Love is a mix cd

I’ve been on the lookout for new music recently. I’ve got my last.fm, and I subscribe to a veritable plethora of podcasts, but having a harddrive full of downloaded music doesn’t exactly feel right. Sometimes you need someone pulling you aside and yelling at you till you listen to a song. Possibly on repeat, until you get it.

So when my friend Tash came up with love is a mix cd, I got very excited. I asked her a bit about it.

What’s the project about?

It’s a kind of pay it forward, but with music. 

What inspired the project?

I love discovering new music and then being able to share my find with people. This projects lets me do both. My neighbor and I like to burn cd’s for one another and swap them and I thought ‘Hey, this could totally work on a larger scale’. 

Why a mix cd? Why not an mp3 or a playlist?

Because there’s something wonderful about discovering a little package in the mail, and I don’t think an mp3 or playlist has the kind of personal touch a cd does. 

What do you think people will get out of it?

My only agenda was to make people happy and spread good music around. It’s two fold though, because everyone feel’s good when they do something nice or kind for someone else. 

Also, it’s a great grass roots way of hopefully getting that band you love that nobody else has heard of a bigger fan base.

What song are you listening to most at the moment?

I’m really into The Format and I’ve got their song ‘The First Single’ on repeat.