About me: WHAT IS IMP?
The International Mixtape Project is a global community of music-oriented souls that exchange monthly compilation tapes and CD-Rs. IMP is now more than four years old and includes more than 1,200 participants from 30 countries.
HOW DOES IMP WORK? Each member is required to send one compilation CD-R or cassette to another member every month. Assignments are generated automatically around the first day of every month from a database of active members and delivered via e-mail. With each assignment, participants have until the end of the month to send a mix to their assigned recipients. In exchange, each participant receives a mix from somewhere around the world! Each member of the IMP global community are also issued a unique username and password to log in to and create a profile on the IMP website.
Dear IMP Hi Ryan Not only are you connecting people musically but you are creating new friends too.This is a great project Rock on,groove on, jam on etc Trish
I'm on BBC 6 Music radio tonight - this Sunday - from 8pm. They'll be broadcasting an interview with me and playing my 1 hour mix of electro-indie and Brighton bands, either 8-9 or 9-10pm.
Not For Resale has been entered into a competition. There's 2 dj's every Sunday for 4 weeks battling for a prize of a DJ set at Summer Sundae in Leicester or Indian Summer in Glasgow, then I guess 4 in the final in July with people voting again and the top 2 winning. I think I could do a lot of damage with a set at a festival so I’m kind of wanting to win now – at least the first round any way – I’m up against someone from Cambridge. I’m not sure what would happen to the world order if Brighton lost to Cambridge in a DJing competition, but it can’t be good.
It is a competition, so I am requesting your votes (like all those tedious indie bands). Out of pity for my terrible interview probably - I don't imagine negative mono-syllabic answers translate well on air, but I’m sure it will be funny if not simply humiliating.
You can text on 64046, or email them at 6mix@bbc.co.uk, or leave comments on their website. Maybe I’ll give a prize to the person who rips me apart the best. Or is the nicest, obviously.
You can stream it all week and vote until next Friday
My latest mix titled 'TWENTY' for March's autobiog assignment:
2007*Candylion*Gruff Rhys
2006*Music For A Found Harmonium*Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2005*Hi-Lo And Inbetween*Neil Halstead
2004*Weak Become Heroes*The Streets
2003*Race For The Prize*The Flaming Lips
2002*Sky High Balloon*Educated Animals
2001*The Fear*m-ziq
2000*Doll*Foo Fighters
1999*Surf Wax America*Weezer
1998*In My Eyes*Minor Threat
1997*You're Not Alone*Olive
1996*Bob Dylan's Dream*Bob Dylan
1995*Replenish*Reef
1994*Golden Slumbers*The Beatles
1993*Sliver*Nirvana
1992*Liberty!*Levellers
1991*Mama Kin (Live)*Guns N' Roses
1990*Jupiter*Gustav Holst
1989*Gumboots*Paul Simon
1988*Everywhere*Fleetwood Mac
1987*Fanfare For The Common Man*Emerson, Lake & Palmer
E.M., I sense a bit of NAP bleedover. . .Well, no reason you shouldn't use the IMP to influence the IMP. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, or what Electramummy's comment was suppossed to link to, see Nonalignment Pact This shit will change your life
I just sent out my 1st IMP mix!
darn that dream-billy holiday
shangri-la -kinks
pain in my heart -otis redding
goodnight my love -alex chilton
guess I'm doin fine -beck
swingin party - replacements
catch the wind -donovan
I'll keep it with mine -nico
I guess things happen that way -johnny cash
the losing end -neil young
till I die -beach boys
don't forget me -nilsson
pardon my heart -neil young
you go to my head -billy holiday
there will never be another you -alex chilton
ocean in your eyes -smokey & miho
surfs up -beach boys
lost cause -beck
save the last dance for me -nilsson
for the turnstiles -neil young
Attention, Chris Jackson in Leeds. Your December mix is in the mail as of today. That's right, I said December. Yes, I know that's pathetic, and yes I appologize. Anyway, it's pretty killer, so that should make up for the timing. Two Discs Baby!
