Deposition: Vaporwave Moving from Bandcamp to Vinyl
To relate music to the states of matter, one can declare that physical media is the solid. The structure of the music will never change and will always play in the same order. Streaming...
Category: Analog Adventures
Monthly Mixtape: February Redux
What is Cassette Culture? While Spotify playlists have long lay claim to the thrown of personal musical expression, there is something special about the humble mixtape. The hardy plastic encases hand picked songs that...
Analog Adventures: A Farewell to Kings
Rush A Farewell to Kings (1977) About the Artist Rush humbly began as a hard rock band in 1968 in Toronto, Canada. The band became modestly successful on the radio with the song Working...
Analog Adventures: Journey in Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda (1970) About the Artist Alice Coltrane is known as John Coltrane’s wife, but stands on her own as a great composer. Her style of jazz is soaked in...
Analog Adventures: Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium (1987) About the Artist Swiss heavy metal pioneers Celtic Frost originally formed as Hellhammer. The band is often cited as a profound influence on extreme metal genres such as...
2019 Physical Media Retrospect
A Year of Physical Media 2019 bucked a lot of trends with music distribution. Cassettes are seeing a small comeback likely due to their low-cost and accessibility. CDs were once thought to be going...
Analog Adventures: Volume 2
She & Him Volume Two (2010) About the Artist Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward are the two parts that make one entire She & Him. The folk rock duo came together in 2006 when...
Analog Adventures: I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts
The Waitresses I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts (1982) About the Artist The Waitresses hail from Akron, Ohio and came together in 1978. The band was initially a...
Analog Adventures: Isolation
Kali Uchis Isolation (2018) About the Artist Kali Uchis is a Colombian American artist that likes to play with genres. She cites 1960s doo-wop, soul, and R&B as her biggest influences, and mixes...
Analog Adventures: Songs from the Big Chair
Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair (1985) About the Artist The 1980s is a decade full of synthesizers, jangly guitars, and excess. At its best you find artists like Tears for Fears....
