{"id":32145,"date":"2016-03-17T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=32145"},"modified":"2016-03-10T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:45:23","slug":"local-musician-launching-ditch-tapes-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/local-musician-launching-ditch-tapes-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Musician Launching &#8220;Ditch Tapes&#8221; Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford tape label Ditch Tapes is starting up this spring by Oxford musician <strong>Sean O\u2019Hara<\/strong> who plays in local bands such as <strong>Nadir Bliss<\/strong> and <strong>Primative<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDitch Tapes is an outlet for music made by people who prefer a more dedicated way of creating and listening,\u201d said O\u2019Hara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The inspiration to create the label came from his love of the medium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCassette tapes are more than just a cheap, throwback medium for music,\u201d said O\u2019hara. \u201cTapes force a certain relationship between the music and listener.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Like most who have adopted the cassette tape as their preferred method of consumption, it comes somewhat as a response to modern consumer culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a start to finish thing,\u201d said O\u2019hara. \u201cYou listen all the way through, maybe in one long car ride or spread throughout the week. Nowadays, people listen to streaming services most of the time and youth culture has moved with a generalized shove towards short attention spans and even stronger impulsive nature with disposable music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI hope to have it started by this May, at latest.\u201d \u00a0O\u2019Hara said. The first release will be former Oxford resident <strong>Taylor Mitchell<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford tape label Ditch Tapes is starting up this spring by Oxford musician Sean O\u2019Hara who plays in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":32148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5373],"tags":[8028,642,4,8029,8024,3,753],"class_list":["post-32145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music-notes","tag-ditch-tapes","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-sean-ohara","tag-tape-label","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-10-ditch-tapes-1.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}