"Muxtape" got a makeover, instead of being the mixtape-mecka that it was it's been accommodated for artists only to upload their music and present themselves. It had become a great place to discover indie musicians struggling to get their creations out to the masses that thirst for the new thing. Right now Muxtape is strictly invite-based, as it evidently has once again gone into re-development to become a place where artists will be able to sell downloads and where labels may manage their bands in orderly fashion, thus getting them involved and evading legal issues. Anyone will also be able to perform remixes of music on the site. This all sounds like it'll be a great innovation, especially for indie musicians to make some money to fund their efforts.
Though it's not what the creator of Muxtape, Justin Ouelette, first set out to do, which was to create a scene where anyone could come and share their favorite music with people, whether of their own creation or not. With it's launch in March last year, I bet Ouelette never would have expected Muxtape to grow at such an excellerated rate, but apparently alot of people love to create mixtapes, and I'm certainly one of them. By August Justin had become under siege from the RIAA over Copyrights issues. He had to take down the site, promising though that it would be back up agian soon. Though by late September he posted a blog stating that the site could no longer be running the way it had been, instead it was going into development to become what it is today. And now it's steadily growing into what will be one of the greater steps toward flunking the copyright laws and the evil music-labels that have been hampering artistical freedom for so long. Well... One can hope.
In one of my Muxtape listening sessions I stumbled upon a few gems that I'd like to direct your attention to. First of all there's "Max Justus" whom I first came across last winter, when he released remixes of eight of 808's & Heartbreaks tracks, an album I didn't enjoy all to much. But Justus managed to take Kanye's Cher-impressions and make it into something pretty good. I especially like the track, Bending Space and Time, off of his newly released album titled No Mercy which after a quick listen gets a good verdict from me. 8 from 808's and Heartbreaks is available for download completely free of any kind of expences, it may be found here, but most deffinately not here.
Next up is "Doctor Rosen Rosen" who has remixed Lilly Allen's newest album, "Its not me, it's you", and released the remix album titled, "It's not me, it's Doctor Rosen Rosen", as seen above. I'll have to admit I've never sat down and listened to any Lily Allen songs, but I'm sure that DR.R.R's interpretation is at least as good if not better than the original, given that the remixes are a bit different. The album is available for free download here.
Others that were very interesting, but I was not able to find purchasable or downloadable or I just didn't feel like getting ahold of at the moment include: "Maxo", "M.E.S.H.", "Omnichrome"and "Blood and Sunshine".
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