
Sonic Youth - Eliminator Jr.
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Scarymother - Who Are You
Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple
Hole - Teenage Whore
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Foo Fighters - Wattershed
Screaming Trees - Lonely Girl
Collective Soul - Shine

Kool Songs Vol.7 :
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Sonic Youth - Hey Joni!
Kurt Vile - The Finder
Pye Corner Audio - Northern Safety Route
Home - Tides
Tame Impala - Runway, Houses, City, Clouds
The War on Drugs - An Ocean In Between the Waves
Deerhunter - Helicopter
Slowdive - Slomo
Mac DeMarco - Treat Her Better
Foo Fighters - Another Round
Tame Impala - Skeleton Tiger
Kurt Vile - Laughing Stock
Sonic Youth, I.C.P., The Ex - X
Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky
Kurt Vile - Songs For John In D

Kool Songs Vol. 8 :

spotify Link not recorded yet!

Kool Songs Vol.9 :

it consists of 5 parts (1 part = 1 cassette) and on every cassette is one song from every cd i have and also mixtapes.

wow this took me to much time to make. if there is the same thread already i'm going to jump out the fucking window :fuckyou: :fuckyou: :fuckyou:

I mailed out two avant-psych mixtapes to separate individuals on December 31st. One to United Kingdom and one to Portland.

Most of the time when I’m making a mixtape, I allow no silence once the mixing begins. Notice: Burden Of Friendship (half). Each side of that cassette is 30 minutes long. On this mix, I used about 15 minutes worth of the side and had two or three things playing at the same time as I weaved in and out of the track.

Here is part of my mixtape setup:

Nazi Marching And Goose Stepping

La Mancha Pecado - Live At Neon Rose (11-19-18) Young Turks
Morher - Soothsayer
Vernal Crush - 8:53 (Disk One)
Burden Of Friendship - Side B (half)
Jana En Bertin - English Spoken

MVM - Reflections
Jan Schellink - Robosapien En De 6 Baby Poppetjs
Derryl Parsons - Floating Landscapes
Arvo Zylo - Six & Seven
Gong - Dynamite
Chuck Talks - The Girl Who Screams

The Roaring Fleur

Mini-Mutations - Track 3
Muzak - Madness From The West
Michelle Mercure - A Little Piece / Ghost Before Breakfast
Jesus Penis - God Has Everything Under Control
The Jonx - The Scent Of Earth
Earthmonkey - Moonstah
Vox Populi! - Samourai

Orbit Service - As If It Were An Accident
Watch Repair - Far Asleep
Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall (Live)
Volcano The Bear - Cassettes Of Berlin
Illicit Relationship - Concise Relaxation
Sacred Cows - Virtual Fantasy
The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet - And Indeed There Will Be Time

......why is this thread in non-sonics?

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Originally Posted by NYCgaf16

*- it was a first experimental mixtape on a cassette only. long story short: while i was tidying up the attic with my mom we found two boxes of casstettes and i started recording:

Two boxes of bank cassettes or cassettes by other artist that you are recording over?

Any idea how long the cassettes has been the attic?

I have a couple of cassettes of recorded Houston noise radio shows that are now 30 years old and they still play and sound good.

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Originally Posted by NYCgaf16

wow this took me to much time to make. if there is the same thread already i'm going to jump out the fucking window :fuckyou: :fuckyou: :fuckyou:

Here is a thread where i solicited tracks re: Sticks Woods Trees Forest and the tape that resulted.

Ummm......don’t pull your hair out

Mixtape culture appeals to me, but I realise that if I was suddenly transported back to the days where it existed, I'd lose my fucking mind.

I've tried to make some physical cassette mixtapes in the past, but I don't have the equipment to do anything. I think I have one portable player that kinda worked, but I couldn't do it consistently and anyway I don't have enough blank tapes.

hah! i remember glueing bits of broken cellophane, and rolling the tape back with a pencil

romantic illusion. do not miss

a playlist is a playlist. i have some giant ones for various occasions. one is a whole bunch of new orleans music. another is a pomodoro one for work. another is for driving. etc. i constantly edit them.

I have a decade of my annual favorite songs of the year for the last ten years up on mixcloud

https://m.mixcloud.com/2chainz1cup/

I'm still working on 2019. I'm trying to keep it under 3 hours.

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Some cassettes are various 80s artists and some are recorded so i record over them. I prefer the iron ones more than chrome ones. It adds the vibe.

I think they were there for 19 mayby 25 years and some of them were really great quality.

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

What it does? The cellophane thingy

What do you think about my mixtapes?

