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
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber if you're not already familiar with the rabbit hole, the history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000 is wild! mass-produced subscription service generic muzak vinyl albums for retail shopping chains in the 50s-60s, the sheer VOLUME of available kitsch is difficult to comprehend. There's plenty available from above-board and below-board sources, including the archive https://archive.org/details/Seeburg1000_2
I decided to make my aunt a CD out of one of their Christmas albums as a gift one year, just low-fi 50's instrumentals, it gave her SO much nostalgia for her childhood, I wasn't expecting it to be a hit but a nice surprise :)
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