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Kamal Sabran - Solitude for Broken Signals (2026)

https://spacegambusexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/solitude-for-broken-signals

#music #experimental #avantgarde #electronic #modularsynth #reeltoreel #spacegambusexperiment #kamalsabran

Kamal Sabran - INNER SOUNDCHECK (2026)

https://spacegambusexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/inner-soundcheck

#music #experimental #avantgarde #electronic #modularsynth #reeltoreel #spacegambusexperiment #kamalsabran

I love the 4 track icon on the Beethoven tape in the middle.
#reelToReel #physicalMedia #magnetics

This mid century reel to real tape recorder had been at the local goodwill for months, calling to me. I finally persuaded my husband that it belongs in our house, so here it finally is! We have NO idea if it still works, we'll worry about that later 😁

#midcentury #oldschool #oldschoolcool #reeltoreel #taperecorder #grundig #grundigreporter #1950s #vintage #vintageaudioequipment

Nebel lang – 274
#Ambient #IshmaelCormack #acoustic #drifting #givernywelsch #improvisation #impulse #jazz #magnetictape #nannespringer #photography #piano #print #reeltoreel #triptych #BadHonnef
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://nebellang.bandcamp.com/album/274

I checked the azimuth with the same 16kHz signal and the oscilloscope and the phases are rock solid with the fixed roller rather the ball bearing in the left tape guide. That is a clear win for the factory configuration. #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

I checked the azimuth with the same 16kHz signal and the oscilloscope and the phases are rock solid with the fixed roller rather the ball bearing in the left tape guide. That is a clear win for the factory configuration. #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

I checked the azimuth with the same 16kHz signal and the oscilloscope and the phases are rock solid with the fixed roller rather the ball bearing in the left tape guide. That is a clear win for the factory configuration. #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

I checked the azimuth with the same 16kHz signal and the oscilloscope and the phases are rock solid with the fixed roller rather the ball bearing in the left tape guide. That is a clear win for the factory configuration. #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

I checked the azimuth with the same 16kHz signal and the oscilloscope and the phases are rock solid with the fixed roller rather the ball bearing in the left tape guide. That is a clear win for the factory configuration. #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

Hi to all, I updated the page about the #RevoxB77 mk II on my home site. I studyed the effect of the popular mod that consists in replacing the original fixed roller on the right tape guide with a ball bearing. The results seem marginally better with the original factory configuration, though.

http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=varie/revoxb77/revoxb77.inc#bearing

#AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

Hi to all, I updated the page about the #RevoxB77 mk II on my home site. I studyed the effect of the popular mod that consists in replacing the original fixed roller on the right tape guide with a ball bearing. The results seem marginally better with the original factory configuration, though.

http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=varie/revoxb77/revoxb77.inc#bearing

#AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

Hi to all, I updated the page about the #RevoxB77 mk II on my home site. I studyed the effect of the popular mod that consists in replacing the original fixed roller on the right tape guide with a ball bearing. The results seem marginally better with the original factory configuration, though.

http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=varie/revoxb77/revoxb77.inc#bearing

#AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

Hi to all, I updated the page about the #RevoxB77 mk II on my home site. I studyed the effect of the popular mod that consists in replacing the original fixed roller on the right tape guide with a ball bearing. The results seem marginally better with the original factory configuration, though.

http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=varie/revoxb77/revoxb77.inc#bearing

#AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

Hi to all, I updated the page about the #RevoxB77 mk II on my home site. I studyed the effect of the popular mod that consists in replacing the original fixed roller on the right tape guide with a ball bearing. The results seem marginally better with the original factory configuration, though.

http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=varie/revoxb77/revoxb77.inc#bearing

#AnalogAudio #MagneticRecording #ReelToReel #HiFi #Tape

Kamal Sabran - Tape Loop Therapy (2025)

https://spacegambusexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/tape-loop-therapy

#music #kamalsabran #experimental #electronic #analog #avantgarde #glitch #modularsynth #reeltoreel #spacegambusexperiment #ipoh #malaysia

Kamal Sabran - Cat Drum Chaos (2022)

https://spacegambusexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/cat-drum-chaos

