The sight of a discarded tape at the roadside has become somewhat of a rarity over the last 10 years, and so when I stumbled across this one on the corner of Herne Hill & Ruskin Walk I couldn’t resist re-spooling it. Discarded tapes have always provided a little portal into someone else life, and often act as a rewarding time capsule - but particularly with their current scarcity I was all the more curious - who is still listening to tapes? What are they listening too? Why did they throw it out their car window?

There were no real indicators on the casing as to what the tape might contain, although the tape itself smelt strongly of perfume which it seems, had fused some parts of it together along with the dirt & leaves it had been sitting in.

After unraveling and drying the tape I salvaged what I could. The resulting recording is around 40 minutes of music (I lost around 5 minutes which just could not be recovered). In the interests of fairness to the previous owner I played half of one side and half of the other to give a decent snapshot of their abandoned tastes.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/naxc8s