Picking up from where we last heard from him, Jack Dangers has continued his analogue audio explorations through his latest release, a 10" released in cooperation with the Science and Education division of Tino Corp. For four tracks on the 10", Dangers avoids the usage of samplers, resorting to analogue tape manipulations, resulting in a very 50s horror film soundtrack/early Stockhausen-esque musique concrète type of sound.This record will be a surprise for those expecting punchy sampled and live drum breaks and hefty basslines, as it more closely resembles the experiments on the original 'Sounds of the 20th Century' flexi-disc that came with 'Eccentric Objects'. While it's essentially neat to hear Dangers try his hand at pre-digital ambience, classic sci-fi and horror sound effects, a record like this probably won't be getting much rotation in my player. Fans of the campy experimentation with old radio broadcasts and instructional records would be happy to hear that the first 1000 copies of 'Tape Music' comes with a bonus 7" flexidisc: number two of 'Sounds of the 20th Century'. Side one experiments with various types of analogue sound manipulations, with introductions lifted off of old audiofile records while side two is a collection of layered experiments on the human voice coupled with old instructional recordings which sound like military
 
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