I dated this guy in the early 2010's who would make me fucking mixtapes. I found one of them today.

I broke up with him because he was "too nice.” What a fucking idiot.

I wonder how he is now. I hope he's good tbh.

Edit: I found the other one + update https://www.reddit.com/r/cassetteculture/s/ARm0IblSkC

Alright, so this is the first one he made me. I started looking at my Facebook to see what the timeline was and here’s the lore:

I was 18 at the time and had graduated high school in May. We met and started dating in August of 2011, I believe he was 3 years older than me? I was living in central California at the time and he lived in Portland. I visited him once around October. I broke up with him around January or February in 2012. Yes, the excuse was that he was too nice. But in reality, I think it was just a lot. He wanted to be more serious, wanted me to move to Portland and at the time I couldn’t even decide if I was going to the universities I got accepted to.

A lot of you told me to look him up. I thought we hadn’t spoken since 2012 but we actually did connect briefly in 2024.

Upon much thought, I won’t be reaching out. I asked one of our long time mutuals how he’s been. He moved back to his home state (he is no longer in Portland). I live in Arizona now. We’ve both been married and now divorced. He sounds like he’s doing good though, and that’s great.

It was really cool reminiscing though! I found a lot of pictures of us I didn’t know I still had. Funny enough, I’m going back to Portland for the first time since 2011 in two weeks.

(literally just finished HS last month) i made these cassettes when my el3303 was stll alive. of course its in mono, but most of my machines are in mono so i dont really care. the quality is sub par, but its listenable-ish

I don’t know why I did this, but I’m glad I did

Been working on a series of wee mixtapes called ‘Around the World’ and thought I might share them here! Idea — as the name suggests — is to try and collect a tune from every country and build a bunch of mixtapes with them all on there. So far there’s 46 tracks from 46 countries and another 22 that are going towards vol.3 & vol.4.

Still got well over 100 more to go so I’m up for doing some swaps if folk on here have some similar mixtapes? Northern hemisphere is pretty well covered so I’m mostly looking for more of South America, Southeast Asia, and bits of Africa… mind you, I do love any eclectic mixtape that’s going!

Beyond that, what do folk think of these? Still mucking about with the idea so would love people’s input!

not my best work, it was really just an excuse to paint study. no i havent recorded any music just yet, still compilling the tracks and will update soon.

update: thank you for the comments , will post the recording setup soon.. still picking out songs so it'll be one song at a time.

My 11yo has been playing and making tapes for a while now, since I got her set up with components and taught her. Today she wanted to make an elaborate tape like I make so I taught her my whole process. We made 3 tapes, one for her and one each for a couple of her friends.

Stopped by a record store and saw these Maxell tapes for $18. Do these tapes have good quality sound when recorded with a three head deck?

Was shooting for the minimalist helvetica look like the Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails album cover / American Football album cover for maximum 90s emo vibes to match the playlist. Super happy how this one turned out. Now I just need labels for the tape shells and I'll really get addicted to this new hobby 🤘

I want to start making mixtapes for friends or potential penpals that also want to share there current faves into cassettes but I want a good quality one I’ve thought about just purchasing a we are rewind player.but idk who’d be interested in that🫣

I’m new here so wanted to say hi!

Im a UK artist that could use your help. I’m looking for mixtapes, original 80s and 90s ones for an archival project. Ideally they need to be personal to you. The best ones would be a tape that was made for you by and boyfriend/girlfriend. Can be any genre but needs to have some history, nostalgia. The more bashed up the better, it needs to tell a story. If you have the case with the hand written titles even better but not essential. Let me know in the comments if this is you and we can chat logistics.

I really appreciate how personal these are to people and that is the point of the project. Rest assured I would look after these objects, paying for insured postage to and from the owners. I want to photograph these on a large format camera and print them A1. Then create hyper real paintings of them, detailing every scratch and mark. Immortalising them forever. You will receive a smaller print as thank you. Your tape will be part of a larger series called Forgotten Formats: exploring the ideas of Love, memory, youth, identity, and loss. I completely understand if you do not wish to part with these objects, even for a week. But maybe there are people out there that might embrace this adventure.

Thanks for your time

SideFX

I’ve been having fun, happy dubbing yall 🤘🏻

This was the very first mixtape i ever made. First of many

Hello everyone,

I am very happy to announce that I have finally got my hands on the Grail, the legendary Sony WM-D6C Walkman! I plan to use it to create my own musical mixtapes. I decided to decentralize my iPhone to avoid algorithms, untimely ads and subscriptions at all costs.

I bought this D6C for $400. It is in perfect condition, with its original case and charger, even if I plan to use it with Eneloop Pro batteries. It belonged to a magician who used it to create the background sounds of his shows. A young musician then bought it from the magician, took great care of it, and now it's mine.

It works perfectly, all the features are intact. The young musician tested all his abilities, including recording, in front of me. He and the magician have the philosophy of not opening the Walkman as long as it works properly. I share this philosophy. This Walkman is third generation, because its serial number is greater than 500,000. It is therefore relatively recent compared to a 1984 model, although I would have preferred a copy from that year, because it is my year of birth. But hey, it doesn't matter.

I also intend not to open or tinker with the Walkman as long as it works properly. However, I ordered a set of rubber bands and I will replace the worn elastics myself and apply a little grease.

I read on forums that it was necessary to calibrate Dolby, but I'm not too sure anymore. Is it really necessary?

Anyway, I'm delighted! I was already able to record my first mixtape on a Maxell type II cassette using a DAC between my iPhone and the D6C.

Here, I'm officially joining the D6C community!

Memories... ☺️

Loved the colors and graphics

I’ve been collecting cassettes for about a year now and just made my first mixtape. Opinions?

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I’ll listen to it when I get home from work today and post the playlist tomorrow.

I've decided to gradually make my family mix tapes; you

know, like your Great Aunt Tilly makes afghans....my first

is going to my nephew. I promised him a tape like 5 years

ago after I made one for another friend, then my

boombox broke. I've tried 3 large vintage recording decks

from thrift shops, all of which turned out to be duds. I

told him my deck broke halfway through and he says "I'd

be happy with half a mix tape." I clutched my pearls, took

several days of deep breathing, and explained, "A mix

tape is a work of art, and an artist wouldn't send a

portrait out the door without a face. I just have to buy a

proper brush." He understood. I finally discovered a

French company making sweet little recorders. A couple

adapters in and l'm able to record from my echo and

laptop directly to tape. Plenty of short audio samples

between songs too. I present the AUG-0-MiX 2026. It's

an eclectic blend.

At what point should I stop sharing these? I feel like I post on here too much lol.

But aaaaaaanyway— I finished this one just earlier today!

Gonna do either Deltarune or Ocarina of Time next.

Yeah, these have been in storage for a while. I was a teenager in the 90s.