The Overnightscape Underground

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2:22:31 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Dirty magic window, cigarillo, recycling, garbage, litter, STPRCNDCTR, Rush, Orbital, never satisfied, the early 21st Century, cyberpunk, Tape Land, ABM, Rt. 209, Fairy Tale Forest, college days, NYC, Times Square, National Crayon Day, narratives, escalator peril, Andrea True Connection, semi-blank, and much more…plus the Other Side (at 1:36:00)… 1950 – Roller Derby – the Jolters vs the Westerners (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Cosmos: War of the Planets (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Betty Boop: Is My Palm Reader (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Aeronautics and Space Report 1977 (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Teenagers from Outer Space (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Lady Frankenstein (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], The Lucifer Complex (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Classic commercials for extant products – Internet Archive edit (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Going Places (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Concrete Cowboys (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Mr. Wise Guy (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Rush Hour Space Age (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], 70’s TV: ‘Dusty’s Trail’ – Love Means Bananas (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], First Pictures Atomic Blast!, 1946/07/08 (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Watch Mr Wizard (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Invasion of the Bee Girls (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain].

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38:50 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

Another episode of my college radio show, Anything But Monday, with my co-host Mad Mike. There’s no date on the tape, but I estimate it to be from 3/17/86. Mike reads an article about celebrity salaries from the March 10, 1986 People Magazine. We also play the first episode of “Sounds of the Commons”.

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2:47:18 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Juggling, tobacco, hourglass, symbolic building, infrastructure, pirate radio, Union Square, hippie visions of utopia, The New Games, The Incredible String Band, Tape Land, forgotten Barnes & Noble, farro, Play Orbit, root beer, Level 42, cults, Orbital, 14th anniversary of Episode 1 of The Overnightscape, Doze On, The Monks, technology, thoughts on the past, present, and future of the show, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:06:46)… Epcot El Rio del Tiempo World Showcase [YouTube], PM USA Video Newsletter 1987/06/00 (1987) (excerpt) [Archive.org], Going Away by Christophe MARC [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Voltios by Jazzbel Fusion Trio [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Natural Convection by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Gilligans Island Pinball Promo Video [YouTube], Afro Blue by Triplexity [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0].

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55:51 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

Another episode of my college radio show, Anything But Monday, with my co-host Mad Mike. Highlights include the solid waste management PSA, mansion story, Tom Kean and Ronald Reagan, and much more…

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49:24 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

It was my first time back to the World Trade Center area since 9/11. I started off in lower Manhattan, and walked up along the Hudson River, to the World Financial Center, still being repaired. Later in the tape, I explore classic video game arcades in Times Square – visiting Laser Park and Broadway City Arcade – and talking about many other now long-lost landmarks of the area. Also on the tape are ambient sounds of commuting, notes on my Obliviana project (which would come to an end a year later), and much more… Recorded Feb 1-4, 2002.

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1:34:32 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

Recorded on Tuesday, October 24, and Wednesday, October 25, 1989, on this tape I’m “wallowing in the late 80s” and describing my deeply weird, intricately detailed dreams. It’s right after my magazine, Anything But Monday, collapsed, and I’m living at home with my parents, unemployed. It starts off with me playing Tetris on my Mac Plus in the basement, talking about my life, and then getting into the dreams.

I really enjoyed hearing this cassette – it is being presented here for the first time ever – as I hadn’t even heard it since I recorded it over 27 years ago.

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2:48:01 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Television in the 20th Century and the 21st Century, The Little Rascals, Little House on the Prairie, Penny Dreadful, The Americans, the confusing different ways to watch a TV show these days, paper towels, debt clock, a journey through mid-block crossings in Midtown, sandwiches, awkwardness, Pop Tarts Cafe, oud, Times Square, time capsule, dream phrase “Card Journeys Be Everyday Tomorrows”, 2101, Stormtoon Time, The Toxic Raspberry Herbal Latte, different elevator, Orisa, Vanessa, Super Mario Run, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Altered Beast,  Chuck Barris dead at 87, reality degenerating, An Omni the Madcaps, crayons, 5/19/74, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:07:24)… R. J. Reynolds Sampling [Archive.org], Guest List Girls by Ninetynine [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Dexception by Büromaschinen [Upitup Records, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], User Friendly (future mix) by Lee Rosevere [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], Banana Bread by Zebra Mussel [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Radio Madness by Taxi Dancer [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], It’s Alright (I Don’t Mind) by Copper Man [collection], Esa manera especial by Oscar Favre [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], WLS Channel 7 – 13 Queens Blvd. – “For Better or Worse” (Opening, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV].

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1:13:44 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

On this tape from 2001, I talk a lot about an audio project called “Stormtoon“, which didn’t really go anywhere, but was an important step on my way to starting The Overnightscape 16 months later. Recorded on 11/13/01, 11/18/01 and 11/25/01, it also contains ambient sounds of commuting, World Trade Center, dreams, KISS, 209, driving in the rain, Earth Jerk audio movie idea, and more.

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2:20:34 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: A dream within a dream, Neil Armstrong, Little Nemo in Slumberland, shades of brown paper, Dunkin’ Donuts, crushed basketball, Sneaky TT, Mandela Effect, Mr. T, Chuck Berry dead at 90, Russell Brand, deep drape, breathing, limousines, wild lunch, Cigar City Brewing Jai Alai IPA, Tape Land, Stormtoon Time, Earth Jerk, ramp fiction, creativity, Video Devil Jr., Retrobrands, Mr. Microphone, Clara Bow, Mannheim Steamroller mug, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:36:51)… Hot Dog… The Movie (1983) – Trailer [YouTube], Up All Night by Lee Rosevere [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 2.5], August 17, 1984 Showtime promos [YouTube], Magic of Fog by Rushus [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Crazy World by Wild Dawn [Jamendo, CC BY-ND 3.0], Lizards Hunter by Jetlag Dreams [Archive.org, Sucu Music, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Me Im A Monkey by G.G.Baron [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Sliding Gardens by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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52:55 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

Here’s an episode of my college radio show from over 30 years ago. As with most of these recordings, a few clips from this show have been played on Onsug, but the whole thing is being presented here for the first time since it aired.

It was an eventful time. We were in trouble with the school for what some viewed as objectionable content in the magazine we published based on the radio show. The week before I had just started dating my first girlfriend, and also went on my first “209 trip” with my friend Bryan. As well, I had just bought my Casio SK-1 sampling synthesizer, which I play around with incessantly on this episode.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com