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Mixtapes Sharing Means Caring

by Barb Nerdy19 Sounds2 Followers

This series started with the title “Music For Shops” already in the 90ies. I made a lot of tapes, later CDRs which I all copied by hand and gave them to my friends.

The idea here is that all the tracks on this mixes are not getting boring after listening 3 times, every track stands for itself so you can jump in an listen from wherever you start and it sounds great. So it should be a great listening experience either for the people who work in the shop (not to get bored of listening) but also the customer who is maybe only some minutes in this shop should be able to feel it. A wide range of styles is mandatory for reaching this goal.

How to:
Every mixtape starts with a playlist in my library. Here is the place where i put the tracks I consider for it. This playlist now gets growing and I listen to it over and over again as it obviously contains my favorite tracks. The order is changing constantly but also tracks gonna be removed or added. Mostly the crate of a Mixtape looks totally different than in the end when it is finished. At least I create the mix out of the maybe 100 tracks which have been living in this crate for sometimes a very long time. I keep on listening to this playlist over and over, mostly when I’m somewhere on the road. And than one day, bäng, its done. Early tapes where mixed with Serato nowadways I use Traktor.
Every mixtape starts with a playlist in my library. Here is the place where i put the tracks I consider for it. This playlist now gets growing and I listen to it over and over again as it obviously contains my favorite tracks. The order is changing constantly but also tracks gonna be removed or added. Mostly the crate of a Mixtape looks totally different than in the end when it is finished. At least I create the mix out of the maybe 100 tracks which have been living in this crate for sometimes a very long time. I keep on listening to this playlist over and over, mostly when I’m somewhere on the road. And than one day, bäng, its done. Early tapes where mixed with Serato nowadways I use Traktor.

This series started with the title “Music For Shops” already in the 90ies. I made a lot of tapes, later CDRs which I all copied by hand and gave them to my friends.