Annoying, but it must be done.  We’ve got a myspace setup… join us and stay connected to the spirit realm:  myspace.com/gifttapes

Podcasts are coming soon… but in the meantime, I highly recommend listening to Jeff Conklin’s show on EVR (East Village Radio) called Bring Out Your Dead.  The show focuses on the music of the Grateful Dead, but I’ve noticed it also includes new stuff from the new age tape world underground.  Its good reefer for the hover-flow space-mind jams necessary to keep the earth afloat.

God Damn. This is my hand.  That is my tape and that shit was sealed.  I looked all over the place for this cassette. A few weeks back I found some cheesy website in the UK, a new age shop that had a pretty big catalog of shit. Check it out: http://www.discord.co.uk/. They listed that they were selling David Parson’s Sound of the Mothership on tape, so I took my chances. I didn’t think I’d really get the cassette, but then they got my hopes up after contacting me to inform me that I was in fact ordering a cassette. It arrived in the mail today and I’m going to fucking celebrate with beer. Cheers.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcSZE-4q_yA&eurl=http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ravi+shankar+sitar&www_google_domain=www.google.com&emb=0&aq=0&oqiurl=http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/rcSZE-4q_yA/hqdefault.jpg

Loosing touch on Lark in the Morning’s site where I found that video. I’ve really grown to love the sound of the sitar. And that reminds this dude:

David Parsons.  Former ad exec turned new age after seeing Ravi Shankar perform. He quits his job, goes to India, studies sitar, then buys a synth. Bouncing tracks back and forth on a tape machine, he came up with Sounds of the Mothership. Thanks Jeff! Actually, you should check out his blog: Avant Ghetto – it’s still there, dubbed from cassette.