Radley Marx

On Closing Mixwit…

Mixwit was a lot of fun for Mike & me to develop and in the end we are both really happy with the results. Way back in the summer we realized that we may have to go “scorched earth” at some point, so we’re actually feeling more relief than regret at this point.

We came up with the project a little over a year ago, and started working on it fulltime back in January of 2008. We didn’t do any promotion so the project was a huge viral success. The initial seed was a small mention on Techcrunch covering YC Demo Day. Several websites quickly came on board to discuss the possibility of such a project.

The really big push for us was Muxtape, which launched a couple of weeks after us with massive technorati fanfare. I assume it was common for people to mention Mixwit along with Muxtape because Muxtape had the word “tape” in their name and we actually had a “tape” in our product.

Our goal was never to be a playlist service, and especially not a project caught up in questionable legitimacy. As it stands now, we could probably continue running Mixwit as a small project for another year or two, but that’s about it.

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Crate Classics – Mix Set

A few weeks back I played a 6+ hour set featuring a lot of tracks that, while once popular, had been set aside to mature. The set was a lot of fun but alas, half of the recording was lost due to a technical glitch.

I had so much fun pulling out those records, I went back last weekend to redo the missing stuff. Naturally, I couldn’t stick to the script and ended up playing something that could only be described as classic tracks made up of refined bin diving in a collection spanning over 25 years (or so).

This new 50-track, all vinyl mix is just over four hours long and features dubby chill tracks, buzzy techno and breaks, pop trance, disco house, a few 80s synth hits, and a few surprises.

Tracklisting is in the ID3 tags (lyrics).