Greetings and welcome to a quick LGR Christmas thing! And this is the
Electronic Computer Christmas Music cassette tape. Ooh, 12 total tunes of
hi-tech contemporary music! At least, as it was defined in 1990 when this
presumably came out. I say "presumably" because this is a thing that I'm not
entirely sure I have a lot of concrete details on, but that's one reason that I
wanted to pick it up as soon as I saw it at a thrift store not too long ago. It
was just standing out amongst all the other cassette tapes that are just
normally strewn about on the shelf. I mean, that artwork, the title, and just the
fact that when I looked it up on Discogs.com it said it was by "unknown artist." So,
yeah I really genuinely don't know who composed the music that is contained on
this tape. I do however know that it has some fantastic artwork on the front.
I mean, look at that delightful dude hanging around with this audio-visual
switchboard, presumably enjoying some Christmas music and visuals from his
desk inside Tron or wherever he's located. I don't know and I don't care because it's
great! It does actually list some information a few places on the
packaging, like right here where it says it's made in 1990 by Silver Bells Music in
Nashville, Tennessee. Just checking around anywhere I could and it seems that they
released all sorts of random stuff on tapes and CDs from 1985 to around
1991-92: music that's mixed with bird sound effects, compilations, and then
there's themed tapes like this one here. The Electronic Computer Christmas Music
set. I mean just looking at the tape there's nothing special about it. No, it's
not chrome or anything like that it's probably just a plain old ferric thing.
No Dolby noise reduction, nothing like that, it's just a cheap tape. So I'm
assuming it was just mass produced and sold anywhere they could. Or maybe it
wasn't really mass produced and it was just kind of tossed out there. I don't
know, maybe this is rare, I can't really tell. Although amusingly, like, the
day after I got this at Goodwill I was looking around on YouTube to see if
anybody else had posted anything about it, and there was like, somebody had just
uploaded it within 24 hours. It was really strange timing. Either way though
I hope that you enjoy this cassette tape version of Electronic Christmas Music by
the famous artist, Unknown. Enjoy!
*music plays for the next 14 minutes or so*
Well that is it for Electronic Computer Christmas Music! At least for the amount
of stuff that I want to put in this particular video. I wasn't gonna play the
entire thing because honestly these were just the highlights. A lot of it isn't
that good. Its good stuff is pretty darn good,
in that enjoyably cheesy nostalgic way, but then there's the rest of it which just
feels like a guy got hold of a Roland synthesizer and just started banging out
some things, pressing every single button on there to get as many voices in as
possible. Just like "Wow, listen to how many things my synthesizer can
recreate!" *chuckles* It's a hit and miss tape that's for sure. But if you want to
listen to the rest of the tracks I don't blame you. I'll leave links in the video
description there. And of course more traditional, more expected types of LGR
episodes are in the works, as always. This was just a little bit of a filler to get
you and me in a bit of a Christmasy electronic computer mood. And if it did
why not check out some of my other videos! I don't really do a lot of stuff
like this, but it's pretty much always related to old tech and computers and
things like that, so stick around if you'd like. I sure would
appreciate it, and as always thank you very much for watching!