Unidentified beats, possibly late 80s early 90s

TLDR I got this tape years ago, recently recorded it digitally, and figured I’d post it online since it’s something that’s kept my interest for around a year now. There’s no EQ, compression, or other edits applied here as I thought it’d be best to present the tape in its rawest form. Tracks 1-3 only had material recorded to channel 1 (left) and are thus presented in mono, while Track 4 had audio on channels 1 and 2 (left and right) and is thus presented in stereo. I have no idea why Track 4 is so distorted; there weren’t any problems with my equipment or levels being set too high. It’s just kinda like that.

Track 1 00:00
Track 2 08:42
Track 3 17:17
Track 4 29:20

And the full, convoluted story: years ago I was driving around and came across an estate sale, so I checked it out and bought a Revox A77 tape deck from them. There were 2 reels on it with tape in each of them. One of them was a 7” plastic reel full of tape, and the other a 10.5” metal reel half filled with tape. This music is from the metal reel. I bought the Revox “as-is” with the only testing done being turning it on and making the motor spin, but I didn’t mind since it was like $25 and I got to keep the tapes with no extra charge. Turns out that's all that worked on it. Thus, the tape deck and reels sat around for years, set aside as a “maybe I’ll get to this eventually” sort of thing.

Fast forward a few years from that, and I bought a Panasonic RS760s at a thrift store. That this one did work! All I needed to do then was get a take-up reel and I could listen to those tapes… I don’t remember how much longer after that it took me to get around to finding one. Fast forward some amount of time again, and I got 2 empty 7” reels because that was the max size the Panasonic could take. One became my take-up reel, and I listened to the tape on the 7” reel while organizing a room in my parents’ basement (this tape had recordings of 78 RPM records.) After that I went about moving the other tape from the 10.5” reel to the empty 7” reel so I could listen to what was on it. This tape was heavily worn in some areas and during this process I managed to snap the tape into separate pieces. I stopped spooling the tape here.

I listened to a bit of this tape while it was still in the 10.5” reel, and it was a recording of the radio, so I expected the same on the other side of the tape. Needless to say I was very surprised when I heard… this. Specifically, because of where the tape had snapped and how much tape I spooled into the take-up real before playing, I was in the repetitive middle section of Track 2. I liked what I was hearing but was also just kind of baffled by it at the same time. I got a few minutes into this before I stopped the tape, because I was finished with what I was doing at my parents’ house. I left the tape in the machine like that… and once again forgot about it for a few more years.

FAST FORWARD A FEW MORE YEARS AGAIN (to April of last year) and I’m doing something in my parents’ basement, so I decide to listen to that tape again. This time what surprised me was hearing something that wasn’t just the same bars repeating over and over! It was at this point that the tape had fully captivated me. Not long after that I made a digital recording of what I’d got on the 7” real at that point. I listened to this version of it for most of the year until I got the supplies for splicing tape, and eventually made a decision on how to deal with the fact that the tape was heavily damaged in one spot and snapped apart in multiple spots (I later found out someone had apparently snapped the tape sometime before I got it since there was another section of it sort of loosely held in place by the tape still spooled into the metal reel).

What I eventually did was cut out the part that was so deteriorated it looked more like an old dried-up blade of grass than tape, spliced that section of tape back together, and then spliced on the two other sections of tape. The spots where the tape had snapped thankfully had distinct enough shapes that I could easily tell where to line them up and splice ‘em back together. Once that was together, I spliced leader tape onto each end so I could record as much of the tape as possible. Finally, I made digital recordings of the tape in both directions it and have been listening to it pretty frequently since then.

I haven’t been able to identify what this music is, but here’s some additional info that may help anyone who wants to try and find it themselves:
- I think the estate sale where I got the tape was somewhere on the county roads near Stoughton, Wisconsin, but I don’t really remember cause it’s been like 10 years
- The 10.5” metal reel containing this tape was marked “Ampex 456 Grand Master” but I have no idea if that’s even what kind of tape this was recorded on
- The 7” reel with the 78 RPM recordings was a plastic Scotch reel, marked with a white sticker featuring a monarch butterfly and the words “Kala Music.”

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