Wednesday, October 17, 2007

International Mixtape Project

Sometimes you come across something that makes you have hope for the world. The International Mixtape Project is one of those things. I love the idea of complete strangers across the world being brought together through music, art and creativity.


this month....to massachusetts! www.internationalmixtapeproject.com/ (double cd)
Uploaded by bobby stokes on 17 Oct 07, 5.06PM BST.

From the IMP website:

"What is IMP?

The International Mixtape Project is a growing community of music lovers who exchange homemade compilation tapes and CDs with like minded folks around the globe. Every month, each active IMP member is assigned the name and address of another member somewhere else in the world. The rest is simple: Send an awesome mix...Receive an awesome mix!

Month by month, members build a library of mixtapes and CD-Rs from some of the 1000 IMPers in 30 countries on six continents. Each member also controls a personal webpage within the International Mixtape Project online community. IMPers can update their profiles to match their musical interests, post original tracklists and cover art, comment on the mixes they've received from other IMP members, write blogs, and contribute to featured articles about music and mixtaping."

At the moment I won't be taking part, seeing as most of the music I would want to share is on vinyl and even though I have the technology, I haven't converted any of my vinyl onto cd/mp3 yet. Time to consider getting it done...

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey oddy! it's great, and a lot of my stuff is from vinyl too.... it's a bugger to transfer but bit by bit i'm doing it. Thanks for using this cover to represent the i.m.p.!

World of Oddy said...

Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. I even forget it's here sometimes. If I had made any new year's resolutions one of them would be to blog regularly. Unfortunately there' not enough hours in the day.

I love the idea of the mixtape project. I used to do them years ago as presents for friends, but that was when you transferred straight from vinyl to tape. One day I will get my arse in gear and start copying my lps, especially as I want to listen to them on my ipod and many of them aren't available downloadable or on cd.

Perhaps one day I might send a mixtape 2008 stylee.

Anonymous said...

yes, i did vinyl to tape too... in the old days. actually, i haven't recieved a single cassette in a year of doing the project, and it's a good job because i have no means of playing one here.....