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John Hawthorn
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#cassunday
John Chantler - Automatic Music. Volume II
The Tapeworm presents…..
Tapeworm 2014
White cassette cover with black text and illustration. I don’t know what it is. An ink pattern with cross hatching, possibly sound waves. Text reads: The Tapeworm presents….. JOHN CHANTLER AUTOMATIC MUSIC. VOLUME II White Cassette with white J-card. Text reads: A: For Nuno (19:44) - B: No Poetry (19:48). Recorded in London, 2013. Ilustration — grohs. This cassette is a product of The Tapeworm - "each of these cobbles represents a broken dream, you know..." TTW#54, copyright 2014 The Tapeworm. www.inventingzero.net www.tapeworm.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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#CDFriday
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence CD
Polydor 2014
Front cover of CD. Black and white photo of Lana in a white v neck t-shirt, staring at the camera, holding on to an open car door. ULTRAVIOLENCE written in large white capital letters across the bottom of the cover. Back cover of CD A black and white close up photo of Lana sitting in a car looking pensive. Track listing in bold white text on left hand side reads: CRUEL WORLD ULTRAVIOLENCE SHADES OF COOL BROOKLYN BABY WEST COAST SAD GIRL PRETTY WHEN YOU CRY MONEY POWER GLORY ****** MY WAY UP TO THE TOP OLD MONEY THE OTHER WOMAN Inside cover of CD on left. A black and white close up photo of Lana sitting in a car looking pensive. CD on right. A green/acqua blue/red patterned CD. Possibly close up shots of petals/leaves. I’m not sure.
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Picked up the new [ahmed] Sama’a (Audition) LP last night from @cafeotodalston.bsky.social ahead of their upcoming 4 day residency this week.
#jazzsky
A colour photo of a multi/layered road network with skyscrapers looming in the background.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#cassunday
700 Bliss - Spa 700 cassette
Don Giovanni/Halcyon Bliss 2018
#moormother #djharam
Front cover of cassette. White background with 700 BLISS SPA 700 repeated in multi coloured, different fonts. Yellow cassette with red text reading SPA 700. J - card with track listing which reads: 1. basic 2. cosmic slop 3. ring the alarm 4. living . 5. scully 6. ring the alarm (ase manual remix) 7. cosmic slop (stud1nt remix) 700 BLISS SPA 700
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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New Pat Thomas ‘Hikmah’ LP on Tao Forms arrived this morning. #jazzsky
Front cover of LP. Black and white profile picture of a bearded and bespectacled Pat Thomas taken by Dawid Laskowski
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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#CDFriday
Little Roy & Friends
Various Artists
Pressure Sounds CD 1999
#reggaesky #dubsky
Front cover of CD Black and white photo of 2 Rastas, wreathed in smoke, pulling on a chalice. Text in white cut out capital letters reads LITTLE ROY & FRIENDS. Sky blue vertical band down right hand side has black text reading: Dennis Brown The Heptones Carl Dawkins Winston Scotland Tafari All-Stars Black text along bottom reads: pressure sounds 26 Packin House Back cover of CD A hazy sky blue picture of a chalice smoking Rasta. Track listing on left hand side in black text reads: 01. HURT NOT THE EARTH - LITTLE ROY 02, BURNIN' FIRE - CARL DAWKINS 03. TICKET TO ZION - LITTLE ROY 04. REVOLUTION - HEPTONES 05. TOTAL DESTRUCTION - LEROY SIBBLES 06, VERSION - FEATURING BABA LESLIE 07. RECESSION - JOHN CLARKE 0B. RAT TRAP - LITTLE ROY 09. SET YOUR HEART FREE - DENNIS BROWN 10. VERSION - FEATURING BONGO HERMAN, DON D JUNIOR 11. FORWARD ON A YARD - HEPTONES 12. VERSION 13. ZION FEVER - WINSTON SCOTLAND 14. FREE FOR ALL - TAFARI ALL STARS 15. NATTY YARD - LITTLE ROY 16. PROPHECY DUB IT UP - TAFARI ALL STARS Inside cover of CD. Sky blue background, black drawing of a church with 3 windows, a sloping roof and a large white cross on top. TAFARI PRODUCTIONS is written in a semi circle above. The CD itself. Red, gold and green semi circular colour blocks. TAFARI written in black capitals on green. Packin house little Roy and Friends in black text below.
