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Many of the tape clods and broken cassettes that I recently ‘processed’ and which by now have found a spot in the found tapes exhibition, were picked up during january and february of this year, at the end of the ‘black-market’ (puces sauvages) that extends the Montreuil flea market taking place every saturday, sunday and monday along the périphérique, the ring way around Paris. The ‘black marketeers’ line up on the pavements along the avenue de Gallieni. Apart from the ambulant vendors of tax free (smuggled and/or stolen) cigarettes and a handful of criminals peddling rolex watches, stolen laptops and other hi-tech toys, most of them are honest but poor immigrants and sans-papiers, selling to survive. They usually arrive with a sholley and display their goods on spread out blankets that demarcate their stall. Almost always these are small thingies, that they got from god knows where and sell to god knows who for next to nothing : yesterday’s cell phones, cd’s, bad quality batteries, telephone answering machines, broken pc’s, floppy discs, hard discs, packs of kleenex, plastic and/or glass jewelry, toys, vinyl records, clothes, dvd’s, vhs cassettes, watches, shoes, camera’s, games, cables of all sorts, books … and audio cassettes …