Re Article (‘I’ll throw it into the trash of all he gives me’: Mixing tapes explaining our lives, 16 July), a boy called Richard (handsome and humorous, even though it’s always rough and shy) pushes a cassette by my age of 19 or 18 and “only friends”. It shows the song You to me all by the real thing.
He made me laugh very poor and I’m sure loving him, but I don’t think I know how to move our feelings. The line “I think I’m just a clown that picks you up every time you fall in time as a talk about what he or she has introduced it is a request to bring him seriously.
I just got 60 and heard the song played recently. I stopped it on my tracks, led me then to that beautiful, beautiful summer of laughter and flirting that nothing was done. And all the more wonderful for what I think.
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Making a mix tape is a form of art. There are about 30 and 45 minutes on each side, which requires a good knowledge of the paths to put on each other. After that, how do you get the attention of the audience? Starting with a banger and trying to keep that for a couple of songs before easily.
Until the end of each side it is important not to cut any song but, if possible, to lose. It’s better if the tracks just finished at the right moment before the tape is running out. A mix tape is an act of art, an act of love. You need to know your audience, your music and it takes time completely. I am a lover in the missing form of art.
Christoph Wagner
Boulolgne-Billancourt, France
