User:Mjb/Mixtape collection

This is my mixtape collection, i.e. old cassettes I can't or won't submit to Discogs.

Most tapes don't have dates, so I may be off by a year on some of them.

Radio shows

1989

• Def Leppard - Hysteria: I filled up side B with part of a WNCI Friday Night Live show from mid-1989.

1991

• DJ Michael Swaggerty - All Mixed Up - CD101 (WWCD-FM or WCBE-FM, Columbus, Ohio) mix show I taped off the air in August 1991.

1992

• The Future Sound of London - FSOL Boxing Day show (three 60-minute tapes) - tape 3 of 3 is missing (TDK AR 60)

1998

• Radix Retro 003 - a recording of my set when I was a guest DJ on Internet radio station RadioValve, which streamed electronic music from 1997 to 2002.

DJs

Full Brain

That's me.

• Full Brain 1.0/1.1 [5.23.93]
• Full Brain 2.0/2.1 master
• Full Brain copy - not sure which tape this is
• various - Music for Shopping - has the Full Brain track "Threshold Part 1" (without DAT glitch, but with a lot of hiss and limited frequency range).
• Elemental Trippy Mix - side A of the ironically named Egyptian Banjo Ballads tape, actually just has "Threshold Part 1" (without DAT glitch, but with Dolby C) + random records
• Starseed Chillout Room mix - has the end of my set, and most of Poppa Hopp's set
• Full Brain 3.0/3.1 master [22.Aug.93]
• Full Brain 4.0 master [30 Oct 1993]
• Full Brain 5.0 (master)
• Full Brain 5.1 (master) [April/May 94]
• Mekka lounge chillout set 7/30/95
• Full Brain 6 - A: Chunky Chill; B: Edumacational Old School - this is a copy with the map artwork
• Full Brain 6 - master

Lotus

David Applegate. Some of the tapes may have original music on them.

See User:Mjb/Lotus tapes.

Mark E Quark

David Applegate was friends with Mark E Quark and hooked me up copies of a bunch of his mixtapes in 1992–1993.

See my Mark E Quark mixtapes page.

DJ Dazy

• DJ Dazy - Dawn [March 2000]
• DJ Dazy & Mr. Annand - Tropical House Vol. 4: Paradise [2000]
• DJ Dazy - Twilight [June '01]

1989

• Stan "The Butcher" Mastermix - Stan "The Brooklyn Butcha" Simmons was a coworker of mine who moonlighted as a house and hip-hop DJ for black social events around the Ohio State University campus. He introduced me to "real" house music, which was quite different from the club remixes of pop songs I was listening to at the time. I posted a super low-fi RealAudio (16 kbps AC3) rip of it on Hyperreal back in the mid-'90s, and it got a lot of positive feedback.

1992

• Vision (5 tapes) - a San Francisco Bay Area rave, possibly the one on Sep. 5th, but I think it was a recurring party so it could have been a different one. I think I was sworn to secrecy about there even being tapes from this party.

1993

• DJ ApplePie - untitled tape mixed 6/93
• Snuggles & Wisc - T.D.I. (Tandem Deck Insuwfe[...illegible]) - August '93 - Copy 15

1994

• Jim Waiter - untitled mix tape
• DJ Terry Mullan - New School Fusion vol. 1 (dubbed copy)
• Growth - tapes 2 and 3 (Mike Brown, Todd Sines, Kevin Krahel, Titonton)

1995

• Trancemission (tape 1 of 5) - (jungle DJs) Andromeda, Troll, Mowgli / (hard techno DJ) Doughboy
• Trancemission (Marvin Lee's set)
• TeeP - Giant Oops
• TeeP - Channel 32
• TeeP - Smoke Show
• TeeP - Basic Channelism
• TeeP - Hotmix 95
• TeeP - Full Moon 4/95
• TeeP - BassDrop
• TeeP - Vibrations '95
• TeeP - Discreet Seastones
• TeeP - From Aran/To Mike

1996

• Kell - Really Spaced out
• Kell - Generic Mix Tape
• Hashpipe [aka Sleepbot] - Hashpipe's Aural Supplement (00#|) - 11: ...but they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness
• Alison - incomplete mixtape in progress (recorded on one side only) - she is a DJ from Los Angeles; I flew her out to spin at a rave in Dayton, Ohio in '96. I think this tape is from '95.

1998

• Muppetfucker / Twist-1 - Duotone 3

Compilations people made for me

• A Short Dip In The Glory Hole - compiled by Jon Drukman in 1992
• KLF interview/3A.M. Eternal/Space - compiled by someone (Mike Perkowitz? Lazlo Nibble? Dutch friend?) circa 1992
• A Pocketful of Rain - lightly mixed; compiled in 1993 by a Dutch or Finnish friend whose name I have forgotten - case is heat damaged, but might be OK
• ...dark - compiled by Charles Clutter in 1994
• TP/Misc - compiled by Kathleen Harris in 1996, has selections from the True People comp, plus other Detroit techno
• Music for cars with stick shifts - compiled by Erin Blakemore in Feb. 2005

Tapes from David Malcolm Martin

• Just the Music.... - compiled in 1990
• Duran Duran & Erasure - compiled in 1992
• Shotgun and other Great Wedding Hits - compiled in 1993

Tapes from Ian Peel

Ian Peel and I were international pen pals in 1991–1993. We sent each other compilations of our favorite music on cassette. His was mostly music from the ZTT label.

