Because I technically don't have time for it

[petronia]

Updated the muxtape. ^^; The idea is to maintain it as a more condensed/structured version of the ever-protean current playlist. For instance, the "tape" can be started at any point and plays on continuous loop unless stopped, so it actually goes "Cherry Cherry" -> "B.U.R.M.A." -> "Love Vigilantes" (arguably the most definitive New Order cover of all time, if only because it was intended as country-folk in the first place). Which is how I actually listen to these songs, so it makes more sense to me than discussing them in a vacuum. Alternately I just like making fake singles. XD

I haven't listened to New Order for so long that a lot of the tracks sound drastically different. That and I've never had, say, the single version of "Round & Round" - with NO the difference between mixes is subtle but critical.

The STP of this software is rather interesting. XD I mean, I don't actually know the starting point(s) from which it was introduced - I first saw the thing at poptimists - but thus far the user base seems very, very hip in an mp3blog way.

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[cerisier.livejournal.com]

Interestingly enough, a few days before you mentioned muxtape here I read an article about it in my local paper (in, er, Anchorage, Alaska), which is not exactly a hip or cutting-edge publication. XD;; Odd because otherwise I would have assumed it was a brand-new fairly "underground" (ahaha excuse the word choice) sort of thing. I mean, I guess it still is, as the handful I've seen actually putting up playlists have been as you say the hip mp3blogger types, but it still leant to a bit of cognitive dissonance, ahaha.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You're in Alaska? :0 I never knew that!

Apparently it was developed by a dude named Justin who used to work at Vimeo. (http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/muxtape_make_a_mix_tape_make_some_cash) So I guess the answer is, the first users were a bunch of NYC hipsters who work at Web 2.0 startups. XD;

[cerisier.livejournal.com]

I am! Born and raised, etc. etc., except for brief stints at uni out of state and studying abroad. :D

And thanks for the link, that... makes sense. XD