#Music Tapes

[bozemane]

Carcass Grinder - Reh. Tape 4, 1996

[ms-cornucopia]

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Vera Nazarian

[timebird84]

The distant memory of tapes getting all tangled up in the cassette recorder when you heard/rewound/fast-forwarded them too many times...

Bless all the digital streaming services where you can play the same song over and over until the world ends without anything ever getting destroyed, except your brain maybe (it's worth it tho).

[inkdragon1900]

To all beginner Cassette collectors don’t forget to prime your tape (play it all the way through on both sides on fast forward) before listening for the first time!

ESPECIALLY THRIFTED ONES

[brendentheboogaloo]

a cover of sea of tranquility by the Music Tapes. i wanna upload another version that records vocals and guitar separately but i have papers to grade so this is all youre getting for now. i love this song. its currently the song i most associate with my current tabletop, which is full of suffering and love and love and love and love.

[ifoughtthelawandlawwon]

Today they told me they no longer produce CDs 'cause most people listen to music on the internet only and I kinda want to believe that this is the type of grief that Jonathan Byers felt when they told him tapes and film were no longer a thing.

Congratulations to vinyls for outliving both music tapes and CDs.

[natsumipocket]

Music comes in many formats

[labyrinth-magic]

Value of Music Cassette Tapes | EverPresent

I am currently assessing the value of my casette tape collection. I am posting thus article because it has the potential to be as useful to others as to myself. 🎶

[archphotograph]

Connected : Photography by Wolfgang Theiss

[neon-wonderlands]

[absurdbootlegs]

Ipsum-ing like it’s 1889.

[mobilemoll]

[aromanticduck]

*As in you deliberately putting on music you wanted to listen to, not things your parents/siblings etc played for you

[thoughtportal]

If you’re looking for a good way to spend the rest of your week, Archive.org has unearthed a gigantic collection of cassettes from the mid-80 into the mid-90s.

According to their notes, the 30GB collection was saved from the archives of noise-arch.net and donated by former CKLN-FM radio host Myke Dyer in August 2009. Due to its size and obscurity, the collection hasn’t been properly notated but is said to include cassettes ranging from “tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indie, rock, DIY, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials”.

Head to Archive now to download the free collection. [via Electronic Beats]

We’re still going through Archive’s insane collection of in-store background music, the essential Attention Kmart Shoppers.

[wehavekookies]

New pretty tapes.

[thebonesofhoudini]

Buy physical media. Buy CDs. Buy records. Buy tapes. Buy books. Buy physical artwork or prints. Take photos of yourself and get them developed at a photo processing booth. Write your thoughts down in a journal. Why? Because as this world get more digital, what's physical will slowly but surely disappear. There will be less things you can touch and feel, and more things that you can see and not touch. You can post all the digital pics you want on social media...nothing is assured and those pics and those platforms could be gone in an instant. An album on streaming platforms will never be the same as the original album in your hand with the liner notes, as versions of that album can get removed, and/or replaced with re-recorded material (since the artist doesn't own their masters). Books go out of print. And staring at a jpeg (no matter how much you paid for it *cough cough* NFTs) of an artwork will never be the same as owning the actual artwork or a print of it.

Preserve these things. If not for yourself, then for future generations.