The Listening Centre: The Art Of Solving Problems

Good morning everyone, and happy Monday.
I was thinking on a new series and recieved a great comment yesterday under the Computer Music Magazine tape 12 post, with one series of compilations that caught my eyes and ears called Lammas Night Laments which is a series of compilations that was put out in 2005 of neofolk music. I'm a huge fan on the genre and I'm thinking of doing that next.I've not heard of most of the bands on Lammas Night Laments. However, there are a couple of post punk compilations I have been dying to hear since I found them last week. They are just one offs and not a series of tapes, but thought it would be fun to listen along.

I think I will call this "The Listening Centre" You know those parts of the classroom back in the 70s and 80s (telling my age here) and they would have a record player and or cassette player and a bunch of head phones that would connect into a box that was plugged into the audio players that children would listen to an educational record or tape on? I think I'll call this that.

I'll choose a compilation that's off the internet archive, or even bandcamp and youtube, where it's easily excessable to everyone, we all take a listen, and I pick something, and if readers want, they can tell me which they prefer, or just have fun listening to some new bit of music. Kind of like a book club for music lovers. Also always feel free to leave a comment on what you would like to contribute as well. As long as it is underground/independant. I won't do Spotify, just because I don't like how they treat artists, and their dubious corporate shennanigans, also that you have to sign up to it to listen.

So today's compilation is called The Art Of Solving Problems that I found off the archive https://archive.org/details/the-art-of-solving-problems (Sorry links are broken this morning, just copy and paste in your browser) Let's take a listen and the rule is, if you want to leave a comment, you have to only pick one track. I know this is going to be hard to do, but that's the fun of the challange. Have a great day, and happy listening! ~Nadette

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Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 12 (Final tape)

 Good morning, and happy Sunday. 

Well, it's the end of the Computer Music Magazine tapes. I'm going to dig around and take a look at what other series of tapes that I can listen to, as I found doing this very fun, and was wonderful to explore new music. 

The first track that came on side 1, was a collaboration between The Eurythmics and Chris and Cosey, which is amazing of course, however, the one I chose was on side 2 by Richard Attree and Alejandro Vinao (I hope I spelled his first name right, as it wasn't listed on the tape) simply called System or System track. 

So that's it. I hope everyone who was following from the old site platform has enjoyed the journey through these twelve tapes as I did. If you're new and came in just recently, you can find all of them on here, where I reposted the ones I was doing before the move. 

Thanks for reading and listening along, and hopefully we will have more series. If anyone knows of any, that can be accessed from, say, the Internet Archive, so not just myself can listen to them, but it's free for everyone to listen to, feel free to leave a comment in here, the guest book on the sidebar here under my profile, or make a post under these on my Bluesky account. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive 

Link to my playlist 

~Nadette

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Photos taken with a toy thermal printer camera.