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My record collection
[381] Various artists - The Wire Tapper 12 / MOJO Presents Dream Pop

As a buyer/subscriber to various magazines over the years I used to have boxes and boxes of cassettes and CDs that had been given away stuck to their front covers. For a while my collection included quite a few of these that contained album tracks. These magazines quite often had appearances by Galaxie 500 and Luna, and occasionally by Damon & Naomi. At some point I decided that they probably didn’t warrant inclusion. A couple however slipped through the net.

The Wire Tapper 12 / MOJO Presents Dream Pop
The Wire Tapper 12 / MOJO Presents Dream Pop

The Wire Tapper 12 is a double CD that was included with the December 2004 issue of The Wire, the UK magazine that focuses on the more avant garde and experimental wing of modern music. The CD is packed with just what you’d expect from a double CD given away by The Wire. Buried in the middle of disc two is Damon & Naomi’s Beautiful Close Double.

MOJO Presents Dream Pop was given away with the April 2010 issue of UK adult rock magazine MOJO, and is a mixed bag of tracks that supposedly fit into that difficult “Dream Pop” classification that sometimes leans heavily on the dream and sometimes on the pop. Included is Galaxie 500’s Tell Me.

Most of the rest of my covermounted MCs and CDs were offloaded on charity shops a long time ago in a decluttering exercise - including many which I probably ought to have hung on to. These two probably survived because…

  • The Wire Tapper 12 is in a lovely cardboard gatefold sleeve and has enough of interest to make it worth hanging on to.
  • I think I had actually got rid of the MOJO CD but a copy was given to me by a friend (Jim I think) a few years later who was possibly going through a similar decluttering.

I nearly left these out but since they had rows in my spreadsheet…

  • Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/108
  • Artist: Various artists
  • Title: The Wire Tapper 12
  • Packaging: Gatefold card sleeve

  • Format: 2xCD

  • Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/181
  • Artist: Various artists
  • Title: MOJO Presents Dream Pop
  • Packaging: Jewel case
  • Format: CD