When i started DJing back in the 90s it was a huge part of the whole culture to make mixtapes and hand them around to your friends
thats actually how i learned about DJing, by getting mixtapes of other DJs
i think this has really become something of a lost art since the whole internet thing happened. That localised personal touch has been lost. and CDs are pretty much a dead format too, most laptops dont even come with CD players now so handing out CDs isnt gonna work either.
telling people to check your soundcloud account or whatever website you have your mixes on isnt the same either, you just dont have that personal hand to hand contact, and therefore it will never have the same feeling of respect as the old mixtape had. so i never really got too far into that, to be honest.
then a friend of mine asked me for a mix recently and thats when i realised i had no easy answer on how exactly to deliver it to her.
so anyways, i visited south america recently and noticed there is a large market there, for selling USB keys of music, on the street. and also virtually all stereos , speakers, and music players have USB input
and thats when it hit me, the USB key is now the new "tape"
(now i understand theres piracy involved in those cases, and im not interested in that, to be clear, my interest is in just handing out a mix or 2 to friends)
so theres my idea, i think i will make a usb key for friends who want my mixes.
ideally id like to even get one that looks like a tape cassette, and has a case etc, that i can make a cover for it.
something like this. can even bash a cover together in photoshop and have it printed.
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id like to know your thoughts and how you guys approach this scenario, if you have any tips, advice,opinions etc.
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