The Art of the Mixtape

Michele Catalano, on the mixtape of yore:

It was about so much more than grouping some tunes together. They had to segue. They had to flow into one another. Each song needed to be a continuation of the one before it, as if all these disparate bands got together and recorded a concept album based solely on your feelings for the guy who sits in front of you in English class.

(Via Niko Stratis)