It's cold and wet in Oregon this time of year, so it's vital to find indoor activities to keep yourself from going stir-crazy. Today, I'm starting in on a project I've been meaning to get around to. I'm digitizing all the source tapes I use for DJ Cassingle sets, to be archived and burned onto CD for future live usage. The tapes are all recycled C90s, and one of the issues I've had in using them in performance is that i always end up in the middle, so the stuff at the ends doesn't tend to get mixed in as much. Having the CDs as viable alternative will make it easier to get around to all the contents. Here's a shot of the tapes, in their handy tape book, which once held a set of FDR Fireside chats tapes, which too have been recycled and recorded over.
There are 8 tapes in total, one is missing from the shot. The content of these tapes is hours of the funniest, craziest, and strangest stuff I could find on YouTube. Religious speeches, alien conspiracy theories, weird radio frequencies, anything I could find that would make for a good compelling tape-mixed audio experience. Small tape players are a central part of the DJ Cassingle setup, but the turntables and CDJ's I have hooked up to the system are employed as well.
I'm not really planning to release these recordings, but they will show up in future DJ Cassingle mixes and broadcasts. If you feel like you've just really gotta have a copy, trade me something!
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