Category: Mixmasters

Mixmasters Round 17

August 22, 2011
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Hey music lovers!

Check out the liner notes and song list for my Round 17 mix? It’s here along with some previous rounds as well. Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments below.

What is it? Well, Mixmasters is a long-running mix tape (now mix CD) exchange. It is currently at seven members and in it’s seventeenth round. Here’s how it works: each person makes a mix CD (up to about 80 minutes) and sends a copy of it to each of the other people. Emphasis is on artists that have not been used in Mixmasters before, so a lot of new music is discovered, good and not quite so good. After all these rounds, most popular artists have been used but there is an amazing amount of great music by lesser-known artists.

Then each person writes a song by song review of everyone else’s mix. Yes, we all review every song on every CD except our own. The results are complied in a publication called The Wheel, a large and fascinating collection.

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Mixmasters Round 16

August 5, 2009
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Want to read the liner notes and song list for my Round 16 mix and bonus disc? It’s here along with some previous rounds as well. Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments below.

What is it? Well, Mixmasters is a long-running mix tape (now mix CD) exchange. It is currently at nine members and in it’s sixteenth round. Here’s how it works: each person makes a mix CD (up to about 80 minutes) and sends a copy of it to the other eight people. Emphasis is on artists that have not been used in Mixmasters before, so a lot of new music is discovered, good and not quite so good. After all these rounds, most popular artists have been used but there is an amazing amount of great music by lesser-known artists.

Then each person does a song by song review of everyone else’s mix. Yes, we all review every song on every CD except our own. The results are complied in a publication called The Wheel, a large and fascinating collection.

As I mentioned, here are my Round 16 liner notes and song list.

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A Day In The Life – Take 1

July 13, 2008
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Yesterday Petra B was at an art class so I decided to start getting caught up on my Mixmasters CD reviews. Or get ONE done at least! (If you don’t know what Miximasters is, click here for the old web site then click on Mixmasters along the bottom of the page). And yes, I did get a review done, and another CD ready to review today. Once PB got home, we headed out to run an errand and then to check out a Second Saturday art installation in the Curtis Park area, at the Tangent gallery. Strange art but very cool.

Then we went next door to the Coffee Garden, a great coffee shop in the Curtis Park area that has entertainment and a large indoor and outdoor seating area. Free Wi-Fi too, of course, but we didn’t have the laptops. A woman was playing guitar, then viola, then accordian, and singing (The Heather Show) We watched her for 20-30 or so minutes.But it was getting late and we were hungry!

So it was off for our first visit to Andy Nguyen Vegetarian. Yeah, the whole place is vegetarian, maybe even vegan, I didn’t check that. But we could actually order anything on the menu! Woo! Some of the items have wild names like Unending Bliss or Supreme Awareness and things like that. And there was some new-age type music playing. But the food was good and the place was nice and the service was decent too. My dish was described as spicy and it wasn’t really. But it was good. No alcohol served, though. Anybody out there even eaten there? If so, what did you think?

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