Made a mix tape

[NAD613]

Using an Akai SX-90, recorded on my NAD 613. Most of it is stuff that I don't have on any medium, it's only on my computer. That's why I made the tape.

Side A: 80's Music
While You See A Chance - Steve Winwood
Arc Of The Diver - Steve Winwood
Easy Lover - Phillip Bailey & Phil Collins
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Girls With Guns - Tommy Shaw
Run, Runaway - Slade
The Waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me - Juice Newton
Come Dancing - The Kinks
Pressure - Billy Joel

Side B: 70's Music
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Hitch A Ride - Boston
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
She's A Lady - Tom Jones
Show & Tell - Al Wilson
You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls

[Des-Lab]

Heck, with only three exceptions I can think of off the top of my head, ALL of my tapes are "mixed" and always have been. The only ones that aren't mixed are:

Chicago live via KLOS, aircheck dated 8/11/78.
Fleetwood Mac live via KCBS, dated 7/17/03.

And a 'hybrid' format. One side of one tape is all of my favorite "Ocean Blue" songs and the other is picks from "The Outfield".

Pretty much everything else is a hodepodge of mixes. Most of them are pretty eclectic and don't really follow a 'theme' or 'genre'. Though I have a couple that are actual "mixed" (as in music overlays where the songs fade in and out over each other through use of the mixer). A couple are 'club' mixes of various 'dance' songs. Basically what you would hear if you went to any 'dance' club. It is a tape that can provide three hours of continuous music (minus the time to change directions) sans a live DJ. Which, incidentally is what I made the tape for. Years back, I was often asked to "DJ" parties. I decided it would be easier (and funner) to actually PREMIX the songs. That way I could mingle with the party and not be stuck behind the mixer all night long. Only a small percentage of it. Another is all trance and techno. And another is "easy listening" type stuff.

Anyway, you got some good songs on there.

[Web Police]

Lots of good tunes on that tape. :)

[NAD613]

"Easy Lover" has so many highs in the cymbals, I had to use the EQ on Real Player when recording the song to level it out; had set the treble at 0.

[braxus]

My computer doesn't have much of a sound card, so I would probably burn the songs to a CD first to record from that. It wasn't that long ago I made up some mix tapes. It was years since Ive done it last. Its really enjoyable doing it again. Im kind of weird in the sense I like a variety of different tape brands, so one day I'll grab a Denon DX-4 or another a Maxell XL-IS tape. Its fun to choose which tape you are going to use next.

[stuartypoorty]

Side A;
Wire - I Am The Fly
Parliament - One Nation Under A Groove
Nick Drake - Northern Sky
Aerosmith - Nobodys Fault
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Air - La Femme D'Argent
The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button
Aretha - I Say A Little Prayer

Side B;
Brian Eno - Babys On Fire
ZZ Top - Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings
Prince Buster - Judge Dread
Motorslug - Wiseblood
Outkast - Hey Ya
The Blue Nile - Stay
Randy Newman - Political Science
Kraftwerk - The Robots


Nae FX, nae dolbies, nae bother

[close652]

A. CD side
1. US3: Cantaloop (Nellee Hooper Remix)
2. Prince And The New Power Generation: Gett Off (Housestyle)
3. New Order: Jetstream (Tom Neville Remix)
4. Fatboy Slim: Wonderful Night (promo)
5. Superjupiter: You know (dirty radio edit)
6. The Cure: Wrong Number (Analogue Exchange Mix)
7. David Bowie: Little Wonder (Junior Club Mix)
8. Cabaret Voltaire: Don't Argue (Dance)

B. 12" side
1. B-52's: Legal Tender (Major Tweaks Remix)
2. Depeche Mode: Photographic (Rex The Dog Dubb Mix)
3. Belouis Some: Imagination (dance mix)
4. Pet Shop Boys: Rent (dub)
5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Relax (Sex mix)
6. Eurythmics: Would I Lie to You? (Eric 'ET' Thorngren mix)
7. Kraftwerk: Tour de France (Kevorkian remix)

Aiwa AD-F800
Sony UX (early 1990's type)
No Dolby

The 12"s sound much better. The production and mastering were much better in the 1980's, the songs from the CD side are from the past 15 years.
I cheated on the DM track: it was a vinyl rip recorded on CD.

[Mr. Lin]

Nice mixes, both of you, I like the Cure, Eno, Kraftwerk and New Order on there.