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#CDFriday
Scorces - Dreamers of Decadence CDr
Volcanic Tongue 2008
Hand numbered edition of 200
3/200
Black and gold cover. 2 faceless female figures in gold, wearing diagonal striped sleeveless tops, holding microphones and facing each other. Back cover of CD. Gold sleeve, tex in black reads: SCORCES DREAMERS OF DECADENCE CHRISTINA CARTER GUITAR VOICE HEATHER LEIGH MURRAY PETAL STEEL VOICE VOLGANIC TONGUE VT008 3/200
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Photos from Ossian Brown’s ‘Haunted Air’ book. A Collection of Anonymous Halloween Photographs America c. 1875-1955 #Halloween
Front cover of Ossian Brown’s ‘Haunted Air’ book. Black cover with small sepia photo of someone dressed in a skeleton suit. Sepia photo of 2 children dressed in black wearing pointy hats standing at the side of a building. 2 figures standing in a garden wearing garish make up, hats and dark clothes. A lion, a witch and a duck? Spooky Halloween pic.
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Straßenbrau Berlin
Wet Hop Comet
#beersky
Drinking with @mpflapp.bsky.social
A pint of Wet Hop comet with another pint of the same behind it….
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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#nowplaying
The Keith Tippett Group - “Dedicated To You But You Weren’t Listening LP
1971 Mercury Records 2025 reissue
#jazzsky
Black LP sleeve with lemon/lime drawing of a woman’s head in profile. Her brain has been replaced by a foetus connected to her spinal column, she is speaking the words “Dedicated To You But You Weren’t Listening”
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Cheers all…
Green Hop Festival at the Pembury Tavern.
A pint of W.P.B. Green hopped pale ale in a branded ‘The Pembury Tavern’ pint glass.
October 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#cassunday
Vodka Soap - Oceansion Island
Pacific City Cassette 2007
#SpencerClark #Skaters
Aqua blue/green cover with exterior of ancient columned building in darker blue. Black cassette, back of aqua blue/green j-card A scrap of white paper with faded black typeface. From what I can make out it reads: oceansion island vodka soap N".:8 AZRAL: -AISAN GLOB-SH-NA-AH-ND-HA: KS-YAH•E •NA•：AE 37:3-32G:3 BE-TRAR NO-01-21121 ATSAR- 32-YA2 PACIFIC CITY STUDIOS TA-A-SB23-12-HA3・53ごは OCEAN WOMEN ORLANO MAGIC PACIFIC CHARLES BERLITZ MONOPOLY CHILD PACIFIC CITY 2007 for translation and catalogue write Charies Berlitz wodichillayahoo.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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#CDFriday
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides - Sixth Samovar CD
Rayon Records 2011
Vanilla/cream coloured background inked with red and blue. Caricature of a face in profile, smoking a cigarette, holding a bottle with a white label. Blue spidery text reads: SIXTH SAMOVAR PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES Fold out paper sleeve: Vanilla/cream coloured background inked with red and blue. Caricature of a seated figure on the ground, wearing a cap, smoking a cigarette, holding a bottle with a white label. Blue spidery text reads: SIXTH SAMOVAR PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES Upside down blue text in top left corner reads: 1. part 1 2. part 2 3. part 3 RAYON 034 www.rayonrecs.tk The CD in a corner pocket of the fold out sleeve. The CD art is in the same colours as the outer sleeve. There is a photoprint of some dark blue bottles/vessels/containers on the pocket with red text which I cannot decipher.
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#cassunday
The Skaters - Dripping Avenues/Wind Drapeing Incense cassette Sick Head Tapes 2006
Edition of 60 packaged in an audio book case.
Black/grey murky collage of ancient temples/buildings/ruins. White background, black text reads: 1. DRIPPING AVENUES (REALITIES OF STAIRS TO WHICH INVERSED FORMS ARE DRIPPING AVENUES) BRASS TEMPLES BORN OF.... THE MOUNT ECLIPSING THE SUN, UPON THE TEMPLES COURTYARD ARE MEN PERFORMING AN EXHUASTING RITUAL, AN EXCERCISE WERE ONE BODY AND ARMS IN PROPORTION TO HAVE THE EFFECT OF CREATING THEIR BRAINS INTO A SHAPE, AS THE REPETITION OF THE SAME MOVEMENT CREATS A PHYSICAL MEMORY IN THE AIN WHICH CAN BE EXPRESSED IN A PHYSICAL DENT OF THE BRAINS TISSUE.THEY ARE PERFORMING THIS RITUAL CESSIVELY IN THE HOPES THAT THEIR BRAINS WILL TRANSFORM INTO THE SHAPE OF A PYRAMID AND AT THIS INT BEGINS HEAVEN WHICH IS TO VISUALISE ROOMS IN WHICH MERCURY ANO MEMORY PERFUME STAND IN CCESION WITH THE FULFILLMENT OF THE COMPLETIÓN OF THE PYRAMID. 2. WIND DRAPEING INCENSETHE MOVEMENTS OF THIS PIECE ARE EXPRESSIONS AFTER THE STAGES OR STAIRS OF A TARAHUMARININDIAN CEREMONY RECORDED BY THE SKATERS. IN SANITS HARBOUR, THAILAND DEC 2005 SPECIAL TAPE EDITION OF 60 RELEASED BY SICK HEAD TAPES White cassette in plastic case. Black writing reads: SICK HEAD #6
October 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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#CDFriday
Coil - ANS CD in black clamshell case. Eskaton 2003.
