hipster interns controlling the media that reaches your eyes and ears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsqxFi_EK30

Dayo, you may find this hard to believe, but for people of a certain age cassette mixtapes are not a hipster totem, they're just what everyone used to do.

lies

In fact up to 2003-04 I had friends who still made mixtapes because they didn't own computers with CD-R/W. Then came the great eMachine consolidation and all those poor fuckers came into the 21st century.

I was still making mix tapes as late as 2007 because my truck didn't have an e-machine.

one thing i notice is the bumper music on news channels like MSNBC and Fox is totally being chosen by gen x'ers now...it's all Mission of Burma, Magazine, the Fall, etc. which makes for even stranger viewing when you compare the music to the pablum they're serving

yeah the nba finals once played 'shook ones pt ii' as outro music to a commercial break

anyway I think that even in the hey day of the mixtape, you had to be of a special type to have had experience in making one? how many people these days make mp3 playlists to send to each other? or did a lot of people make mixtapes for just personal use

sincerely, someone who was born in the mid 80s

Ever make a playlist for yourself? Throw together something for a road trip or because you've got some grinding to do on your work computer?

Same thing for mixtapes. If I knew I was going on a roadtrip somewhere, even by myself, I'd make one.

I've always been an albums kind of guy

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idk man I just feel that if you really want to ram on the 30s-50s nostalgia button why not choose something even more relatable, like idk transferring your kids little league games to a VHS tape using a VCR, or trying to program the VCR to tape the big game 7 of the 1988 world series

A PhD in Pain xp

those mixtapes don't look particularly hip to me

dayo otm, this is just the thing where something kitschy confusedly enters our collective memory as a signifier of cutesiness, two to three years after it fades out of existence, like 8mm film of beach frolicking, like chocolate bars nobody buys that are revived nostalgically, like the appreciation for the music of Len

or trying to program the VCR to tape the big game 7 of the 1988 world series

Probably couldn't get the rights from MLB.

anyway I think that even in the hey day of the mixtape, you had to be of a special type to have had experience in making one?

I was born in '81 and I'm kind of an album-oriented dude, too, but I would copy half an album on to one side of a cassette, and the other side would have a bunch of extra space so I'd put several random songs from other stuff I liked, then spend the afternoon jumping my bike off the edge of the driveway while listening to my mixtape

so, dayo, you missed this by a scant couple years

everybody made mixtapes

even your mom?

my mom and dad couldn't figure out how to record their records onto tape, but they are members of the silent generation so

My parents never really recorded their records on to tape, but I think it was due to busyness and laziness.

I'm just a little mystified that there's this huge hidden generation of ex-mixtapers out there to who you want to sell car insurance

I traded mixtapes with friends in middle school, that generation is like 30 years old and still working menial car insurance sales jobs, dayo

Hidden? Mixtapes aren't like some obscure piece of arcana like Studs Kirby or hologram stickers of Ken Griffey Jr. at Denny's.

my 20 year high school reunion was just last weekend. i didn't go, but i "got to" see all the pictures of it, as well as historical ones, on facebook. my h.s. classmates probably made mixtapes that looked like the ones in those ads, and they were far from hip.

guess the media airwaves are not really being controlled by the hipster illuminati after all

hipster illuminati is an oxymoron

Calling gen-x'ers hipsters kinda sounds like when my dad gets yuppie and baby boomer confused.

otm

I had no idea that Gen X started in 1973

Dude, you could probably pull it back to 1964,

but those were the original hipsters

Dayo, you can call yourself Generation Y if you want, but I prefer to call you all THE BABY-ON-BOARD GENERATION.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pURFU3pL93o

Gen X-ers are in their mid 30s - to late 40s atm

what do you gen x'ers call the people mid 20s - mid 30s?

thanking you pplains

xp naive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

I call them annoying, for the most part

trying to program the VCR to tape the big game 7 of the 1988 world series

there was no game 7 in the 1988 world series, you commie

what do you gen x'ers call the people mid 20s - mid 30s?