#music #kamalsabran #experimental #electronic #avantgarde #drums #glitch #modularsynth #reeltoreel #spacegambusexperiment #ipoh #malaysia

I used my reel to reel recorder as a tape delay in Soupçons, you can hear it in the drum machine track at the very beginning (further processed via a bandpass filter driven almost to self oscillate and a chorus). I created a tape loop that was quite flimsy and the imperfections added a lot to the character 😍#ReelToReel #MusicProduction #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77

I used my reel to reel recorder as a tape delay in Soupçons, you can hear it in the drum machine track at the very beginning (further processed via a bandpass filter driven almost to self oscillate and a chorus). I created a tape loop that was quite flimsy and the imperfections added a lot to the character 😍#ReelToReel #MusicProduction #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77

I used my reel to reel recorder as a tape delay in Soupçons, you can hear it in the drum machine track at the very beginning (further processed via a bandpass filter driven almost to self oscillate and a chorus). I created a tape loop that was quite flimsy and the imperfections added a lot to the character 😍#ReelToReel #MusicProduction #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77

I used my reel to reel recorder as a tape delay in Soupçons, you can hear it in the drum machine track at the very beginning (further processed via a bandpass filter driven almost to self oscillate and a chorus). I created a tape loop that was quite flimsy and the imperfections added a lot to the character 😍#ReelToReel #MusicProduction #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77

I used my reel to reel recorder as a tape delay in Soupçons, you can hear it in the drum machine track at the very beginning (further processed via a bandpass filter driven almost to self oscillate and a chorus). I created a tape loop that was quite flimsy and the imperfections added a lot to the character 😍#ReelToReel #MusicProduction #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77

If you are curious to listen to the difference, here is Réminescence bounced back from the #ReelToReel recorder. It is a mp3, unfortunately, but you can compare with a previous toot, that included the digitally produced file. #Music #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77 #MastoArt #MastoMusic With the #dbx type I noise reduction active, the dynamic range approaches the 90dB 😳

If you are curious to listen to the difference, here is Réminescence bounced back from the #ReelToReel recorder. It is a mp3, unfortunately, but you can compare with a previous toot, that included the digitally produced file. #Music #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77 #MastoArt #MastoMusic With the #dbx type I noise reduction active, the dynamic range approaches the 90dB 😳

If you are curious to listen to the difference, here is Réminescence bounced back from the #ReelToReel recorder. It is a mp3, unfortunately, but you can compare with a previous toot, that included the digitally produced file. #Music #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77 #MastoArt #MastoMusic With the #dbx type I noise reduction active, the dynamic range approaches the 90dB 😳

If you are curious to listen to the difference, here is Réminescence bounced back from the #ReelToReel recorder. It is a mp3, unfortunately, but you can compare with a previous toot, that included the digitally produced file. #Music #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77 #MastoArt #MastoMusic With the #dbx type I noise reduction active, the dynamic range approaches the 90dB 😳

If you are curious to listen to the difference, here is Réminescence bounced back from the #ReelToReel recorder. It is a mp3, unfortunately, but you can compare with a previous toot, that included the digitally produced file. #Music #AnalogAudio #RevoxB77 #MastoArt #MastoMusic With the #dbx type I noise reduction active, the dynamic range approaches the 90dB 😳

And since I like a lot to have some physical medium in my hands when I finish the production of a new piece of #music, I transferred Réminescence on tape au 15 ips with dbx type I. I had to install a new reel on a #LPR90 pancake 🧐 I like working with the recorder for a final bounce, even if most of my production chain is digital. #ReelToReel #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio

And since I like a lot to have some physical medium in my hands when I finish the production of a new piece of #music, I transferred Réminescence on tape au 15 ips with dbx type I. I had to install a new reel on a #LPR90 pancake 🧐 I like working with the recorder for a final bounce, even if most of my production chain is digital. #ReelToReel #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio

And since I like a lot to have some physical medium in my hands when I finish the production of a new piece of #music, I transferred Réminescence on tape au 15 ips with dbx type I. I had to install a new reel on a #LPR90 pancake 🧐 I like working with the recorder for a final bounce, even if most of my production chain is digital. #ReelToReel #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio

