Monday, June 8, 2020

Side A / Side B

I've recently become an admin member of a new Facebook group called Side A / Side B that is devoted to the art of making mixes and is made up mostly of former members of the Art of the Mix website mix trading collective and in particular the Splitters offshoot group.

The photo here is from my third floor box of old mixes and is being used as the photo header for the group.

Here is the About section of the group:

"This group is for sharing the love of the mix - via tape, cdr, playlist, thumb drive, or 3-d printed vinyl (do they have that yet?). Please share your mixes here."

"We are also about discussing the joy of making the mix, the process and tools, the motivation, the resources, the sharing of ideas and of course the themes."

"We ask three things: 1: Try to give some context for your mix in the post (mix title, format, intention, history, albums sourced if available). 2: Try not to post a new mix more than once a week (in order to share the air). 3: Try to be kind to each other and be accepting of different points of view. Feel free to invite friends to this group, and we don’t want to get into issues of exclusivity. Perhaps we can build a group with diversity in mind."

"What kinds of mixes to post? Alternating DJ mixes, thematic mixes, whatever suits you.
Spotify mixes are fine, mix length is open, but we’re going for intentional sequencing in the venerable tradition of the mix tape, not data dumps. Also feel free to post mix challenges or collaboration ideas."

Another group was also recently formed Facebook with essentially the same people is now called AOTM Spotify Edition. Apparently some people in the first group didn't want to have anything to do with Spotify so a second group was spun off where folks can post Spotify mixes available to listen by anyone.  However, members of the Side A / Side B are also posting Spotify mixes so I guess it really doesn't matter.

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