Cassette Culture Shock: The Beginnings

 

So I got to thinking, since the zine got dissolved into the neither world of the computer, (see here and here about my weekend computer ordeals), and instead of continuing to feel sorry for myself after loosing all that work on the zine, and quite possibly most of this year's copies of my writing, I decided let's start fresh with something. 

I've always loved experimental music, and blame a radio show from Canada here called Brave New Waves, which there is a plethora of tapes from the show that was uploaded to the Internet Archive here, and here. Also, in this video below, there is a channel called gronxkey who has uploaded some of their recordings of not only Brave New Waves, but also one called Night Lines that I remember listening to. Also the owner of the channel has a bandcamp, and they do some pretty cool music! 

So, I would stay up as a kid and listen to these shows. It was music like I've never heard on the daytime stations. It was like I uncovered a secret world, or was listening to something I shouldn't be listening to. I continued to listen as a teen, and got friends who were into alternative stuff to listen as well. It honestly helped to shape my deep love of alternative music, from the likes of experimental music, punk and post-punk and industrial, even some free jazz stuff like John Zorn, who was a regular feature on these shows in his many incarnations. What I wouldn't give to have my recordings still of these radio programs, and a few public radio shows, that also played punk, metal, and everything in between. These all influenced my mind that there's many different genres, and styles out there, and unique stuff if you just dig around for it. 

So I never had a word for this type of stuff until much later in life when these independent artists that I would listen to, resurfaced in a term called Cassette Culture around the internet. People talking about sharing DIY music through the mail, and also has included the first beginnings of the internet when people would copy their tapes digitally and share them around on forums. Kind of what I do now.
 
I have been listening to a couple of podcasts too recently about the D.I.Y movement, one from a UK perspective simply called Cassette Culture, also one, that so far seems like a cool radio program very reminiscent of the above mentioned types of radio shows I would listen to, called Tabs Out. 

So I thought, why not start to feature some of my collection, as well as some I have uncovered on the Internet Archive that we could all listen to together. So it would be like the same feature thing like I did with the Computer Music Magazine tapes. Since there are a few series of tapes I found on the Internet Archive that I really want to dive into, and download in the process for my own digital collection. I also want to feature maybe a daily song shuffle again from my collection like I did before. 

So let's start next Monday with the week's album feature, and going forward, I'm going to bring back the daily song shuffle, to kick things off tomorrow. 

I was thinking of making this its own separate blog, but to prevent me locking myself out of another blog, lets just keep things here, with the writing in between. I may make a page to archive it all though. Or a page featuring the posts? I'm wondering if I can do that? One way to find out, and get experimenting with it all after work. 

With that said, let's welcome back my mp3 player!

God Nadette, you can take a better picture than that xD 

Have a great day, and see you all tomorrow with some tunes!

~Nadette

EDIT: I don't thing a page will work for this, but I do have a crazy idea for it that I'm going to play around with, that I think will work.