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Grandmaster Caz by Askem

Askem, Grandmaster Caz

Mixtapes Explained to Modern Kids

Compact cassette, how to, mixtape, Spotify, youtube

Dangerous Minds: The Lost Art of Cassette Tape Spines

Art Behind the Tape, Compact cassette, Dangerous Minds, mixtape, Spine

A (Not At All Definitive) History of Hip Hop Mixtapes

A (Not At All Definitive) History of Hip Hop Mixtapes From dubbed cassettes to burned CDs to 128kbsp mp3s, Noz … More

compact cassettes, complex magazine, Hip-hop, mixtape culture

How Spotify helped reinvent mixtape culture

How Spotify helped reinvent mixtape culture http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/playlists-net-spotify-mixtape-culture/

lou reeds, mixtape culture, Spotify

Check Out Discover’s Credit Card Design

Credit, Design, mixtape, Vintage

The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog King: Episode 2

Analog, bitstrips, cartoon, Comic, Compact cassette, mixtape

The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog King: Episode 4

Analog, bitstrips, cartoon, Comic, Compact cassette, mixtape, Music

a LOUD silence: 40 Year Celebrations of Hip Hop

  #HipHop404040  “A LOUD SILENCE” TURNS UP THE VOLUME TO CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF HIP HOP AS SERIOUS FUN We … More

#HipHopEd, Anniversary, Austin, Dr. Rap, Music, Texas

The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog Kind: Episode 3

Analog, bitstrips, cartoon, Comic, Compact cassette, mixtape

The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog King: Episode 1

Defense of the Mixtape Panel at A3C 2013

Record/Play

Spinderella by Askem

Askem, Spinderella

National Archives Advisory Council Meeting Minutes Mixtapes from 1977 to 1979

  todaysdocument: 50 years of the Cassette Tape SEAMAN (SN) Daniel Rosen dubs audio tapes during his off-duty hours aboard … More

mixtape, National Archives Advisory Council

Grandmaster Melle Mel

Askem, Grandmaster Melle Mel

DJ Hollywood by Askem

Akem, DJ Hollywood

“WILD STYLE 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION”

Live Performances and Appearances By: Lee / Lady Pink / Busy Bee / Patti Astor / Fab 5 Freddy / … More

Wild Stlye

DJ Lady Love, Special K, Live in Connecticut, April 6, 1980

“Strictly Vinyl and I was doing this before some of ya’ll was born! Check out Special K of The Treacherous … More

Connecticut, DJ Lady Love, Funky Four, Kurtis Blow, Special K, Spoonin Gee, Woody Wood

Exclusive Trailer for : King of the Beats – ‘Looking for the Perfect Beat’

Kid Capri talks mixtapes with Shaheem Reid

…I’m the one that made the mixtape become superstar status but I wasn’t the inventor of the mixtape. It was … More

Brucie B, DJ, DJ Hollywood, Flash, history, Kid Capri, Lovebugstarski, masterofthemix, mixtape, Shaheem Reid

The Good Old Days: Charity Shop Music

2013 Diggers Delight Park Jams: HARLEM

Tools of War presented by Rane 4-8pm. Free! All Ages! @ St. Nicholas Park 135th St & St. Nicholas Ave … More

Boogie Blind, Grandmaster Caz, Large Professor, Lord Finesse, Miss Shing-A-Ling, parkjams, Tools of War

The Ted Smooth Old School Jam, August 4

Park Jam, Ted Smooth

Jazzy Jay, Rich Medina, More Will Play Records From Afrika Bambaataa’s Collection at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

Words Inspired by Mixtapes II

DJ, film, Harlem, Juice, Mixtapes, Movie, Omar Epps, Queen Latifah, Tupac

“Find music that moves you through these times.” – DJ Lynnee Denise

  Funk, Faith, Praise (Fly Away Trayvon) https://soundcloud.com/dj-lynnee-denise/funk-drugs-praise-final I never intended to release this mix. I considered it to be … More

Faith, Funk, Gil Scott Heron, Justice, Mix, Praise, Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin, Trayvon Martin

#HipHopEd 7/16/2013

Community, Hip-hop, Justice, Trayvon Martin, Verdict

Fresh Publication Added to the MXM Library: An Interview with Saul Williams

  An Interview with Saul Williams by Robert Walsh “It blew up this year! It came out in 2002 and … More

