varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) is a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology. As varia members, we maintain and facilitate a collective infrastructure from which we generate questions, opinions, modifications, help and action. We work with free software, organise events and collaborate in different constellations. varia figures things out as they go, tries to keep notes, is multilingual and can be contacted at info[@]varia.zone.
Soundcloud has narrowly avoided bankruptcy. The online platform where mixes are shared and genres such as 'soundcloud rap' emerged is in dire straits. In this short workshop we will look at rogue archival practices, help you download all your mixes and saved collcetions using Free Software tools and finally make and publish a mixtape together.