Journal / SXSW Music and Muxtape

★Saturday, March 29th, 2008★Filed under Conferences, Music, Web Apps★Tweet this

Since arriving home from SXSW, lots of people have been asking, “What were the best bands you saw in Texas?” No one seems to understand or care that I was also at the Interactive Conference. So today I went through the list I kept of all the bands I saw when I was there, and started to pick out the best ones, with the intention of making a mix for my friends.

And since there has been a lot of hype and argument this week about Muxtape, I thought I would use that service for the mix. Muxtape is a really simple service that allows users to create a 12 song digital mixtape, which is public, and allows anyone to stream the songs you have uploaded. There has been more than a little discussion on who is paying for the bandwidth, and who, if anyone, is legally in the sh*t.

Since the limit for a Muxtape is 12 songs, I have created 2, as I had real trouble picking just 12 bands. So without further ado, or any dull commentary from me trying to be a music hack, here are my picks from SXSW 2008:

Best of SXSW 08 Pt. 1

Best of SXSW 08 Pt. 2

I hope you like some of it, and I’d love to hear about your Muxtapes.

4 responses so far

  1. Jakob

    29th Mar, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    Love it.

  2. Joe Doyle

    29th Mar, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    I dig the Muxtape simple layout.

    Wish you could just press play and let it all happen – seems like the player isn’t very robust. But I just started. Can’t wait to get through your tunes.

    - jd

  3. Nonimage

    31st Mar, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Thanks for the comments guys.

    Joe, I agree that it would be nice if you could press play and it would play all tracks in order. However, I did feel that this solution was the simplest since I didn’t have huge amounts of time to put it together.

  4. Joe Doyle

    31st Mar, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Didn’t know you could tweak it like that. Love your selects. Been playing them a couple times.

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