The Thomas Peake cassette collection
Howdy friends, Chris here, and I've got something really wonderful to present to you all.
Dena has asked me to help distribute the best cassette collection ever to the Peake-o-sphere. That's right, we have the cassette collection of our favorite master archivist right here, and you can have a piece it for your very own!
What I've got is three different crates of cassettes. Below are high resolution photos of the crates, from different angles in case you can't make out a title in one of the shots.
Sure, there are some regular commercially produced tapes in here, but for the most part they are either compilations that Thomas made himself, or impossibly obscure (and killer) albums from across the spectrum of music. As with just about everything Thomas did, just the cases themselves are often unique creations.
Genres and artists include:
- movie soundtracks
- free jazz, no wave
- old ATL punk/HC
- WREK shows like Pete Rentz's "Dead on the Heavy Funk"
- underground radio shows (non-WREK)
- Reich, Rolnik, Redd Kross
- Mingus, Mayfield, Minor Threat
- Sun Ra, Snakefinger, Skinpops
... and so on. Take a look, it's stunning!
Some appear to be mixtapes that friends made for Thomas, and I especially hope that those people will get word of this and will be able to get those tapes.
So, you've looked at the pictures, and you've identified some cassettes that you want, now what? Contact me ( via our submit@peakecast.org email here ) and let me know the title (or whatever the identifying info on the cassette spine says) for each cassette that you're interested in.
I will collect all of the requests together and work on distributing these in October. Just to head off one likely request, I can't digitize the cassettes and offer them up that way, but if someone out there already has experience doing that and wants to work with me on that, I'm game!
The pictures are below, grouped by the three crates. Enjoy!
CRATE 1
TFP cassette collection Crate 1 (left view)
TFP cassette collection Crate 1 (center view)
TFP cassette collection Crate 1 (right view)
CRATE 2
TFP cassette collection Crate 2 (left view)
TFP cassette collection Crate 2 (center view)
TFP cassette collection Crate 2 (right view)
CRATE 3 (actually two boxes)
TFP cassette collection Crate 3 part 1 (with flash)
TFP cassette collection Crate 3 part 1 (no flash)
TFP cassette collection Crate 3 part 2 (with flash)
TFP cassette collection Crate 3 part 2 (no flash)
Happy hunting!
September 15th, 2011 - 22:25
And FYI, I’ll be out of town (and mostly off the net) from Sept 18th to Oct 1st. I’ll catch up when I get back!
December 6th, 2011 - 14:23
Note to self: Claire Newburn sent me a message on Facebook, on Sept 25th, asking for some of the cassettes. When I do get to processing these requests I won’t think to look there, so I’m noting it here to remind me …
This is still on my to-do list, but I’m still buried in other work …