ya know with a double casette recorder record,rewind,pause record,rewind.pause over and over

I took great pride in my own mixes and making mix tapes 4 friends. It was a far more personal statement (I think anyway) than burning CD's 4 someone. Though I'm a fan of both. Music makes a great gift.

As a pre-teen, I used to make beats with my dual cassette recorder. I'd have to record every loop (every 2 bars or so, pause, rewind, record) - kinda obsessive.

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i used to make all kinds of crazy mixes. i was like a little macguyver with the stereo, figuring out ways to fade stuff in and out between vinyl and cassette and discovering ways to make funky little stupid sounding edits. i wish i still had those tapes, i'm sure they'd be worth a laugh. i used to make my friends at school listen to them, poor lambs.

Oh man, I made lots of those. Usually when I was dissatisfied with the 12" mix, I would mix the instrumental or dub verion with it using my cassette deck. The best ones were a 9-minute version of "What Have You Done For Me Lately" and a 6+ minute mix of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's "Head To Toe".

tons of 'em.

sextonseven said:

YEAH! I remember doing an edit of C+C Music Factory

oh lord, and i tried to make my own "revolution 9" once. i REALLY wish i could find that mess.

Anxiety said:

2 the 9s...

2 the 9s...

2 the 9s...

2 the 9s...

2 the 9s...

Definitley. My best accomplishment was a 45 Minute hip Hop mix and another 45 minute "Prince bootlegs Dance Mix".

Nothing beat those radio recorded cassettes though. Especially when it used to be old skoo funk Dj night, and slow jam sundays??? CHILE lemme tell ya

Oh god yes. Megamixes of several artists even. I made a really obscene "Le Grind" too.

CinisterCee said:

classic!

Not only did I make mix tapes with my dual cassette recorder but before I could afford a VCR I recorded Purple Rain, Thriller wideo and other favortie shows by holding the tape deck to the TV. Beyond lame, I know.

JackieBlue said:

heh if think that's lame how about when i liked the song America (this was before the real video for the song came out) i copied about 4 minutes of a random scene in Purple Rain with 2 vcr's then i dubbed the song America over the scene in Purple Rain and made my own video for the song now thats lame!

I made a fresh 10-minute mix of Rockit, and I made my own homemade version of the Thriller video mix so I could do all those complex dance moves in the confines of my bedroom.

Mazerati said:

That's some true creativity. I use to love America so I completely understand.

JackieBlue said:

What a loser . I never did that .





I vividly recall an episode of Gilligans Island on cassette.
Hey my parents were slow with keeping up with technology and VCRs were like $3,000.


oh yeah .....I also did a killer 10 minute mix of Kiss.
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I would make them for girls way before I saw the movie High Fidelity. Actually who am I kidding, I still do. Now I also use special mixes to educate people about music. Mostly people I work with who need the education.

Slave2daGroove said:

That used to be my thing too. Girls loved the slow jam mixes.

Used to do Linear edits with casette tape and do shit like that

my favorite little experiment was when i learned how to hook up my stereo and my vcr, and i re-dubbed a soundtrack for the silent movie "metropolis" with a bunch of prince, skinny puppy, bauhaus and other totally '80s stuff. i still have that tape - it's pretty good for an 18 year old who didn't know what he was doing!

JackieBlue said:

My sister-in-law used to do that except she recorded old Fred Astaire movies & would listen to them. That meant she listened to a tape of people dancing.

sextonseven said:

'What Have You Done For Me Lately', yeah. I did that aswell (even though i liked the twelve inch)

I used to do that with The Jacksons 'State of shock' and it's instrumental too. Especially looping the intro over and over.

looking back, i've no idea why i did this!

Marrk said:

I thought the extended version of "What Have You Done For Me Lately" was a little boring, but man that dub version! That was hot. I had to insert parts of that in the middle of the 12" mix somehow.

thedoorkeeper said:

The things we do...

I can remember getting my old Snoopy record player and my sister's Raggedy Ann record player and recording the mixes with a tape recorder. If anyone came in, I would go "Shhhhh" because if they spoke, it would be on the tape. Later I did the same thing with the turntable from my old tabletop stereo and my mother's console stereo. I used to have some tapes of her saying "Turn that shit down!".

These stereos all had 8 track players, but when I got a stereo with a cassette player, I was always making tapes. When a song would end, I would rewind tape a little and find a beat to start the next song on. This would make the tape flow continuously and the previously song sounded like it was faded out. When double cassette players came out, I started making my own remixes by recording a snip, pause, record that same snip again, and so forth for several times.....for instance "Kiss" would be "Ki Ki Ki Kiss....Kiss....Kiss....Ki Ki Ki Ki Kiss". I also loved to mix LaWanda Page (Aunt Esther) into songs hollering "I want a LONG black dick".

Now that I'm grown, I have more expensive toys like a mixer, two turntables with pitch, and two CD players with pitch. I still love to mix to this day....nothing professionally, just for fun. I made a bad ass remix of "Head" featuring Aunt Esther....."Blow him honey!"

I used to do C & C Music Factory's "Everybody Dance Now" with Lisa Lisa's "Let The Beat Hit 'Em".

I recorded the "Thriller" video once onto a cassette tape. Then I took the extended music where the zombies were dancing and edited it into the album version to make a remix of the song. It didn't turn out good though because the video part was not as powerful on the tape as the album parts.

I tried to make a video megamix using two VCRs. VCR tapes work much differently than cassette tapes because when you hit "record", it doesn't start recording at the exact moment you press the button, it waits a few seconds. My mix was totally messed up.