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I actually just wrote this for one person specifically, but since I think it's a good idea and I generally neglect my own entries here, I thought I could repost it to serve double-duty. Please feel free to comment with suggestions or opinions.
This comes from a post by joyful_joyful (John Ryan Nelson):
tomorrow i will start the sign up sheet for a stinkweeds mixtape exchange. i completely ripped off the idea from the guys at eastside, but they weren't having much fun with it, considering me and two eastside employees were the only people that made tapes. there will be a theme for the mix tapes. at the beginning of the month the theme will be chosen and at the end of the month everybody will drop off their tapes and take somebody else's in exchange. i'm really excited about this.
You can read the entire entry here: bummer summer nights...
I asked about the details of the exchange and this is what he said:
the mix tape exchange is going on right now. the theme is "traveling" the songs need to have something in them about traveling or movement, etc. don't worry too much about the theme, just make the tape. the exchange will end at the end of september. e-mail me and i'll add you to the mailing list.
My reply--the reason I decided to update my journal with this very entry--was this:
About the theme of travelling, I was lying in bed and considering it, without really considering the specifics of your words, and came up with an idea of my own. What if the songs themselves don't contain words or superficial phrases/thoughts about traveling, but the overall idea of the tape itself is travelling and the selection of songs represent a macro view of this concept, rather than a micro one? I've also come up with an idea of a contrary tape or disc that can act as the antithesis of travelling and act as an accompanyment to the real tape/disc as a means of contrast.
Also, I was thinking about my friend Koji and how I may end up sending him a copy of this tape as well and I came up with a rather novel idea. What if instead of just a tape trade within Stinkweeds, I expanded the theme and concept to encompass a remote audience. The K phrase used for a comp "Remote Wing" sounds very appropos to me at the moment. The idea is that the tape trade is centered around 2 record stores, each one local to the person who is making the tape. Those that frequent Stinkweeds could make tapes for an audience at a similiar record store in Kyoto, Japan and they could do the same. I'm going to email my friend and ask what he thinks about this idea. It would be like a pen pal system but based around music as well as communication. We could have lists of people in Tempe and Kyoto who are interested in doing this and then mail the tapes off to eachother or to each record store and have them distributed there. This sounds really fun to me. I'm thinking that there is so much Japanese music that I like that I have only heard of because of Koji and there is certainly a wealth of American music or music that happens to find an American audience that Japan would surely love. What do you think? Maybe there could be a little bulletin board with our names and faces on polaroids and pictures of our exchange buddies. I'm very excited. I thought of this because I cannot sleep.
This comes from a post by joyful_joyful (John Ryan Nelson):
tomorrow i will start the sign up sheet for a stinkweeds mixtape exchange. i completely ripped off the idea from the guys at eastside, but they weren't having much fun with it, considering me and two eastside employees were the only people that made tapes. there will be a theme for the mix tapes. at the beginning of the month the theme will be chosen and at the end of the month everybody will drop off their tapes and take somebody else's in exchange. i'm really excited about this.
You can read the entire entry here: bummer summer nights...
I asked about the details of the exchange and this is what he said:
the mix tape exchange is going on right now. the theme is "traveling" the songs need to have something in them about traveling or movement, etc. don't worry too much about the theme, just make the tape. the exchange will end at the end of september. e-mail me and i'll add you to the mailing list.
My reply--the reason I decided to update my journal with this very entry--was this:
About the theme of travelling, I was lying in bed and considering it, without really considering the specifics of your words, and came up with an idea of my own. What if the songs themselves don't contain words or superficial phrases/thoughts about traveling, but the overall idea of the tape itself is travelling and the selection of songs represent a macro view of this concept, rather than a micro one? I've also come up with an idea of a contrary tape or disc that can act as the antithesis of travelling and act as an accompanyment to the real tape/disc as a means of contrast.
Also, I was thinking about my friend Koji and how I may end up sending him a copy of this tape as well and I came up with a rather novel idea. What if instead of just a tape trade within Stinkweeds, I expanded the theme and concept to encompass a remote audience. The K phrase used for a comp "Remote Wing" sounds very appropos to me at the moment. The idea is that the tape trade is centered around 2 record stores, each one local to the person who is making the tape. Those that frequent Stinkweeds could make tapes for an audience at a similiar record store in Kyoto, Japan and they could do the same. I'm going to email my friend and ask what he thinks about this idea. It would be like a pen pal system but based around music as well as communication. We could have lists of people in Tempe and Kyoto who are interested in doing this and then mail the tapes off to eachother or to each record store and have them distributed there. This sounds really fun to me. I'm thinking that there is so much Japanese music that I like that I have only heard of because of Koji and there is certainly a wealth of American music or music that happens to find an American audience that Japan would surely love. What do you think? Maybe there could be a little bulletin board with our names and faces on polaroids and pictures of our exchange buddies. I'm very excited. I thought of this because I cannot sleep.