And since I like a lot to have some physical medium in my hands when I finish the production of a new piece of #music, I transferred Réminescence on tape au 15 ips with dbx type I. I had to install a new reel on a #LPR90 pancake 🧐 I like working with the recorder for a final bounce, even if most of my production chain is digital. #ReelToReel #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio

And since I like a lot to have some physical medium in my hands when I finish the production of a new piece of #music, I transferred Réminescence on tape au 15 ips with dbx type I. I had to install a new reel on a #LPR90 pancake 🧐 I like working with the recorder for a final bounce, even if most of my production chain is digital. #ReelToReel #RevoxB77 #AnalogAudio

"Moment in Time" - reel-to-reel tape loop installation by @tisa_world (Tisa Neža Herlec) at BRUTUS Rotterdam, 11th July 2021

[moving images from high-speed still photographs}

https://spectra.video/w/hqimUc3bYShQVgtyy1gwrv

full archive: https://archive.org/details/moving-image-zines-rdam?sort=-date

#audio #soundinstallation #reeltoreel #tapeloop

I bouced all my New Star album on a #RevoxB77 mk II reel to reel recorder at 15 ips and created a #YouTube video.
If you like this kind of things, have a look at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYFKCRBrnVA #music #indiemusic #ReelToReel #MastoArt #MastoMusic #Synth #SM900

smoke signals / nerduban. 1968 [full album • double lp • analog psych noir rock]

Unearthed from a forgotten reel-to-reel tape labeled “Nerduban – Violet Lantern Sessions.”

This 30-track double LP was tracked in Spring 1968 at The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago — a nocturnal journey of analog tremolo guitars, swirling Farfisa organs, brushed snares, modal jazz fragments, and hypnotic noir psychedelia. -Captured straight to mono tape — no edits, no overdubs. -All bleed, hiss, and hum left intact. -Restored carefully from decayed tape and analog drift. – Let the echo pull you in.
Double LP – Reel-to-Reel Archive Edition

🎵 FULL TRACKLIST:

• REEL A – Side One

00:00:00 — 1. Signal in the Dust
00:02:22 — 2. The Light Stays On
00:07:02 — 3. Down from the Rooftop
00:11:54 — 4. She Spoke in Tremolo
00:15:54 — 5. Only the Drums Remember
00:19:43 — 6. Room Full of Nothing
00:23:27 — 7. Half a Cigarette
00:27:20 — 8. Ash on the Snare

• REEL A – Side Two

00:30:03 — 9. Ceiling Fan Waltz
00:33:17 — 10. Farfisa Lullaby
00:36:52 — 11. The Back Door Swings
00:40:01 — 12. No One Said Goodbye
00:43:09 — 13. Velour Transmission
00:45:42 — 14. Crying Through the Spring Tank
00:48:31 — 15. Don’t Wake the Light

• REEL B – Side Three

00:51:20 — 16. Dust Tape Bloom
00:57:00 — 17. Violet Matches
00:59:44 — 18. Flicker Hour
01:04:14 — 19. Echo Static Love Song
01:07:03 — 20. Ashtray Weather
01:10:43 — 21. Mirage in 7/4
01:15:58 — 22. Midnight Is a Window
01:20:02 — 23. Farfisa of Babylon

• REEL B – Side Four

01:23:52 — 24. Ghosts Hum in B Minor
01:28:12 — 25. She Left Before the Downbeat
01:32:29 — 26. Tape Deck Gospel
01:36:14 — 27. No Key, Just Room Tone
01:40:44 — 28. Amp Sleeps with One Eye Open
01:44:58 — 29. Last Call at the Violet Lantern
01:48:23 — 30. Smoke Signals (Title Track)

——Recorded: Spring 1968. Location: The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago 🛠️ Format: Mono • Tape-Saturated • Raw Analog Mix. Restored by: Nerduban Archive Circle

LINER NOTES: From the inner sleeve of the 1968 Violet Lantern pressing: “Nerduban never played for the crowd. They played for the shadows in the room.”

