Four tapes full of female singers in different genres, like grunge, trip hop, rock, pop-rock, pop and down-tempo. No idea which artists or which songs were on the tapes (probably I had noted only the tracknumber of each album on a piece of paper in the original tape-box).
So I listened to each converted tape and listen to the lyrics to find the title. It was very time consuming and I was also not happy about the audio quality. First I normalized the volume and it sounded like playing a CD under a woollen blanket. So I cranked it up with a compressor in Audacity.
The result was: the volume and stereo sounds got maximized and sometimes even clipping. However I decided to keep it this way, raw sounds fits the music and after all...it's still a ferro tape conversion with it's limitations.
Before I started uploading it to Mixcloud (without tracklistings, cause I was afraid Mixcloud would banned it if the same artist is more than 2 times in each tracklisting), I had an idea to create an image for each tape, with pictures of the albums of the artists on each tape. Photoscape had the perfect solution for this, called "Page" and within 15 minutes I had created the 6 pictures for these Ladies First tape sides.
Here is the link to first tape. In total there are 6 sides to listen too. Have fun, I hope you enjoy to listen to this 90s music as much as I did, when I tried to find the title of each track.
The Ladies First collection contains following artists (in random order): Alannah Myles, Zoë, Sass Jordan, Madonna, Ruby, Natalie Imbruglia, Meredith Brooks, Alanis Morisette, Niagara, Portishead and Garbage.
I posted more tapes on Mixcloud, check this page.
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