Tape Collision: Archive

New blog location

Hey all, I switched my blog from Tumblr to Posterous (mainly for the email Markdown support). Here’s the new location: http://tapecollision.posterous.com/

Sep 4th

Aug 13th

Tape Delay: After Years in the Musical Margins,... →

Paste has an article on the resurgence of audio cassette tapes. Truth be told, the evidence presented is not all that convincing. I remember reading about Beck covering Evol by Sonic Youth on cassette some time ago, and have yet to see actual product. Even when writing about the allure of cassettes, the author can’t help but bring in examples of their limitations (like melting in your...

Aug 5th

Watch

Memory Tapes - “Bicycle” (by Jamie Harley)

Aug 5th

Aug 1st

Jul 4th

Jul 3rd

Jeff Mills Releases Vinyl/CD Hybrid →

This is really cool but just seems totally impractical.

Jun 17th

USB typewriter for iPad →

All I can say is “‘wow.” A $200 kit to convert your typewriter to a iPad keyboard.

Jun 16th

Jun 11th

1 note

Jun 8th

Ghost in the Machine: Uniquely Musical Cassette... →

May 30th

May 29th

May 15th

May 9th

May 8th

Apr 24th

Robot Love

Robots are supposed to make life easier for human beings. Until they turn on us, and we need robot insurance, most of them will be doing just that. The following are a few of my favorite robots. Splitterbot is a little robot that my wife has. It does its duty by letting us both listen to the same thing on my iPod at the same time. The little guy is perfect for trips and late at night when I...

Apr 11th

Apr 10th

Youth Culture

“Some people see rock & roll as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture by mass marketing, and commercial paranoia behavior control. And the first step is to destroy the record companies.” -Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

Apr 9th

“Use your own Mandrake fork on a homebrew steampunk tower, don’t use your own...”

– The Macalope, responding to Cory Doctorow. Years ago, I considered Moby my arch-nemesis, but I think he’s been supplanted by Cory Doctorow.

Apr 4th

Mar 25th

“Not to be a meta-snob, but I’m getting the impression that Blu-ray’s giant...”

– kung fu grippe “Do I have your loyalty?”

Mar 23rd

Mar 22nd

http://zenhabits.net/2010/03/google-free/ →

Leo details why he wants to move away from Google services and how he is going about doing it. I’ve thought about making similar moves ever since the Buzz privacy debacle.

Mar 22nd