Tiny Mix Tapes
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Type of site
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Music webzine |
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| Owner | Mr. P |
| Created by | Mr. P |
| Website | tinymixtapes |
| Alexa rank |
 137,715 (January 2016[update]) |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2001 |
| Current status | Active |
Tiny Mix Tapes (also TMT or tinymixtapes) is an online music and film webzine that focuses primarily on new music and related news. In addition to its reviews, it is noted for its subversive, political, and sometimes surreal news, as well as its mixtape generator.
Originally called Tiny Mixtapes Gone to Heaven and hosted on GeoCities, the webzine moved to its current domain in 2001. Tiny Mix Tapes is a featured reviewer on Metacritic.
The writing staff is composed of volunteers who often use pen names (such as Wolfman, Mango Starr, Chizzly St. Claw, and Filmore Mescalito Holmes). The co-founder and editor-in-chief is Minneapolis-resident Marvin Lin (who writes under the name Mr. P). The Music Reviews, Features, News, Film, DeLorean, Cerberus, Automatic Mix Tapes, Comics are edited by Jay, Gumshoe, Squeo, Benjamin Pearson, Keith Kawaii, JSpicer, Trillian, and Pliny the Elder, respectively.
Tiny Mix Tapes offers news, music reviews, movie reviews, and columns. The "DeLorean" section reviews music released before Tiny Mix Tapes began that may no longer be popular, albums that the writer believes are "classic" or influential, or older music that is significant to the writer.
Similarly, "Eureka" consists of reviews highlighted by the site as particularly noteworthy or exciting.
There is also a features section devoted to interviews, articles, fest reviews, as well as a "Live Blog," in which writers review live music shows. In 2009, Tiny Mix Tapes added a columns section.
As of 2008, Tiny Mix Tapes started reviewing films and now has a section devoted to film. This section also includes features on film-makers and other numerous subjects within the film medium.
The Automatic Mix Tape Generator, or AMG, was created to offer two-way communication with the website. Started in 2002, readers may submit a title or the theme for a mixtape, and a group of volunteers (called the "Mix Robots") will compile a track list. Due to the large volume of requests as well as request redundancy, not all requests are filled. The "Mix Robots" produce and submit track lists fulfilling the request as they interpret it. Mixtape track lists are then available on the website. Most of the songs on the mix tapes come from indie or underground bands/musicians. In 2008, Trillian, the AMG editor, was on Talk of the Nation to discuss Valentine's Day mixes.
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