TAPE 000 / 078
78 story drops · logged by hand

Unspooled

the sound of your Instagram stories, rewound, catalogued, and mildly overanalyzed. no algorithm did this — a human sat and read seventy-eight song credits like liner notes.
side a — the numbers

You logged 78.
You meant 77.

One track made it onto your story twice, back to back, identical credits, zero explanation. We're calling that a statement, not a glitch.

78
SONGS POSTED TO STORIES
~30
ARTISTS NEITHER OF US HAD HEARD OF
10+
COUNTRIES REPRESENTED, NO PASSPORT NEEDED
RAP / HIP-HOP
26%
ELECTRONIC / AMBIENT
20%
WORLD / DIASPORA
17%
ART POP / EXPERIMENTAL
14%
60s–70s ARCHIVE
12%
UNCLASSIFIABLE
11%
side a — the atlas

The world's smallest world tour.

One week of stories, and the playlist alone crossed more borders than most people do in a year — Tehran to Kabul to Algiers to Accra to Kolkata to Tokyo to Santo Domingo, home by breakfast.

Iran — Maral, "Dashti"
Afghanistan — Zohra Orchestra, "Badala Zamana"
Algeria — Cheb Rezki, "Ana Al Ghaltane"
Ghana — Ata Kak, "Yemmpa Aba"
India — Lata Mangeshkar & Kishore Kumar, Jhankar remix
Bengal / diaspora — Rupa, "Aaj Shanibar"
Japan — Haruomi Hosono, Kaho Matsui, Serani Poji
Dominican Republic × Spain — Tokischa, ROSALÍA
France — Françoise Hardy
Iceland — Björk
UK — Portishead, Skepta, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin
side b — genre whiplash

No two stories agreed on a mood.

Consecutive posts, wildly different rooms. This is either chaotic curation or the most honest possible mirror of a brain.

Abomination Street
Venetian Snares — breakcore, no mercy
Bheegi Bheegi Raaton Mein
Lata Mangeshkar & Kishore Kumar — 60s Bollywood, all mercy
Fame Is A Gun
Addison Rae — pop, camera-ready
Translinear Light
Alice Coltrane — spiritual jazz, camera off
Hey Fat Boy (Asshole)
Ween — deliberately ugly
Affirmations for Mental Health
Daily Affirmations, Susan Kern — literal guided calm
Going Dumbo
OsamaSon — 2026 drift-rap, unmastered on purpose
The Fairest Of The Seasons
Nico — 1967, string-swept
side b — repeat offenders

Three names showed up twice.

In 78 posts pulling from every corner of the map, these are the only ones who got a second story. That's basically a co-sign.

The Alchemist
  • "Chetzi" — solo
  • "Stonefruit" — with Armand Hammer
Westside Gunn
  • "Super Kick Party"
  • "Margiela Split Toes" ft. Mach-Hommy
Lana Del Rey
  • "West Coast"
  • "Dealer"
Anomaly logged — "Stonefruit" by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist appears twice in a row in your stories, identical credits, no caption change. Either the upload glitched the first time, or it just deserved the repeat.
side b — the time machine

Six decades, no chronological order.

1966–67
Françoise Hardy, Nico, and The Velvet Underground's "Beginning To See The Light (Early Version)" — the oldest tape in the pile.
1975
Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby" — the one full disco moment.
1990s
Portishead, Cibo Matto, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, De La Soul's golden-era roll call.
2000s–2010s
Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, J Dilla, Little Brother, Duster, Wilco — the deep-crate decade.
2024–2026
OsamaSon, fakemink, Ninajirachi, Addison Rae, Jockstrap, Tokischa × ROSALÍA — whatever's happening right now, you already have it.
side b — pop quiz you'd pass

The underground rap syllabus.

Twelve credits deep into the kind of hip-hop that doesn't trend, it just gets passed around.

ChetziThe Alchemist
StonefruitArmand Hammer, The Alchemist
MatryoshkaYour Old Droog
Won't DoJ Dilla
Riot!Earl Sweatshirt
Super Kick Party / Margiela Split ToesWestside Gunn (ft. Mach-Hommy)
Beautiful MorningLittle Brother
Don't Wear That Suit AjaiSerengeti
Lap of LuxuryThe Koreatown Oddity, Qur'an Shaheed, Kintaro
A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"De La Soul ft. Q-Tip
◆ tape complete — rewinding

Your profile: The Crate
With No Bottom.

You can post a Ghanaian highlife bootleg, a breakcore track named after a street, and a guided affirmations recording in the same afternoon — and somehow all three feel like the same person talking. You're not sampling trends. You've just been down here digging longer than everyone else.

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SONGS YOU'D RECOGNIZE ON FIRST LISTEN
FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS PEOPLE NOW OWE YOU
logged from instagram stories, not actual streaming data — play counts, timestamps, and "genre percentages" are hand-estimated for the bit. taste is real.