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Techno from Radio Falcon: Brain & Tommo (Mix Tape), Side B (Treble Up) Maxell 120 Min. Type II Tape

Made this mix-tape about 27 years ago (1998), when I were about 23 years old. Me and my good buddy "Brain" in Denmark, down in his room, were listen to danish radio station called "Radio Falcon". And we were both often recording from the radio, to a cassette using typical either ghettoblaster, or build in tape-player in the stereo.

And durring the years, I had collected a lot of those cassettes with recording from Radio Falcon. So I had somewhat of a good plastic bag of those tapes. Around in 1998 I connected two ghetto-blasters to a stereo, using jack-stick in the headphone out, and phono in, on the stereo. And using the volume knobs, as some sort of an alternative mix board, to fade the tracks in and out. Mixing the end of each track to the next track. Basiscally what people call typical a mix-tape.
Tapes collected for the mix, are from around 1987 to about 1998

Had to do some preparing before I started to record and do the mix-tape project. Like other DJ's have their vinyls prepared with small stickers on the vinyl, as an reminder were to place the pickup, and play their favorite tracks, I had to prepare all the tapes, and rewinded or played forward, so they all were ready in the right position. Were a bit nervous, because it were my first mix-tape. And had to get everything right with changing tapes, and fading the volumes on both ghettoblasters at the right time. Were aiming to get mainly the music from Radio Falcon, and not so much the talk/speak. But if I got some talk here and there, I felt it were allright. And could add to the nostalgia effect later on, listen to (typical) DJ Jørgen Orth. He found some great techno, and covered everything from house to techno to drum & bass genres.
Kind of fun how amateur style I did this mix-tape. But were a cheap way to mix music, if one didn't had the cash for a mixing console.

Today everything are just much more easier with fast computers, and a few software to mix various tracks one has selected.

But when everything are easy, and also easy access to music, there also seem to be missing...something. When things are scarce or in other words, good techno music are hard to find, and one have to be creative to mix them together, one also invest more effort into ones project.
Not trying to say that my old mix-tape are the shit (the best), and like some grand pa' saying modern ways are the worst.

But doing things analog, it's harder than doing things digital. Everything has to be perfect in one go. And if one should screw up the fading between two songs, it would be noticeable.

Today it's easy to both get a lot of techno from the radio, internet-radio or other places on the net. But back around in 1987 or so, when we first listened to Radio Falcon, that were typical the only place to listen to good techno. WWW (world wide web) were not invented yet. And came first in around 1995. So one couldn't just go online and listen or download a lot of music. There were only this local radiostation here in Denmark back then. And two years later in 1989, people with CD player or record player, could buy their techno in the shop called "Street Dance Records" (one in Copenhagen and other one in Aarhus in Jutland)

Words of Remembrance (DK: Mindeord) for Jørgen Orth (DJ at Radio Falcon from 1987-2006)
https://falkoneren.dk/article/mindeord-joergen-orth
Story of Jørgen Orth, with kind respect borrowed from the link. In case that site should close, and link be broken (here in Danish):
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Jørgen Orth var i en årrække en af de mest kendte stemmer i æteren over Frederiksberg og det øvrige Storkøbenhavn som vært på Radio Falcon, der i årene 1987-2006 opbyggede en position som et borgerligt og nyhedsbårent alternativ til DR. Lang tid før nogen havde tænkt på Radio24syv eller Loud - og helt uden millioncheck fra staten.

Jørgen Orth voksede op i Søllerød og var oprindeligt kontoruddannet, men efter at han flyttede til Mariendalsvej på Frederiksberg i 1993, blev han tilknyttet Radio Falcon, som var grundlagt af V.A. Jakobsen. Jørgen Orth varetog teknikken, bidrog med at sælge radioreklamer og overtog flere og flere opgaver som studievært og reporter. Det sidste indebar jævnlige rejser til Strasbourg, hvor Falcon som eneste danske medie hver måned fulgte samlingerne i EU-parlamentet.

I Falcon-studiet hjemme på Frederiksberg, først på Folkvarsvej i Svømmehalskvarteret, siden på Roskildevej, interviewede Jørgen Orth ofte ministre, borgmestre og andre politikere.

I 2006 valgte dengang 80-årige V.A. Jakobsen at lukke Radio Falcon, og Jørgen Orth arbejdede herefter som fitnessinstruktør og i butik.

Sine to sidste leveår tilbragte Jørgen Orth i Bruxelles og på Lolland.
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