Remember tapes? The panic when they got so tangled up that it seemed like there was no hope to recover the songs? The satisfaction of spooling with the help of a pencil? The rush from recording something on the radio – and the resulting mixtapes with the tail of a presenter’s voice on them? Maybe that’s just us, but these memories put a smile on our faces.
The best part of the existence of cassette tapes was, surely, making someone – anyone – a mixtape. Groove is in the Heart, the latest microplay by the Guardian and the Royal Court, made as part of the Off the Page series, captures the magic in the act of crafting a mixtape, a physical song container that stands the test of time.
Join us in getting into a retro mindset and reminiscing about our best mixtape stories and anecdotes. Tell us about them in the comment thread below and, if you have them around the house, dust them off and share your pictures with us by clicking on the blue “Contribute” buttons. Who knows, maybe we’ll end up with a big collective Guardian readers’ nostalgia playlist.