I don't think I made many mixtapes in the form of compilations back when I still had a tapedeck. I usually prefer to hear the complete album rather than various songs. What I did do about 12 years ago is to create a compilation for my sister, 3CD's in total before I got too bored with it. It was really fun to make, but very time-consuming. I'll just copy/paste the original notes to save myself from writing it all down again in some other way that basically still states the same.

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This project started in January 2008, when my sister asked me to look for a couple of versions of the song Over The Rainbow. Her baby twins fall asleep to this song every night, and she wanted to use it as background music for video compilations of them. So I searched Dime and some other sites (TTD, etree, Zomb, Archive.org), and was quite surprised with the wide variety of artists that have played this song during their live performances. Some of them have only played it occasionally, sometimes even as a short tease, for other artists it is the final song of their concerts every night. There's even artists that have named their band after this song! (or so I thought, Wikipedia tells a different story though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_(band) )

After listening to over a hundred versions, I got fed up with it and kept it aside until Christmas came near. In mid-December I searched the same sites again and found some more versions, and have now enough to fill 3 audio-CD's and a few more to continue with a fourth volume. [...] I've listened to many artists I had never heard of before. Some of them I probably never will listen to again, but of others I would love to hear some more.

The following criteria were used:
- Artists may feature more than once if the versions are significantly different
- Teases are welcome, but must have a significant duration
- Sound quality must be good (preferably FM/SBD or good audience)
- No disturbances (loud clapping, screaming or other strange noises)

I used Audacity to edit some of the files (fade in and/or out, cut away banter or other songs). No equalizing or normalizing was done though, so there may be some volume differences between tracks. MP3Tag was used to tag the files. Trader's Little Helper was used to convert .shn files to flac-format, fix SBE errors and create the .ffp file. (So all files will be in flac-format, except if it was taken from a direct webstream (mp2))

If you want to find out more on the history of this song, here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Rainbow

and these were the three compilations:

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Volume 1:

01. Rainbow, 1995-11-17 Nagoya, JP
02. Jeff Beck, 2005-07-15 Tokyo, JP
03. The Happenings, 2007-12-15 Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford, CT
04. Phish, 1996-08-13 Deer Creek Amphitheatre, Nobelsville, IN
05. San Francisco Allstars, 1984-05-15 Adams 21, Washington, DC (late show)
06. John Martyn, 1986-04-23 Fabrik, Hamburg, DE
07. Bob Schneider and Mitch Watkins, 2002-12-07 Antone's, Austin, TX
08. Keith Richards, 1981-03-xx Eldorado Recording Studio, Los Angeles, CA
09. Eric Clapton & the Impressions, 2001-05-21 Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA
10. Jewel, 2007-10-20 Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, IL
11. Calvin Russell, 2000-02-11 Skihutte, Oberwangen, CH
12. Art Pepper, 1981-05-24 Stuttgart, DE
13. Les Paul Trio, 1985-10-07, Fat Tuesday's, NYC, NY
14. Bob Walkenhorst, 2006-03-01 Toto's Coffee House, Mission, KS
15. Carl Palmer Band, 2007-10-22 Uhlenspiegel, Leonberg, DE
16. Ben Rudnick and Friends, 2005-10-08 Long Island Children's Musem, Garden City, NY
17. Flaming Lips, 2000-04-26 The Metro, Chicago, IL
18. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, 2006-12-01 Magic Stick, Detroit, MI
19. Rainbow, 1979-11-30 Calderone Hall, NY

Volume 2:
201. Rainbow, 1980-05-15 Festival Hall, Osaka, JP
202. Bob Schneider and Mitch Watkins 2000-08-05 Cactus Cafe, Austin, TX
203. Shawn Colvin, 2001-08-09 The Mann Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
204. Rufus Wainwright, 2007-11-06 Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, PT
205. Rio Reiser, 1988-06-18 Platz der Republik, Berlin, DE
206. Afghan Whigs, 1999-02-24 Bohager's, Baltimore, MD
207. Buena Vista Social Club, 1999-11-22 Centennial Hall, Tucson, AZ
208. Cartoons In Jazz, 2007-12-26 Sala Santa Cecilia, IT
209. Papa John Creach 1978-10-07 My Father's Place Roslyn, NY
210. Leon Russell and Edgar Winter Band, 1986-11-20 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
211. Tori Amos, 2005-06-28 Alte Oper, Frankfurt, DE
212. Moe, 2000-10-31 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA
213. Animal Liberation Orchestra, 2005-06-18 SB Historic Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
214. Michael Hurley and Forest Bloodgood, 2008-04-09 Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR
215. Jake Shimabukuro, 2007-11-13 Soho Bar & Restaurant, Santa Barbara, CA
216. Keith Jarrett, 1991-07-11 Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
217. Ingrid Michaelson, 2008-11-14 Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO
218. Sun Ra, 1990-07-17 Restaurant Kaudleuten, Zurich, CH
219. Impellitteri, 1988-07-17 Power Station, Tokyo, JP
220. Buckethead, 2006-03-16 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
221. Dave Brubeck Quartet, 2006-09-17 Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA

