I bought some second-hand chrome audio cassette-tapes (BASF, made in Germany) in a thrift-shop becuase they are increasingly hard to find, with the express purpose to dub some of my old vinyl collection onto ... So I put a Residents EP on one side but hadnt recorded on the other .. Being a second-hand tape, the other side was an ABC Rage TV Madonna special ... My 4-track player is able to play both sides simultaneously (one side playing backwards) and there we have it .... The Madonna Abused Tape Album .. Theres also Einsturzende Neubauten's Kolaps album (hence lots of Blixa's screaming later on) and some homemade keyboarding in there too ...

I quite like some of the live versions of Madonna tracks in there, they give it a different feel than if they were purely the familiar studio versions. Once I digitised the tape, it found its way into rotation at the video shop I used to work at ...