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Blue Tapes

@bluetapes

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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Favourite album? The Commitments soundtrack.

11.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Darth Icky

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I can’t even mix a song in a day let alone a third of an album!

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It’s Gollum.

11.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember Del Naja working with the Lupine Howl guys on a sort of space rock album during these sessions. Wonder what happened to those recordings.

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Giving 100th Window a try

11.03.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bobby Womack actually thought this when Albarn approached him for a collab

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DJ Target - Grime Kids

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Who was writing for NME in 1984 and what happened to them?

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It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the 440kg of weapons-grade uranium he doesn’t seem that bothered about securing.

11.03.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stuart Bailie was one of them, for sure.

11.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did wonder if it was all just a clever swizz until James Brown turned up and then it was β€œOh ok, no, it’s not.”

11.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every generation has its The Others.

11.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The gig vox pops were all NME writers right?

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Preview
blue fifty-six, by Yapping Portal 18 track album

Morning listen via @bluetapes.bsky.social

bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

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what a beauty

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Preview
blue fifty-six, by Yapping Portal 18 track album

Buy here

bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

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blue fifty-seven: Yapping Portal

blue fifty-seven: Yapping Portal

blue fifty-six: Yapping Portal is out now!

Spontaneous, constantly-combusting and self-reconfiguring noisescapes from Fire-Toolz/Angel Marcloid.

11.03.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

What’s she done now?

11.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was assuming the States somewhere but no idea really

11.03.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Woah is that a 12 string Stratocaster?

11.03.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And no one's going to use it to decode a half-arsed joke in a Pitchfork review from 2001.

11.03.2026 10:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Turned out the future was not Starsailor.

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Art of the day

Fred Herzog, Color Photos, 1930 - 1982

11.03.2026 08:31 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0