Marion Guillet

In the early 50s, Philips introduced the reel-to-reel tape recorder to the commercial market, marketing it as a device with a host of options. But what Philips hadn’t foreseen was that daring souls would take the tape recording deep into “the metallic wilderness” in search of prey lurking in our everyday audio fields. Meet the sound hunters.

When the stars are aligned, and space and time are favourable, Traxx appears and blesses us with tracks he associates with our chosen name. Here are some offbeat oddities of the bizarre and irregular sounds of rare vinyl and cassettes from his personal collection.