Recorded in the spring of 1968 inside the dim-lit rehearsal chamber of Chicago’s Violet Lantern Club, Smoke Signals captures a moment that feels both ancient and eerily current. This isn’t music made for the radio, but for the tape deck of a forgotten basement — where echo swirls, tremolo pulses, and stories never find their endings. Every hiss you hear is real. Every amp buzz, every tape drift, every ghost in the left channel — it all stayed. No edits. No second takes. This was Nerduban at their most honest: ambient, abstract, moody, raw. With analog equipment humming just past the point of breakdown, they mapped out a noir-psychedelic terrain that sways between modal jazz and smoke-drenched rock séance. You don’t listen to this record — you drift through it. — W. K. HEINGART Archivist & Engineer Nerduban Archive Circle, 2025 

#PsychedelicRock #NoirRock #1960sRock #AnalogTape #Nerduban #SmokeSignals1968 #LostAlbum #FarfisaOrgan #TremoloGuitar #MonoMix #ReelToReel

#1960sRock #1968 #abstract #Ambient #analog #analogPsych #analogPsychNoirRock #AnalogTape #doubleLp #Farfisa #FarfisaOrgans #FarfisaOrgan #fullAlbum #HKHeingart #jazz #jazzFragments #LostAlbum #mono #monoRecording #MonoMix #moody #music #musica #Nerduban #NerdubanArchive #NerdubanArchiveCircle #noir #noirPsychedelia #noirRock #NoirRock #psychedelia #PsychedelicRock #RAW #rawAnalog #recording #reelToReel #reelToReelTape #ReelToReel #restoredRecording #SmokeSignals1968 #sound #SouthSideChicago #tape #TremoloGuitar #VioletLantern

nerduban – smoke signals (1968) [full album • double lp • analog psych noir rock]

Unearthed from a forgotten reel-to-reel tape labeled “Nerduban – Violet Lantern Sessions.”

This 30-track double LP was tracked in Spring 1968 at The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago — a nocturnal journey of analog tremolo guitars, swirling Farfisa organs, brushed snares, modal jazz fragments, and hypnotic noir psychedelia. -Captured straight to mono tape — no edits, no overdubs. -All bleed, hiss, and hum left intact. -Restored carefully from decayed tape and analog drift. – Let the echo pull you in.
Double LP – Reel-to-Reel Archive Edition

🎵 FULL TRACKLIST:

• REEL A – Side One

00:00:00 — 1. Signal in the Dust
00:02:22 — 2. The Light Stays On
00:07:02 — 3. Down from the Rooftop
00:11:54 — 4. She Spoke in Tremolo
00:15:54 — 5. Only the Drums Remember
00:19:43 — 6. Room Full of Nothing
00:23:27 — 7. Half a Cigarette
00:27:20 — 8. Ash on the Snare

• REEL A – Side Two

00:30:03 — 9. Ceiling Fan Waltz
00:33:17 — 10. Farfisa Lullaby
00:36:52 — 11. The Back Door Swings
00:40:01 — 12. No One Said Goodbye
00:43:09 — 13. Velour Transmission
00:45:42 — 14. Crying Through the Spring Tank
00:48:31 — 15. Don’t Wake the Light

• REEL B – Side Three

00:51:20 — 16. Dust Tape Bloom
00:57:00 — 17. Violet Matches
00:59:44 — 18. Flicker Hour
01:04:14 — 19. Echo Static Love Song
01:07:03 — 20. Ashtray Weather
01:10:43 — 21. Mirage in 7/4
01:15:58 — 22. Midnight Is a Window
01:20:02 — 23. Farfisa of Babylon

• REEL B – Side Four

01:23:52 — 24. Ghosts Hum in B Minor
01:28:12 — 25. She Left Before the Downbeat
01:32:29 — 26. Tape Deck Gospel
01:36:14 — 27. No Key, Just Room Tone
01:40:44 — 28. Amp Sleeps with One Eye Open
01:44:58 — 29. Last Call at the Violet Lantern
01:48:23 — 30. Smoke Signals (Title Track)

——Recorded: Spring 1968. Location: The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago 🛠️ Format: Mono • Tape-Saturated • Raw Analog Mix. Restored by: Nerduban Archive Circle

LINER NOTES: From the inner sleeve of the 1968 Violet Lantern pressing: “Nerduban never played for the crowd. They played for the shadows in the room.”

