I've talked about it before but Attention K-Mart Shoppers is such an incredible thing, a collection of overhead department store music from a forgotten era https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
My favorite thing is still the opening track from the October 1989 tape. The synths! The distortion! The yearning calls of the instruments! The piano! https://archive.org/details/KmartOctober1989
There are so many good tapes though
A lot of the ActivityPub spec was edited to that tape. I was selected for the Stripe Open Source Retreat; basically they gave a stipend and a space to work out of in San Francisco. It was kind of a neat program, an "open source artist in residence" program. I originally got the position to work on MediaGoblin, but ended up spending the time working on the ActivityPub spec and packaging MediaGoblin's dependencies for Guix instead
On weekends I would blast these tapes in the empty office and work
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