I have found a pretty cool site where you can mix your music - Mixaloo. It made me think about those
Friday evening when I was together with my friend recording music on tape player (Kasprzak - communism's technology miracle) from the most popular and only music radio chart. We have created this way tapes with mixed music that allowed us not only to learn English but also have a contact with the Western world. Then we exchange the tapes in the school to compare one another music tastes and also hoping to get a new song we didn't mange to record. This was 80-ties way of social sharing.
Things hasn't change drastically since then. Youth still define their identity through music and share it, though there are more powerful and faster ways of doing so, like Mixaloo or MySpace, but the idea behind is still the same. It is about being with others and being like others. When I look back at my teens years and compare them with nowadays teenagers, I must admit I have that feeling that teenagers didn't change. Being teenager is about the same issues today as it was 20 years ago. What's different is that teens today live in the different environment. Environment that is powered by technology and suffers from over-supply of choices and possibilities.
It all made me pretty sentimental and I have created by 80-ties play list - enjoy.
(on the picture you can see my teenager pride - my Kasprzak stereo)
