25 weeks of mixtapes

The music editor.

While most of my friends love Apple Music or Spotify, I am an avid Soundcloud user.

Soundcloud is a Berlin-based audio platform. The long DJ-sets on the platform have provided the soundtrack to my workdays for years now.

I started a little Soundcloud experiment last spring which consisted of producing a weekly 10-song playlist. Twenty-five weeks later, the weekly digital mixtapes have caught on with some of my friends and provided me with an interesting music time-capsule.

Here’s the first mixtape:

Here’s the most recent one:

A matter of habit

In addition to forcing me to constantly find and organize new tracks, my weekly mixtape also is also a useful demonstration of habit formation.

The weekly mixtapes are easy and fun to do, which is why it is hard to believe that I started the project six months ago. There are so many additional habits that I could have started six months ago which would have made me healthier and happier today.

And there’s no reason why I can’t start these habits now for the payoff next April.