Thanks for the replies, everyone. The more I think about this, the more daft it seems - but anyway... I've made some comments on how we might proceed, with a view to keeping everything as straightforward as possible. Comments and other ideas welcome.
Theme
There's no reason we can't have several tapes on the go at once, with different themes. I'm going to kick off with a simple no-theme, 'whatever fits' tape and assume that those who have responded so far will be in on it (PM me if not). If others want to start other tapes, then I suggest they announce the fact on this thread and anyone who wants to join in sends them a PM.
grant's 'autumnal' tape sounds good. Someone might also like to do a proper 'exquisite corpse' type thingy where no one actually knows what goes before their track - you just get a tape in the post which is already wound to the end of the last song, bung yr track straight on and send it off. Would require enormous self-discipline not to rewind and listen, and would probably make a bloody dreadful tape, but, erm...
Format
Best left to whoever starts the thing. Tape probably allows for more players, but CDs can be duplicated and distributed without loss of sound quality. Preferences?
Order
The simplest thing would be to go with this here thread order (so Bio K9 will do track 2, Deric track 3 etc). But what about international posting? We could end up with it having to go backwards and forwards between the UK, US, Aus etc several times - it might be sensible to group by continent, so that all the UK contributers do their bit first, then on to Europe, then the US or whatever. I'm not fussed myself, but you lot might think otherwise, in which case say so asap.
When it's finished
How do we all get copies? Erm, any ideas?! The usual method is the 'tape tree', where whoever ends up with the tape/cd sends copies to three others, who send copies to three others etc.
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