The Overnightscape Underground

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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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(1:28:58) A thoughtful Shambles Constant, a mindful PQ Ribber, a rewinding Frank Edward Nora and reminiscent host Jimbo recall the past for your listening pleasure!

You’re all invited to be a part of next week’s show; you can tell us all what’s on your mind about the following topic:

Early Rock and Roll Music

Please have your contributions sent to Jimbo by 🕖 7 pm EDT, March 27, 2017. If you know Jimbo’s email address, send it there. Otherwise, send your contributions to onsugcentral@gmail.com…

Thanks to Frank Edward Nora for allowing me to use and abuse his show art! And more thanks to Frank, Marc Rose, PQ, Eddie Murray, Shambles, Chad Bowers, Carrie Michel and Ruben Schade for the intro contribution.

Music credit: S̩bastien L̩ger РChristmas Modular Live Session (YouTube)

Attribution by Jimbo. Guests appear courtesy of themselves.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Released March 2017 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a free-form monologue style, with diverse and very clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

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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.

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20:00 – 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.

In August 2001 I drove down to Baltimore to see a college friend. This short tape mostly documents the drive down, though there’s a little on the way back. Whenever I hear this tape, I think about how it was less than 3 weeks before 9/11… how I had no idea it was coming…

I did keep in touch with my friend from time to time after the visit, but sadly, she passed away in 2012.

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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.

Here’s a very special tape from my childhood, which contains my earliest recordings. Labeled “OLD”, I dubbed the tape in the 1980’s to a new cassette to make sure it was preserved. This recording is taken from the dub.

Side 1 is from September 15-16, 1969, a few weeks before my 2nd birthday. This is my first recording, as far as I can tell. My parents interview me and give me a bath. I may have played parts of this on Onsug before, but this is the first time it’s being presented in its entirety.

Side 2 contains several sections. The first part is my father interviewing me, on 11/16/69 and then 2/22/70. In the 1970 section, I talk a lot about Sesame Street, which had premiered just 3 months earlier. I previously released this section as Cut and Shoot. The next part is from 11/24/73, when I’m 6. My brother, age 3, is also on the tape. I previously released this part as Tornado Warning. The final section, which may be from that same day, or at least within the next few weeks, has me recording and talking alone and also talking to my brothers. I released part of this section as Bad Hole, but much of this section was previously unreleased.

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2:34:51 – Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Fear nap, road salt, parking lot, Penny Dreadful, grits, cravings, snow shovel, Anunnaki, Grand Central, contentment, my theory of it all, pepper packets, Citywide Ferry Service, Hearthstone, Hobnob Return, the universe as a game, Times Squate, Gulliver’s Gate, pedestrian incidents, The Onsug Project, the homeless, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:52:56)… All the Way by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Hobnob Return (Nova 1) by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Datalinks (Line remix) by Posthuman [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – The Late Movie – “Three Faces West” (Opening, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WDW Monorail (1998) [collection], Sing With Me by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Boo Ga Loo by Limbo Deluxe [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Sheriff’s Song by Starsheriff Orchestra [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], A l’autre bout du monde by ENIGMA63 [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Classic TV: 1975 NBC ”Fall Line-Up” Promo Special (1975) (excerpt) [Archive.org].

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