Posts Tagged ‘tape’

Fifteen Inches Per Second

December 15th, 2007 by Russell Davies

Retro-technology + music geekery = speechification crack. And that’s what this programme is; “a radio celebration of quarter-inch magnetic tape - an invention that revolutionised the whole world of recorded sound”. I can’t find any reference to it anywhere on the BBCternets but it’s full of names that will excite audio enthusiasts: Paddy Kingsland. Geoff Emerick. Ron Geesin. Piers Plowright. Brilliant programme. I also enjoyed knowing that it took 2,100 feet and 7 inches of tape to make. (MP3 here)

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