Volume 3:
301. Leftover Salmon & Friends, 2000-08-19 Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garretsville, OH
302. Wank, 2003-10-18 Higher Grounds Coffee House, Hollywood, CA
303. Loose Ties, 1993-08-08 Rockygrass BGF, Lyons, CO
304. Global Kryner, 2008-11-28 Kongresshaus, Bad Lippsringe, DE
305. Jerry Lee Lewis, 1986-02-28 Palomino Club, North Hollywood, CA
306. Jefferson Starship, 1992-06-14 Theatre Of The Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
307. Keith Richards, 1985-07-12/13 Learning The Game Sessions
308. Marshall Crenshaw, 1992-06-03 Bimbo's, San Francisco, CA
309. Jewel, 2008-03-26 Northern Lights Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
310. Richard Thompson, 2007-12-08 Carriage House Theatre, Saratoga, CA
311. Soulive, 2000-8-12 BerkFest (Early Set), Great Barrington, MA
312. Rainbow, 1979-11-16 Denver, CO
313. Tim Palmieri, 2008-04-30 BAR, New Haven, CT
314. Tommy Emmanuel, 2008- 02-09 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
315. Joe Jackson, 1999-08-11 Joe's Pub, NYC, NY
316. Stanley Jordan, 1994-10-30 Jazz Jamboree Festival, Warsaw, PL
317. Keith Jarrett, 1982-10-23 Staatsoper, Hamburg, DE
318. Les Paul, xxx-xx-xx Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
319. Jeff Beck, 2006-09-13 Hampton Beach Casino, NH
320. Smashing Pumpkins, 1993-10-03 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
321. Phish, 1998-08-09 Virginia Beach Amphitheatre, VA
322. Eric Clapton, 2001-12-11 Budokan Theater, Tokyo, JP

I've played with the idea of some other compilations, especially live versions of one particular song, e.g. Pissing by Low, or Sonic Youth' Diamond Sea but never gotten around to actually do it.

Totally offtopic, but reading about Bytor's tape mixing technique, it reminded me of this album that was made in the seventies by a German guy named Günter Schickert. The album is called Samtvogel and you can read about it here (see especially the last paragraph), and listen to it here on YT. Especially the last song (that lasts 20 minutes) is very cool, ultra-trippy krautrock [edit: it's even on bandcamp]

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Originally Posted by NYCgaf16

What it does? The cellophane thingy

that’s the tape itself? the material that holds the magnetic particles together? it’s some kind of plastic. feels like cellophane when it’s all entangled and fucked up. i think it’s actually a polyester... just so crinkly when you least need it.

it breaks, you have to glue it... uufffff.... not no more. life is short.

I've made CD-compilations here and there. Did one to celebrate my event series existing for five years and handed five copies out to people who answered a simple quizz question in time. Might do it more often, it's fun. But time consuming. So I do have a lot of respect for people that go through the process of doing this with actual cassette tapes.

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Originally Posted by NYCgaf16

What do you think about my mixtapes?

Why do they only have 10 tracks? that probably doesn't even fill up one side

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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

I realise that if I was suddenly transported back to the days where it existed, I'd lose my fucking mind.

Why?

The thing about mixtapes is you never really knew if the songs you selected would fit on the tape. Then you would end up with either minutes of silence at the end or a song that had the end chopped off.

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Why?

In 2020, I've got you guys (and many other sources) to point me towards good music, and Spotify to enable me to listen to it all.

In 1990, I'd have 'whatever I can find from my friends' and 'whatever's on sale at JB Hi-Fi, where I can blow a full shift's pay on a shit record'.

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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

yep. don’t believe the analog hype. shit was for the moneyed. that included people traveling internationally for shit you couldn’t buy at home

but then again cassette piracy was rampant so you could manage in other ways. still very limited but they were there.

now you don’t need permission from gatekeepers, douches, mafias, anyone.

paradise is here. follow your tastes.

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Why do they only have 10 tracks? that probably doesn't even fill up one side

It was recorded on a CD. I record on CD then to cassette.

A CD can fit 80 mins, the average tape 45 mins each side. 10 songs is about 30 mins or 35 mins. So there.