Recorded in the spring of 1968 inside the dim-lit rehearsal chamber of Chicago’s Violet Lantern Club, Smoke Signals captures a moment that feels both ancient and eerily current. This isn’t music made for the radio, but for the tape deck of a forgotten basement — where echo swirls, tremolo pulses, and stories never find their endings. Every hiss you hear is real. Every amp buzz, every tape drift, every ghost in the left channel — it all stayed. No edits. No second takes. This was Nerduban at their most honest: ambient, abstract, moody, raw. With analog equipment humming just past the point of breakdown, they mapped out a noir-psychedelic terrain that sways between modal jazz and smoke-drenched rock séance. You don’t listen to this record — you drift through it. — W. K. HEINGART Archivist & Engineer Nerduban Archive Circle, 2025 

#PsychedelicRock #NoirRock #1960sRock #AnalogTape #Nerduban #SmokeSignals1968 #LostAlbum #FarfisaOrgan #TremoloGuitar #MonoMix #ReelToReel

#1960sRock #1968 #abstract #Ambient #analog #AnalogTape #doubleLp #Farfisa #FarfisaOrgans #FarfisaOrgan #HKHeingart #jazz #jazzFragments #LostAlbum #mono #monoRecording #MonoMix #moody #music #musica #Nerduban #NerdubanArchive #NerdubanArchiveCircle #noirPsychedelia #NoirRock #psychedelia #PsychedelicRock #RAW #rawAnalog #recording #reelToReel #reelToReelTape #ReelToReel #restoredRecording #SmokeSignals1968 #sound #SouthSideChicago #tape #TremoloGuitar #VioletLantern

smoke signals / nerduban. 1968 [full album • double lp • analog psych noir rock]

Unearthed from a forgotten reel-to-reel tape labeled “Nerduban – Violet Lantern Sessions.”

This 30-track double LP was tracked in Spring 1968 at The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago — a nocturnal journey of analog tremolo guitars, swirling Farfisa organs, brushed snares, modal jazz fragments, and hypnotic noir psychedelia. -Captured straight to mono tape — no edits, no overdubs. -All bleed, hiss, and hum left intact. -Restored carefully from decayed tape and analog drift. – Let the echo pull you in.
Double LP – Reel-to-Reel Archive Edition

🎵 FULL TRACKLIST:

• REEL A – Side One

00:00:00 — 1. Signal in the Dust
00:02:22 — 2. The Light Stays On
00:07:02 — 3. Down from the Rooftop
00:11:54 — 4. She Spoke in Tremolo
00:15:54 — 5. Only the Drums Remember
00:19:43 — 6. Room Full of Nothing
00:23:27 — 7. Half a Cigarette
00:27:20 — 8. Ash on the Snare

• REEL A – Side Two

00:30:03 — 9. Ceiling Fan Waltz
00:33:17 — 10. Farfisa Lullaby
00:36:52 — 11. The Back Door Swings
00:40:01 — 12. No One Said Goodbye
00:43:09 — 13. Velour Transmission
00:45:42 — 14. Crying Through the Spring Tank
00:48:31 — 15. Don’t Wake the Light

• REEL B – Side Three

00:51:20 — 16. Dust Tape Bloom
00:57:00 — 17. Violet Matches
00:59:44 — 18. Flicker Hour
01:04:14 — 19. Echo Static Love Song
01:07:03 — 20. Ashtray Weather
01:10:43 — 21. Mirage in 7/4
01:15:58 — 22. Midnight Is a Window
01:20:02 — 23. Farfisa of Babylon

• REEL B – Side Four

01:23:52 — 24. Ghosts Hum in B Minor
01:28:12 — 25. She Left Before the Downbeat
01:32:29 — 26. Tape Deck Gospel
01:36:14 — 27. No Key, Just Room Tone
01:40:44 — 28. Amp Sleeps with One Eye Open
01:44:58 — 29. Last Call at the Violet Lantern
01:48:23 — 30. Smoke Signals (Title Track)

——Recorded: Spring 1968. Location: The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago 🛠️ Format: Mono • Tape-Saturated • Raw Analog Mix. Restored by: Nerduban Archive Circle

LINER NOTES: From the inner sleeve of the 1968 Violet Lantern pressing: “Nerduban never played for the crowd. They played for the shadows in the room.”

