Mix-A-Tape introduces mixtapes to the streaming generation – Lifestyle

For those who grew up in the ’80s and’ 90s, the mixtape was a big part of youth and adolescence. Prior to MP3s and digital streaming, the mixtape was a way to connect to music in a personal way – or sometimes an attempt to woo that crush in 9th grade. In the era of Spotify playlists, where every song is just a few clicks away, it’s seemingly unthinkable for the mixtape to make a comeback, and yet that’s exactly what the Mix-A-Tape project is trying to achieve. make. An intergenerational collaboration of four Jakarta-based music-related entities (The Store Front, Winona Tapes, Casual Fan Club and Project Inversa), Mix-A-Tape allows people to create their own mixtapes on an actual audio cassette in all its glory of plastic film, with choices of sleeves made by talented local artists. For 33-year-old Yogha Prasiddhamukti, tapes have always been special. & l …