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Posts Tagged Cassette

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June 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around

It’s funny how we change – almost imperceptibly. We don’t see it in ourselves, we have to at least pull over. Stop to look. And listen. And feel. 20 years ago or so I was driving to Wellington with one of my mates and one of his friends and the three of us were going […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cassette, Poem, Poem: When the World Is Running Down, Poem: When the World Is Running Down You Make the Best of What's Still Around, Sting, Tape, The Police, You Make the Best of What's Still Around ·

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April 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Rick-Rolling Through My Tape Collection: Remembering The Generation of Cassette Tapes

I own Rick Astley’s Whenever You Need Somebody on tape. I bought it when it was released. I found that old tape just recently. (I have it on vinyl as well – nutcase!) Buying tapes – it dates you. I mowed lawns to earn money to buy tapes. Then I’d listen to the new tape […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1980s, 1990s, Blog, Blog On The Tracks, Cassette, Cassette Tape, Cassette Tapes, CD, Compact Disc, Get In The Ring, HB, LP, Music, Nostalgia, Remembering The Generation of Cassette TapesC, Rick Astley, Rick Roll'd, Rick-Rolling Through My Tape Collection, Rick-Rolling Through My Tape Collection: Remembering The Generation of Cassette Tapes, RickRoll, Tape, Tapes, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

girlboss: Body Con

girlboss Body Con [ep] Ball of Wax Records A couple of years back I saw girlboss – then just a duo – and I’ve been waiting for some recordings ever since. Now, it’s a full band – still based around the singing and songs of guitarist/vocalist Lucy Botting, but augmented not only by Douglas Kelly’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Body Con, Body Con [EP], Cassette, Darian Wood, Douglas Kelly, EP, Girlboss, girlboss: Body Con, Ltd Ed, Lucy Botting, Olivia Campion, Pink, Tape, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

How Do You Find Music? How Does Music Find You? How Has That Changed?

Do you ever stop to consider the changes that have been made to the way you find music? Is your approach still the same? Surely it’s changed, you’ve changed formats, the formats have changed – in terms of delivery approach, in terms of regularity, in terms of how and when you receive them – as […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cassette, CDs, Collecting, Collection, DVD, Facebook, How Do You Find Music?, How Do You Find Music? How Does Music Find You? How Has That Changed?, How Does Music Find You?, How Has That Changed?, Influence, LP, Mp3, Music, Music Collection, Music Journalism, Music Stores, Napster, Online, Record Store, Reviews, Social Media, Spotify, Tapes, Tastemaker, Twitter, VHS, Vinyl, YouTube ·

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November 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 470

Bob Dylan, Infidels (1983) One of the first Bob Dylan albums I heard  – and owned – I had the cassette tape first, graduated on to the CD. Never had the LP – until just very recently. But always loved this. Killer set of songs, amazing band, packed with legends – and it has the […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1983, Bob Dylan, Cassette, Infidels, LP, Mark Knopfler, Record, Sweetheart Like You, Tape, The Vinyl Countdown # 470, The War on Drugs, Vinyl, War on Drugs ·

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October 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

DJ OBOE: DJ OBOE

DJ OBOE DJ OBOE (Independent/Bandcamp) Riki Gooch is a drummer, produce and beatmaker. He’s been both band-leader and sideman and a DJ in various guises. He’s been making music under various aliases (Eru Dangerspiel, Cave Circles, Nil-Nil) across the last decade and a half and has been behind the kit (and sometime the MPC/sampler) for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Angola, Bandcamp, Beatmaker, Beats, Cassette, Cave Circles, DJ OBOE, EP, Eru Dangerspiel, Kuduro, Riki Gooch, Tape, Techno ·

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January 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The First Five: What Were The First Albums You Ever Owned?

First off, I have to admit that I’m guilty of thinking that I had great musical taste early on. Very mainstream of course. But then, I was eight. The only person I know of that was kicking it underground and living the hedonistic lifestyle at nine years of age was Drew Barrymore. And look what […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cassette, John Cougar Mellencamp, MC Hammer, Midnight Oil, Rick Astley, Tapes, The First Five, The First Five: What Were The First Albums You Ever Owned?, U2, What Were The First Albums You Ever Owned ·

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March 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Butcher Brown: GrownFolk

Butcher Brown GrownFolk Thrash Flow The Butcher Brown sound is mellow and warm and lovely – a floating feeling as background dinner-jazz is dirtied up just enough; some grit applied so that before your eyes (well, ears) you’re transported into the world of instrumental hip-hop. These are real-time, really played live loops – the sorts […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, All Purpose Music, Butcher Brown, Cassette, Grown Folk, GrownFolk, Nicholas Payton, Tape ·

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September 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: “Try The Eighties”

…used to manage this particular CD Store (in Courtenay Place) [in Wellington] and the best thing that happened there (the best thing I can remember) [well, the only best thing that I can remember from there] was this one time, when this guy came in and said, “do you guys sell tapes?” And I replied, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged "Try The Eighties", Cassette, Cassette Tape, Poem, Tape ·

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