The Lost Tape

Available from Klasse Wrecks, Fantasy FM - the Lost Tape.  Bleep era mix  off of a Yorkshire pirate station, complete with era-evocative cheap cassette hiss....



Actually, it's a painstaking simulacrum of back-in-the-day real-deal.  A homage.

That first advert certainly feels authentic, suggesting it's either spliced from an old pirate tape or artfully recreated. In the early Nineties, the bigger rave promoters tended to use for incongruous-in-context voices in their ads - enthused well-spoken middle class chap, husky but discernibly posh  women.   But one of the word-choices in the sales pitch rings out as anachronistic...

Press release:

"1991 is the hour, Sheffield is the space. Rave and acid house culture is at its zenith and Sheffield has, by accident or design, absorbed its exciting breaks-based electronics and passed it through an industrially minimal filter process, informed by the electro-pop traditions established in the previous decade. Autochthonous tracks that will live on for years to come are produced throughout Yorkshire, whilst imported jams are adopted as local anthems at the Jive Turkey night, or on the airwaves via pirate stations such as Fantasy FM."

Luca Lozano and Omega III started DJing together in this famous city, and after having travelled and around many cities and styles, return to their roots with this dedication to the embryonic days of bass and bleep.

The Lost Tape is limited to 100 copies only and is equip with MC chat, authentic advertising and a digital download."

Cool...

8 quid, though...

(via Gloria Gloucestershire)