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Mixtapes Explained to Modern Kids
Dangerous Minds: The Lost Art of Cassette Tape Spines
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
How Spotify helped reinvent mixtape culture
How Spotify helped reinvent mixtape culture http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/playlists-net-spotify-mixtape-culture/
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The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog King: Episode 2
The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog King: Episode 4
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
The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog Kind: Episode 3
The Adventures of Tape Girl and The Analog King: Episode 1
Defense of the Mixtape Panel at A3C 2013
Record/Play
Spinderella by Askem
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
Grandmaster Melle Mel
DJ Hollywood by Askem
“WILD STYLE 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION”
Live Performances and Appearances By: Lee / Lady Pink / Busy Bee / Patti Astor / Fab 5 Freddy / … More
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
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
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
The Ted Smooth Old School Jam, August 4
Jazzy Jay, Rich Medina, More Will Play Records From Afrika Bambaataa’s Collection at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Words Inspired by Mixtapes II
“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
#HipHopEd 7/16/2013
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
Exclusive Tony Touch and Kid Capri interview with Ralph McDaniels at Tony Touch Album release
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
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
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
Support Graffiti Rock!
Dear Graffiti Rock Fans & Journalists, “0” time has arrived! Today begins my campaign to produce the documentary, Graffiti Rock: … More
DJ Enuff in Epee’s Collection
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Cold Crush Brothers at Harlem World,1981 | DJ Dan-O Collection
DJ Dan-O Collection
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
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
#HipHopEd 5/28/2013
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
Project Mixtape – Memory
Project Mixtape – Memory from Shaun Jacques on Vimeo. http://makemixtapesnotblogs.wordpress.com/
#HipHopEd 5/21/2013
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
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
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
Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #6: Spaces of Listening / The Record Shop
Happy Record Store Day! #RSD13