Recorded in the spring of 1968 inside the dim-lit rehearsal chamber of Chicago’s Violet Lantern Club, Smoke Signals captures a moment that feels both ancient and eerily current. This isn’t music made for the radio, but for the tape deck of a forgotten basement — where echo swirls, tremolo pulses, and stories never find their endings. Every hiss you hear is real. Every amp buzz, every tape drift, every ghost in the left channel — it all stayed. No edits. No second takes. This was Nerduban at their most honest: ambient, abstract, moody, raw. With analog equipment humming just past the point of breakdown, they mapped out a noir-psychedelic terrain that sways between modal jazz and smoke-drenched rock séance. You don’t listen to this record — you drift through it. — W. K. HEINGART Archivist & Engineer Nerduban Archive Circle, 2025 

#PsychedelicRock #NoirRock #1960sRock #AnalogTape #Nerduban #SmokeSignals1968 #LostAlbum #FarfisaOrgan #TremoloGuitar #MonoMix #ReelToReel

#1960sRock #1968 #abstract #Ambient #analog #analogPsych #analogPsychNoirRock #AnalogTape #doubleLp #Farfisa #FarfisaOrgans #FarfisaOrgan #fullAlbum #HKHeingart #jazz #jazzFragments #LostAlbum #mono #monoRecording #MonoMix #moody #music #musica #Nerduban #NerdubanArchive #NerdubanArchiveCircle #noir #noirPsychedelia #noirRock #NoirRock #psychedelia #PsychedelicRock #RAW #rawAnalog #recording #reelToReel #reelToReelTape #ReelToReel #restoredRecording #SmokeSignals1968 #sound #SouthSideChicago #tape #TremoloGuitar #VioletLantern

nerduban – smoke signals (1968) [full album • double lp • analog psych noir rock]

Unearthed from a forgotten reel-to-reel tape labeled “Nerduban – Violet Lantern Sessions.”

This 30-track double LP was tracked in Spring 1968 at The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago — a nocturnal journey of analog tremolo guitars, swirling Farfisa organs, brushed snares, modal jazz fragments, and hypnotic noir psychedelia. -Captured straight to mono tape — no edits, no overdubs. -All bleed, hiss, and hum left intact. -Restored carefully from decayed tape and analog drift. – Let the echo pull you in.
Double LP – Reel-to-Reel Archive Edition

🎵 FULL TRACKLIST:

• REEL A – Side One

00:00:00 — 1. Signal in the Dust
00:02:22 — 2. The Light Stays On
00:07:02 — 3. Down from the Rooftop
00:11:54 — 4. She Spoke in Tremolo
00:15:54 — 5. Only the Drums Remember
00:19:43 — 6. Room Full of Nothing
00:23:27 — 7. Half a Cigarette
00:27:20 — 8. Ash on the Snare

• REEL A – Side Two

00:30:03 — 9. Ceiling Fan Waltz
00:33:17 — 10. Farfisa Lullaby
00:36:52 — 11. The Back Door Swings
00:40:01 — 12. No One Said Goodbye
00:43:09 — 13. Velour Transmission
00:45:42 — 14. Crying Through the Spring Tank
00:48:31 — 15. Don’t Wake the Light

• REEL B – Side Three

00:51:20 — 16. Dust Tape Bloom
00:57:00 — 17. Violet Matches
00:59:44 — 18. Flicker Hour
01:04:14 — 19. Echo Static Love Song
01:07:03 — 20. Ashtray Weather
01:10:43 — 21. Mirage in 7/4
01:15:58 — 22. Midnight Is a Window
01:20:02 — 23. Farfisa of Babylon

