I needed some solid focus music this weekend; this fit the bill nicely: https://open.spotify.com/album/5fmPy3XmYD0BJKEr86a3Cu?si=O2M-1KBMQ1CipqSOsd25aw > In a healthy state, analog tape is pale brown, the color of the magnetic audio recording contained therein. In 2001, https://pitchfork.com/artists/302-william-basinski/|William Basinski, looking to digitize a collection of older tape loops he’d made out of easy listening music, found that the tape began to flake a bit as it played, like paint peeling. Playing the loops repeatedly, they began to lose their composition as the tape disintegrated. What starts as a snippet of a forlorn brass instrument eventually degraded into a pale imitation, as though he’d produced a composition and then, immediately after, performed its faded memory.
Absolutely cracking mix celebrating 30 years since the first Wu-Tang solo albums https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002814k Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first run of Wu-Tang solo albums.
New genre just dropped: > sam rosenthal - head of projekt records and black tape for a blue girl - released two albums over the past few years of cat purrs overlapping droning synths. incredibly calming shit. > > recently, he released purr24, a collaborative effort of projekt artists making purr-centric tracks. it’s so freaking cool, it’s pwyw for right now, i am not affiliated with projekt or anything, i just love a good concept. https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/purr24