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The Art of the Mixtape
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, November 9, 2009.
Call us nostalgic, sentimental, or maybe just old, but there’s just something about the thoughtfully crafted mix tape. Jason Bitner, co-creator of Found Magazine, gets this. He helped create an online space to share the songs and the stories behind the cassettes that have been hiding in a shoebox all these years. CassetteFromMyEx.com is the place to revisit your magnetic tape memories. Some of the stories collected there are now compiled in a book -- Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves.
Jason Bitner joins us to explain the project, and then we hear Bitner and others from the site break down the anatomy of the mix tape. Chicago Public radio producer Joe DeCeault spoke with some of the contributors and put together this piece, which weaves together the soundtracks and memories of lost love.
(Photo by leah lockhart via Flickr/Creative Commons)
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I still have a mix tape that was made for me by a high school friend during my freshman year of college. He was still at home, and evidently had a bit of a crush on me. If only I knew! Timmy Watts, where are you?
I play it from time to time (luckily my '95 Accord is tricked out with a tape deck) and reminisce about past lives.
I've taped the tape where it has broken, I've tried to record it onto another medium (unsuccessful due to the low-fi 7" tracks), but I know all the words to all the songs and I even hear snippets of the instrumental numbers sometimes during NHPR station ID breaks! (I just wish I still had the home made liner notes with Tim's original art and all the bands!)