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Joe Meek: From Taboo to Telstar

by Geoff Stanfield

August 17th marked the release of a new Joe Meek restrospective.  The full album's title is Joe Meek: From Taboo to Telstar 1962: A Year In The Life of 304 Holloway Road (Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes). This is not necessarily "new" music from...

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Well This Sucks: Recording in the Time of Covid

by Geoff Stanfield

By Justin Douglas When you hear a particularly moving piece of music, and you get that little chill that runs from the top of your scalp down your spine, that’s a specific network in your brain logging that music into your memory....

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Great Reads on Recording and Music

by Geoff Stanfield

Here is a list of some of the books on recording and music that we have added to the reading (or re-reading!) queue recently.  Are We Still Rolling?by Phill BrownGreat studio session stories about The Rolling Stones, Talk Talk, Hendrix, Led...

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New SASAMI Single and Video: "Honeycrash"

by Geoff Stanfield

Check out the new video and single "Honeycrash" from SASAMI (#157). Produced by Jennifer Decilveo, who is interviewed in our May issue. Listen to "Honeycrash" Check out our interviews with SASAMI and Jennifer here: SASAMI Tape...

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Tape Op Bumper Stickers?

by Larry Crane

We're thinking of printing some bumper stickers to help promote the Tape Op brand name. Our ideas have included: "My Other Car is a Tape Op" "My Child is an Honor Student at Tape Op" "Honk if You're Tape Op" "I'd rather be reading Tape...

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Soundtrack to Brian Eno Documentary Out Now

by Geoff Stanfield

To accompany the new documentary film, Eno, a career spanning soundtrack has also been released. It is a 17-track album that dips into many eras of his 50 year solo career. We recommend checking out all of Eno's solo recordings,...

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Eliminate Variables

by Larry Crane

I finally figured out what makes for a successful tracking session: simply eliminate the variables. On one level this could be seen as pre-production combined with concise decision making. Certainly those can help - but what I'm talking about is...

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Nashville Recording Summit Nov. 13-15

by Larry Crane

Tape Op contributor, Chris Mara, has organized an amazing studio event coming up. I wanted to go but sessions have stopped me. If you can make it, this sounds like a lot of fun. Tape Op Messageboard Thread and instructions Welcome to 1979 Studio

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I Have A Credit Problem

by Count

Over the last few years we've seen an explosion of online music services. Pandora, iTunes, Spotify, Rhapsody, Soundcloud and dozens of other platforms are touted as groundbreaking ways to deliver music to listeners. But this success is on the...