(the original version picked up from merch table at Autechre’s 2003 ATP festival in Camber Sands)
&
Coil- ANS 3 CD/1 DVD box set Threshold House 2004 #Coil
Black clamshell case next to a box set with a picture of the ANS synthesiser on it. Red circular sticker in white capitalised text reads: WARNING! CONTENTS MAY MAKE YOU SPAZZ OUT 4 close up colour photographs of the ANS synthesiser arranged in a square. 4 colour photographs of glass plate etchings used in the making of the music for the CD set arranged in a square Side one of the text that came with the box set, the back of the box set (another colour photograph of the ANS synthesiser) and the open clamshell case showing the original CD with the words COIL ANS in black text on a white square printed on the CD. The text reads: The ANS was first conceived in the 1930's by Soviet Army colonel Evgeny Murzin, It is a large mechanical device • The first fully functioning version, other than an original wooden prototype, was completed in the 1950's. Each component was engineered by hand. It's purpose is to convert graphic designs made by the composer, directly into sound. Murzin was a big fan of the music of Russian composer Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin, so he named his new invention after him. At the heart of the machine is a glass plate is coated in a sticky black mastic-like substance, into which the composer scribes marks or lines of various thicknesses and shapes. Having made the design on the plate using a stylus, the composer then slides the glass plate through the 'pick-up' section of the machine. As he does so, light passes through the marks he made and is picked up by an array of light sensitive cells or diodes. These signals are fed to a loud speaker where they become sound for the first time. In order that the light represent distinct frequency rather than just white noise or AC hum, the light passing through the plate is not supplied from a single constant source, but 800 individual sections. The brightness of each of these 800 light sources is modulated into a sine wave by its own rotating optical disc contained within the machine. These discs are printed photographically so that, as they spin, they create pulsing current, in a range of frequencies from approximately 10hz for a light at the bottom of the array, to 25khz for the light at the top. As varying amounts of each frequency of pulsing light are detected at the 'pick-up' section of the machine (based on the thickness and position of the marks scribed on the …
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I have never read any Thomas Pynchon so I am starting at the beginning. I’ve already had to look up 2 words in the title of the first chapter! 😂 #booksky
Front cover of Thomas Pynchon’s V
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#cassunday
Heather Leigh - Jailhouse Rock
Fag tapes 2006
Numbered edition 38/90
Yellow/pink textile pattern stripes on black as background with a “too difficult to describe’ collage in the centre. Heather Leigh in black typeface on a green paper scrap near the middle Dull mint blue cassette, back of orange/black j-card, fag tapes written on a yellow paper scrap, jailhouse rock in black typeface on green. 38/90
October 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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#CDFriday
Coil - Porto CD (Red edition)
Numbered edition of 100
No label 2006 Portugal #Coil
An authorised bootleg recording of Coil’s live performance on June 21st 2003 in Porto, Portugal.
Clear plastic wallet with CD and CD shaped clear plastic disc with a small black and white sticker on the top right corner. “Printed acetates displaying biological micrographs in colour” Printed acetates displaying biological micrographs in colour and printed semi-transparent paper insert with coloured design The full package laid out: Semi -transparent paper insert (that reads Coil Porto, it is numbered 78) and clear CD shaped disc with track listing in red text. (Track listing reads: Blue Rats. Triple Sun. Radio Westin. Drip Drop. The First Five Minutes After Death) Printed acetates displaying biological micrographs in colour. The CD itself.
October 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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#CDFriday
Massive* (Massive Attack) - Unfinished Sympathy CD single Wild Bunch Records 1991
Front cover of CD. A scarred, lined and weathered black hand, palm facing forward, bandaged fingers raised on a greyish, greenish, blueish background. Red text reads: massive unfinished sympathy Inside cover of CD, a painting of 4 green outstretched hands on a blue background above a brown figure with outstretched arms and a telephone for a head. Black Text reads: unfinished sympathy - paul oakenfold mix paul oakenfold instrumental mix unfinished sympathy instrumental Barcode, catalogue number and track listing on right hand spine. Wild bunch logo in black on left hand side.