• REEL B – Side Four

01:23:52 — 24. Ghosts Hum in B Minor
01:28:12 — 25. She Left Before the Downbeat
01:32:29 — 26. Tape Deck Gospel
01:36:14 — 27. No Key, Just Room Tone
01:40:44 — 28. Amp Sleeps with One Eye Open
01:44:58 — 29. Last Call at the Violet Lantern
01:48:23 — 30. Smoke Signals (Title Track)

——Recorded: Spring 1968. Location: The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago 🛠️ Format: Mono • Tape-Saturated • Raw Analog Mix. Restored by: Nerduban Archive Circle

LINER NOTES: From the inner sleeve of the 1968 Violet Lantern pressing: “Nerduban never played for the crowd. They played for the shadows in the room.”

Recorded in the spring of 1968 inside the dim-lit rehearsal chamber of Chicago’s Violet Lantern Club, Smoke Signals captures a moment that feels both ancient and eerily current. This isn’t music made for the radio, but for the tape deck of a forgotten basement — where echo swirls, tremolo pulses, and stories never find their endings. Every hiss you hear is real. Every amp buzz, every tape drift, every ghost in the left channel — it all stayed. No edits. No second takes. This was Nerduban at their most honest: ambient, abstract, moody, raw. With analog equipment humming just past the point of breakdown, they mapped out a noir-psychedelic terrain that sways between modal jazz and smoke-drenched rock séance. You don’t listen to this record — you drift through it. — W. K. HEINGART Archivist & Engineer Nerduban Archive Circle, 2025 

#PsychedelicRock #NoirRock #1960sRock #AnalogTape #Nerduban #SmokeSignals1968 #LostAlbum #FarfisaOrgan #TremoloGuitar #MonoMix #ReelToReel

#1960sRock #1968 #abstract #Ambient #analog #AnalogTape #doubleLp #Farfisa #FarfisaOrgans #FarfisaOrgan #HKHeingart #jazz #jazzFragments #LostAlbum #mono #monoRecording #MonoMix #moody #music #musica #Nerduban #NerdubanArchive #NerdubanArchiveCircle #noirPsychedelia #NoirRock #psychedelia #PsychedelicRock #RAW #rawAnalog #recording #reelToReel #reelToReelTape #ReelToReel #restoredRecording #SmokeSignals1968 #sound #SouthSideChicago #tape #TremoloGuitar #VioletLantern

smoke signals / nerduban. 1968 [full album • double lp • analog psych noir rock]

Unearthed from a forgotten reel-to-reel tape labeled “Nerduban – Violet Lantern Sessions.”

This 30-track double LP was tracked in Spring 1968 at The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago — a nocturnal journey of analog tremolo guitars, swirling Farfisa organs, brushed snares, modal jazz fragments, and hypnotic noir psychedelia. -Captured straight to mono tape — no edits, no overdubs. -All bleed, hiss, and hum left intact. -Restored carefully from decayed tape and analog drift. – Let the echo pull you in.
Double LP – Reel-to-Reel Archive Edition

🎵 FULL TRACKLIST:

• REEL A – Side One

00:00:00 — 1. Signal in the Dust
00:02:22 — 2. The Light Stays On
00:07:02 — 3. Down from the Rooftop
00:11:54 — 4. She Spoke in Tremolo
00:15:54 — 5. Only the Drums Remember
00:19:43 — 6. Room Full of Nothing
00:23:27 — 7. Half a Cigarette
00:27:20 — 8. Ash on the Snare

• REEL A – Side Two

00:30:03 — 9. Ceiling Fan Waltz
00:33:17 — 10. Farfisa Lullaby
00:36:52 — 11. The Back Door Swings
00:40:01 — 12. No One Said Goodbye
00:43:09 — 13. Velour Transmission
00:45:42 — 14. Crying Through the Spring Tank
00:48:31 — 15. Don’t Wake the Light

• REEL B – Side Three

00:51:20 — 16. Dust Tape Bloom
00:57:00 — 17. Violet Matches
00:59:44 — 18. Flicker Hour
01:04:14 — 19. Echo Static Love Song
01:07:03 — 20. Ashtray Weather
01:10:43 — 21. Mirage in 7/4
01:15:58 — 22. Midnight Is a Window
01:20:02 — 23. Farfisa of Babylon

