Tim Abdellah’s Web Thing
BLOGGING & ARCHIVES
I’ve been sharing music and spiels at Moroccan Tape Stash since 2011, when I decided not to continue pursuing a career in academia. Over the years I’ve uploaded and written about hours of music sourced primarily from Moroccan commercial cassettes and unavailable elsewhere. I also keep my eyes and ears open for other sources of rare or archival recorded music from Morocco and about which to spiel.
Moroccan Tape Stash in the Press
We got written up in The Wire!
Levi Dayan. “Unofficial Channels: MusicRepublic & Moroccan Tape Stash”. The Wire 484, p. 8. June 2024.
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Moroccan Tape Stash on the Radio
On The DL: Music Blogs, Yesterday and Today
Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan. WFMU’s Give The Drummer Radio. October 27, 2021
Tim Abdellah (Moroccan Tape Stash), Peter Doolan (Monrakplengthai), and WFMU’s Doug Schulkind (Give the Drummer Some, Mining the Audio Motherlode) join host Gary Sullivan for a celebration of the audio-centric download weblog, the death of which has been pronounced countless times over the last decade-and-change. We’ll talk (and play tracks from) pioneers, GOATs, influencers, guilty pleasures and buried treasures—as well as the sustainability of the medium post-Bandcamp, -Spotify, and -reissue culture.
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Moroccan Tape Stash of the Air
Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan. WFMU’s Give The Drummer Radio. September 21, 2016
Ethnomusicologist, bass player, guinbri thumper, groove researcher, Gnawa muhibb and Moroccan cassette collector extraordinaire Tim Abdellah Fuson stops by the Bodega to talk about and play his favorite Moroccan tracks – some of it never shared on his legendary blog.