So I've downloaded the 4 parts of the Kmart tapes:
https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/S59557098#p59561207
https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/S59557098#p59563881
https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/S59557098#p59566730
https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/S59557098#p59569458
Now I'm wondering how I should tag them, I thought of this:
Welcome To Kmart, The Golden Years, Financial Difficulties, Thank You For Shopping With Us
This is the cover for Welcome To Kmart
>>60354353
The Golden Years
>>60354353
Hipsters lol
>>60354363
They're really comfy my man
>>60354361
Financial Difficulties
>>60354382
Thank You For Shopping With Us
So guys what do you think?
These look interesting. What genre would you say they are? Other than just 'muzak'.
>>60354668
I'd say ambient, chillout, downtempo, maybe even vaporwave?
The old 90s type of store music was its own thing really.
>>60354668
Easy Listening.
I love stuff like this. Suppose it's close to field recordings or Mother Earth's Plantasia. Okay I'm downloading these. I'll use your covers too, OP. Thanks.
>>60355153
No problem. Also the guy who first uploaded these tapes to archive.org recently put up 3 other tapes he found, 2 from the 70s and one from '88.
https://archive.org/details/KmartDecember1974ReelToReel
https://archive.org/details/Kmart1973ReelToReel
https://archive.org/details/May1988ReelToReel
>>60354353
Pretty dope, /rec/ these shits desu
Is there any other music like this? Specifically store type music.
>>60354353
Holy sheet these are great
>>60354793
I heard a Duran Duran song on one of the tapes. There's a lot of contemporary music in there as well.
>>60356721
Was it the actual song or an instrumental/cover of it? I heard it was quite common for stores to play "dumbed down" versions of popular songs to avoid lawsuits and copyright
>>60354353
interest piqued
are these like the actual playlists they use in Kmart stores, or is it some kind of conceptual dean blunt or james ferraro type thing, or what?
>>60356999
They were swiped and ripped by someone who worked there at the time
>>60355276
Nice one, thank you.
>>60354353
How am I supposed to scrobble these?
They have no artist tags.
>>60358550
You don't.
Remember, it's about the music, not about the bragging.
>>60358588
You can't stop me.
I'll just use the publisher names.
>>60355276
Nice, it'll good to hear some older /kmart/
These rule. I'm pretty sure there's a muzak version of Rainy Days and Mondays on one of them.
