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Are cassette tapes making a comeback?


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Well i thought these were dead and buried.. but now players seem to be popping up

 

and this legendary release (i still have a original third generation somewhere)

 

http://www.discogs.com/Metallica-No-Life-Til-Leather/release/6925118

 

and this

 

http://www.discogs.com/Possessed-Tape-Collection/release/6765230

 

and this (saw these guys on sunday.. the most brutal intense live show i have ever seen...amazing!)

 

http://www.discogs.com/Napalm-Death-Apex-Predator-Easy-Meat/release/6563340

 

all these metal.. but am sure if i looked hard enough could find others

 

first saw references in gaurdians of the galaxy.. people seem to be selling mix tapes

 

is it all part of the retro comeback around??

 

your thoughts

 

 

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Wicked stuff, I could not really imagine the media I found to be the crappiest in the 90s is coming back. I guess it's the damn hipsters who brought them back, with all that retro stuff they are into from the 80s ;)... jokes aside is fun to see I guess. But as I owned and still own a lot of tapes from the 90s I guess I won't really go back to that medium so there won't be DATTAPE001, no need to invest in that ghetto blaster you always wanted to buy, yet.

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Wicked stuff, I could not really imagine the media I found to be the crappiest in the 90s is coming back. I guess it's the damn hipsters who brought them back, with all that retro stuff they are into from the 80s ;)... jokes aside is fun to see I guess. But as I owned and still own a lot of tapes from the 90s I guess I won't really go back to that medium so there won't be DATTAPE001, no need to invest in that ghetto blaster you always wanted to buy, yet.

 

ghetto blaster!!! i still got mine!

dad bought it for me in 1984.. still goes

got offered 400 bucks for it recently but can never get rid of it

 

as for tapes.. i sold mine a few years to a collector in germany..600 tapes for 600 bucks.. back when postage wasn't to bad

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Lot of metal releases in colourful limited edition tapes these days. Lubomyr Melnyk offered to make casette of his continuous piano just for me :)

 

All these small labels (even big one's) come up with ltd edition casette and vinyl. When they are sold out. Change the colour , put it out as a limited edition again. And that strategy seems to be working.

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My girlfriend told me she knows a guy who releases casettes of new music, including her band. I think she said he sells most of them in Europe, very few here in the US. But you never know, those darned hipsters just might try to bring them back!

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I would embrace a comeback ... for me, tapes never were dead ... I still have a lot.

that's because my car has a cassette radio :)

 

Mostly it's metal...

But the coolest I have is this: http://www.discogs.com/Shiva-Chandra-Spicy-Moments/release/1782322

 

Any recent psytrance stuff that came out on tape btw?

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I would embrace a comeback ... for me, tapes never were dead ... I still have a lot.

that's because my car has a cassette radio :)

 

Mostly it's metal...

But the coolest I have is this: http://www.discogs.com/Shiva-Chandra-Spicy-Moments/release/1782322

 

Any recent psytrance stuff that came out on tape btw?

That's cool RTP!

 

(The release even has a review by one of our own, Radi604 :D on Discogs)

 

Not sure about psytrance, but I've seen a few ambient / neo classical / future jazz and a ton of metal releases on Tapes.

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DATTAPE001

 

Imagine say Mark Ainley did a DJ mix from released tracks on DAT Records, forthcoming material and possible/potential future tracks and even some tracks from his personal collection/draeke's collection, record the mix on a 90 minute tape and 'press' say 50-100 maximum. It would be an awesome idea IMO.

 

I have 2 tape decks, 3 actually because one is a double decker. 4 to be exact, because 2 years ago I bought a 'walkman digitiser' from the local LIDL, I wonder how much he sold, apart mine :)

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