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I completely miss making mix tapes for people, so I have been ecstatic to find that there are sites which allow you to draw from existing music and mix it like I used to back in the 80s & 90s. The multimedia capabilities of today make me wonder what mixed media I would give a friend or girlfriend if I were in high school today?
Unfortunately, sites that allow such online compilations try to keep Kosher with copyright laws, but at the same time…can’t. An exciting site called Muxtape halted service (lengthy explanation on the front page of the site) due to pressure from the recording industry. I’m hopeful MixWit won’t fall to the same, but after looking for popular artists and creating my own mix (below), you’ll see that copyrighted music is very easy to find and add.
I’m not proud of this effort in it’s ease to find and compile major label artists, rather, I see it as yet another message to the music industry. Times have been a changin’ and we need to work together to create a way that this can exist and artists can be paid for their work. Muxtape failed in that, but maybe MixWit can succeed?
