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Tipentap

by Uncle Fido

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  • Uncle Fido Two Albums Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    It's June 1, the Children's Day. Our most popular releases among children (from 0 to 99) are the two Uncle Fido albums – Tipentap and Tipentap Join Hands.

    They both deserve a cassette edition so we're releasing them together on one blue cassette in a yellow box – the colours of the two albums.

    And there's one more thing: a BONUS TRACK is on the tape, too, a very special one: the original theme from the Tip en Tap series, performed by Uncle Fido himself. This track will never be available anywhere else.

    The cassette is priced as a single-album one but any higher amount paid will be highly appreciated.

    Sent as a registered shipment and you'll get a tracking number as always.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Tipentap via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Limited Edition 2nd Anniversary Bonus Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    "The Tipentap / Tipentap Join Hands combined cassette got sold out too quickly, I didn't manage to snatch it!" you said.

    "I'd have grabbed the double album on tape but I wished you'd make one with just Tipentap," you said.

    "I'd like to collect the Uncle Fido tapes but the first one isn't available anymore, could you make a reissue?" you said.

    "We desperately need a Tipentap only cassette!" you said.

    You're our fav fans in the world and today marks the second anniversary of Tipentap = of the whole existence of Uncle Fido, so we've decided to grant your wishes and to make your dreams come true:

    Tipentap, the debut album by Uncle Fido, on tape – with a brand new bonus track called They Are Dreaming.

    C17 Sun Yellow cassette with metallic Grass Green handwriting in an all-clear case, signed and dedicated by Binaural Space (whose side project Uncle Fido is).

    Each copy was real-time recorded directly from analog master played on a fabled Marantz deck to a warm and beloved old Nakamichi deck. Every single copy is unique and has desired little artefacts like warble, flutter or wow, making your cassette a hearty lo-fi original.

    Sent as a registered shipment and you'll get a tracking number as always.

    Combine with other Binaural Space releases to save on shipping:
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about

Tip en Tap was a Belgian animated TV series made in 1969.

It featured two puppies who used to get into some kind of mischief in each episode, to be saved by their uncle Fido, a flying dog, at the last second. At the end, the uncle would bring them back home to their beds and tuck them in under the sheets.

This cartoon was very popular in Czechoslovakia, broadcast as a bedtime story on Czechoslovak television since the 1970’s. Last words of the puppies, Tip and Tap, in each episode – “Good night uncle Fido. Good night kids.” – achieved a cult status among Gen X Czechs and Slovaks and have been widely recognized as a meme in both countries.

Nine years ago I left my corporate job in order to take care about our first baby. A few friends told me I was making a stupid move. There were only 1 % of Czech men on paternal leave (and 2 % in Slovakia).

When I stayed at home with our second baby two years later, a friend told me “So you’re sort of an uncle Fido, aren’t you? Taking care of the shrimps and saving them from little dangers…” I liked that idea.

Czech men are traditionally machos so the concept of a dad staying at home with his kids, cooking and changing diapers “instead of his wife”, is pathetic for many of them. I was lucky to have changed thousands of diapers, I’ve been the main chef of the family and I’m not only proud of it but also happy and privileged that I was allowed to spend more time with my kids than average dads (who often worry they can’t afford leaving their job).

Uncle Fido is my fresh side project, introducing a new genre called comfywave (and its sub-genre fidowave). Comfywave could be described as a blend between comfy synth and vaporwave. I first heard of comfy synth in the summer of 2020 and of vaporwave only two years before that and at first I got offended by them both – like those machos by dads on paternal leave.

But I soon discovered that both the genres, however shallow they might sound at first, work on me. They bring the feeling I long for, especially in this demanding period, and they both entertain me and calm me down. So this is a thank you to all the representatives of both genres that came before this and my humble contribution to their possible evolution in the close future.

I hope this simple music inspired by a half-century-old animated series for kids and recorded on a 20-year-old multitrack tape recorder will bring something nice and warm to you. Enjoy and let me know.

Binaural Space aka Uncle Fido, February 29 ;-) 2021

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released February 28, 2021

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Also by Uncle Fido:

Tipentap Join Hands
Tipentap Solve Crime
Tipentap Pleasantly Terrified
Tipentap Winter Holidays
Tipentap Revive Music
Tipentap Blame Day
Tipentap Summer Memories
Tipentap Jellyfish Journey
Tipentap Bake Snickerdoodles
Tipentap Want Butterscotch

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