Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.

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Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.

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I received this cassette back in mid 1997 (during Easter holidays, from what I remember) from a cousin of mine who studied back then in Edinburgh. It's a dubbed copy from the original tape owned by a colleague of his (maybe he was related to the duo, who knows).

The cassette has some harsh degradation due to the tape being played in heavy rotation back then in 1997-1998 because I had this habit of bringing the cassette with me on every road trip and listening again, again and again until mid 1998 after I found out about Daft Punk and Jay Z :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

So I found this forum to share with you guys what I have from 25 years ago.

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And here is the actual tape, as I said earlier the tape has harsh degradation. Enjoy.
https://files.fm/u/4aapetbyx
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It sounds pretty good to me, Any chance someone could balance the left and right though? My left ear is happy but my right ear is sad
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luminousdusk wrote:It sounds pretty good to me, Any chance someone could balance the left and right though? My left ear is happy but my right ear is sad
that was my stereo's fault, I didn't play the cassette part in a long time since I don't use it that much.
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Do you have Old Tunes vol 2? Since all over the internet has a mp3 version with noise reduction and it's ruining the details of the songs and it's pretty impossible to find an unedited version of it due to many scams on the internet.
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Michi-LFG wrote:Do you have Old Tunes vol 2? Since all over the internet has a mp3 version with noise reduction and it's ruining the details of the songs and it's pretty impossible to find an unedited version of it due to many scams on the internet.
No. I just received only A Few Old Tunes (or how my copy of the tape says Old Tunes Vol. 1 on it's cover)
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fake, pixelated as hell, digitally altered
good effort tho at least you took the time to record it to a real tape
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The end of Paul Russel's piece is missing and still noice reduced. Theres an obvious cut in King of Carnival. You're a fucking tool.

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This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.

Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better. :|
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"noice reduced"

Noice!

I think it sounds good regardless of what's been done to it
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Orbited insanitarium wrote:This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.

Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better. :|
How about the guy is an obvious liar? Does he deserve a prize?
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viper.giorgos wrote:I received this cassette back in mid 1997 (during Easter holidays, from what I remember) from a cousin of mine who studied back then in Edinburgh. It's a dubbed copy from the original tape owned by a colleague of his (maybe he was related to the duo, who knows).

The cassette has some harsh degradation due to the tape being played in heavy rotation back then in 1997-1998 because I had this habit of bringing the cassette with me on every road trip and listening again, again and again until mid 1998 after I found out about Daft Punk and Jay Z :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

So I found this forum to share with you guys what I have from 25 years ago.

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And here is the actual tape, as I said earlier the tape has harsh degradation. Enjoy.
https://files.fm/u/4aapetbyx

From the metadata of the photo, they've been setting this up since 2018 lol
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Moz wrote:
Orbited insanitarium wrote:This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.

Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better. :|
How about the guy is an obvious liar? Does he deserve a prize?
Could quite care less about someone's disposition to lie. It's an already countlessly ripped and widely known mixtape for a couple of years now, I don't think if I was a budding rare BoC sharer hoping to garner some excitement, that's the first release I would go for. :]

It's also nothing to get het up about in my opinion because of that.
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Orbited insanitarium wrote:
Moz wrote:
Orbited insanitarium wrote:This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.

Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better. :|
How about the guy is an obvious liar? Does he deserve a prize?
Could quite care less about someone's disposition to lie. It's an already countlessly ripped and widely known mixtape for a couple of years now, I don't think if I was a budding rare BoC sharer hoping to garner some excitement, that's the first release I would go for. :]

It's also nothing to get het up about in my opinion because of that.
that's exactly why it's the easiest of the tapes to fake
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I was going to suggest carbon dating the paper and ink of the J card but yeah metadata works
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do u have the full copy of on the hills wheeltower cassette pls
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You got me
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I tried to do an innocent troll just to see how many people know if it's a troll or not, like a social experiment for example. Still remember when BoC Discord got fooled with that Old Tunes vol. 2 tape that was on Discogs.
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viper.giorgos wrote:I tried to do an innocent troll just to see how many people know if it's a troll or not, like a social experiment for example. Still remember when BoC Discord got fooled with that Old Tunes vol. 2 tape that was on Discogs.
so u dont have wheeltower on the hills casate rip pls. ok
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0/10 didn't even eat it
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jnekina wrote:
viper.giorgos wrote:I tried to do an innocent troll just to see how many people know if it's a troll or not, like a social experiment for example. Still remember when BoC Discord got fooled with that Old Tunes vol. 2 tape that was on Discogs.
so u dont have wheeltower on the hills casate rip pls. ok
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