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Blue Tapes

@bluetapes.bsky.social

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Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork. https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 8m

Awesome!

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 19m

Which Sabbath did he do?

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 50m

It’s in the acronym! Make Argentina Great Again.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 2h

Is that a real piece of advertising? I hope so.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 3h

Hopefully I'll be working with her in the near future.

She also reworked this piece a couple of years later for another release

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Pillow (rework) - Lara Jones

YouTube video by Lara Jones

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 5h

The 89th Rule of Acquisition: Multiformat the shit out of everything

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 5h

Subb PO)))p

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 7h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 14

Lara Jones - Pillow (2021, UK)

nonclassical.bandcamp.com/track/pillow

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 8h

The fact it's in a 20+minute stream of consciousness savaging of another MC as well

youtu.be/aSB1h7xbOyU?...

Blowing Up Dr Yakub's Cracker Factory [Talking Dub]

YouTube video by M.I.C (The Master of Inane Conversation) - Topic

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 8h

"You look like a Focusrite interface"

Best grime diss I've heard in ages from M.I.C (The Master of Inane Conversation)

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 11h

Art of the day

Leila Jeffreys - The Tweets, 2019

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 21h

Listening to jazz. Following a possibly magic cat.

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 22h

There’s a good BBC session version of this

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 22h

I noticed she hadn’t posted in a while

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 1d

I had an absolutely battered second hand version of this. Somehow the cracks, pops and scratches kind of added to the atmosphere tho

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 1d

In my lifetime, the best years for cinema were 1998, 2001, 2007, 2014, 2016 and 2017.

The worst years for cinema were 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996 and 2002.