Retrieved audio from 20 year old zip discs and DAT, "The Apartment" (A Recovered Memory of Chicago, 1996)

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Hi, all: Rather interesting release here, just for the process involved.

Maybe this has happened to you with digital recording:

I wrote a spoken word piece and recorded it in 2003. This was during a prolific period where I started more ideas than completed, and “The Apartment” was one of those unfinished ideas. It’s a real story about a landlord I had who did some seriously unusual things. I returned to the idea of this story a few times, and then in 2010 I decided to find the audio I recorded, only to find it was on DAT, or digital audio tape (the one format I doubt will ever be revived) — in humor, my backup was on zip disc.

So both digital versions were unretrievable. In 2015 I went through the trouble to retrieve all the data off my zip discs and the vocals for “The Apartment” were there, along with a bunch of started music.

In 2019 I finally finished the recording, and mastered it this year. As a finished project that had been unfinished, I’m very pleased with it. Just put it on Bandcamp this morning:

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This stuff is so great, and not merely for the Chicago content (I’ve lived there twice). I’m your newest fan!

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How cool. Something to occupy a bit of the space left by Joe Frank.

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@niall and @bran — What kind comments, thank you both!

Regards on Chicago familiarity (twice is a lot!) and that’s oddly the second Joe Frank comment I’ve gotten this week. Ha, I’ll take that challenge. Gunning for Art Bell, too, partly.

Thanks very much.

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Can’t go wrong with Joe Frank, Chris Morris, Victor Lewis Smith, Simon Munnery, et al, but I hear a kinship with some of my current favorites, especially the Here Be Monsters podcast.

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Rock n roll - Writing this all down, not familiar with any of those other names. Checking out Hear Be Monsters right now - Thanks, friend!