As Easy as A-B Side
Listen to Your EldersWhile track selection has long been wound up in the red AUX cable of history, the mixtape, a curated and focused selection of songs, is a relatively new concept. For many years the only way to listen to music was live performance, radio broadcast, or pressed vinyl records — all of which were outside the budget of creation for most folks. That is, until magnetic tape came around. Originally done Reel-to-Reel, they were wound up on massive film drums, eventually to form factor reduced to a compact cassette. Ease of recording, copying, and re-recording led to ...