{"product_id":"bob-chocolate-untitled","title":"Bob Chocolate – Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Tabi Tapes – 025\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Cassette, Mixed\u003cbr\u003eCountry: UK\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2026\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Jazz, Non-Music\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Smooth Jazz, Sound Art, Field Recording\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuaaluded smooth jazz sound piece from enigmatic internet phantom Bob Chocolate for in-house mix-tape series Tabi Tapes - The final frontier? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone wants to have eclectic taste, but are there any genres that are totally off limits?  Explained in the pink-hued printed four-page essay that accompanies this mix-tape, ‘Smooth Jazz was ‘born’ in 1988 out of a market research focus group session for WNUA radio in Chicago’.  Visions of Kenny G as the sleep paralysis demon at the end of the bed arise.  Today, Smooth is a universally agreed pejorative tag for ‘real’ jazz collectors and readily avoided by anyone assured of having ‘taste’.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBob Chocolate thinks we need a new narrative.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubverting the public perception of Smooth being a purely pacifying functional form of muzak, this ‘100% digitally sourced’ mix-tape, procured entirely from the vaults of user-uploaded ‘anti-label’ music database CD Baby is confusingly presented as a hold-music experience.  The sounds of paradise in purgatory - indulgent sax lines ripple over vacuous canned drum machine whilst Rhodes keys spiral off endlessly into the golden sunset.  What’s the point that’s being made here?  The eternal and often highly competitive quest for rare vinyl records has undoubtably had a lot of the fun sucked out of it by crippling prices and increased scarcity.  Maybe we’re looking in the wrong place?  As Chocolate hints ‘The privately released rarities of tomorrow may only exist on the hard drives of those who care enough to download them today. Don't say I didn't warn you…’.  (Mint \/ New - with free DL \u0026amp; printed copy of essay ‘Top Ten From The Smooth Jazz Underground).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA        Untitled\u003cbr\u003eB        Untitled\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58006593307006,"sku":"025","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/files\/IMG_3925_251fca8a-e83e-4ba4-ad18-2d22e12f2e4c.jpg?v=1789111400","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/bob-chocolate-untitled","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}