added August 19th, 2020 |-:
Almost exactly Ten Years After, previously unreleased recordings made by Rinus van Alebeek during the Estafette Rue Cassette on June 20th, 2010 (read more below) became available as a digital download from Bandcamp.
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Discuts
july 25, 2011.
Jotting
down this short note on Tapetronic's Discuts Magazine reminded
me of our last year's Estafette Rue Cassette. On the 20th
of June, 2010, we did a sort of live Tape Run (an estafette is a relay
race) all along the
Rue Cassette, in Paris' 6th arrondissement. I still owe you (but most
of all, I guess, myself) a report on that fine event, which by now is lóóóóng
overdue.
No. Also this is not that report. But last year's Estafette Rue Cassette is a good entrée to Discuts.
Last year in the rue Cassette, Tapetronic (moniker of Alexis Malbert) was one of the performing contributors. It is not Alexis' ear in the picture above. The ear is Gabriela VaÅ¡ková's (↑). Below (↓) though, yes: these are pictures of Alexis, shot in the rue Cassette during his performance with a couple of his customized/modified cassette machines, on the corner of the rue Honoré Chevalier:
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Tapetronic is a fine performer, a cassetteur that knows how to blast a mean beat; his is often a tricky and glitchy beat, but a beat that hardly ever fails to get an audience up & dance. (Hear, hear! ... That is kinda rare for a cassetteur, as far as I can tell. This, however, might also be because, at least partly due to my personal preferences and predilections, I will not too easily run into cassetteurs of that particular ilk. Whatever. Anyway.) Alexis is also an ardent collector of audio oddities and obsolete audio technology. The lad doesn't cease to dig up ever more 'forgotten' audio and audio-recording related curiosities. He brings it all together on his entertaining and instructive Discuts blog.
Added august 19th, 2020 ... digital staaltape release of the Rue Cassette (2010) recordings made by Rinus van Alebeek, at Bandcamp's ...
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The Discuts blog comes with a physical companion, a materialization, as it were, of the site's focus on obsolete technologies: a free paper Discuts (subtitled: Le magazine des manipulations sonores), sent free of charge to all members of the blog. Now even if your French is not all that nifty, I think that you should quickly get your copy of Discuts Magazine; if only for the fine pictures it contains. After you can find yourself a French speaking girl-/boyfriend that will be happy to transread you stories from Discuts. These paper Discuts - take my word for it - at some point in the future will become highly sought after itemmetees themselves.
For the current (2nd) issue of Discuts Magazine, Alexis talked with me about my on-, and on-, and on-going Found Tapes enterprise. That was in Paris, on Saturday May 14th, in a bistro not far from the Louvre. Given the object and subject of our entretien, I was not surprised that, when we started the interview, Alexis pulled an old black cassette machine (↑) from his bag. He pushed in a tape that had my name and number on it. And then pressed the big red button to 'record'...
Along
with Discuts' second edition, and as an audio-illustration of the Found Tapes interview, Discuts proposes its readers a limited edition
Found Tapes cassette (←) . For the Discuts FT cassette,
I made a special 2 x 30 minutes selection from the near to 14 hours of audio
extracts from my collection of Found Tapes. For each of the Discuts Found Tapes Selection-cassettes,
the found audio has been recorded onto previously owned C60 Chrome cassette tapes (in fact, they all come from a lot that FlexRex picked from
the refuse in the streets
of Montreuil some months ago). And, of course, the tapes come with a wonderful Discuts cover.
[ Order this finely crafted collector's itemmettee by clicking the PayPal link below; they go at only €10,- and ship along with a copy of Discuts Magazine (p&p included). ]
tags: Found Tapes, cassetteurs, rue Cassette, Paris
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