"I made you a mix-tape..."
Remember how great those five little words used to feel?
My sister, who is now 19, has never made or received a mix-tape -- by the time she got into music, it was all CDs and MP3s. My generation was probably the last to have the experience of laboring over a pile of tapes for the perfect track listing, hitting Record and Stop at just the right time and scribbling their own fold-in-liner notes.
Some of the most important music of my life was introduced to me through mix-tapes. So I was glad to find Mixwit, a website that allows you to cobble together online mix-tapes (with cool moving cassette-tape graphics) using streaming music available online for free. You won't be able to find everything, of course -- but you'd be amazed what you can find.
To demonstrate I did, indeed, make you a mix-tape. Three, in fact. They're not definitive -- but these Country music, Old School Hip Hop and Glam Rock mixes are mighty fine, fresh and wham-bam respectively.
Enjoy -- and go make your own.
Send them to me and I'll post the best ones here at Culture Shock.
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