Muxtape is back! Sort of! Once the sleekest, niftiest way to trade mix streams of your fave raves, Muxtape is has now been relaunched as a platform for bands to offer their music for free! Cool! So it’s sort of like a space for my music to be held, you know?
The Muxtape dudes got 12 of their favorite artists to put up some streamy music. And their favorite artists run the gamut from middling indie rock (Of Montreal) to middling indie-electro (Apes And Androids) to middling indie retro dance (Old Gold) to middling whatever the fuck the Dresden Dolls are (Amanda Palmer). Wanna know how well this works? When I wanted to find out who Old Gold was so I could make fun of him, I went to his MySpace page.
It’s still new, so maybe I’m being a little harsh. And Muxtape gave me some pretty good times back in the day, so I’m glad the site kept its very cool, very clean design. Congrats on dudes still giving their program life in a way that is no longer ducking the RIAA… except for, you know, all the incredibly illegal samples on the Girl Talk content. And that Francis And The Lights song that sounds a little too close to “Rock With You” for my comfort.
Muxtape [Official site]
I’m happy to say that I’ve found an alternative to Muxtape for my mix-making needs. I’m not gonna post the link here, though - afraid that if I do it’ll be shut down before more than three people can hear the mix I just made.
of Montreal isn’t a middling anything, but I get the point.
The whole make-believe mixtape phenomenon really never caught on with me. I honestly don’t see the appeal of pretending to give somebody a mixtape when you could just as easily give them a batch of mp3s. I guess it would make sense for a website with a decently-sized readership, but not much else.
Well, this way, one doesn’t need to make a physical mix CD or send mp3s (as a zip, or individually). If anyone doesn’t wanna be bothered to listen, no biggie, because supplies/postage haven’t been shelled out for.
But isn’t this the same as sending mp3s? At least physical mix CDs have a special home-made touch (assuming you create cover art, etc.). A little less soulless than just saying “Hey, I uploaded these files to a website.”
I guess it is, more or less. But I don’t see carefully deciding upon a handful of tracks for a website mix tape as “soulless.” Then again, maybe I just spend waaay too much time online.
Middling chick “goth”!
Also, does this seemed pathetically doomed to anyone else? I don’t mean to be a stick in the mud, but…
@the rich girls are weeping: I don’t think so! The tone of this writeup certainly didn’t seem to imply that.
“middling indie rock (of Montreal)”
I’ll let this go, just because I liked the rest of the writeup! But, sigh, OM are neither indie rock nor middling.
@kevink.: Oh, bother. Sarcasm on the internet. Not my strong point.