Dirt Tapes Sounds: 60s/80s soundtracks on audio cassette
Dirt Tapes announces the birth of the new series Dirt Tapes Sounds, in collaboration with Four Flies Records. From December 2024 the cassette release Of a series of Italian soundtracks and instrumental albums, in some cases unreleased, from the 60s, 70s and 80s, composed by masters such as Sources, Alessandroni, Reverbs, Rusticilli and many others.
Each release will have a specific remaster for 18 tape, starting from the transfers of the original masters and produced with a complete line of revised “Tapematic” duplication from 1991, and a packaging enriched with posters, boxes and gadgets that will change from time to time time.
The first publication of the series, already available, is “Mystery”, unreleased album by Giuliano Sorgini: 16 tracks recorded with the help of Moog synthesizers between 1973 and 1979. The cassette is accompanied by packaging created specifically to immerse the listener in the atmosphere of the album.
To accompany the cassette of “Mystery”, 16 tarot cards (one card for each song), a poster, a cassette with full body UV printing and a box which, together with the cards and graphics of the MC, represents the parallel world created by the atmospheres of this unreleased song by maestro Sorgini.
The physical edition is exclusively on cassette but there is the possibility of listening on all streaming platforms.
Dirt Tapes was born in 2021 from the union of a group of musicians, producers and collectors who loved analogue music and who discovered music during the 80s and 90s thanks to cassette tapes and who have never stopped listening to them, including Karim Qqrumusician, producer and member of The Zen Circus.
The first albums published, in special edition on audio cassette, were “The second sexual revolution” of the Three Happy Dead Boys,”Life and opinions of Nello Scarpellini Gentleman” Of The Zen Circus And “Auff!” of Management.
Since then, in just three years, another 22 releases have followed, accompanied by two special cassettes: “Turismo Sentimentale” by Il saluto Dandy and “Mondo Naïf” by Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, on the occasion of the band’s thirtieth anniversary.
“The idea behind the birth of Dirt Tapes is simple” – say the founders – “Releasing albums from yesterday, today (and tomorrow) on cassette without barriers of genre and nationality, the only rule is to reflect the individual and common tastes of the people involved in this adventure.”
Dirt Tapes products can be purchased online at the site www.dirttapes.com and in a selection of small record shops on the peninsula, and are designed for enthusiasts and collectors
