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Casseptember: Goldblum

Verity Sharp continues our month-long celebration of cassette culture with a unique commission from Dutch duo Goldblum plus reflections on tapes from Phew, Ata Kak and Felix Kubin.

Verity Sharp continues our month-long celebration of cassette culture with a unique commission from Dutch duo Goldblum plus reflections on tapes from Phew, Ata Kak and Felix Kubin.

Born in 2020, the brainchild of Marijn Verbiesen and Michiel Klein, Goldblum crafts lo-fi sound collages, based predominantly around tape loops with the addition of keyboards, sounds gleaned from a variety of objects and vocals. In their practice, the duo love to go on the hunt for unlabeled home-dubbed cassettes at flea markets and thrift shops, which, they say, always bring 鈥渁 sense of surprise and beauty鈥� to their music-making. For their Casseptember commission, Goldblum use the portable cassette tape player as their principal instrument in the pursuit of surreal and kaleidoscopic sound-worlds.

Elsewhere in the show, a host of artists close to Late Junction hearts will be sharing their cassette memories: Phew recollects her first encounters with tapes when she was a teenager in Japan, while German experimenter Felix Kubin presents a self-made sound library that he recorded with his younger brother Max in 1985.

Plus, we revisit the Late Junction mixtape from Ghanaian highlife artist Ata Kak, whose self-released cassette Obaa Sima from 1994 became world-famous after it was discovered by Brian Shimkovitz, almost 25 years later. This musical find was the inspiration behind Shimkovitz鈥檚 Awesome Tapes From Africa blog and it led to Ata Kak - by then in his seventies - touring the world as an acclaimed musician.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Lenhart Tapes, Vladimir Lenhart & Igor 膶ubrilovi膰

    Vodu Brala (feat. Tijana Stankovi膰)

    • Dens.
    • Glitterbeat Records.

  • Maurice Louca & Elephantine

    Trembler

    • Moonshine.
    • Sub Rosa Label.

  • El Sheikh Emam

    Nixon Baba

    • Aghany El Sheikh Emam, Vol. 2.
    • Modissa - Moon Sound.

  • Maryam Saleh & Zeid Hamdan

    Nixon Baba

    • Nixon Baba.
    • Mostakell Records.

  • Cha芒bi Khadija

    Piste 5

    • Anzaha Cassette.
    • BMDA.

  • Ndox Electrique

    H茅 Yay 脩ali帽e

    • T毛dd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang.
    • Bongo Joe Records.

  • Kioto Aoki

    Is not IS

    • Paper not Plastic.
    • FPE Records.

  • Amy May Ellis

    Miner Farmer (Demo Version)

    • PostMap Club 153 Aud Mother.
    • Lost Map Records.

  • Aunt Sally

    Subete Urimono

    • Aunt Sally.
    • Mesh-Key.

  • Drid Machine, Kjetil Brandscal & Thore Warland

    Directions and Departure

    • Record Players, Percussion and Sound Effects I.

  • Joaqu铆n Cornejo

    M谩s All谩 Que Ac谩 (feat. Crvzloma)

    • M鈥嬅♀�媠 All谩 Que Ac谩.
    • YUKU.

  • 唯伪蚁伪谓蟿蠋谓畏蟼

    Na kateha pou menei aitos

    • Psarantonis' cassette.
    • Aerakis.

  • Jessica Ackerley, Kevin Cheli & Gahlord DeWald

    Silently

    • Submerging Silently.
    • Cacophonous Revival Recordings.

  • D鈥嬅┾�媎茅 avec Gaby 脿 l'Ariel

    L'oiseau rare

    • PRENDS LE TEMPS D'脡COUTER - Musique d'expression libre dans les classes Freinet.
    • LANCEPIERRE.

  • Goldblum

    Glass Feet

    • Late Junction Casseptember.

  • Eliza Carthy

    Adieu, Adieu

    • Red Rice.
    • Topic Records.

  • Bagpipe Orchestra and Choir (Bulgaria)

    Subrali Sa

    • To Drive Away the Vampires: Balkan Folk Musics, 1930s鈥�-鈥�80s.
    • Canary Records.

  • Gazelle Twin

    Black Dog

    • Black Dog.
    • Invada Records.

  • Ata Kak

    Obaa Sima

    • Awesome Tapes From Africa.

  • Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff

    Magg Tekki

    • Mississippi Records.

  • Scanner

    As My Piano Gently Weeps

    • Conversations with the Anthony Burgess cassette archives (1964鈥�-鈥�1993).
    • Sub Rosa.

  • Federico Lupo

    Incoming Message Cassette

    • Canti Magnetici.

  • Rohrer, Trobollowitsch & Namtchylak

    Lih

    • Jeito de Ferver.

  • Kassia Flux

    As the rain falls

    • Chaotic Pendulum.

  • Rosie Carr

    Now Oh Now

    • yew.
    • Toothpaste Records.

  • Steve Roden

    First Bird Form

    • First Bird Form.

  • Felix Kubin & Max Kubin

    Felix and Max Sound Library, 1985

  • Silvia Malnati, Claudia Malnati & Arianna Manzini

    Radio Zaffata, 2003

  • NOFX

    Green Corn

    • Ribbed.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Sep 2023 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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