Comments on: I Miss Mix Tapes

By: A book for hip-hop heads. « The Short Fat Kid

A book for hip-hop heads. « The Short Fat Kid — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:03:39 +0000

[...] from the book about the Beastie Boys‘ album Check Your Head. Apparently the B Boys were huge mix tape nerds while making Check Your Head … There was another DJ angle to Check Your Head, as Yauch [...]

By: TheShortFatKid

TheShortFatKid — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:25:49 +0000

Skits from rap albums were always good for filling the gap to.

By: Binky

Binky — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:08:15 +0000

I’d forgotten about that! There are some artists whose sole purpose it is to fill those gaps. The Lemonheads were always good – Evan Dando seems incapable of writing a song longer than three minutes.

What I really could have done with back then was some kind of database where you could store all of your music then order them by track length… oh hang on…

By: TheShortFatKid

TheShortFatKid — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:37:34 +0000

I love the mix tape name. Mine were never that inventive (e.g. Guy’s Booty Mix)

Another fun thing about mix tapes was finding that short song that would fit at the end of your tapes. You may only have about a minute and thirty of tape left and you don’t want to leave any blank space.

By: Binky

Binky — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:40:57 +0000

I know exactly how you feel. I recently dug up one of my old tapes (not literally – it’s not like I’ve been burying them in the back yard) and listening to made me feel all nostalgie. Which may or may not be a real word.

What amazed me about the tape in question (which, for some long-fogotten reason had been labelled “Spider-Man In Hell”) was the amount of work that had gone in it. Inbetween the variuous Sleeper b-sides and Blur remixes were clips from roachfest movie Joe’s Apartment. That involved buying a special cable to connect my tape recorder to my video recorder and then manually cueing up the video – you just don’t put that much effort into loading up your shuffle do you?

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Blog Post of the Year: Winner | Fighting to Stay Awake — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:38:01 +0000

[...] Congratulations to Guy, from The Short Fat Kid, for his post “I Miss Mix Tapes.” [...]

By: TheShortFatKid

TheShortFatKid — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:24:41 +0000

Ahhh, steve beck, mix tape sensei. Master Beck is such a bad ass mix tape nerd from way back that he actually rigged up a system to record the audio from Yo! MTV Raps. That way he could have tapes of all the great live performances from that show. I bow to you, oh great mix tape nerd.

By: Super_MiX_Tape_Nerd_STEVE_BECK

Super_MiX_Tape_Nerd_STEVE_BECK — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:28:59 +0000

I am still getting over the death of the Mix-Tape. However, I still gotz all the vinyl in the basement just in case!!! Can you believe with all the tapes I made I don’t have one…guess cuz I never made em for meeself…
Blogs make me Poo
Poo makes me laugh
Blogs=Funny

Mix Tape Nerd
Steve Beck (What the Heck!!!)

By: TheShortFatKid

TheShortFatKid — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:29:42 +0000

The mystery deepens.

By: CTW

CTW — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:17:15 +0000

The Funk Box was a significant right of passage for those lucky enough to take in a whiff of that mix tape genious. It’s possible the Kryminal may have a sneaked out a bootlegged copy from your OC bungalow that summer to share with the Towson crowd.

Will have to take a look into all these years later.

Peace

Luv the Blogs Guy. Keep up the good work!