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I'm impressed by the effort he put into this.

But I can't find anything older then 2002. I mean the most interesting times where anything before, especially the 80s & 90s. Did I miss something or this this just a huge load of more or less modern mix tapes leaving out all the old gold nuggets from the good times ?

I understand that these tapes are scraped from torrents which might be the reason that most analogue cassettes are missing or maybe the very old tapes are burried in the rest of the upload queue?

I'm currently looking at this ordered version: https://archive.org/details/hiphopmixtapes?&sort=date

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I'm listening to this blast from my past: https://archive.org/download/Kool_DJ_Red_Alert_-_Radio_Mix_9...

Even has Scott La Rock up front...

How did you find that? I was going to echo the GP, about 2002 being the earliest visible through the date sort (so far).

I'd imagine this is going to be more modernish stuff when things were starting to get distributed online, like slightly-post Napster days. There are definitely cassette mixtapes available via torrent but there just aren't that many due to the initial nature of the medium and distribution.

Jason Scott here.

Most of the comments don't need me, but I did want to address this. I've been ingesting tapes daily by the hundreds for the past week, and it's natural that the collection skews towards the new, since I can get those at arm's reach, singly, with little (relative) effort. I've still got a way to go with the 17,000 tapes I have information on (again, pretty much all post-2000) and then I will either find older sources, or will be contacted by people with caches of older sources.

So, I'd say, "give it time", and remind the people who are not happy that Internet Archive is a library/archive and can only move as fast as it can. But it does move.

Yes, I was a bit disappointed by the selection. Very modern hip hop and kind of a grab bag of pop hop.

Yeah I was listening to hip hop mix tapes in the mid-1980s...I was hoping to see real old school.

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