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80s Pause Button Tapes A collection of old pause button tapes recorded from the radio in the 1980s
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Back in the 1980s, when I was very poor, I used to sit at home recording loads of stuff off the radio, and make pause button tapes of the best music. Now, thanks to the miracles of modern technology, this can be enjoyed at home by anyone, thanks to the generosity of the internet. Much of this was originally taped from the John Peel show, which was for me, like many who were trapped in shit towns in the UK, a window into a world of fantastic music, music that I couldn't really afford, save for the occasional splash on a Streetsounds compilation.
The music on here is wildly diverse, as it should be, in my view. Recorded in the first half of 1987 It's what I was digging 23 years ago. The editing is hilariously bad, but then everything was hilariously bad in the 80s (check out those haircuts baby). Hope you dig it. There's also a tracklist which I will type in when I get a minute.
- check1,2
- miss remember
miss remember on February 01, 2012 00:29
"but then everything was hilariously bad in the 80s (check out those haircuts baby)" Speak for yourself: my hair was fabulous.
- westlake72
westlake72 at 1.10 on January 03, 2011 02:14
nice one - i wish i could find some of my ‘pause-button cuttin’ tapes… mine were recorded from Westwood.
- Sir Ted Trumpet
Sir Ted Trumpet on November 10, 2010 12:58
So good to hear Peel again. Didn't realise there was a name for them, but I too have a handful of Peel 'Pause Button Tapes' in the attic and will have to dig them out. Easy to forget how much new music Peel introduced us too. I recall writing into Peel's show once, and sitting there for days - finger hovering over un-pause button - waiting for him to read out my letter. After an hour or so of listening one night, I went to toilet. Predictably, that is when he read out my letter. Ah well.....
- Y.K (Back In My Roots)
- ben sims
- Albion
Albion on June 28, 2010 01:54
Ha hilarious! I have a series of Peel tapes from around 88-92 of mostly house/tech/rave and the occasional random Yugoslvian punk band where I forgot to press pause. As Bill says it was the only way to get hold of good music, when you lived on an island off the south coast of England. I was thinking of doing the exact same thing and posting them up..maybe I will one day.
- Bill Brewster
Bill Brewster on June 25, 2010 08:56
I've posted tracklists of the first two volumes here:
http://djhistoryuk.blogspot.com/ - Joe Bonez
Joe Bonez on June 25, 2010 01:24
NIce one Bill, many thanks for the memories of pause button mixing and cutting magnetic tapes in the late 80's/early 90's. I turn 33 today and this is a lovely reminder of my youth and of a sorely missed radio pioneer.
- ed2000
ed2000 on June 24, 2010 11:48
nice - ! brings back memories of pausebutton editing and piles of peel show cassettes down in cornwall in the early mid 70s ...
- ed2000
ed2000 on June 24, 2010 11:44
cool . pause button djing was big in my world back in the days as well !! and john peel archiving ... great post
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