{"product_id":"pye-corner-audio-black-mill-tapes-volume-5-the-lost-tapes","title":"Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volume 5: The Lost Tapes","description":"Cat: LPS27\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 21st June 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA1. Became Self Aware\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA2. Exhumed\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA3. Electronic Rhythm Number Thirteen\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA4. Theme Number Five\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB1. Return To Synth Mountain\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB2. Arlonica\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB3. Theme Sixty Eight\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* Text by Philip Sherburne:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the beginning, there was just a box of tapes and “Fate’s Gentle Hand.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt was the autumn of 2010, and an anonymous figure known only as the Head Technician, an employee of Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services (“Magnetically aligning ferrous particles since 1970”), found himself at an auction in the village of Coldred, pop. 110. He was on the hunt for tobacco pipes when he chanced across a trio of boxes listed in the auction catalog, which described their contents only as “archived magnetic recordings.” The sole bidder, he won the lot, and upon receipt of his purchase took possession of an unspecified number of mouldering cassettes and ¼\" reel-to-reel tapes. The collection contained no identifying information save for a single phrase scrawled on each box: “Black Mill Sessions.” And so, armed with razors, eyedroppers, and a bevy of solid-state circuitry, the Head Technician sat down at his machines and got to work.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhether anyone believed it or not, this was the framing device surrounding Pye Corner Audio’s Black Mill Tapes Volume I: Avant Shards, which took the mysterious tactics of artists like Boards of Canada and Burial and raised them exponentially. Much like the narrator of a 19th century novel, the anonymous Head Technician purported merely to be the messenger of secondhand sounds. These were not compositions, we were told; they were tape transfers—“transcriptions” of an unknown author, slathered","brand":"Lapsus Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40122959495324,"sku":"LPS27","price":19.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/unnamed_1_ffdc2de5-3290-491f-ae2f-e90933fe1a0a.jpg?v=1623348791","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/pye-corner-audio-black-mill-tapes-volume-5-the-lost-tapes","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}