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Tape Sessions4: Japanese memories

by easterntraveler

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An old cassette, a Japanese woman speaking, suddenly a couple of people singing some Japanese songs; maybe a drunken night at a karaoke bar somewhere in Japan many decades ago, or perhaps some singing aficionados recording their favorite songs at home.

All these sounds passing through band isolators, ring modulators, an assortment of very old digital effects and a couple of 80s tape recorders. The result is a weird mixture of sounds, a bit of cacophony in each texture, and a bit of melody as well. Mid and high frequencies are prominent from the source.

If I had to guess, I would say it's a recording from somewhere in Japan in the 80s or 90s. I can't tell for sure. It's perhaps a personal cassette that was passed around and ended at a karaoke party. The singing in some songs is not the best, with some rowdy frequencies in full swing.

As usual in this series, you get all the noise, clicks, hum, pops and gore of broken tape recorders; yes, gore, not glory. Some hate it, some clearheaded pro-audio individuals flat-out avoid it, and it's all here, traveling through time, a blast from the past right in your 21st century daw nearing WWIII.

There are no percussion hits or hi hat patterns in these samples. These sounds are more suitable for exploration, chopping them up, finding interesting textures in them, looping, slicing, detuning and mangling them up. Some samples are over a minute, some are around 30 seconds and so on; some sound really broken, some relatively normal but gritty, noisy, and some just weird, like a bad dream, or a bad sample.

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released June 29, 2023

-- 93 samples - 44.1-48 kHz / 32bit
-- Over 50 minutes of audio
-- Type I cassette
-- Mid are mid-high frequencies prominent
-- And as a special treat, additional bonus samples created with the help of a high quality cassette deck and equalizer. They sound really nice!

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easterntraveler Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)

It's fascinating how twisted sounds can be reminiscent of bad hallucinations, bizarre memories and dreams.

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