Join us on February 5th to experience an art installation built around the nostalgia of the burned CD. 5,000+ bootleg mixtape CDs. Handwritten track lists. Scratched cases. Early Photoshop artwork. Analog listening. A whole era of hip-hop culture sitting in one place.
Feb 5th, Mexico City
3 song performance and DJ blackpower set by
@mikelikesrap
DJ set by
@ellahussle
RSVP link in bio
Opening
6-9 pm @ Hule
Address - Av Michoacán 75
Afterparty
9 pm - 2 am @ Balagan
Address - Calle Gral. Prim 66C Juárez
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Powered by
@newideacorp ,
@sukai.cdmx @hule.mx ,
@balagan.mx @studiopuja
Curated by
Ladin Awad
@niidal
Tanima Mehrotra
@bytanima
Anthony Hilliard
@antsoulo
Before streaming algorithms decided what we listened to, mixtapes were how music actually moved. They lived in basements and bodegas, got sold out of car trunks, sat on barber shop counters. People made them for each other. They weren’t just products, they were also conversations. They told you who someone was, what their city sounded like, what mattered right now. Handmade meant something. Regional identity meant something. When a CD got passed around, it wore down. It accumulated scratches and writing. It became an object with a history.
Opening night at
@hule.mx invites you to engage with the material, CD’s sprawled on the walls, stations set up for deep listening, and the opportunity to dig through the collection. This isn’t a trip down memory lane - this is a hard look at what we traded away.
Built around the afterlives of the mixtape, the after party
@balagan.cdmx will give life to the archive through intention and performance. Tracing how music moved hand to hand - and how it continues to reverberate today.
Flyer by
@callmesabla 
