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Blue Tapes

@bluetapes.bsky.social
5.2K followers 3.1K following 8.1K posts

Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork. bluetapes.bandcamp.com

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 2h
Select all squares containing Jandek
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 3h
I was listening to my vinyl copy of the Xanadu soundtrack today and have few to no regrets
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 3h
102!
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 3h
Old cyanotypes revisited 98
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 7h
Did you sell a copy to this guy? youtu.be/Quba72Xli8o
youtu.be
Peter Doherty queues for Oasis album
YouTube video by yamakemelaff
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 7h
I have a vague memory of Be Here Now being a Thursday for some reason
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 8h
Ooh can’t wait to read
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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 8h
new wire! i rly enjoyed talking to tiiva about imbuing sampled vocals with emotion, sound-making as stimming, and their excellent new album on @bluetapes.bsky.social! i also reviewed releases by julia holter, dina maccabee + sarah belle reid! buy a magazine!
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 9h
What is this dystopian bullshit
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 9h
*Cronenberg
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 9h
Yeah in the opening it says the adoption of flares was inspired by The Stone Roses and The Smiths
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 9h
The Smiths surely never wore a flared jean in their lives
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 9h
David Cronenbourg to direct biopic
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 9h
Not soon enough, apparently
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Old cyanotypes revisited 97
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 10h
Yeah this video has been around for years
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 11h
Art of the day Saskia Colwell
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 14h
He can play himself I reckon
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 15h
Who are we having for Fripp?
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 15h
Does anyone have any experience of using those 3D-printed wind instruments (drone flutes, bass clarinets, double chamber ocarinas etc) that seem to be constantly being marketed to me?
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 15h
In a retrospective interview Bernard and Brett said the b sides were always just the next lot of songs after the album, so had there not been a requirement to do b sides for singles, those tracks just would have been the next album
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Geese
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Art of the day Thomas Doyle — Temporary Redirect (mini sculpture, mixed media, 21 x 26 x 26 centimeters, 2024)
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Mike Flaherty @mflah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not long until #cassetteweek hosted by #tapeheadcity If you ARE in North Wales on Oct 17th, please do drop into VOD Music and join us! The twin cassette decks are ready for a day or tape DJing - bring some tapes down and join the party! www.vodmusic.co.uk/instore-even...
Twin cassette desks with mixer and logos for Save Ferric, VOD Music and Cassette Week 2026.
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think jungle
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What was the coolest music that was invented in the 1990s?
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My mum took it back to the video shop and complained
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t dislike the Dingo soundtrack he did with Davis
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We participated in the special rendition programme so if there was anything even vaguely suspected of being terror related happening these people would be in gitmo by now, instead of wandering the streets
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I did see the poster somewhere and wonder if there was a connection
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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 05/10/2026
Highly recommended buy. Worth so much more than just paying this dude's dental bill (which is of course worth it). It's mesmerizing. This one made a bigger impression on me than Autechre Guitar.
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah I don’t really play games but that does look cool
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What’s mundaun?
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Superman 3. You know the bit.
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah 2011 - I was there but I may have confused them with The Berg Sans Nipple youtu.be/pERok68KMXM?...
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Skull Defekts live at supersonic2011
YouTube video by SupersonicFestival
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think it was at SuperSonic in about 2010, unless it was another band I was thinking of
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think I saw them live once
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Old cyanotypes revisited 97
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Caroline Munro!
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Old cyanotypes revisited 96
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Art of the day Karl Peter Röhl (1890-1975) [Germany] ‘Untitled (machine on wheels)’, 1922. India ink on paper (25,8 × 35,3 cm).
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think of this one often youtu.be/2EtalOOS-eM?...
youtu.be
Key & Peele - A Cappella - Uncensored
YouTube video by Comedy Central
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Loneliness of Lizards (Inês Nunes, 2025)28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta, 2026)Payroll (Sidney Hayers, 1961)Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson, 1940)
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s Bandcamp day of Fridays. We had the launch party for this on Wednesday and it was lots of fun (possibly too much fun as I lost my laptop on the way home). Blissed out pop on tape, digital, CD that you can own forever bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...
bluetapes.bandcamp.com
blue fifty-nine/this could be a start, by Tiiva
8 track album
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Art of the day Crowded park in the City  -   Bram Demunter , 2018-19
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Art of the day For Now We See Through A Glass Darkly, Joyce Lin, 2019
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s Bandcamp day of Fridays. We had the launch party for this on Wednesday and it was lots of fun (possibly too much fun as I lost my laptop on the way home). Blissed out pop on tape, digital, CD that you can own forever bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...
bluetapes.bandcamp.com
blue fifty-nine/this could be a start, by Tiiva
8 track album
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
…and business is good?
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who were The Four Horsemen, New England and Kingofthehill?
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But most grunge bands couldn’t even sustain themselves past their third albums!
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