DEEP CUTS. BIG MEMORIES.
THE MIXTAPE
Album worlds, sleeve art, track lists and the people behind the sound.
OPEN A FILE. STAY AWHILE.
Artists. Albums. Your next obsession.
Explore 75 artist profiles and 76 album files across pop, new wave, hip-hop, metal, soul, country and alternative scenes. Follow a song into an artist, then into an album. For Hair Metal, Synth-Pop, New Wave and other editorial 80s mixes with phone links, open the mixtape rack. Toys, crazes and collectibles live in Fad Lab.
Opening the collection...
Album and edition metadata: MusicBrainz. Sleeve artwork: Cover Art Archive, where available. Track lists belong to the linked release edition; artwork rights remain with their owners.
Spotify and Apple Music buttons on a file are generated search links for phone handoff, not hosted audio and not a claim that we matched a specific catalog or playlist ID.
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons include individual creator and license links inside each file. Generic illustrations are original editorial art.