Tape Drift

Tape Drift

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Where Lost Songs Wash Up on Shore

Where Lost Songs Wash Up on Shore

Following the Music that Got Lost in the Current

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Josh Schairbaum
Aug 17, 2025

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Some songs get lost.

Tucked away in forgotten boxes, left to fade in the summer sun, recorded over by accident. We believe there’s something remarkable in every track, even if it took thirty years to find the right ears.

This is Tape Drift. A new investigation into the music that almost dis/appeared.

Our first series, The Sun-Bleached Tapes, begins with a discovery. In the summer of 2025, a collection of mysterious cassette and VHS tapes were found in an abandoned Mitsubishi Delica van. They are the complete works of a musician known only as "Drift Harper," who, apparently, spent a transformative summer in a forgotten coastal California town in 1995 before vanishing completely.

What happened to him? And what’s on the tapes?

We’re going to find out. We'll be piecing together the story, digitizing the recordings, and sharing the investigation with you every step of the way.

The tapes are waiting. The story is ready to be told.

Subscribe now to be the first to hear what we’ve found.

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