Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Seven days till sunrise (2024 mix) • Free download

Black Tape for a Blue Girl is an American dark wave band formed in 1986 by keyboardist/songwriter Sam Rosenthal, the founder of Projekt Records.

Their music has elements of dark wave, ethereal, ambient, neoclassical, and dark cabaret music.

Their 13th album, The Cleft Serpent, was released on October 1, 2021[2] on Projekt Records.

Photo credit: Lak Prasasvinitchai. In my dorm room back around the time of the release of The Rope

Now they return with 2024 mixes of two tracks off 1986’s debut The Rope.

The 2024 mixes are more distinct, you can hear all the parts clearly.

Oscar Herrera and Sam Rosenthal  think these versions are an improvement, even if perhaps it loses some of the “charm” of the poorly recorded & mixed 1986 version (Rosenthal mixed the entire album in two hours back in the day. That’s unheard of!)

In May of 2023, Cherry Red Records asked Sam Rosenthal to contribute “Within these walls” to a 4CD Darkwave compilation.

He decided to offer them a new mix as well as the original mix, and they could pick which they preferred.

Rosenthal was motivated to try the new mix because he wanted to dive into the original 1986 Fostex cassette 4-track master to see what he could do with it.

This was an experiment towards the idea of creating a new mix of the entire The Rope album for the 40th anniversary in 2026.

Here’s the collection:

No Songs Tomorrow – Darkwave, Ethereal Rock And Coldwave 1981-1990 • 4CD Box Set. PreOrder in the USA from Projekt’s website or worldwide from Cherry Red Records.

Download for free the track Seven days till sunrise (2024 mixes)