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  1. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Oldies #Soul #LowRider #Chicano

    No lie, #EastSideStory remains one of the best bootleg compilation series EVER. In my book, it beats out #KilledByDeath (punk rarity ≠ punk quality) while running neck and neck with #BornBad (Lux & Ivy = great taste). But it's most perfect on #8Track: all those teenage tales of broken hearts, the desperate, welling tears, and of course the soulful falsettos ringing out from your car stereo as you cruise the blvd-of-your-memory one last time.

  2. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Oldies #Soul #LowRider #Chicano

    No lie, #EastSideStory remains one of the best bootleg compilation series EVER. In my book, it beats out #KilledByDeath (punk rarity ≠ punk quality) while running neck and neck with #BornBad (Lux & Ivy = great taste). But it's most perfect on #8Track: all those teenage tales of broken hearts, the desperate, welling tears, and of course the soulful falsettos ringing out from your car stereo as you cruise the blvd-of-your-memory one last time.

  3. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8Track #DeadFormats

    "Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart" (aka The Electronic Jerks of the Mass for the Present Time and Concrete Music for Maurice Béjart) by Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier. Yep that electronic intro to “Jericho Jerk” was sampled by #DJPremier and #DAngelo in “Devil’s Pie” - tho, I expect not from an #8tracktape.

    youtube.com/watch?v=IcrKTm4djV

  4. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8Track #DeadFormats

    "Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart" (aka The Electronic Jerks of the Mass for the Present Time and Concrete Music for Maurice Béjart) by Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier. Yep that electronic intro to “Jericho Jerk” was sampled by #DJPremier and #DAngelo in “Devil’s Pie” - tho, I expect not from an #8tracktape.

    youtube.com/watch?v=IcrKTm4djV

  5. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8Track #DeadFormats

    "Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart" (aka The Electronic Jerks of the Mass for the Present Time and Concrete Music for Maurice Béjart) by Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier. Yep that electronic intro to “Jericho Jerk” was sampled by #DJPremier and #DAngelo in “Devil’s Pie” - tho, I expect not from an #8tracktape.

    youtube.com/watch?v=IcrKTm4djV

  6. #NowPlaying #SouthernRock #KTel #8TrackTuesday

    These days, I'm much more likely to take mine over-easy, if at all. But that don't mean this #8TrackTape isn't a guilty pleasure - in a greasy, cholesterol-heavy sorta way. Jim Dandy to the rescue!

  7. #NowPlaying #SouthernRock #KTel #8TrackTuesday

    These days, I'm much more likely to take mine over-easy, if at all. But that don't mean this #8TrackTape isn't a guilty pleasure - in a greasy, cholesterol-heavy sorta way. Jim Dandy to the rescue!

  8. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Disco #PunkRock

    Nothing special about this space-themed disco-lite #8Track relic on the Gordy label from 1979. EXCEPT: Apollo lead guitarist Larry B. Robinson would go on to

    1) release a very peculiar #Baháʼí influenced homemade electronic LP entitled "Spiritual Technology" under the name OMb at the dawn of the 80s
    2) play lead guitar on a garage-y later 80s #AngrySamoans track entitled "Unhinged"
    3) form #MooseheartFaithStellarGrooveBand with ex-Angry Samoan Todd Homer who sounded like obscure, privately-pressed late 60s psychedelic bands on every one of their dozen+ CDs/EPs
    4) play lead guitar in the LA-based freejazz/freakrock/comedy collective #HollywoodSquaretet in the early 2000s

    Not too many #Motown alumni have gone on to navigate such uncharted musical terrain.

  9. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Disco #PunkRock

    Nothing special about this space-themed disco-lite #8Track relic on the Gordy label from 1979. EXCEPT: Apollo lead guitarist Larry B. Robinson would go on to

    1) release a very peculiar #Baháʼí influenced homemade electronic LP entitled "Spiritual Technology" under the name OMb at the dawn of the 80s
    2) play lead guitar on a garage-y later 80s #AngrySamoans track entitled "Unhinged"
    3) form #MooseheartFaithStellarGrooveBand with ex-Angry Samoan Todd Homer who sounded like obscure, privately-pressed late 60s psychedelic bands on every one of their dozen+ CDs/EPs
    4) play lead guitar in the LA-based freejazz/freakrock/comedy collective #HollywoodSquaretet in the early 2000s

    Not too many #Motown alumni have gone on to navigate such uncharted musical terrain.

  10. #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #NowPlaying #DeadFormats

    The 1974 #8Track reissue of #TheVelvetUnderground's "White Light/White Heat" album - retitled "Archetypes" with enigmatic alternate cover artwork. I wonder who's beneath those motorcycle helmets?

  11. #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #NowPlaying #DeadFormats

    The 1974 #8Track reissue of #TheVelvetUnderground's "White Light/White Heat" album - retitled "Archetypes" with enigmatic alternate cover artwork. I wonder who's beneath those motorcycle helmets?

  12. #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #NowPlaying #DeadFormats

    The 1974 #8Track reissue of #TheVelvetUnderground's "White Light/White Heat" album - retitled "Archetypes" with enigmatic alternate cover artwork. I wonder who's beneath those motorcycle helmets?

