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5 September 2010

#249 Start a mixtape chain

A whole week of things you can do at school is over. We hope your school will be more imaginative, more diverse and that your classmates admire your ingenuity after you have made all seven points.

Generation MP3: I want you to listen. It is time to reclaim the mixtapes. I know many of you don’t even have a cassette player at home but a mix CD will do just fine as well.

But you must remember that the world does not comprise only Crazy Frog, polyphonic ringtones and emo. There’s other music. It must be spread. And the best way to distribute music is to make mixtapes and mix CD’s. But there are some rules:

1. You can only use one song from each artist / band.

2. There needs to be a certain dramaturgy to the mix. Dramaturgy and track order is up to you, but there should be thought behind it.

3. To show that you’ve put your soul into the tape or disc, slap a pretty cover on it. Either draw or write or do a collage of pictures from newspapers and magazines.

After making five discs, send them to five friends along with a letter requesting that they send their own separate disc or playlist to five friends. Perhaps some of the songs from your mix will make it into theirs. Perhaps one of the songs will last several steps down in the chain and get back to you.

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Less than €10
Cons: 
There is always some bastard who breaks the chain. But then there are four at least four others remaining.
Pros: 
The music spreads. Someone might hear a song on someone’s mix and start listening to an artist and buy his CDs. People discover music they otherwise would never have dared to try.

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