lol so many open goal responses

80s mixtape people didn't stay 16, dayo, many of them grew up and got real jobs and are now wistful about the things thay used to do when they were younger and had dreams

oh, snap, mookie.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls5bljICGH1qlbnt4.jpg

my wife got so mad at me in that scene of IB when I shouted "OMG HE JUST BLEW THEIR COVER"

I feel like DJP and I, after a few drinks, would be a lot of fun at the movies. In that everyone else would hate us.

this is ein officeren tisch!!!

dayo otm, this is just the thing where something kitschy confusedly enters our collective memory as a signifier of cutesiness, two to three years after it fades out of existence, like 8mm film of beach frolicking, like chocolate bars nobody buys that are revived nostalgically, like the appreciation for the music of Len

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wanna post this to the 'is deej a hipster' thread

how many people these days make mp3 playlists to send to each other?

This is one of the main things I do on spotify!

plus if you are going reel to reel than you gotta go quad. its the only way you'll get 500+ dollars for this moody blues record:

http://www.popsike.com/The-Moody-Blues-Reel-to-Reel-Quad-Dolby-Near-Mint-NR/120117232729.html

quad + dolby even.

that must sound so phat.

fyi: if you are buying old reeltoreel tapes on spec make sure they are the 7 and a half inch ones. those are the ones the audiophiles want.

(7 & a half inches per second that is.)

pretty sure my dad still has a reel-to-reel deck. that was bought, but the amp and tuner he built via heathkit. i used to know how to splice shit and everything.

rrrobynn you wouldn't happen to like country music would you? i always want to make a mix from my vast collection of small local label country 45s from the 60s and 70s but i don't know who would enjoy that other than me. i also have lots of great 70's reggae 45s that are hard to find and good to listen to on a mix.

pretty sure I speak for like half the people on this board when I say I would be fucking stoked to hear mixes of this stuff from you

^^^^

tbh you should demand ian let you do an east village radio show

yeah, i too wanna hear those mixes scott

I really love geeks fetishizing systems that don't/didn't take hold though. stayed at a professor's house with a friend way back when, dude had a whole library of laserdiscs. watched several - they were fine and all, but it's like: really? you're dropping your coin on these? okee-dokey professor dude, enjoyed your copy of last tango in paris

― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:36 AM (Yesterday)

yeah laserdisc fetishists are kinda lol but if I may geek out here for a second there are instances where the LD version of a movie remains the best available e.g. the japanese laserdisc of the evil dead is a more effective presentation compared to later DVD releases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeaLiJVvy1c

pretty sure my dad still has a reel-to-reel deck. that was bought, but the amp and tuner he built via heathkit. i used to know how to splice shit and everything.

Ha, when I volunteered at the campus radio station in my first year 97-98, we still used tape reels so I had the experience of literally cutting and splicing tape, etc. The next year they went digital. I suppose that's a case where I'm glad we moved on but I can still feel the nostalgia.

tbh you should demand ian let you do an east village radio show

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Whenever skot comes to new york he is too busy to go record shopping & hang out and listen to tunes :(

Does anyone have any Smylonylon tapes? I have just one, in MP3 form, that I downloaded off a blog 5 years ago and it's so amazing and I don't even know the tracklist...

Scott someday I will ask u to tape that Dave Clark Five stereo best of for me ^_^

i do have a few actually, terrible sound quality obv

it was pretty nice to be a cassette buyer in the early 00s--seemingly once a week someone would donate a batch of cool old tapes to the Goodwill and you could buy them for 25 cents each.

Given that the cassette topic is probably nearly exhausted, I wonder if we can still restore this thread to its original purpose, which was actually not a bad idea.

Edward III that youtube makes me want to smoke bowl after bowl after bowl

smoke trees b4 they smoke u

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/evlded_ld_dvd.jpg

the dvd looks way better and has a lot more detail in the shadows. the laserdisc is just graded in an overly contrasty way which looks kind of superficially "better" but isn't really what's on the negative. we have better TVs now than we did in the '80s, so there's no need to watch that contrasty version, although you can probably buy the DVD and set your TV to some horrible "vivid" setting or something which will give you the same effect.

agreed. laserdisc has an ugly magenta (followed by cyan) tint too.

agree, but i'd like to do a head-to-head on a good TV. really like the natural look of sunlight on grass in the LD version, something that does seem to have been lost on the DVD.

but i like the blues in the laserdisc version.

don't know how blue the actual movie was originally.