  13. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #SoundCollage #ExperimentalMusic #FoundSound

    “This tape was found at a construction site in Novosibirsk, Russia. The title is what appears to be morse code written on the outer surface of the tape encasing. Its authors and origins are unknown.

    Update: this has been released on a Brazilian label called Liga Do Vento Divino, both digitally and as a limited edition #8track cartridge.”

    I take no responsibility.

    fleshpavilions.bandcamp.com/al

  14. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #SoundCollage #ExperimentalMusic #FoundSound

    “This tape was found at a construction site in Novosibirsk, Russia. The title is what appears to be morse code written on the outer surface of the tape encasing. Its authors and origins are unknown.

    Update: this has been released on a Brazilian label called Liga Do Vento Divino, both digitally and as a limited edition #8track cartridge.”

    I take no responsibility.

    fleshpavilions.bandcamp.com/al

  15. #8TrackTuesday #8TrackCartridge #NowReading

    #8TrackMind was a neat zine started in the early 90s by #RussForster, ostensibly to bring together the #8TrackTape community in all it's eccentric, nostalgic, and perverse varieties. For years it was a regular resource for information about 8-tracks, and was the only place that jokes about that dreaded KER-CHUNK! sound could reliably be grokked. The initial run ended in 2000, but a lo-budge film documentary followed, and I understand Russ revived the mag proper a few years back. An entire 1994 issue can be ogled here: archive.org/details/8trackmind

  16. #8TrackTuesday #8TrackCartridge #NowReading

    #8TrackMind was a neat zine started in the early 90s by #RussForster, ostensibly to bring together the #8TrackTape community in all it's eccentric, nostalgic, and perverse varieties. For years it was the only regular resource for information about 8-tracks, and was the only place that jokes about that dreaded KER-CHUNK! sound could reliably be grokked. The initial run ended in 2000, but a lo-budge film documentary followed, and I understand Russ revived the mag proper a few years back. An entire 1994 issue can be ogled here: archive.org/details/8trackmind

  17. #8TrackTuesday #8TrackCartridge #NowReading

    #8TrackMind was a neat zine started in the early 90s by #RussForster, ostensibly to bring together the #8TrackTape community in all it's eccentric, nostalgic, and perverse varieties. For years it was a regular resource for information about 8-tracks, and was the only place that jokes about that dreaded KER-CHUNK! sound could reliably be grokked. The initial run ended in 2000, but a lo-budge film documentary followed, and I understand Russ revived the mag proper a few years back. An entire 1994 issue can be ogled here: archive.org/details/8trackmind

  18. #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    Nope this isn't an #8TrackTape - rather it's a late-60s #2Track rival format that never caught on: the #Playtape. A shorter tape length meant these would only hold abbreviated album or EP-length recordings. I've only ever seen a few in the wild, but Wiki tells me over 3,000 artists once published in this format.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayTape

  19. #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    Nope this isn't an #8TrackTape - rather it's a late-60s #2Track rival format that never caught on: the #Playtape. A shorter tape length meant these would only hold abbreviated album or EP-length recordings. I've only ever seen a few in the wild, but Wiki tells me over 3,000 artists once published in this format.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayTape

  20. #NowPlaying #8TrackCartridge #8TrackTuesday

    In the broad wake of #Deodato's 1973 smash-hit "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)", STAR-PHASE was one of many studio groups (made up of "Tommy, Steve, Carolyn, Ron and Stephanie") who tried to cash in with disco-fied, instrumental versions of sci-fi movie themes from the day. They weren't at all successful and only ever got released on #8TrackTape. This means even today, grizzled hip-hop beat hunters haven't plundered their recordings. Yet.

  21. #NowPlaying #8TrackCartridge #8TrackTuesday

    In the broad wake of #Deodato's 1973 smash-hit "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)", STAR-PHASE was one of many studio groups (made up of "Tommy, Steve, Carolyn, Ron and Stephanie") who tried to cash in with disco-fied, instrumental versions of sci-fi movie themes from the day. They weren't at all successful and only ever got released on #8TrackTape. This means even today, grizzled hip-hop beat hunters haven't plundered their recordings. Yet.

  22. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    It's oddly appropriate that #LouReed would add otherwise unreleased music on to the #8TrackTape release of his Berlin album back in '73. I mean, his Metal Machine Music #8Tracks (particular the Quad version) are some of the few tapes to have regularly fetched higher collector prices for a few decades now.

    But add he did: 23 secs of inexplicable incidental piano/synth grafted ungracefully on the end of the title track "Berlin". Has this ever been reissued? Check it out at the 2:56 mark.

    Happy #8TrackTuesday (and a happy new year) everyone!

    youtube.com/watch?v=jE0VV5v9Y7

  23. #NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

    It's oddly appropriate that #LouReed would add otherwise unreleased music on to the #8TrackTape release of his Berlin album back in '73. I mean, his Metal Machine Music #8Tracks (particular the Quad version) are some of the few tapes to have regularly fetched higher collector prices for a few decades now.

    But add he did: 23 secs of inexplicable incidental piano/synth grafted ungracefully on the end of the title track "Berlin". Has this ever been reissued? Check it out at the 2:56 mark.

    Happy #8TrackTuesday (and a happy new year) everyone!

    youtube.com/watch?v=jE0VV5v9Y7