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The Langley Schools Music Project: A Choir From Another Dimension?
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- Tape Spaghetti
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- Mar 31, 2026
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Summary
A burned out music teacher with no plan. A room full of kids. And a record that sounds like nothing else on earth. In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott, Blake, and guest Nate Catanzarite discuss the Langley Schools Music Project, which started out as a classroom experiment and ended up as a captivating cult classic. Frustrated with traditional lessons, teacher Hans Fenger let students choose songs they loved – including tunes by David Bowie and the Beach Boys – and learn them by ear, turning disengaged kids into a full-blown choir and band. Recorded live with minimal gear, the result was raw, imperfect, and strangely powerful. Decades later, a crate-digging DJ stumbled across the record and unleashed it on the world, quickly turning it into an underground sensation. Here’s how a kids’ choir accidentally summoned something truly cosmic.