Autumn Jones.
Our soulful cinematic soundtrack for celebrating the coming autumnal equinox. Fall is back, jack!
Blackgrass.
Blackgrass, a summer soulful, jazzy blues inspired geetar set. The illustration is by artist, educator and Zakiya Art Gallery owner, Willie Tobert.
The Love You Save.
A soulful remembrance.
Deck Desk.
The designers over at Metrofarm create these very cool custom DJ Desks.
Over There, Again.
The Muxtape music site went down just after we originally uploaded this mix, so we’ve decided to give Over There, an electronica filled chill-out set, another spin. Enjoy.
Relaunch.
Don’t call it a come back! Ever since Muxtape went down in August we’ve been searching for a way to broadcast our mixes. We found Opentape, an open-source package inspired by the Muxtape interface. Our web mixtape movement continues with a pilot test, Relaunch – an eclectic mix of rhythm & blues, electronica and downtempo.
Insert Assortment.
Found this collection of cassette inserts on Flckr.
Analogged.
While we wait to see if Muxtape will ever reboot, I’d like share a few other cassette tape-related sites with you.
With their collection of audio tape cassettes, Tapedeck.org will take you back to the time when deciding on which blank tape to use was the first step in creating your mixtape. My favorite was the TDK SA-X 90.
To create your own version of the classic cassette tape cover use Says-it.com’s cassette tape generator.
If you want an Old School feel with 64 megs check out SuckUK’s cassette package USB Stick.
To convert your old mixtapes as well as all those Ready for the World, Rippingtons and Take 6 cassettes you’ve holding on to for all these years, Ion Audio (nice name) offers a series of products to help convert your analog collections to digital. With their Tape 2 PC deck you can import from cassette to mp3s and with their LP to CDR turntable you can burn direct to CD from vinyl.
Tape Popped.
This past Monday Muxtape went down. On their site it simply reads “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.”
The RIAA’s position is that Muxtape is hosting content illegally. In a statement regarding the closing of the site the RIAA said, “Muxtape was hosting copies of copyrighted recordings without authorization from the copyright owners. Making recordings available for streaming playback also requires authorization from the copyright owners.”
It’s too bad. The site was a great way to share, learn and listen to new music, we really enjoyed using it. Though, I can’t say that I’m surprised, we’ve all had this conversation before, this is what happens when the music industry meets new technology.
Over There.
This week’s mix is an electronica filled chill out set. The photography used on the CD’s packaging is by our good friend, photographer Jillian McAlley. To listen go to chmstry.muxtape.com.
Muxtape went down shortly after we uploaded this mix.