JJC’s First (Worst) Mixtape
October 2006
Why did I think I should make a mixtape with my Radio Shack mixer a mere four months after I bought a second turntable and decided to be a DJ? I’m kind of an idiot. And the needles were worn out, and the computer whose microphone input I recorded through was glitchy, and a few records skip, and the beats match poorly or not at all, and the songs drop at odd places, and the tracklist is weird, but stringing records together was what my new friends in Philadelphia were up to, and I wanted to get down. They taught me the “start slow and get faster” method that I employ on this mixtape and pretty much always, still.
I think I recorded two takes of this mixtape, and this is the second one. I don’t remember exactly what I thought about it when I finished, but it must have been something like, “Good enough; let’s get it on MySpace.” I do remember listening to it a lot after I put it out in the world, regretting a lot of the mistakes, and loving every single tune. I listened to it again yesterday, and my position is largely unchanged.
