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Listen to some gorgeous ambient music coming out on tapes
Okay, let’s try to put aside any hipster jokes for a moment. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that cassette tapes are becoming a scene for beautiful ambient and experimental music. It’s gotten to the point that you might find yourself paying to have a tape shipped to you, even if only to thank […]
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Step inside the mystical sound world of Circular Ruins
Circular Ruins’ auditory landscapes are rich and strange, hypnotic rituals of loops and layers. They’re dark, but somehow un-menacing – safely resonating with whatever dangers live there. The artist speaks to us here about process, and zeitgeist, and cassette tapes. And we get to premiere the full release. We have a look round his studio […]
Peter Kirn - March 22, 2017
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Look inside the world of cassette tape culture in this short film
The 21st Century is bringing a yearning for physical objects and low fidelity – two threads that perfectly combine in the anachronistic cassette tape. Now, I find talking about cassettes tends to get some chortles, perhaps people mumbling under their breath about hipsters. But as production times and costs rise for producing vinyl, cassettes are […]
Peter Kirn - December 1, 2016
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You Haven’t Heard of 30drop, But You Should Hear This New LP [Techno]
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2015
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