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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

NEW! Blue Tapes subscription tiers.

TIER 1 SUB £4 per month:
Access to all of the available digital back catalogue on the Bandcamp
+
20% off all merch

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TIER 2 SUB £9 per month:
All of the above
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A tape, vinyl, CD or T-shirt mailed to you EVERY MONTH

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Subscribe to Blue Tapes

Instantly get everything Blue Tapes makes, and then some. Get all the new music I release, plus 53 items from my back-catalog, subscriber-only specials, and exclusive access to my fan community.

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve got the birds of a feather bird box!

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BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 3h

BBC Radio 3
Late Junction

Jennifer Lucy Allan pays a visit to the London studio of field recordist, sound artist and founder of the Flaming Pines label, Kate Carr.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 4h

Pressing play on the CD and standing next to Neil Tenant

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 7h

Antifa starter pack

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 8h

Nice to have an inclusion of something properly underground that needs attention

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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 8h

This new @patrickshiroishi.bsky.social is just abslouttely fantastic!

patrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com/album/forget...

Forgetting is Violent, by Patrick Shiroishi

patrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 8h

What’s that from?

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h

Huh it didn't even occur to me you could do that

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h

Cool!

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h

Ah cool, I need to see her.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h

Always found it odd he didn't do any solo stuff. He was sort of perceived as their Bernard Butler/Johnny Marr.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h

I really like Gwenifer Raymond's guitar tone.

Not sure if it's the playing, the guitar, or the way her latest LP is mixed*, but it sort of feels like your head is in the soundhole and these giant strings are being thrashed about your skull.

*Probably all 3.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h

Numbers are up bigly

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, I love it. She also did the artwork for this album of mine on Fractal Meat Cuts

cutalonelyfigure.bandcamp.com/album/sugimo...

Sugimoto Seascapes, by Cut A Lonely Figure

cutalonelyfigure.bandcamp.com

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 12h

Ticket prices for stuff there is always ridic too

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 13h

Why don't we watch it later

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 14h

Oof

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 7d

For this Bandcamp Friday, I have for you an album I recorded during Covid lockdown and which was originally released in 2021 on The Tapeworm (now long sold out).

It has never been available digitally until now.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 15h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 10

Crizin da Z.O.- O Fim Um (2024, Brazil)

youtu.be/iC5ZlDyklgs?...

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 16h

Art of the day

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 1d

Great interview. I unironically loved this film when I was a kid.

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 1d

They need to delete each others’ numbers from their phone and move on

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 1d

If they give a Nobel peace prize to someone simply for not carrying through a threatened ethnic cleansing then the world is not worth saving

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly! 64kbps live versions, random mistagged pop punk songs, gigabytes of unlistenable garbage

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 1d

There was definitely an addictive element to finding the most obscure stuff and hoarding it like Smaug’s gold