Will muxtape ressurect mix-tape culture?
K.M.Krebs | July 12, 2008
Muxtape is a young website that went online in March of 2008. While it lacks an exciting, glossy interface that the iTunes generation has come to expect (or even a search function) it excels in two things:
1) It makes it dead simple to share a mix-tape of your favourite music anywhere an internet connection exists.
2) It lets you find new music and bands in an organic and spontaneous manner that is unmatched by any other online music site. Oh, and it’s entirely free.
Those of you who are old enough to recall those hours spent to make the perfect mix-tape to impress your friends will enjoy this digital take on the process. No more worrying about the tape running out half-way through the final track you’re desperately trying to fit on the cassette. It also now integrates with Last.fm, so what you listen to will be tracked on your last.fm profile.
While the Muxtape site has a rather sparse interface, there are a few ways to get more out of it:
Muxtape.com/random - which does what you’d expect — take you to a random Muxtape playlist
Muxtape Stumbler - allows you to search out playlists by artist or song titles.
Muxtape’s quickly growing popularity has been noticed in the music industry, with some chatter that it may be facing legal challenges in the near future. But, it has also been praised by a number of smaller independent labels who understand the potential of digital distribution and the fundamental changes that the music industry is undergoing (or rather is in deep denial of). Whatever the future of Muxtape may be, head there now and enjoy!
And this wouldn’t be complete with-out a link to my current Muxtape: kmkrebs.muxtape.com.
Tags: mp3, music, music culture, muxtape
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