Digitized recordings of Kmart cassette music they'd play over the sound system between 1989-1999
(archive.org)https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers?and[]=mediatype%3A%22audio%22This guy used to work at Kmart and digitized the cassettes of music they'd play over the sound system.
A lot of the music is instrumentals of the hits of the time. There are also audio adverts in the recordings (nicely narrated).
Many of the recordings sound like precursors to vaporwave or mallsoft.
Per the archivist's descriptions:
"OK, I have to admit this this is a strange collection. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash during this period and this video shows you my extensive, odd collection."
