MEMORY TAPES - 2ND SEPTEMBER 2011

This week's Memory Taper is Alex Wells, who writes...

"I help run an indie/alt music appreciation society at Warwick Uni called Offbeat and along with gig socials and so on we run twice or thrice termly mixtape swaps.

"The idea is that each person makes a tape (or CD more normally) along a theme of their choosing, provides a tracklisting and some artwork and then comes to the social. We put them all in a box and jumble them round and everyone who put one in takes one out. Then people wander around the social finding whose tape they have and starting conversations about the music on them/the themes and so on.

"We also have prizes for the best theme and best artwork, and a few bonus prizes hidden in the CDs to make it more fun. Some of the highlights have included CDs of film soundtracks interspersed with film samples and white noise, a CD based around the water cycle and a mammoth 'CD' of 80 indie tracks from around the world bound together in an Atlas!

"It's really great fun, both to make and to swap the CDs, and we'll be doing a bunch more next year."

Alex has provided one of the CDs he made for this week on the subject of revision:

1) Plans - Bloc Party

2) Start! - The Jam

3) Books from Boxes - Maximo Park

4) Suspended from Class - Camera Obscura

5) I Know, But I Don't Know - Blondie

6) I'm Bored - Iggy Pop

7) Time Is Running Out - Muse

8) Thinking of Not Going - 1990s

9) Tired - LCD Soundsystem

10) Stress - Justice

11) Abandon Ship - Gallows

12) Now or Never - Mumm-Ra

13) - - Snow Patrol (intended as a silent track)

14) There Goes the Fear - The Doves