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Mixtapes: everyone loves them. Making them, receiving them - it's all good. But it's often hard to find the time, or you get stuck halfway through side one, and tapes-in-progress sit and gather dust by your stereo.
So! For all you mixtape addicts out there, I give you: the first Barbelith Virtual Mixtape Jam.
The idea is simple: a compilation consisting of 20 songs, so that if it were ever actually recorded, it could be either a 20-track mix CD or a tape with 10 songs on each side. And each track is chosen by a different person here.
Post one song, following on from the previous one (there'll probably be some problems involving 2 people posting at once, but we'll work it out). Explain why you've chosen that track if you like - but you don't have to, and there doesn't have to be a reason beyond "I like it".
What I'd also like is for a couple of other people to start threads like this, so that we have a few tapes being made concurrently, each one with a different mood and feel. Ideally, no tape will have more than one song chosen by the same person - although feel free to post in all the threads (and if they dry up, people can have more than one choice in each, see?).
Since everyone has an equal share in this, please also refrain from posting "but that song SUCKS!" or "you've RUINED it!" messages. If you don't like the sound of a tape so far, you can always start a new one (since each thread can be closed when 20 songs is reached if Riz or Randy are so kind, I'm assuming this won't eat up too much bandwidth).
This experiment may go horribly awry. It's also possible, even likely, that none of these mixtapes will ever be recorded in the "real" world for posterity. That's not the point.
So, to kick things off, for side one of tape number 1, a track I'm currently fond of for opening 'real' mixtapes:
1. The Strokes - 'Is This It'
Edit: Kooky is quite right, I should describe this - it's an incredibly lazy and bored sounding half-paced number from those degenerate NYC rich kids, with the best bassline in the world and lyrics about lying to get into someone's apartment.
Go.
[ 13-11-2001: Message edited by: Flyboy ] |
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