The following questions we were asked by Inga Zimprich Inga: What’s the idea behind schicky tapes dot biz?
Jan: The idea was around for a while until one night two people amused themselves designing the website. Different friends are busy with mixtapes and little releases on tape even own tape labels. Add the internet with it’s de-local networking possibilities and you have schicky tapes. Benni: For me schickytapes started in the moment when I realised that I was speaking with many people in different cities about mixtapes and we all shared this special kind of passion in producing them. It is like a reference about yourself, to hand out a mixtape to someone you recently met and find sympathetic – like a creative identity card. It tells a lot about people, what kind of music they like or how the cover of the mixtape looks like… Jan: The purpose is creative cross pollination of esthetic expressions and concepts. That is similar in a lot of contexts. The common denominator here is the cassette tape and probably some degree of a shared fascination for it´s possibilities and socio-economic pr
