The Disappearing Art Of The Mix Tape
July 22nd, 2008 by Russell DaviesDavid Quantick is the perfect chap to do this celebration of Mix Tape culture. I suspect the speechification audience doesn’t need to be told of the joy of mixtaping, this is right up our collective street, but it’s still a splendidly evocative listen. Of course, with the advent of Muxtape et al, there might be a programme soon about the Reappearing Art Of The Mix Tape. Though it won’t be quite the same without the biro scrawling. MP3 here.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Hi
Just enjoying the whole speechification experience, podcasts were great on hols on Isle of Mull when the radio reception wasn’t great …anyway, I’m currently researching curating as a practice, particularly in visual art but the mixtape broadcast really sits well in terms of curating and knowing the rightness of genres and the flow of the experience. How do we know what is the right or wrong track?, what follows what?, is it only through our own personal contextual understanding and the things we know? is it tactit knowledge?, through growing up, constant listening, contextual realigning, anding/crossing off, listing, devouring etc… or is it an age thing, I’m 47 and have tapes made in late 70’s all the way through to mid 90’s and still doing it digitally, and boring the kids with my very interesting anecdotes.
Ok, cheers
Iain
August 21st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Sounds like you should write a study of some kind. A Phd? In the meantime, if you have any interesting programming from ‘the old days’ you could always push it in our direction and we’ll feature it here. Someone introduced me to favtape.com today. Like Muxtape only without the upload - not sure where they get the MP3s, though… Here’s mine.