Ella, I’m sorry I couldn’t contain myself. This grew into a 3-sided tape.Contents, artists and song titles withheld for the sake of surprise. I will never ask you questions like “Did you listen yet?” because life is busy enough. This tape is intended to be enjoyed as “time out”, not as a fulfillment of a […]
Blockbusters: The Bestselling Albums Of All Time Cynicism is very easy. You risk very little by dismissing something as trash. Enthusiasm, on the other hand, is a risk, and an act of vulnerability. It only takes one sneer or a scoff to introduce humiliation into the equation. Cynicism is a defence mechanism used to minimise […]
Released on cassette for recipient Side A Side B
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Two of my best friends got married last night and I was tasked with providing an hour of music for the reception party. This is the result. Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride (intro: excerpt from the movie The Wild Angels) Prince – Kiss Fatboy Slim / Jefferson Airplane – Praise You / Somebody To Love […]
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I’m not a betting man, but I’m willing to wager my left hand that fewer than 1% of the people reading this have heard of Thomas D’Urfey. I hadn’t either until I googled him four minutes ago, and I still had to check the spelling twice before I typed it above. He was a songwriter […]
Recently my beloved long-suffering external hard drive packed in, thus deleting my entire collection of hoarded music and videos. This tape was made in the initial stages of rebuilding my digital libraries. As always, it’s some wobbly reflection of my current internal narratives. Some stroppy paranoid hip-hop, some celestial jazz, some spooky atmopsheric country, and […]
I finally found a way of digitizing cassette tapes on my current set-up. The audio file below is a complete rip of an educational tape I used to fall asleep to when I was a child. I listened so often across so many years that I can remember almost everything from it by heart, over […]
I’m not entirely sure what this is. Might be a mixtape, might be some kind of composite half-hour song. Whatever it is, I think I want it to be public. Dedicated to the memory of Charles Kellogg and to the enduring good health of Daniel Cwirka. Elements used:– Charles Kellogg – His Complete Issued Recordings, […]
Lost and Safe 