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Behringer City?

by Larry Crane

Our compatriots over at Australia's fine Audio Technology magazine posted this video of a visit to Behringer City. See Video Here. It's a curious visit and Chris Holder offers some good insight into this man and his company. Thanks to Steven...

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Arooj Aftab Releases New Album, Night Reign

by Geoff Stanfield

Arooj Aftab's Night Reign Arooj Aftab is a four time Grammy-nominated artist we featured in Tape Op issue #157. With Pakistani roots, she sings in Urdu and English, and became one of my favorite vocalists the moment I saw her performing on a live...

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Tape Op Staff Picks for 2019 and the Decade

by Geoff Stanfield

What another great year for music! It is always a challenge to sit down, reflect and try to narrow down all our favorite albums of the year (let alone a full decade!) into a simple list. Here at Tape Op we are frequently making music suggestions...

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Mdou Moctar Releases Tears of Injustice

by Geoff Stanfield

Released in 2024, Mdou Moctar's Funeral for Justice is a raucous, distorted guitar-driven album that, along with bands such as Tinariwen, turns the idea of "world music" on its head. The heavy tones of Moctar's guitar plus driving and trancey...

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Larry Klein:Beyond Music

by Geoff Stanfield

by John Baccigaluppi We recently did an interview with producer Larry Klein that will run in an issue of Tape Op in 2020, but here's an excerpt about a recently-released project he worked on called Beyond Music.  A couple of years ago, these...

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Text-Only Tape Op Interviews on Kindle and iBookstore?

by Dave Middleton

Now that the Tape Op iPad app is available, we've been trying to figure out the best ways to get the magazine to other digital formats. Expansion to other full-fledged tablets (Android, etc) is a fairly straightforward - if laborious - process, in...

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A Great Way to experience an angry comment to Tape Op

by Larry Crane

Enjoy a light-hearted animated romp courtesy of xtranormal.com's wonderful service. This is a real comment posted to our blog here. Sure is nice to feel the love.

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BEST STUPID STUDIO CHATTER EVER?

by Larry Crane

Al Kooper produced this band in the '80s. They really knew how to argue - with him, with each other and probably with anyone in a ten-mile radius. Al edited out the music and kept the wonderful conversation, releasing it on one of his limited (300...

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New FKA twigs: Eusexua

by Geoff Stanfield

FKA twigs has long been a semi-underground favorite, and it would seem that her goal has never been to crack the mainstream at the expense of an artistic expression. With her new album, Eusexua, the door to an even larger audience may be cracked...