Transmission 49: Cassette Tapes #2

02/20/16 • 59 min

Looking at past and present uses and abuses of cassette tapes over the last 5 decades. This show includes the sounds of poltergeists, doomsday cults, fake serial killer confessions, tapes from Cassette Store Day 2015, another artist taking the 4 Track 24 hour challenge, as well as the never aired and the rarely heard.
First broadcast on Radio Reverb 97.2FM and DAB in Brighton on 1st November 2015

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Transmission 48: Cassette Tapes #1

The first in a series of shows looking at past and present uses and abuses of the cassette tape format.

TRACKLISTING
Lou Ottens, Inventor Cassette Tape
1991 - Reborn Ice Horn Drexciya - Wavejumper
C.L.A.W.S. - Disko Disko
Ata Kak - Obaa Sima Ste Spandex - We’re all friends here
Hair & Treasure - Good Meconium
Wrong Signals - However, The Joke Became Serious
Dagir Du - Tomb Drifter
HZHA x Grindalf - Pacific Trail
Ellen Zweig - She travelled the landscape
Ice 9 - ‘Untilted’ from Cassette Gazette
Black Spirituals - Mantanzas Dub
Tengui - Kicktrip
Mammane Sani et son Orgue - Bodo
Sufjan Stevens - Blue Bucket of Gold (Outro)
Michael Stearns - Morning
Budal Lardil - Byee Gingara Bushfire Farewell
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
Inbalance 16 - Best Available Technology
(4 track 24) Soundless Mind Eraser - Ferric Dunes (4 Short Wave Radios and Tape Loops)
Palmbomen II - Leo Danzinger
Johnny Brainstorm and the Mindsmears - Creatures from Mars
Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word To Her Son
Blaster Al Ackerman, read by Steve ‘sleaze’ Steele - The man in the green night shirt
Sauna Youth - Negative Obsessions
Graham Dowdall - Light programme

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Transmission 56: 52 Cart Pick Up Vol. 2

52 complete pieces of music in 55 minutes, played from Fidelipac radio cartridges.
Track listing can be found at http://www.currentlyoffair.com/?p=789