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1.
xMAP part 1 14:39
Its function remains a mystery. In fact, the we'll be looking together at topographic landscapes and seascape. Each of them carefully designed for the state and almost given as if it's still facing with such fidelity. A reminder. When you hear this signal, it's time to move on. Please switch off the tape whenever you want to look at something in more detail or if the way ahead of you is crowded, spend as much time as you like in the introductory display. - 00:02:22:00 It's easy to imagine ourselves in the shoes of the traveler disembarking on the rocky shore. — 00:02:39:04 It's clear that this is not a view in the literal meaning of the word. Figures serve no better purpose than to humanize the scene and provide a convenient starting point for the art. We've now made a leap of 40 years. The blank surfaces obviously proved too much of a temptation, merely it appears, relatively one dimensional, almost invisible. This particular type, whatever it's obvious merits figures. - 00:03:20:06 The shrinking effect beyond just the left and right performs slightly, suggesting the scene. What does it mean? Almost scale the distance. Clear transit. You should now be standing in front of the beautifully atmospheric seascape that provides an appropriate starting point for art to covering the last few steps and start. If you move to the left of this tower. - 00:05:34:07 The view we're looking at now is, in fact. So riders can be passengers and cargo to the beach while an oceangoing vessel stands off in deep water. All right. This is an almost primeval quality to it. Where masses of heavy clouds dominate and help to establish, to remove immediately to the right. We might even be tempted to call this the clouds.- 00:06:02:15 If the eye weren't drawn to the human activity constantly in the lower part, this is because the intention is less to dazzle us than it is to seduce us with light. The chief element here, it picks up the leaves and branches of the trees, casts elongated shadows on the ground and creates beautifully varied reflections in the warmth.- 00:07:22:09 You can see how these reflections are blurred around watching swimmers at the left, right below the drinking car in the foreground and crystal clear blue town between them. - 00:07:51:04 Such a vivid observation is all the more remarkable given the fact that there's no high ground the earth is stood on among those long in the forth, and they are in gold and silver. And like every tree's frame, the composition and balance the gently rolling hills glassy river meanders slowly past in front of the ruins and then to this, by comparison with rather an artistic population. — 00:12:41:12 This bird's eye view immediately in front of you. It isn't even an illustration of intimate, naturalistic representations of familiar reality, a reminder to suggest the tide has given over to the sky for detail. - 00:14:16:05 More mood. It's clear that this is not a view in the living room where we're … - 00:14:39:16
2.
xMap part 2 14:39
[pt2 begins @] 00:15:14:18 Number six on the tour is the view we're looking at now. Once again, the sky plays an important role. The billowing clouds not only provide visual interest, they also allow patches of sunlight to filter through and lead our eye into the depths moved. We might signal crowded, come to constantly adrift in the water. The clouds keep bleaching of long strips of the combination of animals and naked figures. Beyond that, the left man and his most primitive and untamed surroundings recedes along the steeply avenue trees towards the distant second normal view of the room. 00:16:25:15 - 00:21:22:10 Unknown The view and the music. Indeed it is indeed. Even the views say to use is included in the main picture because you communicate to the locals and it is also very strange is almost insignificant to suggest in the longer we look through in the bushes that the right, much of which still survives today. 00:21:22:13 - 00:22:16:04 Unknown The tour now leads us from the countryside into the town, capped by numerous windmill. 00:22:16:06 - 00:24:27:19 Unknown In the foreground we see in meticulous detail the breach interior facing you as you move straight ahead around this tower. In fact, immediately in front of you, no, in the longer remote group, you if you move to the left, you lose touch. 00:24:27:21 - 00:25:27:04 Unknown The city itself depicts the walls dominated through the corridor, constantly covering the life you but with such civility. This is shallow. Please don't go close on. You won't have to turn off your machine. A reminder, all directions are given as if you're still facing one room in front of the nightclub while roaming the world with women who you can think of right then make their way is the way in which the room given over from the wall into the next room is from the reflected detail. 00:25:27:08 - 00:28:42:12 Unknown Now, look here. We're going to go through the you don't even know the difference between what you want to do here. And we would be glad to be accommodate all the women in the foreground with no arguing with the beauty of the room, with model for the third woman who a wider view would illustrate the sparseness of this column, beautifully modeled by the slanting wide. 00:28:42:15 - 00:29:19:00 Unknown We've come down to the end of this room. Please feel free to go back and when you're finished, switch off your machine. Now.

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Press the button for reproduction— all known X-perience is potentially confounded by MYSTERY TAPES, little boxes of sonifericity specifically formulated for the curious listener. Available in your choice of aural flavors: subliminally, blasted, excerpted, repeatpeateatedly, these cinemaphonically-concocted aggregates of trés different but exquisitely manifest, unprecedentedly varied festerings of audio quality fine magnetic cassette tapes digitally mastercloned to kiss the hiss are the best of whatever you've been listening for…

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released August 4, 2023

initially released sometime in 1983 or '84

the visual xMAP was created by Natalka Lubiw back then

this newly revised virtual version of the tape is # 3.3.3

Due to the Mystery Principle which states that what you don't want to know won't interfere with primary aesthetic appreciation, we have assembled this unique line of chockfullike compilation tapes which are ultravarious & unavoidably unidentified but occasionally perhaps vaguely familiar. This is your opportunity to obtain music without the risk of being offended by the composer's taste in pants. We think the more mysterious the more interesting & therefore we have gone all the way with these releases which are half an hour each of flabbergastronomy.

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X...coined to cover the counter-covert world of converted sound and retrofitted music, where collective melodic memories of the familiar are mined and rehabilitated to a new life. The blatant borrowings of the privateers of sound are a class distinct from common sample pocketing, parroting, and tune thievery. ... more

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