Mix Tapes and DJ Mix Streams:

Mix Tapes and DJ Mixes refer to the same product on our site. Private mixes (old school MixTapes) were made up of copyrighted pop music taken from a listener's collection put on cassette tape. Mixtapes, Mixed-Tapes, Mix Tapes, and DJ Mixes, nowadays, are digital and "blend" from song to song creating an uninterrupted listening experience. They are perfect for social events, background music, outdoor gatherings, exercise routines, driving, relaxing, and even as mental health coping tools. The hard part is avoiding piracy. That's what we do with ours.

Compilation Streams:

Compilations are collections of songs usually put together by a recording label. We're a DJ Mix-producing label, instead of a recording label. We don't make Compilations, which are popular as keepsakes and for many other reasons. Although compilations are popular, we believe non-stop mixes, with uninterrupted and DJ Mixed, timed transitions between songs, are meaningful additions to a listener's collection. Today, Compilations are also known as Playlists.

Phantom Records, General Partnership:

Our services are delivered by a partnership which includes active and passive members. We never list our members because the music industry is complex and partners share a professional courtesy to keep each other's identities private and unpublished, while maintaining complete adoption of all applicable music laws and regulations. The laws chnage so it's not an easy thing to do, which is why the industry is so complicated and the people who are successful, so proud of themsevles.

It is truly worth celebrating when one manages to beecome a music professional in the United States because no one hands out anything from this field, everyone has to have talent or something worthwhile about them or they never last in the US market.

For more than 25 years, we upheld the boundaries of the industry while we scoured Google, studied related cases, ran small focus groups, and researched what works and what does not, what is legal and what is not, and how best to serve a listener's mixtape appetite without consequence. Those efforts came together and now assure a pleasant listening experience along with a secure, online ordering process.

Our Research History:

At Phantom Records, we are a partnership dedicated to researching music sales. We studied physical music formats such as Compact Discs and Cassette Tapes. We also examined DRM-protected digital music sales, including password-protected files stored on small hard drives, like Thumb Drives. For a time, we even invested in DRM origination software to create our own DRM-protected files and test their effectiveness. However, these files didn’t work consistently across all test environments. This led us to conclude that DRM needed to be embedded at both ends of the music-listening experience—either in the software or operating system of the device playing the music, or in the "magic box" streaming music softly in a business environment while customers shopped.

Whatever the approach, we realized that imposing too much security on digital files ruined the experience of owning music (because for many the bar was too high to use the DRM resulting in lost access to their musci collection completely). As a result, we abandoned physical and digital music files altogether. Instead, we embraced streaming and remote playback, diving deeply into the emerging legal landscape that would shape the industry. It took years.

U.S. Intellectual Property Rights:

The United States takes intellectual property—like Mickey Mouse or the shimmering animation above the Disney logo—very seriously. The government aggressively pursues counterfeiters worldwide, and few things vex Congress more than piracy. We understood the risks and avoided making any major moves while Congress was still modifying and releasing incomplete laws. At that time, regulations were still evolving, and the framework for charging for streams on the global market was far from finalized.

So, we studied more. We waited. We studied even more. And we waited again. Finally, when the direction of the industry became clear, we developed a plan to sell digital music—without physical media and without downloadable files.

And here we are: Sales, at last at https://dj-experience.app

Worldwide Copyright Adherence and Sound Recording Clearance:

Making mix playlists amounts to rearranging your music collection so you can listen to it in a different playing order (than your original purchase). Once you buy a CD Album or CD Single on a physical format, you purchase a license to listen to those tracks.

The physical albums and singles have the license somewhere on the product. Digital ones do not (usually). You can copy songs, rearrange songs, or even create new CDs or playlists of your favorite songs using various albums that you own. If you have one read it it will say this.

This is a common practice around the world, that has gotten even bigger, since customers rarely enjoy every song in exactly their original playing order forever. We all make playlists of our favorite songs now.

Our service, online at dj-experience dot app, books, i.e. schedules, digital mixtapes on a web-page calendar and shows the proper fee you will pay for streaming the music. It also lets you schedule more than one block of time, to add them up to how much time you need.

Previously, we used to pick songs you probably already had and "blend them together," at a house party or a live music event, such as a large, corporate BBQ. We were obsessed with creating an uniterrupted listening experience for you.

However, today, and to comply with updated copyright law, and after more than three decades of researching this, we create the mix, then place it on a platform designed to accept it.

We now have our own shop for selling our mixes, following all of the rules of the road, so to speak, at our very own location in cyberspace: dj-experience dot app. Again, that tiny site took, all told, three decades to make.

Ours is brand new, and launched newly, as of 2024. There are others and I link two of them below at the end of this page: BandCamp (headquartered in Oakland, California) and Mixcloud (floating around in the musically diverse, DJ-friendly clouds of the United Kingdom).

In all cases, the platforms charge money to do this. In some cases, you can preview a streaming mixtape or a streaming mix, and many of us use those words, mixtape and mix, interchangeably.

We want you to get used to accessing music via streaming because it's better for the environment and easier for us to provide it lawfully. We recognize it can be a pain to stream if you don't have a reliable connection. For those who do not have access to reliable Internet, or a reliable or fast enough connection, vinyl records, and in some places, cassette tapes, 8-track cassettes, and old school Compact Discs are still available, especially for Vinyl at a Walmart Superstore.

Yet, be wary of what copying music to any physical format means. In many countries it is now against the law to copy music from a physical format to another physical format. Watch your six! As they say! Know the law!

The country of origin, that is, the country where the music was originally recorded, dictates whether it is, or, is not legal to copy it. Don't be another dramatic story, or just stream and save yourself the hassle!

As promised, here are our two favorite mix platforms: BandCamp Pro and Mixcloud Pro. You can go there and listen to our mixes anytime, plus find indie bands and famous DJs:

1. Our DJ-experience® BandCamp Pro profile;
2. Our Mixcloud profile for Las Vegas; and
3. Our Mixcloud DJ-experience® App profile.