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BurstLabs takes on Muxtape

muxtape.com icon 100pxMore than likely, you’ve heard of the dubiously legal online mixtape creation tool, Muxtape. If not, well, you need to get out less.

The site, in all of its 2.0-tastic glory, is the perfect vehicle for the budding Lester Bangs of the world to create the blogger-friendliest of blogger-friendly playlists full of songs they have not listened to all the way through, preferring to take Pitchfork’s word for it. Ryan Catbird, of music blog Catbirdseat offers his take on the scene-and-be-scene at his Muxtape.

In the interest of full disclosure, we thought it would be interesting to post our own Muxtapes (isn’t the prevailing attitude toward arbitrarily supplementing the English language amazing these days?). No artifice, embarrassment, or posturing allowed, just the cold, ugly face of our own personal music tastes :

MUXTAPE by Matt

MUXTAPE by Daniel

MUXTAPE by Kyle

Recent Comments

  1. My First Muxtape - danielholter.com says:
    3/28/2008 -

    [...] post at the Burst Labs blog here, and here’s my personal [...]

  2. matt @ burst says:
    4/3/2008 -

    Unnatural Selection Muxtape

    12 songs, iTunes on random, no skipping, updated whenever I fend off the laziness.

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