Mix Tape (2011)

Name: Mix Tape
Director: Jeroen Houben
Released: 2011-06-01
Duration: 10 min
Cast: Liliana de Vries, Marwan Kenzari, Vivienne Tung, Maja Westerveld

Director: Jeroen Houben

Cast: Liliana de Vries, Marwan Kenzari, Vivienne Tung, Maja Westerveld

Runtime10 min

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Spanish exchange student Lily is unable to settle down in the crowded city of Amsterdam. The mix tapes she records for herself drown out the sound of the city, yet her social isolation remains. When she finds out about a musician living in the same building, she reaches out.

Critical Reception & Ratings

Mix Tape is a 2011 Spanish drama film directed by Jeroen Houben that has received little critical attention. The film follows a Spanish exchange student named Lily as she struggles with isolation and loneliness in the crowded city of Amsterdam. While the film's ratings on platforms like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes are not widely available, it appears to be a modestly received independent production.

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In the modern music industry, a mixtape is a musical project, typically with looser constraints than that of an album or extended play. Unlike the traditional album or extended play, mixtapes are labeled as laid-back projects that allow artists more creative freedom and less commercial pressure. The term has significantly increased in popularity over the years due to high-profile artists marketing their projects as such. Prior to the decline of physical media, mixtapes were defined as homemade compilations of music played through a cassette tape, CD, or digital playlist and became significant in hip-hop culture. The songs were typically beatmatched and consisted of seamless transitions at their beginnings and endings with fades or abrupt edits. It was then defined as relatively any musical project by an up-and-coming artist. Now, mixtapes have become a label of promotion and marketing for album-like projects. Dictionary.com writes that "the line between an album and a mixtape can be blurry", and that streaming services rely on the artist to make that determination.