RUNNING MAN by JON SCOVILLE

Running Man is a collection of music written in the early 1990s for various choreography projects and was initially released on cassette. It came at a time when I was learning the outs and ins of recording for commercial use. Cassettes were the device of choice in that era — with both the pluses (a warm sound due, in part, to the analog tape medium and equipment requirements which were relatively inexpensive) -but also minuses (a pervasive hiss in the tape format which was ignored when the music was loud — as so much of it was in that era; and a very small surface on which to print both the bios of performers and the details about the tracks).

The world of vinyl was diminished considerably during the first appearance of cassettes, and with it went both the warm beauty of the analog sound and the large cover size, well-suited for both the memorable art on the cover and the details of who did what on which.