Part 1 – a simultaneous playback and live mix of 18 sides of relaxation and meditation cassettes created over Christmas 2024 by the occasionally active, discarded audio enthusiasts, Soundless Mind Eraser. This includes tapes by:
Thomas Condon & Carol Erickson
Ron Allen & Dan Gibson’s Solitudes
Westmead Centre for Gynaecological Cancer
Phyllis Alden, Sister Guthrie, Doreen Darby and Angela Stephens
Part 2 – a selection of independently released new age cassettes from the classic era of the early to mid-1980s.
TRACKLIST
The Daviner’s Spirit by Jonny Schlackman from self-released cassette (1989)
Eternal Sanctuary by David Naegle from ‘Temple in the Forest’ Cassette (1982) collected on Numero Group compilation of private press New Age releases, ‘Bliss Out For Days’.
Channel For the Light by David Storrs from ‘Channel For the Light’ Cassette (1984)
The Eight Wave by Suzanne Ciani from ‘The Velocity Of Love’ LP (1986)
R.E.M. by Georges Boutz from ‘Silver Eagles’ Cassette (1984)
The Space Between by Joanna Brouk from the cassette ‘The Space Between’ (1981)
SHOW NOTES
The Daviner’s Spirit by Jonny Schlackman (1989)
London-based Schlackman released at least 3 home-produced cassettes from 1989 to 1994 before moving on to work for a religious order. 
Eternal Sanctuary by David Naegele (1982)
An early tape by classical pianist who moved to California to work for Dick Sutphen’s Valley of the Sun Publishing organization as it began to create original new age cassettes for mail order alongside self-help books. Naegele worked with his neighbour, keyboardist and engineer, David Storrs on many releases included those under the name, Upper Astral. Naegele retired from producing music in 1986.
Channel For the Light by David Storrs (1984)
Storrs’ ‘Progressive New Age Music’ (i.e., designed to accompany activity rather than meditation) overlapped with his involvement in the west coast Electro-Funk scene. As co-founder of Electrobeat Records, Storrs worked on records by Ice-T (Reckless, Body Rock, Killers) , Kid Frost (Terminator/Rough Cut) and Chris “The Glove” Taylor (Itchiban Scratch) in ’84/’85. Storrs produced 5 tapes under his own name for Valley of the Sun, and multiple others with Naegele and Upper Astral. The ‘Channel For the Light’ tape includes subliminal suggestions that are listed on the cassettte cover and include:
‘You are a channel for the light’
and
‘The light within you inspires you to be all you are capable of being’.
The Eight Wave by Suzanne Ciani (1986)
Sound designer, composer, and pioneer of electronic music, well known for her use of the Buchla synthesizer and commercial applications of electronic sound. ‘The Eight Wave’ was the first track on her breakthrough second album, ‘The Velocity Of Love’ which followed 1982’s ‘Seven Waves’, which was initially released on vinyl in Japan and cassette in USA.
R.E.M. by Georges Boutz (1984)
Some raging arpeggios, recorded at his home studio in France with no overdubs. Boutz self-released one other cassette in 1983. A track from ‘Silver Eagles’ can be found on Numero’s ‘Bliss Out For Days’ compilation
The Space Between by Joanna Brouk (1981)
Electronic composer, author, and playwright from Missouri, released on her own cassette label, Hummingbird Productions. Brouk released 6 cassettes during the 1980s. Numero Group compiled this work on ‘Hearing Music’ (2017). On this track, the piano is played by William Maraldo who was co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College – a place where Brouk studied for a Masters Degree – during the late 1960s.