Wordsabout records
In defence of the badly recorded demo
Everything worth hearing in the last forty years arrived on a tape that sounded terrible. That was never the problem — it was the point.
Field notes from a dead format
Six months of buying minidiscs from people who were extremely relieved to see them go, and what turned up on them.
Nobody knows how to sequence a record any more
The running order used to be an argument. Now it is an algorithm, and you can hear the difference on the third track.