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yeah, it ain't exactly by-the-numbers. The inner sleeve details the concept behind the album and the artists on the compilation, considering this was mostly bought by people out of curiosity or sent to radio stations.

did cassettes ever catch on there?

I know they like their expensive as fuck CDs and vinyl

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In Japan? I'd have no clue, but from looking it up, it's still popular with the older generation. Not too surprising, really.



Don't really want to link Kotaku, but this article explains it best https://kotaku.com/why-music-cassette-tapes-arent-dead-in-japan-1517271485

I would stock up on tapes if I hit up japan tbh

fuck their CD prices in general

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As for the compilation, it was meant to be a multi-part series...but that apparently never panned out since Tokyo Mobile Music 1 and a few singles were the only releases under Phonogram's "Mobile Suit Corporation" banner.



Prices are absurd, thanks in no part due to the import costs. Hence the extra content.

its super not worth it in the era of itunes and digital music, but apparently the country is still a big market for physical releases

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Considering they sell so much physical product, it's a wonder how Sony has just now decided to open a new pressing plant despite so much of their vinyl being limited to one-time only pressings and/or being exported to Germany (and a large focus being on electronic/noise artists, two factions that were heavily saturated on the cassette format)

buying noise on vinyl is such a meme and is limited to dom fernow fans pretty much lol

Album Rating: 5.0

If I found it in a shop and it was cheap (plus, if it was a big name artist like Oren Ambarchi or the like), I'd ~probably~ pick it up. Turntablism is a lot more interesting when it comes to noise, honestly.

tape loops >>>>>

imagine paying big bucks for something that a guy made w some cheap cassette deck and random junk he found at the dump lol

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Some guy actually came into my local record store one time trying to sell his son's collection of stuff he was getting rid of. Tons of noise, ambient, electronic, krautrock shit. Safe to say, I would've scavenged through it...except the guy thought he was sitting on a goldmine and asked for way too much money for a product with little demand in a midwest town where the record-buying demographic is looking for Metallica, hair metal, Bowie, or indie flavor of the month.



Bummed me out for sure tbh

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"imagine paying big bucks for something that a guy made w some cheap cassette deck and random junk he found at the dump lol"



bandcamp is a haven for this shit, and i bet i could pull this off tbh (pro-tip i already did)

he shoulda made a discogs account lol

yeah the eventual string of Angrywank releases will be along those lines

very exclusive

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Wouldn't be surprised if he just took it to The Exchange or put it on Ebay

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Used to have a portable cassette player with a record function. Made a ton of shitty noise singles with it, even used it on BMDrummer's record from a few years ago. Finally bit the dust after twenty years of use, sadly.

im gonna make a trip to the thrift store soon to look for a couple cassette players and other junk

already have the pedals from playing guitar anyway

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Angrywank/Large African American collab 2018



gonna make TVC freak

the return of the Big Ni(we are all one race, the human race)?