Boing Boing reader John Mathot says,
Hip hop mixtapes are dead — long live hip hop mixtapes! With the copyright powers-that-be cracking down on unapproved use of music on mixtapes (premier hip hop site Turntable Lab recently took down their mixtape listings), the ones that emerge these days are more brazen.
Case in point: “Blue Eyes Meets Bed Stuy” from DJ Cappel — a mash-up/remix/mixtape created with vocals from Biggie and tunes
(breaks?) from Frankie. It’s not as brilliant as “A Night at the Hip Hopera” by the Kleptones, but it’s very much worth owning (which means get it while you still can). It can purchased at SandboxAutomatic.com and TurntableLab.com.
Link to MP3 audio snippets at djcappel.com. (includes sexually explicit language)
Reader Comment: Andrew Austin says,
Turntable Lab only took down their “Mixtape” section because people aren’t doing mixes on cassette anymore – not because of any panic over the unauthorized use of copyrighted music. They still have plenty of mix CD’s of all types for sale, they’re just in the CD section, under “DJ mixes”.