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@bluetapes

Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork. https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com

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Kaijupop, by Soft-Bodied Humans 7 track album

I will also allow you to listen to Anna's contribution to my album

gangofducks.bandcamp.com/album/kaijupop

10.03.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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blue thirty-seven, by Hey String / Anna Homler and Elizabeth Falconer 3 track album

And the Anna Homler and Liz Falconer split with Hey String

bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-t...

10.03.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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blue forty-seven, by Minaru 7 track album

Also listen to Minaru

bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

10.03.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Love Deliquim In C!

10.03.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listen to Breadwoman

10.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s good work. I’m always curious about how street photography works - do you ask the subjects if you can photograph them first?

10.03.2026 22:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love Matana Roberts

10.03.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably gonna be Freddy Fox or someone

10.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, who's playing him?

Tbh a 'Picard'-style elderly Lovejoy could have mileage.

10.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible.

10.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
In The Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967)

In The Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967)

Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008)

Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008)

Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer, 2017)

Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer, 2017)

Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024)

Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024)

10.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Was that picture taken in Folkestone?

10.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I can’t talk

bsky.app/profile/blue...

10.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah the two types of British person: Peaky Blinder and Fleabag

10.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hold tight, Blue Tapes subscribers, parcels coming your way soon

10.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent description

10.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I long for the day when Elon Musk et al are in this list

10.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly

10.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More contentious: David Foster Wallace, Richard Dawkins

10.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Any cult but controversial 90s novelist: Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palnahuik

10.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Another more modern example: Grimes

10.03.2026 15:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lena Dunham is probably circling this space now

10.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of Gen X personalities - no one really has an opinion on Douglas Coupland anymore

10.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Rebecca Black has had a credible rehabilitation now though!

10.03.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like it was a question she was asked in an interview in The Sunday Times. Can’t check the actual feature cos it’s paywalled.

10.03.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s not Robin’s substack, he’s just linking to it

10.03.2026 09:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Art of the day

Kiko Miyares. Llanes, Spain-based artist

10.03.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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blue fifty-six, by Yapping Portal 18 track album

This @fire-toolz.bsky.social tape on @bluetapes.bsky.social is fucking great

bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

10.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Same sis

09.03.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those photos are iconic

09.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0