ESCAPE IS TERMINAL: March 2016

Monday, March 28, 2016

SWAMPSURFERS // THE VERNON WALTERS

artist: THE VERNON WALTERS (Hoorn, THE NETHERLANDS)

venue: Boerderij-Geleen

location: ??, THE NETHERLANDS

date: ??

lemgth: 30 minutes

artist: SWAMPSURFERS (Sittard, THE NETHERLANDS)

venue: Boerderij-Geleen

location: ??, THE NETHERLANDS

date: ??

length: 29 minutes

HERE

Both recordings released on a cassette to benefit and raise awareness for Greenpeace.

Stand Up Tapes 002

Monday, March 21, 2016

THIS COMPUTER KILLS

artist: THIS COMPUTER KILLS (Reno, Nevada, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 06 January 2002
length: 24 minutes

HERE

Thursday, March 17, 2016

artist: IRON LUNG (Reno, Nevada, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 19 August 2001
length: 18 minutes

HERE
Should he change a string or should we just, uh...stop?

TAPE TRADING

This is how music was shared, and this is how a subculture grew from the ground up. A network of co-conspirators, held together by the music. Then we had cassettes (we still have tapes now, of course), but now we have the internet. Like TERMINAL ESCAPE, all of these posts come from cassettes and all were transferred in-house, but this blog is just for live recordings. Devoted collectors, traders, compilers and caretakers are the reason we have access to these sounds decades later...

Lots of dead links. No, I will not fix them. I mean, maybe I will, but probably not. I have a lot of tapes to rip instead.