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#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8Track #DeadFormats

"Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart" (aka The Electronic Jerks of the Mass for the Present Time and Concrete Music for Maurice Béjart) by Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier. Yep that electronic intro to “Jericho Jerk” was sampled by #DJPremier and #DAngelo in “Devil’s Pie” - tho, I expect not from an #8tracktape.

youtube.com/watch?v=IcrKTm4djV

#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Disco #PunkRock

Nothing special about this space-themed disco-lite #8Track relic on the Gordy label from 1979. EXCEPT: Apollo lead guitarist Larry B. Robinson would go on to

1) release a very peculiar #Baháʼí influenced homemade electronic LP entitled "Spiritual Technology" under the name OMb at the dawn of the 80s
2) play lead guitar on a garage-y later 80s #AngrySamoans track entitled "Unhinged"
3) form #MooseheartFaithStellarGrooveBand with ex-Angry Samoan Todd Homer who sounded like obscure, privately-pressed late 60s psychedelic bands on every one of their dozen+ CDs/EPs
4) play lead guitar in the LA-based freejazz/freakrock/comedy collective #HollywoodSquaretet in the early 2000s

Not too many #Motown alumni have gone on to navigate such uncharted musical terrain.

#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #SoundCollage #ExperimentalMusic #FoundSound

“This tape was found at a construction site in Novosibirsk, Russia. The title is what appears to be morse code written on the outer surface of the tape encasing. Its authors and origins are unknown.

Update: this has been released on a Brazilian label called Liga Do Vento Divino, both digitally and as a limited edition #8track cartridge.”

I take no responsibility.

fleshpavilions.bandcamp.com/al

#8TrackTuesday #Punk #NowPlaying #8TrackCartridge #8TrackTape

Were the Connecticut #HardcorePunk band #ViolentChildren the first to release a self-consciously retro #8Track release? I do believe so. This was originally issued in December 1988. Mass production of 8-track tapes had ceased by then, so each tape had to be duped/hand-spliced on to blank, dead stock cartridges by the label owner himself. It was a perverse joke; what self-respecting punk ever owned an 8-track player?

Other bands would latch on to this idea in the ensuing decade - notably #SpinalTap, who released a promo 8-track of their 1992 "Break Like The Wind" album. But for a moment let's acknowledge the foresight of Violent Children. United Nutmeg forever!

#8Track #8TrackTape #NowPlaying #ToddTamamendClark

Today (the day the world will one day look back on as the inaugural #8TrackTuesday) I present you with perhaps the trippiest #8TrackCartridge of all time: Todd Clark & The Stars "A Deathguard Sampler" from 1976.

Hardly any independent/DIY artists took advantage of 8-tracks during their heyday - certainly, none as noisy, electronic, & weirdly downtuned as Todd. Some of these tracks were salvaged for a retrospective 2xCD on the #Anopheles label in 2005 (including his twisted version of #TheRollingStones' "2000 Light Years From Home"). Otherwise we're left guessing as to why the hell Todd chose this format on which to issue his first home recordings. But we're so happy he did! This is the glistening jewel in the melted heap of plastic coating the backseat of your dad's beat-up Chevy Impala.