Monday Word: Mixtape
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1word1daymixtape [miks-teyp]
Noun.
1. noncommercial compilation of songs copied (as onto a cassette tape or a CD) from various sources
2. an album that is usually recorded and distributed without the involvement of a record label
Examples
In high school, I'd be making mixtapes for friends and girls instead of doing my homework, spending hours perfecting how a Smiths song and Joy Division song and Pixies song would convey the way I feel.
—Aaron Axelsen, quoted at SFGate.com
Writers like Nick Hornby have imbued the cassette tape with considerable romance, in particular the mix tape created for a loved one. In practice, these were often recorded directly from the radio, requiring your typical suburban suitor to sit around for hours on end, waiting for the desired track to appear.
—Richard Glover
The mixtape is an unofficial release. It might be tied to an imprint or a label, but it doesn't necessarily appear in stores. In fact, most of them can be purchased only on the streets, at the clubs, from the trunks of cars or from the artists themselves.
—Lance Scott Walker
Long before rap got any radio love, mixtapes were the main form of distribution, the currency that kept everything in rotation as the culture evolved.
—Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael
Origins
The word “mixtape” was first used in 1985. However, the phrase “mix tape” appeared earlier, in 1974, in Modern Recording Techniques by Robert E. Runstein. The phrase became so common that it was eventually shortened to the unhyphenated word “mixtape”.
The word “mixtape” is a combination of the words “mix” and “tape”. “Mix” comes from the Latin word mixtus, and “tape” comes from the Old English word tæppe, which means “strip (of cloth)”.
Noun.
1. noncommercial compilation of songs copied (as onto a cassette tape or a CD) from various sources
2. an album that is usually recorded and distributed without the involvement of a record label
Examples
In high school, I'd be making mixtapes for friends and girls instead of doing my homework, spending hours perfecting how a Smiths song and Joy Division song and Pixies song would convey the way I feel.
—Aaron Axelsen, quoted at SFGate.com
Writers like Nick Hornby have imbued the cassette tape with considerable romance, in particular the mix tape created for a loved one. In practice, these were often recorded directly from the radio, requiring your typical suburban suitor to sit around for hours on end, waiting for the desired track to appear.
—Richard Glover
The mixtape is an unofficial release. It might be tied to an imprint or a label, but it doesn't necessarily appear in stores. In fact, most of them can be purchased only on the streets, at the clubs, from the trunks of cars or from the artists themselves.
—Lance Scott Walker
Long before rap got any radio love, mixtapes were the main form of distribution, the currency that kept everything in rotation as the culture evolved.
—Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael
Origins
The word “mixtape” was first used in 1985. However, the phrase “mix tape” appeared earlier, in 1974, in Modern Recording Techniques by Robert E. Runstein. The phrase became so common that it was eventually shortened to the unhyphenated word “mixtape”.
The word “mixtape” is a combination of the words “mix” and “tape”. “Mix” comes from the Latin word mixtus, and “tape” comes from the Old English word tæppe, which means “strip (of cloth)”.
