Thursday 30 June 2011

c81 nme tape



c81 nme tape, a photo by japanese forms on Flickr.
C81. First release by NME / Rough Trade Tapes 1981.
See here for more details.


First release by NME / Rough Trade Tapes 1981. To get this you had to order it through the New Musical Express. 30,000 copies were sent out. I still have the original 32-page Owner's Manual; which you had to put together by cutting out various pages over a number of weeks from the NME and then folding and assembling them. You had to be patient in those days. Computers and internet weren't around then.

Wednesday 29 June 2011

roxy music: country life (tape)

roxy music
country life
island records (1974)
island tapes zci9303

roxy music
country life
virgin records america (1974)
roxycdx4
card sleeve hdcd


artwork:
bob bowkett
photography: eric boman
design: nicholas de ville
art direction: bryan ferry
models: constanze caroli & eveline grunwald

Tuesday 28 June 2011

unkle : psyence fiction (tape) - view 3

unkle
psyence fiction
mo'wax recordings
mw085 mc (1997)
comes in a deluxe card foldout sleeve that holds the standard jewel case

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sleeve design : den drury & andy holmes
photography : william bankhead
cover image, paintings and all characters : futura 2000

Found in the glove compartment of my car where it has been for the past 12 years or so. It still plays. Correctly.
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Monday 27 June 2011

the hilary jeffery tape

the hilary jeffery tape
trombone: hilary jeffery
processing: rutger zuydervelt
2-track cassette tape
machinefabriek (2010)
MF014

A collaboration with trombone player Hilary Jeffery and Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt). Two cinematic tunes on a bright orange cassette tape, limited to 100 copies, housed in a hand stamped chipboard arigato pack.


one2zero

Saturday 25 June 2011

conrad schnitzler 10.10.84 (tape)

conrad schnitzler
10.10.84
mirror tapes (2010)
mt004

limited edition of 250 copies on professionally duplicated cassette tape
with an offset printed inlay card on 157gsm paper.


one2zero

Friday 24 June 2011

the B52's (tape)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/japaneseforms/5810775215/

the B52's (tape), a photo by japanese forms on Flickr.
the B52's
the B52's (tape)
island tapes (1979)
zci9580


art direction : sue ab surd
photography : george dubose
hairdos : la verne

Thursday 23 June 2011

we're gonna have a real good time together


Velvet Underground compilation tape picked up at a street market for 0,50€.
A real bargain for this fascinating piece of history.

Wednesday 22 June 2011

lou reed : growing up in public (tape)

lou reed
growing up in public (tape)
arista records (1980)
402 120


photography : mick rock
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Lou gently hums "The Power of Positve Drinking" as the hangover begins to kick in.

Tuesday 21 June 2011

roxy music : for your pleasure (tape)

roxy music
for your pleasure (tape)
island tapes (1973)
zci9232

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artwork: c.c.s.
art direction : nicholas de ville
photography : karl stoecker
cover model : amanda lear

Monday 20 June 2011

from brussels with love (tape) view 3

I can't imagine many people having this tape (in it's original format). It's the first edition which came in a PVC 7"-single format sleeve and included, as well as the tape and it's fiche technique, a 16-page booklet. I managed to get this almost the day after reading a review about it's release in the NME. Very few were initially made but due to demand (I imagine) a second edition, was released in the normal plastic cassette case in 1982. This second edition came with an all white, instead of black, background but with the same cover photograph. A vinyl edition was released later but I don't recall ever having seen one. Also, a highly desirable, belgian-pressed Japanese double-vinyl edition was released in 1983. I've never seen that one either.

from brussels with love
les disques du crépuscule
tape, fiche technique, & booklet (detail)
twi 007 (1980)

includes a 7" format, 16-page booklet (with pvc sleeve)
and a fiche technique

Sunday 19 June 2011

einstürzende neubauten : 2 x 4 (tape)

einstürzende neubauten
2 x 4 (tape)
reachout international records inc.
roir (1984)
a-133

Saturday 18 June 2011