MIXAs are USB-drives cleverly designed like a cassette tape that would make giving a mixtape/muxtape to somebody extra special. If you’d rather design your own, you can use premade templates or even pull in photos from Flickr.
Related & highly recommended reading is Rob Sheffield’s Love Is A Mix Tape, which chronicles his relationship over the years with coordinating mixtapes. It is a quick read and will make you want to revive the ancient art of mixtapes. It also motivated me to go back and listen to Pavement again.
And if you’re looking for inspiration on what to fill your MIXA with check out Cassette From My Ex which is best left to The Guardian to describe:
Before iPods and MP3s there was only one way to impress a new potential love mate – make him or her a C90 mixtape. The consequences of this were perilous: based on your choice of tracks they could conclude that you were a freak, a potential psychopath or merely incompatible due to your obsession with early-80s jazz-funk. Those who hope these errors of judgment are now filed away in some distant landfill will be disturbed to learn that this website serves as a venue where owners of said cassettes can reveal them to the world – and the world can listen in – plus their tales and the artwork. One cover features a cunning lift-up flap that reveals a photograph of the maker’s “beautiful tallywacker”. Classy.
We just released a bunch of tweaks we’ve been working on over the past few weeks. Little fixes and additions like revised nav, search suggestions and more. And we finally have A MERCH PAGE, with our necklaces and t-shirts for sale! You might have to refresh once or twice for everything to show up correctly.
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If you are a fan of Muxtape (who isn’t?) and the Hype Machine (we hope so!) you can now get some tasty HypeM links put into your Muxtapes with the help of Firefox + Greasemonkey (Install Greasemonkey first).
Update: The survey is now closed, thanks everyone!
Our 2nd ever User Survey is upon us! This is where we get a chance to learn a bit more about who you are, what you think of the Hype Machine and what you’d like to see here in the future. You can check out some info from our last survey on our Demographics Page and variousblogposts.
But all work and no play = no fun, so we’ve spiced it up with some sweet giveaways of stuff we wish we could keep to ourselves! If you complete the survey and include your email, you’ll be eligible to win:
# (2) A MIXA digital mixtape (1gb flash drive customized to look/feel like a mixtape!)
# (3) $25 gift card to Etsy.com’s Etsy Labs store
# (3) A Hype Machine Heart Necklace (made out of old vinyl records!)
# (2) A Green Hype Machine Shirt (The ones with the heart bubble on ’em)
# (2) A White Hype Machine Shirt (The brand new ones with silver ink + new design!)
# (3) A laser-engraved Moleskin notebook by Engrave Your Book (The “Tools of Creation” cover)
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