I got an email from Mixcloud the other day. I opened and read it, it said they were...
Since '07, Hip Hop Is Read has always been about, simply, sharing music with people throughout the world. I've prided myself on providing a resource for DJs, producers, and music lovers in general. This year, HHIR celebrated its 15-year anniversary. Do any of you remember when this used to be a dotblogspotdotcom site? How about this: Do any of you remember the cBox? Throwback! I've re-added the cBox to the top right side of the website in hopes that people who actually DO still check out the site will get active again, maybe offer up any suggestions for a post-Mixcloud HHIR. How do you CONSUME music in the 2020s? I've been a Spotify Premium subscriber for over half as long as HHIR's existence, but DSP playlists, while fun and useful - don't look, I have so many and they're all so disorganized - are flawed for the fact that so much of the music I want to share just... isn't there! (Anywhere between 10-25% of music for a particular HHIR/BBB project not being available is commonplace.) Or, this'll happen: a track gets removed from the service AFTER being added to a playlist, ruining the sequencing. Relying on the cloud has its pros and cons. A 🏴☠️irate's life for we...?
Back in 2020, I had a little test run of sorts. From digital to analog, I shipped out mixtapes to HHIReaders all across the globe. (Thank you to all!) For #SOTY2022, I'm taking it to the Tape Deck once again. So if you're interested in mixes that live on tapes, not clouds, and wanna support the site, get @ me via e-mail @ hiphopisread@🇬mail•com (est. shipping January 2023)...
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announcing upcoming changes to Mixcloud: From December 1st we’re introducing a maximum allowance of 10 published shows for creators on the basic tier.I was annoyed at first, even angry, but I understand Mixcloud's fiscal reasons for needing to re-strategize. That's not my business (nor would I want it to be; I prefer to remain immune to the money side of music, sports, entertainment, etc.). I take no pleasure in disparaging Mixcloud in any way. Since my first upload a decade ago, the streaming platform has been good to Hip Hop Is Read. But this is a letdown, for sure. For starters, this means over a hundred posts' embedded players won't work anymore. But I'm used to that. This blog is still littered with (dead) links pointing to Rapidshare, Filesonic, zShare, MegaUpload, Hotfile, PutLocker, Billionuploads, and so on and so on. (Mega and Mediafire are still doing okay, it seems...) There was a time when Audiomack seemed like it'd be the greatest thing ever... until they shuttered my account with no warning. (I know I've still got hundreds of (dead) Audiomack embeds throughout the site that I still need to remove...)
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