🚨 Like how Vinyls & Casettes became in the 2000s n 2010s.

• Do you think the Rap mixtape of the late 2000s to 2016ish sound quality & character will be sought after as well at some point, maybe even soon?

For digital music I think its one of the few if not only form of digital music that has an underlying built in characteristic & style. While with digital today since the mid 2010s, everything is pretty much the same & super clean.

The "Rap Mixtape sound" can be a way to add character & nostalgia like a Vinyl & Casette.

Edit:

Tape "Sound" Examples - Overly Dedicated, LiveLoveASAP, Kush n OJ, Mixtape About Nothing, So Far Gone, Dreamchasers, Monster, Beam me Up Scotty, Rich Forever etc.

No

They said the same about Vinyls & Casettes 🤔

Need that Rap Mixtape mixing plugin

What are you even talking about about

Just sound quality and characteristics lol

"What are you talking about"

• then goes on to mention what im talking about

Are you not aware that engineers purposely use vinyl & casette characteristics to add character & uniqueness to their sound lol, mainly because digital today is really sterile & flat.

Its a common practice, especially in Rap, RnB & Pop since the 2000s in varying ways.

music in 2030:

Seem once a new media format is around for a while n grows sterile is when music will start adopting characteristics of older media to spice it up.

Like the CD with Vinyl, n early digital with Casette (where the trends started).

Mixtape digital audio is rougher & "sharper" than the now standard digital sound, which is more even & flat (has its postives n easier to work with), plus with more higher quality stuff being more affordable than it was even 10 years ago.

I can see the "Rap Mixtape" sound being used like Vinyl & Casette. It has its own characteristics & specific methods to get the way it sounds n probably the only one as a digital format so far.

i never wanna hear faux-128 kbps music on streaming ever

Yeah I’m sure it will if it ever really went away, u can find mixtapes rn with the trappings of that era’s sonic characteristics

Live Love ASAP, Overly Dedicated, So Far Gone, The Mixtape About Nothing & Kush n OJ are the "Rap Mixtape" sound n characteristics im thinking of

i prayed we'd get a remaster/hq version of Bass when LLA dropped on streaming...nope

Maybe most likely not tho due to sample clearance issues

Remasters of tapes are usually ass tbh

This the mixtape sound imo

i just hate the fact one of the best songs on the tape is the only one that sounds like a muffled mess

no because the rap mixtape sound was done out of necessity not for style points

I don't think it'll ever come back

Yeah these are the tapes i think of when "Mixtape Sound" comes to mind:

Overly Dedicated, LiveLoveASAP, Kush n OJ, Mixtape About Nothing, So Far Gone, Dreamchasers, Monster, Beam me Up Scotty, Rich Forever, Macadelic, Slime Season 2, Duflocka DaRant, Trap God 3, Shyne Coldchain 2, EARL etc.

Thats interesting tho, i havent really kept up with mixtapes. I thot they were basically extinct since everything is streaming now.

how will younger people who have only known streaming be able to access true mixtapes?

Just to let yall know, yes, Streaming is its own audio format like digital, CD etc.

Spotify & Apple (even Youtube & Soundcloud although not as extreme) will literally mix your stuff on top of your already mix to standardized the audio with it library to make shuffling "more likely" & easier on the algorithm. Even down to the volume & hertz. Sometimes even degrading your audio if the file is too high, which YT is especially famous for.

It homogenizes & flatens the sound on purpose.

Its a new version of "CD Quality". For better & worst.

fr? i never knew this

just go to any soundcloud rapper with less than 1000 followers for that mixtape sound