DVD "looks better" vs LD "feels scarier"

plus the blu-ray was the first release to actually use the original 16mm negative

in the 90's my girlfriend at the time bought this huge stereo/t.v. setup and we got a laserdisc player and i bought stuff and watching some of those with the player hooked up to a stereo and big speakers were some of the most amazing movie-watching experiences of my life. and the sound was out of this world. had suspiria and the invasion of the body snatchers remake and the fog on laserdisc and i swear those rocked so hard. beautiful picture and huuuuuuuuge sound. suspiria was jawdropping. but i suppose i could do the same sort of thing now with a bluray player and big speakers. one of these days.

every DVD release of ED has had color timing issues btw

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ed_elite4x3.png
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ed_ab4x32.png
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ed_bd4x3.png

Sorry, mans. I only watch laser discs on this kind of TV.

http://curtismathes.webs.com/cm%20old%20eeee.jpg

yeah there's room for "interpretation" in all of this... prints that shipped to theaters prob all had varying tints anyway

we had wealthy quasi-friends who actually had a tv like that. Passover at their house meant getting to play on their pinball machines in the basement.

hard to say what's actually "color timing issues" and what's just different people doing the telecine. I'm a purist in that I want a movie to look exactly like it would have looked in theaters on its original release and I want CDs to sound just like the original LP, not remixed or remastered. But I guess if there's no point of reference, who's to say what's correct. I like the pink sky in the Elite DVD you posted above but the bluray is probably the most accurate right? Or the negative actually has a weird pink tint and the person who graded the bluray transfer decided to "correct" it? Who knows.

xp

blu-ray supposedly the most unfucked-with transfer yet

of course, it's missing the original mono audio track

*watches the wicker man on betamax*

prez of sony was the one who went to his grave bemoaning the fact that people didn't embrace beta? i think i read it in a geeta article. i could have it wrong though. would have to actually google that or something.

I only watch movies on deltamax

Had one of these for most of my childhood til it finally broke down around the turn of the century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc

Nostalgia for the days when movies had a Side 1 and Side 2...

I had DVDs like that!

Oh wow, I had no idea they were still doing that. I've had DVDs where one side is widescreen and the other is fullscreen, but I thought the days of stopping halfway through movies to flip the disc over had passed!

The original DVD of Goodfellas was like that, if I recall

you recall correctly, we called em flippers

Earlier DVDs sometimes did that because manufacturing dual layer discs was still expensive -- they'd just use a two-sided lower density dvd instead

The benefit of Betamax iirc is that they don't even have to chase or rape their prey, so to speak.

had a betamax when I was in high school, used to have forbidden zone, welcome to la, flesh gordon, bought from the local record store when they liquidated their beta rental business

still have a betamax in the basement but no movies except the homemade slasher film I did when I was 16

Started playing around with a tape recorder when I was 8-9. Recorded songs offa MTV.

Never really did mixtapes until I started doing college radio and using the prod studios there, and switched to CDr in 2000 or so.

Now, being a tapehead with VHS, THAT is a different story.

I still have one or 2 old BASF casettes that are of me and my brother nattering into the microphone telling stories and singing. I was 5, G was 3. So that'd be in 1976. The tape *just* still plays, but is rather warped now. I've been telling stories and playing DJ into tapes since I was in primary school.

okay rrrobyns tape is almost done. pretty funky. all from 45s except for one track.

i swear this year i will figure out a good painless way to upload mixes to the interweb. all the old mixes maria would upload for me to ilx were tapes! she would digitize tapes i would make.

but if i can figure out how to start my own youtube channel i can do anything!

(i'm very low tech)

and now the world can see my messy house! its a start. and it did inspire me to clean the house. the four of us are pretty good at wrecking the place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEeUd0Yf-pY&feature=channel&list=UL