September 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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For obvious reasons
#cassunday
Crate of Jamaica V/A mixtape
Optimo 2021 #jdtwitch
Rest easy Keith…
White cassette cover with a fingerprint stamp and a fist bump stamp on top right corner. a thick pink card wraparound with a red snake and text that reads: Crate of Jamaica Red cassette, white j card with musical notes printed in blue on it. Pink card wraparound with red text reads: MIXED BY JD TWITCH AT THE SOLAR LODGE AUGUST 2021 OMT007 “Linn Park” THESE TAPES ARE MADE FOR WALKING.
September 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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#cassunday
Black Hill Transmissions - Transmission #4
Wreck works cassette and ephemera
Released by @bhtransmissions.bsky.social 2025
A red cassette and cassette case. Assorted ephemera including a slide, a black card with a stamp on it. Text on one insert reads: BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS TRANSMISSION #4' TAPE V/ WRECK-WORKS(ORIGINAL) / WRECK-WORKS TAPE VERSION) / LEFT HAND PATH B// TAPEHISS #2 / LEATHEROID (VERSION) / 0698 BEAT / WE (DEMO) / PLASTIC DRUID ALL MADE UP BY MARK SCANLAN, AT HOME 2023-25 WRECK-WORKS (ORIGINALY ORIGINALLY MASTERED BY STEPHEN BUCKLEY "artists bury night, wreck ears"
September 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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#CDFriday
California Dreamin’ - Jazz Exotica
V/A CD compiled and sequenced by Patrick Forge and Kerstan Mackness
Impulse! 1999 #jazzsky
Front cover of CD: Orange banner across the top with title in white text. Impulse! logo on left hand side in black. Cover image of a silhouette of a seated woman with a dark blue cloudy sky, buildings and infrastructure in the background. Back cover of CD: Predominantly orange. Black banner at top with a white strip barcode. White text reads: 1> Tom Scott-Honeysuckle Breeze (4:12) 2> Gabor Szabo-Sophisticated Wheels (3:54) 3> Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood-Song Plum (6:25). 4> Emil Richards & The Microtonal Blues Band-Bliss (4:52) 5> Chico Hamilton-Conquistadores (6:41) > Dave Mackay & Vicki Hamilton-Blues For Hari (5:12) 7> Tom Scott-Today (3:22) 8> Gabor Szabo-Gypsy Queen (5:10) g> Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood-Journey To The East (6:02) 10> Gabor Szabo-Raga Doll (3:45) 11> Gary McFarland-Sandpiper (7:44) 12> Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood-The Look of Love (3:38) 13> Gabor Szabo-Spellbinder (5:28) Compiled and sequenced by Patrick Forge and Kerstan Mackness. liner notes by Patrick Forge CD inner gatefold. Black, orange and white geometric shapes. 3 panel digipak, black geometric shapes on white, CD booklet with title in orange and black, the CD itself.
September 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Mark Wastell Invisible Guardians Big Band photographed through a window at Cafe Oto. This was a massively enjoyable performance. #jazzsky @cafeotodalston.bsky.social
17 piece big band (not all pictured) in mid performance photographed through a window.
September 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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#cassunday
New Jooklo Age - Fluidification
Troglosound cassette 2010
Front cover, green background, black wonky lettering reads: New Jooklo Age White cassette with a pink plaster coloured sticker with the number 48 stamped on it. Back of j-card written in wonky black lettering reads: Troglosound White cassette with pink/green pattern, cassette inlay with ‘Fluidification’ written in wonky black lettering on the spine.
September 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#CDFriday
TOM WAITS - SWORDFISHTROMBONES
1987 Island Masters CD.
Album originally released in 1983.
Front cover of CD, Black border with a collaged(?) and tinted picture of Tom Waits, bare chested, wearing braces and an undone tie. He had a yellow and black patterned glove sticking out the top of his trousers. He is standing next to a seated and suited man wearing a blue polka dot tie, white shirt and black suit. Next to him is a bald man in shirt and braces. There is a magazine with Chinese text between them and a trombone behind them. Text at top reads TOM WAITS SWORDFISHTROMBONES Back of CD. Predominantly white background with track listing in black text. Text reads: TOM WAITS SWORDFISHTROMBONES 1. UNDERGROUND 2. SHORE LEAVE 3. DAVE THE BUTCHER 4. JOHNSBURG, ILLINOIS 5. 16 SHELLS FROM A 30.6 6. TOWN WITH NO CHEER 7. IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 8. JUST ANOTHER SUCKER ON THE VINE 9. FRANK'S WILD YEARS 10. SWORDFISHTROMBONE 11. DOWN, DOWN, DOWN 12. SOLDIER'S THINGS 13. GIN SOAKED BOY 14. TROUBLE BRAIDS 15. RAINBIRDS PRODUCED BY TOM WAITS
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM