Mix Tape — Blog — Lone Buffalo Creative

I have added a new page to the website called: Mix Tapes.

In what feels like a previous lifetime (graduate school, 12 years ago), I hosted a radio show on KVRX, 91.7FM, the student run station at the University of Texas. My air name was The Ph. DJ (PhD candidate at the time, the name was better than my performance as a student) and the show was named Zapatos Locos (an inside joke and the dopest street gang in Austin). These two hour shows introduced me to a variety of genres and gave me the space to create soundscapes based on my mood/desires at the time. While some shows are lost to the haze of early mornings (the 1-3am or 5-7am time slots suuuuck), others have stuck with me to this day.

There was the Rain themed show when Austin received a solid month of it in summer 2007. The Sun theme when the rains finally abated. The ABC's of Zapatos Locos where I went through the Artist Alphabet or the time I played only songs under 2 minutes. 88 songs as I remember and certainly the only time I worked up a sweat in the booth.

These shows, to me, were performances. I'm shite (I've been in England for a while now) at playing any instruments, so curating collections of people who can is my artistic contribution and while I was dormant for years after my DJ'ing days, last year saw a resurgence in my desire to collect, order and share.

Now is a good time for me to stand upon my soap box and give a bit of a spiel. I use mix-tape instead of playlist because, to me, a playlist is a large dump of songs that can be played on random. There is nothing wrong with a playlist but it is not a mix-tape.

A mix-tape is an ordered selection of music put together to take the listener on a ride, a journey, through a curated soundscape. The mood of the mix tape is intentionally set by the mix tape mixer, so with that said...

THE MIX TAPE RULE:

All mix tapes must be played twice from start to finish before they can be played on random (No one likes rules...but this one is a MUST!)

I will be updating the page fairly often as I am usually always on the search for new and interesting sounds. My musical tastes vary depending on the time of year and my emotional state...There is usually a story behind each mix, so I'll probably share a little of that as well...

Enjoy!