How does the ultimate compilation tape come to exist?
Jan: There is a link on the links page where Jack Tripper elaborates on exactly this topic. Robert: There are many different criteria for making an ideal mixtape. I am quite conservative with my own recipe. I mostly make genre tapes, the combination of the music is most important; the end of a song in relation to the beginning of the next one, the atmospheric flow. In some of the mixtapes I made recently I worked much more conceptually: combining songs with contradictory or similar messages. A mixtape should certainly not be arbitrary. It is important that you can feel the songs were chosen with care. Benni: For me everything starts with one song that I makes me think about starting a mixtape because the song is influencial in music history ….inspiring ….unforgetable. Then I just follow my feeling and experience as a DJ. Sometimes the next song samples a bit of the one before or it has the same theme. Or the lyrics go deeper. Sometimes I can’t explain. Like Billy Holiday.
