An Introduction

Hello and welcome. I'm Jon Seven and I have started this blog to document my activities and adventures with recorded media. I'm an active and curious DJ and I produce a lot of my own edits, flips and remixes from the interesting media I come across. I'm also a real nerd about media in general, and I do a lot of experimentation with source material from the various media I find on my digs. The name "Media Sashimi" represents the kind of cut-and-paste approach I like to take with recorded media, with a 'slash-and-dash' playful sort of spirit.

Most of these activities have been documented in Facebook posts, but at best it's a patchy way to keep people who are interested informed. I decided to try a blog approach and see if I could organize the documentation of my work in a more accessible way.

What you're going to find on this blog are photos and scans of unusual tapes and LPs,  links to mp3's of my mixes, remixes and original compositions, and updates of my activities including trophy photos of media scores.

To make the first entry interesting, here's a scan of one tape from a 3-pack I found a couple of weeks ago.

You gotta love the disco typeface, and of course the brand name... "it's not just good it's..."
On this blog you can expect to see a number of scanned tapes. Part of my media scores include blank tapes of all different kinds, and I like to scan them, keeping the images for posterity, even if I use the tape. Some tapes I like to keep sealed, others, well, a tape's no good unused in the case. Best to let a tape live the life it was made for than to languish as a collector's item.

This blog is new, but my media adventures stretch way back. There's a lot to catch up on, so I'll gradually begin making posts documenting those activities, staggered with new posts.