Mix Tapes

I finished up a new mix CD the other day. I’m calling it “Red Bats With Teeth” after the last song on the mix. Hopefully in the next couple of days, I’ll get some time to fashion it into a streaming audio file and will post it to the music page. It’s a more agressive mix than the past couple I’ve done. Check out the music page to see what’s already there.

I’ve been doing mix tapes (and mix CD’s) for a long time it seems. I’m 30 now, and I first got into doing mixes my junior year of high school. It happened because I had been to the World Affairs Seminar the summer after 10th grade. I met Chris there, and after the end of the seminar we began corresponding. We both had a passion for music, and soon ending up sending countless, countless mixes to each other. He lived way, way up north and I always wondered how he found as much cool music as he did living up there. We had distinctly different styles and so the mixes were always a fresh perspective to both parties. At that time, he tended towards the Jesus & Mary Chain, and I tended towards the Sugarcubes.

Needless to say, our musical interests have dramatically progressed over the years. There is something to be said for getting older. Chris went through a long period of 70’s R&B, but now he’s listening to more modern music again — a mix of beats & r&b. The music I listen to most now is twentieth-century classical. Composers like Adams, Reich, and Glass. I still listen to some rock, but that has mellowed out quite a bit. You can see what bands that includes on the music page — check out the streaming mixes. Bands include Wilco, the White Stripes, Trip Shakespeare. Nevertheless, I’ve still got an ear for drum ‘n’ bass. I’ve been listening to Dieselboy’s d’n’b mixes lately.

Well, that’s my musical tastes in a nutshell. 20th Cent. Classical, Melodic Rock, and Drum ‘n’ Bass.