I was in the pub last night, when a heated discussion broke out. It centered around which, with hindsight, were your top 5 albums of the 90’s. The discussion ended with a challenge – to produce by 12am today, a definitive top 5. I've recently been fooling around with Mixwit, so I suggested that not only should each of us produce a list, but that we should also create a digital mixtape of 5 tracks, one from each of our chosen records.

So here's mine...

...and those top 5 albums in order are:

Portishead – Dummy
Autechre – Tri Repeatae
A Guy Called Gerald – Black Secret Technology
Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy
Weezer – Weezer

Mixwit is powered by Seeqpod, a music search and streaming service which indexes any mp3s it finds publicly available on the web. The Mixwit service itself is in the very early stages of beta, and while it's definitely a bit ropey, it's simple and fun. There's also the problem that none of the artists whose tracks are currently available on Seeqpod will ever see any money for their use. Assuming these legal issues get ironed out, however, I reckon the mixtape has a bright future online. It gets back to the heart of why people love music and why they want to share it with their friends.