• Outside World (4 tapes)
• 8-tape set: 1 thru 4: Other Worlds, 5: Oh World of Wonder, 6: ZTT promos summer 92, 7: Ambient escapism, 8: Other Worlds
• The Side Car of Psyche / Hugh Manity / "Kitsch in Sync" - I think this might be his brother's band
• Zak Danube - Sense and Solitude (e.p.) - or maybe this was, and the other is Ian? I don't recall

My compilations

These are just the ones that survived. There were a couple dozen more which were broken and which I apparently discarded in 2016 because I thought I would never get around to repairing them.

1979–1980

• 1979–1980 "childhood recordings" - mostly me just holding the cassette recorder up to a TV speaker. felt pad is missing

1987

• Old Junk - a few 45s I loved as a tween
• 1980–1981 Hits - more 45s
• 1982–1983 Hits - more 45s, no case or tracklist, felt pad fell off
• 1983–4 Hits - more 45s. Notably, I ended it with the B-side "Feed the World" rather than "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
• Various Old & New - my favorite tracks from my parents' record collection, plus a few from mine
• Old Stuff - Hotel California to Good Day Sunshine - more from my parents' collection

1989

• Various - S'Express/___/Depeche Mode/Erasure/FGTH/The Timelords/Murray Head/Def Leppard/Skinny Puppy
• Mismix II - original side A selections taped over with WNCI and 92X dance mix show with INXS, Sweet Sensation, Debbie Gibson; then misc Depeche Mode, Jan Hammer, Thompson Twins
• Misc. soft, hard, and acid house - that's not soft house and hard house, but rather soft pop and hard rock!
• Mostly M[illegible] Mixes
• Prince / De La Soul / U2 / Madonna
• African-Crossover Mix / Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
• Genesis / space fillers
• unmarked 1980s synth pop tape (TDK SA 100, no case)

1990

• "Techno House" - a mostly ironic title
• House? - another ironic title
• Misc dance stuff
• Late 80s stuff
• 1988-1990 Dubs, mostly house
• Mostly Club Mixes 1984–1989 - A-side taped over with selection titled: 1990 "acid house" sort of (UGH)
• New Order
• Duran Duran 1981–1983
• Duran Duran 1983–1987
• Duran Duran 1988–1989
• Duranduran - winter
• Pet Shop Boys. Complete. - 3 tapes
• Mostly Hip-Hop 1988-1989 - SA 100 tape is labeled Hip-Hop and has heat damage - reels need to be transferred to another shell
• De La Soul
• WHAM! / George Michael
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood mixes / Arcadia / Pet Shop Boys mixes
• The Smiths/Morrissey/T.F.F./Kate Bush

1991

• C+C / Musto & Bones / KLF etc.

1993

• Egyptian Banjo Ballads - a joke title; this is side B of a tape that has side A labeled "Elemental Trippy Mix" which I do not remember making. A-side is possibly my set from the first Elemental party.

1996

• Music for Travel I - I think this is mixed
• Music for Travel II
• Jazz-Techno '93-'96

My music

These are tapes I was making in 1993–1998 which contain recordings of my own musical experiments.

• Sample Tape - I think this is just some breakbeats I was going to try to sample
• unboxed TDK MA-X 90 labeled "Bits n pieces" (was: The Art of Noise - In Visible Silence) - no idea what is on this
• misc. ambient/trance + Lotus Chill Out 4.0 copy - A-side has been taped over and may include the original recording of "Threshold Part 1"
• Full Brain - original music - Nov. 1998 - copies from 2-trk masters: Any Resemblance [1994] / Any Resemblance (Tonal Bit) [1998]
• Full Brain Music - Threshold pt. 1 (CD version) / Two (2nd take) - both from 1994
• Full Brain 4.0 [30 Oct 1993] truncated copy / DR-660 weirdness + the song I did with Dan
• M.C. Rude - I am pretty sure I taped over this with Six Million Dollar Machine (i.e. it is the original tape of that song)

Demos

Other people's music. I submitted the professionally duplicated ones to Discogs:

• Mystical Sun - 15 Billion Years (Hyperreal 1.0 Mix) [1996] / The Search (Live Mix) [1993] - I think when he emailed me about this, he said the title of the first track was 1.5 Billion Years, but given that the vocal sample says 15, and other versions of the song were released as 15, I'm guessing now the 1.5 was just a typo. Both tracks are unreleased, as far as I know.
• Jan Hanford - Denial [1995]
• Jan Hanford - Vespers [1995]
• ele_mental related:
  • Body Release - Body Release
  • Enhanced - Works in progress June–Aug 1994
  • Enhanced - falv
  • various - fusion
  • various - fusion 2
  • various - fusion 3
  • various - fusion 04
  • Live Jams from The Ambient Party, 8 Oct 1993, Yellow Springs, Ohio - one side has A.R.S. jamming, and the other has me DJing while Dan Hastings and Steve Stalter (who I misidentified as Grae's Assembly) noodle with synths & a rhythm box
• Big Engine - Hi-Jinx / Sound+ Control
• Big Engine - Back to the Beginning
• Big Engine - Be There
• Dan Hastings - works in progress March 95
• Tintinnabulation - January 1994
• Tintinnabulation - works in progress
• Induction - Gone [1994]
• my friend Rick Lee's band - demos c. 1993 - no idea of their name but they have a prog/Pink Floyd based sound
• 10-Speed Guillotine - Holiday for Strychnine vol.2
• The Underprivileged

Notes

I also created the cover art for DJ Dazy - Ladybug Beats [1998], but I don't have a copy of this tape.

Growth was a house party in Columbus, Ohio.

Trancemission was a rave my friends and I threw in Dayton, Ohio. I made 5 tapes, loaned them out, and only got a couple of them back. If the others still exist, they are at a friend's house in Austin, Texas. If I ever get around to digitizing them, I'll try to get them back.