The full ALLEGRO 72 cart - By popular(?) request

Please please post the Christmas music tape when you get it. I prefer to have music without vocals for around the house.

I've been playing Allegro 72 in the background for the last few days when doing other things. It's been a challenging week but having it in the background has taken the edge off. It's surprisingly therapeutic. I realise this is a huge undertaking, especially given how busy Mat is with everything else going on... but I'd love it if more of these Philips BGM carts could be digitised in the future.

49 minutes - "What goes up must come down, Super Fresco makes it easy, it's by Graham & Brown". No idea who the actual original song was by!

If you ever happen upon the time to digitize more of these I would love it! I usually listen to vapourwave type music while studying since it has no words, but this is so charming and calming I will be listening to this as well!

It's times like these I ponder the deep questions, like: Will I open up a quantum time dilation clause by recording this onto reel to reel tapes and/or compact cassettes for my own background listening enjoyment?

When you were playing these on the original video, I couldn't help but wonder if they were essentially "compilation" versions of decades' worth of background music licensed to Philips. As someone on YouTube mentioned, it's definitely a weird mix of fully-orchestral stuff and very eighties synth/MIDI stuff—do you reckon that Philips amassed a huge library of these songs over the years and, by the late eighties, was just tossing them into a kind of background music stew?

My dream come true!!!

I hate myself for liking this as much as I do. Thanks for posting it.

Thanks Mat :D

Amazing, thank you

I'm wondering if anyone else can identify the really catchy disco song at 1:05:57. It definitely sounds like something from the Bee Gees, but it doesn't seem to match either "Tragedy" or "If I Can't Have You."

24:30 Beautiful Sunday first one I recognised...

Its interesting seeing some of the content matches youtube has made on it.

I'm so happy you put one of these online!!

This brings back so many memories of the crappy music you'd hear in so many places in the 70s and 80s. I hate it, yet I love it!

I feel like such a weirdo, but I'm glad you uploaded the whole cart. I was very curious what the rest of the tape sounded like given the samples you showed.

At 166 minutes in it still manages to take my breath away.

Just Another Day in Paradise at 26:20 was the first one I recognized. Next one wasn't until "My Life" at 2;30:00 or so. I believe I also heard "In the Navy" in there, but I didn't catch the location. Likely because it caused an involuntary puke reflex....

Here's wishing you some quality R&R time with Mr. Naughty in the back garden - sitting in a lawn chair, the Kingsford O Grill sizzling steaks - and the lilting sounds of glorious BGM from your hi-fi system echoing throughout the night.

Back at the end of the 80s I heard in a supermarket a Muzak version of the theme to The Good The Bad and the Ugly - followed up by a Muzak version of Shriekback's Gunning For The Buddha. I was rooted in place by the sheer chutzpah of their music programmers. Around that time Devo's Mothersbaugh released his own album of Muzak which I listened to incessantly. It's said that some well known musicians like The Residents or XTC would moonlight at the Muzak headquarters as session workers joyfully playing this genre, a rumor I am willing to believe.

Finally! A song I outright recognize! BS&T's Spinning Wheel!

I'm strangely excited by this! Streaming now to all the speakers in my house via Chromecast.

20 minutes in I'm looking for pages from Ceefax to accompany it.

"...performed by large orchestras." Some of these are great. But from the sounds of it, a small room of MIDI devices counts as a large orchestra for some of these.

Currently on in my cubicle at the infectarium (where I am required to be 2 days/week - glad it's not more). Sadly, not a lot of people nearby ... but I plan on letting it run all the way to the end.

I didn't expect the disco circus music at 6:11.

That first track had so much promise...

"Allegro" and "72" have very different meanings to me!

Getting some real "pages from Ceefax" vibes from some of these tracks.

This is fantastic - we have Radio 2 on in the background in our office, and when one of the numerous overplayed modern mediocrities comes on yet again, I can stick on my headphones and play this for a while! (Sheeran & Styles - begone with you)

Seven seconds in, and I'm like "nope"!

Thank you so much!

I'm so, so sorry for the noise. Yes I know I'm now adding to the spam, but I had to leave an apology because I didn't realise that just pressing enter would send multiple comments, as if this were some kind of stupid chat field, and not a bog-standard multiline comment field. Techmoan, if you want to delete all of these, I fully understand. Again, please accept my apologies. Have never left a comment on this platform before.

Given that I'm sure most of the original recording multitracks are lost to history, being able to fake it and hear the drums separate from the vocals, or make a sudo-stereo version just for fun, will be interesting, at least to me anyway.

It's surprisingly good at what it does, and you can gleam some very interesting sounds from a track for which you don't already have the stems.

Bass, Drums, Vocals and Other.

One of the things I've taken interest in lately is AI-based audio-splitting, using software called Demucs, which will split a standard one or two-track file into four parts.

Hi, thanks for posting this. I'm looking forward to listening.

Love it. If I ever have an elevator in a house I'll play this music in it. :)

Had this on in the background, really enjoying it.

Thank you Mr. Techmoan!

This is lovely. Thanks for sharing.

Matt, thanks for sharing this. Excellent!

Does anyone know where I can buy a lift to play these in? ;-)

I absolutely love these long background tracks, ideal for working on the computer without being too distracting, thank you Mat for uploading it, I really mean it!

I was hoping for some sweet, sweet mysterious BGM tunes. Thank you!

Thanks for this, took 5 minutes for the kids to drop their controllers and flee outside....result!

Very nice! I will throw that into my Jazz playlist.

Thanks! Pass my regards onto Skip Intro, too. I see he's been busy uploading content to his channel.