• REEL B – Side Four

01:23:52 — 24. Ghosts Hum in B Minor
01:28:12 — 25. She Left Before the Downbeat
01:32:29 — 26. Tape Deck Gospel
01:36:14 — 27. No Key, Just Room Tone
01:40:44 — 28. Amp Sleeps with One Eye Open
01:44:58 — 29. Last Call at the Violet Lantern
01:48:23 — 30. Smoke Signals (Title Track)

——Recorded: Spring 1968. Location: The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago 🛠️ Format: Mono • Tape-Saturated • Raw Analog Mix. Restored by: Nerduban Archive Circle

LINER NOTES: From the inner sleeve of the 1968 Violet Lantern pressing: “Nerduban never played for the crowd. They played for the shadows in the room.”

Recorded in the spring of 1968 inside the dim-lit rehearsal chamber of Chicago’s Violet Lantern Club, Smoke Signals captures a moment that feels both ancient and eerily current. This isn’t music made for the radio, but for the tape deck of a forgotten basement — where echo swirls, tremolo pulses, and stories never find their endings. Every hiss you hear is real. Every amp buzz, every tape drift, every ghost in the left channel — it all stayed. No edits. No second takes. This was Nerduban at their most honest: ambient, abstract, moody, raw. With analog equipment humming just past the point of breakdown, they mapped out a noir-psychedelic terrain that sways between modal jazz and smoke-drenched rock séance. You don’t listen to this record — you drift through it. — W. K. HEINGART Archivist & Engineer Nerduban Archive Circle, 2025 

#PsychedelicRock #NoirRock #1960sRock #AnalogTape #Nerduban #SmokeSignals1968 #LostAlbum #FarfisaOrgan #TremoloGuitar #MonoMix #ReelToReel

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My TEAC 32-2B is home and operational again. Turns out it’s a rare one, actually being a Tascam X-10 disguised as a TEAC 32-2. I guess that’s why they added the “B.” It has 2 drive belts instead of 1, but the kicker is that it supports both NAB (North American) and IEC (European) EQ with a push button on the front panel. #GearHunter #MusicProduction #Analog #ReelToReel #Tascam #TEAC

We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

#OpenReel #ReelToReel #audio #audiophile #TapeDeck

We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

#OpenReel #ReelToReel #audio #audiophile #TapeDeck

We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

#OpenReel #ReelToReel #audio #audiophile #TapeDeck

We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

#OpenReel #ReelToReel #audio #audiophile #TapeDeck

We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

#OpenReel #ReelToReel #audio #audiophile #TapeDeck

#picoftheday
#listeningclub
#music
#photography
#reeltoreel
#radiophonicworkshop
#deliaderbyshire

One of the more affordable releases on open reel tape. Very Ltd run. Only 6 remaining.
#music #analog #analogue #tape #OpenReel #ReelToReel #Bandcamp #Ambient #Music
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/caelum?from=discover_page

Holy cow! I received yesterday the #ArturiaDrumbruteImpact and the association with the #Microfreak is just amazing 🤩 I spent an evening playing some chords with the arpeggiator and playing on them using strings patches on the #Proteus/1 the results can be hypnotic and emotional. I’m amazed. I think I will get this configuration for a few days, recording the results with the #ReelToReel tape machine. It’s incredibly effective 😍🥰🤯 #dawless is the future 🤫

Yours at a snip for 15k
#analogue #HiFi #Madness #Revox #ReelToReel #SantaRequest #FatChance

New Revox B77 MK III reel-to-reel tape recorder, and more cassette tape-based trickery

https://flip.it/hR-H1I

I enjoyed this Moog-Sound-Studio-into-reel-to-reel recording set up from a few weeks ago so much that I thought I’d give it another go.

https://youtu.be/FTODJrZOLmI?si=7YXDbiyBDQj31OHv

#moog #eurorack #reeltoreel #modular #music #homestudio #synth #synthtember