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Kmart In-Store Music Tapes [audio]

143 points by niedzielski 5y ago

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EvanAnderson 5y ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 A lot of these were recorded local to my childhood home. The gentleman doing thr voice work also did work for a local radio station. His voice was very faniliar as a result. The voice of the K-Mart guy being on the radio seemed perfectly normal to me. Now I know that's just an artifact of where I grew up.
- dang 5y ago
  There was a smaller thread several years before that one too: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 - Dec 2020 (91 comments) Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369105 - Oct 2015 (13 comments)
natas 5y ago
execellent
12bits 5y ago
https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/juicy-the-emissary-attention-kmart-choppers-review https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/juicy-the-emissa... Kinda sorta related
mappu 5y ago
It also led to this remix album: https://juicytheemissary.bandcamp.com/album/attention-kmart-choppers https://juicytheemissary.bandcamp.com/album/attention-kmart-...
- Springtime 5y ago
  There's an earlier album that also sampled the archive I'm fond of[1], dipping in and out of a rather atmospheric and mellow tone. Golden Time being a favorite track. [1] https://sadsic.bandcamp.com/album/blue-light-special https://sadsic.bandcamp.com/album/blue-light-special
axaxs 5y ago
Just ffwd through a few. Very calming and interesting. It reminds me a lot of the TOMT subreddit. People are always posting production quality song recordings that just 'dont exist.' Just a stark reminder of how much art and music are ephemeral.
knaik94 5y ago
I absolutely love the Christmas editions https://archive.org/details/S.S.KresgeChristmasBackgroundMusicRecordNo.220 https://archive.org/details/S.S.KresgeChristmasBackgroundMus... The older records seem to be easily found under this user https://archive.org/details/@theugster https://archive.org/details/@theugster
CalRobert 5y ago
If this intrigues you, much of the music is on the Attention KMart Shoppers channel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZhOr_CxpX5uGraLexm4Zg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZhOr_CxpX5uGraLexm4Zg
SavantIdiot 5y ago
This is fantastic. While the hits of the decades are saved, often the crust & effluvia is discarded. Take for example, the HBO shorts that filled the odd minutes between the hours when movies would start, rather then starting them back-to-back (or compressing/editing the film to end on an hour). A few of these gems are on YouTube, but the rest have been lost. Fortunately some people saved long VHS recordings of the inbetween moments.

143 points by niedzielski 5y ago

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Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 A lot of these were recorded local to my childhood home. The gentleman doing thr voice work also did work for a local radio station. His voice was very faniliar as a result. The voice of the K-Mart guy being on the radio seemed perfectly normal to me. Now I know that's just an artifact of where I grew up.

dang 5y ago
There was a smaller thread several years before that one too: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271464 - Dec 2020 (91 comments) Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369105 - Oct 2015 (13 comments)

natas 5y ago

execellent

12bits 5y ago

https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/juicy-the-emissary-attention-kmart-choppers-review https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/juicy-the-emissa... Kinda sorta related

mappu 5y ago

It also led to this remix album: https://juicytheemissary.bandcamp.com/album/attention-kmart-choppers https://juicytheemissary.bandcamp.com/album/attention-kmart-...

Springtime 5y ago
There's an earlier album that also sampled the archive I'm fond of[1], dipping in and out of a rather atmospheric and mellow tone. Golden Time being a favorite track. [1] https://sadsic.bandcamp.com/album/blue-light-special https://sadsic.bandcamp.com/album/blue-light-special

axaxs 5y ago

Just ffwd through a few. Very calming and interesting. It reminds me a lot of the TOMT subreddit. People are always posting production quality song recordings that just 'dont exist.' Just a stark reminder of how much art and music are ephemeral.

knaik94 5y ago

I absolutely love the Christmas editions https://archive.org/details/S.S.KresgeChristmasBackgroundMusicRecordNo.220 https://archive.org/details/S.S.KresgeChristmasBackgroundMus... The older records seem to be easily found under this user https://archive.org/details/@theugster https://archive.org/details/@theugster

CalRobert 5y ago

If this intrigues you, much of the music is on the Attention KMart Shoppers channel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZhOr_CxpX5uGraLexm4Zg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZhOr_CxpX5uGraLexm4Zg

SavantIdiot 5y ago

This is fantastic. While the hits of the decades are saved, often the crust & effluvia is discarded. Take for example, the HBO shorts that filled the odd minutes between the hours when movies would start, rather then starting them back-to-back (or compressing/editing the film to end on an hour). A few of these gems are on YouTube, but the rest have been lost. Fortunately some people saved long VHS recordings of the inbetween moments.