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Ok then everyone who signed up should have a mixtape now, if not then send me a message as I must've missed you or forgot to resend you your link if you had problems downloading. Also to my mixtape maker, I've listened to it once and have to say it's awesome! I'll have a proper review for you by tomorrow or Wednesday but so far I'm loving it!

It means you haven't been included yet. How being reserves works is when someone doesn't get a mixtape at all rather than just late. You'll get a tape in return though in that situation. But maybe when someone else has done their original review they might want to do another one and then you'll get a tape to review too. For those who uploaded their mixtapes to be downloaded via either mediafire or rapidshare, people are having trouble being allowed to download them. It simply just won't give the option to do so. Can those who did upload their tapes using one of those sites use a different one please? Dropbox seems to be the best and easiest bet from what I can see.

Right then, for everyone that's submitted their mixtapes on time should have them now, unfortunately a few people haven't, I have messaged them but got no response yet. But for everyone else, enjoy your mixtapes and let the reviews begin! :D

Yep, I have yours, just waiting on four more people to send their tapes in and I'll message them later to remind them

Thanks, I forgot to say it so it's my bad :)

Great! Just a reminder too because some haven't, you also have to send me the tracklist too, so if you haven't then please do so :)

Good shtuff! :)

That's cool, but as it's a rule that I know you'll know, you won't get the tape made for you until you've submitted your own.

Well that's ok, as long as there's a reason and people just don't bother to say why they won't meet the deadline :)

Just a heads up that it's one day and four hours until the deadline and there's still 8 people yet to submit their mixtapes. So those who haven't, they know who they are, you've not got much time to get them in now.

Couldn't agree more. It's also the kind of album they tried to make during the making of MX, remember they did scrap an album that was almost done before starting over again. Just like when MX did come out, it divided opinion and for me I didn't like it bar a couple of tracks. Whereas now I'm loving GS, it's giving us a glimpse at the Coldplay we all fell in love with when Parachutes came out. As someone who is a journalist too, it is easier to crack a joke about the likes of Coldplay because that's going to go down better with your readers, not that I would. I'm not reviewing the album but I know the person who is for the site I'm with is giving it a good one so far. The most important thing though, isn't whether the band are happy with it or that the critics give it good reviews, it's what you think of it, nothing else should be matter to you apart from your own opinion on the album.

Well yeah, I paired everyone up but in no particular order like, I think though after you saying that, that I made it more difficult than it needed to be haha. And no worries, at least you're giving the thread a heads up, better than keeping people in the dark and you've got until Sunday (I think around midday based on where you are) if you're going to be on time. Hope you're better soon! :)

Cork's Red FM in Ireland are playing the album in full ahead of the Irish release tomorrow. Online stream quality isn't great but still cool to hear it in full on the radio :D http://www.redfm.ie/player/

It sorted itself out in the end as the sign-up deadline passed with an even number of participants, but since you've answered and I'm curious how would that still work out though? Because if there's an uneven number of participants, then that'd mean not everyone's able to be paired up. You can go on to the reserve list, which means if someone doesn't submit their mixtape then you'll get to give your mixtape to the person the unsubmitted one was intended for and you'll also get the mixtape that was intended for that person to review too. Of course you can!

I'm willing to give any genre a try but my favourite stuff is along the lines of Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Of Monsters and Men, The National and other indie bands. So don't hold back and give me some new music to fill up my iPod please! :D

Everyone's been messaged now with who they're making a mixtape for, so have fun and be sure to send me the link to your mixtapes so I can pass them on. The deadline's on May 18th to send them to me :)

Out of curiosity, mainly aimed at someone who has hosted the exchange before, there's an odd number of people signed up. How do I deal with that when I pair us all up shortly?

No pressure… Haha :)

:( That's a shame

Yep, I'll be sending out everyone their mixtape partner tonight and you'll have until May 18th (two weeks) to send me the link of your tape. Then from 23:59 on the 18th I'll start sending out the mixtapes

Well there's one more day for signing up. People have until 23:59 tomorrow UK & Irish time to sign up! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Next clue is up and I think I figured it out for those in London :) Go to the British Library Center for Conservation and look for a book called Ghost Stories. Possibly by Sir Stamford Raffles

Preferably as MP3 files put into a folder and compressed but make sure that all the info of the songs and artists you choose is erased. You can give them new names, put them in any order, create a theme, basically do what you want as long as it doesn't give away who the artist and the song is! Take a look at previous Mixtape Exchange threads for reference, I know Mixtape Exchange #16 is only a few posts down from the top in this section.

I see what you did there :awesome:

I guess we will :D I think it will but maybe not to the extent that MX did, only because I think this album won't be as mainstream as MX. Always In My Head is in my head at the moment, love it :D