Tag: Tape recorder
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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San Francisco Disco Preservation Society
Listen to DJ Mark Watkins – Live At The Polk Gulch Saloon (SF) – Early 80’s byeightiesDJarchives on hearthis.at DJ Jim Hopkins as the San Francisco Disco Preservation Society is preserving the 80’s and 90’s club history of San Francisco by digitising and posting cassettes and reel-to-reel tape of DJ mixes. It’s a fascinating look…
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out – cut-ups
Cutting Up The Cut-Up is a great documentary from BBC Radio 4 featuring many artists featured regularly on Radio Clash over the years – Cassetteboy, Vicki People Like Us, DJ Food and Matt Black from Coldcut. Even a shout-out to Negativland! It goes way back into the roots of the audio cutup, to Brion Gysin,…
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Bars & Pipes & Dub & Happy
My Portastudio arrived, so been digging out old tapes and converting old files. Here’s two tunes I wrote circa 93 or 94 on Bars & Pipes on my Amiga…I suspect I have these on 8 track tape somewhere but here are the re-MIDI’d versions from ‘Reality Engine’. The first track I originally recorded in the…