Click to download: Tale of the (mix)tapes

Free online mixtapes have gone from teasers to titans, says Chris Salmon in his weekly web roundupLast week, US music industry bible Billboard ran an article on the importance of free mixtapes in the world of urban music. As it pointed out, rap and R&B artists are now almost expected to precede a studio album with a free, downloadable collection of songs. The title "mixtape" is a hangover from a time when C90s were handed around the streets of New York, but the quality of production and material...

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