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#8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats #8Track #PinkFloyd

CARTRIDGE MUST NOT BE LEFT EXPOSED TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT. REMOVE FROM PLAYER WHEN NOT IN USE.

A photo of the same black plastic shell 8-track cartridge tape on a white background from a different angle. Here the melted/distorted edges at the top and side can been seen more prominently.

#NowPlaying #HeavyMetal #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats #Misprint

Early #8Track issue of arguably the greatest #BlackSabbath album of all time - only here, mis-titled in the plural

A photo of a vintage 8-track cartridge tape by Black Sabbath entitled "Masters of Reality" in a yellow outer box. Band name is printed in a large flowing blue font across the middle; the album title is printed in white outlined letters beneath. The Vertigo swirl record label is at the top right, and "stereo" is printed at the bottom, all on a black background. Text printed at the top of the yellow box reads "8-track stereo".

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QUIREBOYS Release “Happy” Video; Wardour Street Available As 8-Track

https://bravewords.com/news/quireboys-release-happy-video-wardour-street-available-as-8-track/

#Quireboys #Happy #WardourStreet #8Track #Bravewords #RockNRoll #VideoRelease #BritishRock #MetalHistory #News

#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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrKTm4djVk&t=2s

A photo of a vintage light blue plastic 8-track cartridge tape by Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier entitled "Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart" on a woodgrain background. Inset black and white photo shows 6 men on a stage posing with arms outstretched. All printed text is in French.

#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats

A triple whammy: a #quadraphonic #8Track of nothing but #Moog synthesizer. Just how much more 1970s can a piece of plastic get?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWV6KB-mspc&t=697s

A photo of a vintage red plastic 8-track cartridge tape entitled "Sonart Productions Inc. presents Chopin à la Moog . . . with lots of strings attached." Inset artwork includes a series of 6 illustrated headshots, morphing gradually from the 1st (a b&w drawing of Chopin in period garb) to the last (a hirsute hippie sporting a headband and lovebeads). Text beneath the artwork reads "arranged, conducted, and synthesized by Hans Wurman."

#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.

Never knew anyone with an 8-Track (never a big thing in the UK). The compromises they forced in broken tracks. Look at the bizarre running order for Bowie's Low on an 8-Track tape. #8Track #Music #MusicFormat #DavidBowie #Bowie

Red sleeved 8-track with square cutout showing the back of the tape and running order;
1.Speed of Life
2.Be my Wife
3.Art Decade
4.Breaking Glass
5.What in the World
6.Subterraneans
7.Always Crashing in the Same Car
8.A New Career in a New Town
9.Warszawa Part 1
10.Warzawa Contd
11.Sound and Vision
12.Weeping Wall

#NowPlaying #DeadFormats #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Polka #Clowns

Krusty the #8Track

A photo of a soiled, white plastic vintage 8-Track cartridge album entitled "Polka Clown" by Wesoly Bolek. Image shows a red-ink drawing of a clown with red nose, large bowtie, and red polkadot shirt. The clown is holding a sheet of paper (and harmonica?) in one hand, and has the index finger of his other hand up to his red lips in slightly pensive fashion. Text beneath lists the track titles along with "8 TRACK STEREO" in large red letters.

Happy(?) 8-Track Tape Day! Celebrate history's worst commercial audio format!

#UnofficialDiaryDates #8track

Yesterdays #hack get: “80s tech to work with 2025 tech”

“Hack, hack, watch Jack hack”

I’ve got a stack of CDs I usually listen to in the car. Car is permanently broken. The replacement car has no CD player (#tape or #8track 🤣) so I’ll have do some tinkering.

* First get out an unused #SONY #BoomBox to play #CD s. 📻

* Second locate a #bluetooth transmitter. Check bluetooth standard is BT 5.0 compatible.

* Third, find USB-A to USB-C power for the XMitter

* Four, power supply for boombox, C6.

* Five find a 3.5mm AUX cable to connect to XMitter.

* Six and dodgiest, PAIR bluetooth from boombox XMitter to car.

Now I can run the car audio without #streaming #shite music 🔊, not have to mess around with BS phone issues. ☺️

#Audio / #sound / #RockMusic / #Music / #Media

A sony boombox with NY CDs and a mess of cable.

Stupid car with no CD player and bluetooth audio system.

#8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #NowPlaying #DeadFormats

The 1974 #8Track reissue of #TheVelvetUnderground's "White Light/White Heat" album - retitled "Archetypes" with enigmatic alternate cover artwork. I wonder who's beneath those motorcycle helmets?

A photo of a vintage black and grey 8-track cartridge tape entitled "ARCHETYPES" by The Velvet Underground. "Eight-track stereo tape cartridge" is printed at the bottom. Tape is still in shrink wrap. Inset photo shows two men standing in front of an E.W. Woolworth Co. storefront next to an old fashioned coin operated arcade machine. The men are dressed in loose, '70s-era jeans and leather jackets; both are wearing motorcycle helmets.

#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.

https://fleshpavilions.bandcamp.com/album/-