the music made me do it

i should have posted this months ago when i first got hooked on this kick ass bomb diggity website but i've been slacking and ignoring my little blog for a while so i'll tell you about it now.

you like music right? you like mix tapes, yeah? you like finding new music AND making mix tapes?

then you're going to love this.

I found 8tracks through Twitter of all places and fell in love immediately. 8tracks is a kind of social network that allows people to upload & share music in the cloud. We make mixes either from music in network or from tracks that we upload as individual users and then publish them for everyone to enjoy. You can 'favorite' tracks from others mixes and 8tracks will keep track of them for you. It also suggests other mixes that you may enjoy inevitably linking you with someone who has similar music tastes as you. There's something similar to Facebook's newsfeed that lets you follow other users and 8tracks will alert you to new mixes they've published. It also allows you to 'Like" mixes (which saves them for you) and make comments on your friends creations.

There are a few rules for making mixes though but they're easy to follow and personally, for free music I'm down with whatever you want me to do. So here are the rules, a mix must have at least 8 tracks and it can only contain 2 songs from the same artist. Other than that you're good to go. Fast, easy and super fun. I really haven't gone a day where I haven't logged in to 8tracks when I'm at work.

So go check out 8tracks now, you can start with some of my mixes. Let me know what you think.