[Protoclown]

Originally Posted by Dole

One C60 cassette is circulated within the group - the object is to fit as many songs on the tape as possible, before sending it on to the second person.
The second person has to manually remove 2 minutes of the tape (the actual, physical tape itself) but re-dub the same track list on to the tape - removing only those parts of each song that are considered superfluous, and do not compromise any of the main, most memorable significant parts or themes of each song.

Once this is done, its passed onto the next person, and they then remove another two minutes, and so on and so on. The tape originally ends up with the person who created it, and they have to judge whether this highly edited version has compromised the spirit of any of the songs in their now highly-edited form.

If they judge it to be a success, ANOTHER, new compilation is started, circulated and gradually edited. The object is to ultimately fit as many entire compilations on to one cassette as possible. On the last one, we managed to fit 14 edited, 30-ish song compilations onto ONE C60 tape- it has to be heard to be believed, its fucking amazing.

I unfortunately wasn't checking the boards much when this tape tree started, or else I would have joined, but I just wanted to say that I read this post of Dole's just now and it made me laugh my fucking ass off.