An aerobic remix.

• Author: Walker, Jesse
• Position: Briefly Noted - Brief article

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Years before YouTube, rogue editors were creating collages of curious found footage and calling the results video mixtapes. Fans prized these semilegal movies both for the odd moments that composed them and for the ways those moments were cut up and juxtaposed for horrific or comic effect.

Derrick Beckles has been producing TV Carnage, a series of satiric mixtapes, since 1996. His most recent effort, Let's Work It Out, scrambles years of home fitness programs and related material, mostly from the 1980s, into a cabinet of wonders--a free-associative workout tape populated...