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started Begin by choosing a theme. On the Art of the Mix website, editors introduce the "Taxonomy of the Mixed Tape." The playlist can be built around an emotion or a season or an artist. But as the site explains, the options are really endless and include everything from the depressed mix, the work out mix, the cooking mix, the shower mix, and the Winter Olympics mix.
1. The Postal Service - Brand
New Colony o o o In this age of CDs, mp3s and computer playlists, we've pretty much said farewell to the days of sitting in front of our tape decks and record players, painstakingly trying to craft the perfect arrangement in our heads before making the final commitment to tape. Making the perfect mix has become easier than ever. Some are afraid, though, that the absence of the actual cassette is the certain death for mix-making. "The mix tape has become a mere footnote in the history of human courtship," lamented Michelle Sipics in "The Lost Art of the Mix Tape." Recent articles on Salon.com and in the Washington Post have echoed this sadness about the end of the analog era. But, bidding adieu to the making of mixes just because the medium has changed would be as foolish as giving up letters because we now use email, or abandoning novel writing because Gutenberg made books so easily reproducible. So embrace your 1980s childhood, and let the art live on. o Amber Mann is a student and writer in Baton Rouge, LA. She will be teaching with Teach for America in the fall. When she's not writing, she is busily trying to create soundtracks of her life.
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