Mixtapes, Music, Popular Music, Saul Williams

Exclusive Tony Touch and Kid Capri interview with Ralph McDaniels at Tony Touch Album release

DJ, Kid Capri, mixtape, Tony Touch, Video Music Box

2013 Tools of War True School NYC Summer Park Jams

THE CROTONA PARK JAMS 10TH ANNIVERSARY: BRONX presented by The Friends of Crotona Park, Rane and Tools of War grassroots Hip … More

Biz Markie, Cash Money, Chuck City, Crotona Park, DJ, DJ Cheese, Dr. Duss, Grand Wizard Rasheen, Grandmaster Caz, GrandWizzard Theodore, Jazzy Jay, Jazzy Joyce, Johnny Juice, Kool DJ Red Alert, Lord Finesse, Marley Marl, Park Jams, PopMaster Fabel, Rockin Rob, Tools of War

Call for Mixtapes: Introducing the IASPM-US Mixtape Series

Hear ye, hear ye! The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US) has put out a call for … More

IASPM, Mixtapes, Popular Music, Propsals, Sound Studies
DJ Lady Love, Event, LPR, New York, Skyzoo

Sonic Spirituality: Meditations on Eminem’s “Beautiful” and “My Darling”

The Day I Fell In Love with Hip Hop by Derrick Dolphin

It was the summer of ’79, I was a youngin, and spent a lot of time at my Grandma’s building. … More

Break Beat, Harlem, Hip-hop, Memories, Music, New York, Nostalgia, washington heights

Support Graffiti Rock!

Dear Graffiti Rock Fans & Journalists, “0” time has arrived! Today begins my campaign to produce the documentary, Graffiti Rock: … More

Grafitti, Hip-hop, Kick Starter

DJ Enuff in Epee’s Collection

Dj Enuff, France, Hip-hop, mixtape, Paris

the music tape

ad, Analog, Compact cassette, Magazine, tape

Still have any mix tapes lying about? Go digital with this cheap converter from Sanwa Direct

Cold Crush Brothers at Harlem World,1981 | DJ Dan-O Collection

  DJ Dan-O Collection

Analog, Caz, Cold Crush, Harlem World, Live, New York

Tools of War True School NYC Summer Park Jams 2013

June 6 – September 27: 2013 Tools of War True School NYC Summer Park Jams!! Click here  for the full … More

DJ, Tools of War

Hiphop Word Count Case Studies

Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable ethnographic database housed on StapleCrops.com and created by Tahir Hemphill. The database includes lyrics … More

Digital Humanities, Harvard University, Hip-hop, Tahir Hemphill

#HipHopEd 5/28/2013

#HipHopEd, African-American, Black, Men, Mentor

Fresh publications added to the MXM resource page!

  We’ve just added some new publications to the scholarly papers section  of our site. Why shouldn’t mixtapes be a … More

Academia, Humanities, Mixtapes, Music, Popular Music, Research, Scholarly Papers

Project Mixtape – Memory

Project Mixtape – Memory from Shaun Jacques on Vimeo. http://makemixtapesnotblogs.wordpress.com/

Compact cassette, Memories, Mixtapes, Music, Nostalgia, Spotify

#HipHopEd 5/21/2013

#HipHopEd, Mental Health

The Foundation of 5eGallery 4th Anniversary of Celebrating Women in Hip Hop

The Foundation of 5eGallery is hosting their 4th Annual Women in Hip Hop Celebration today, May 14, 2013. The event will … More

Artists, Detroit, Gallery, Women

Hip Hop is Poetry Month: A Project of Hip Hop Caucus for National Poetry Month

In honor of National Poetry Month, Hip Hop Caucus has created a video mixtape of Hip Hop culture’s most influential … More

ASIA, BERTRAND BOYD, BORIS “BLUZ” ROGERS, ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, Etan Thomas, GEORGE YAMAZAWA, Gil Scott Heron, hip hop caucus, hiphopispoetry, MAHA ADACHI, MAYA ANGELOU, national poetry month, NIKKI GIOVANNI, poets, spoken word

Analog, Digital, Postdigital: On the Evolution of Documents

  This reading is a fragment from Liviu Pop’s Ph.D. thesis on the digitization and long term digital preservation of … More

Analog, Archive, archive studies, database, digitization, metadata

Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #6: Spaces of Listening / The Record Shop

Happy Record Store Day! #RSD13

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(March 17, 1969 - May 14, 2005)

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