Category : Cassettes

Yes friends, I’ll be CJ’ing in the next months again here at Barcelona. If you are going to stay somewhere near, plese put a mark in your calendar 😉 June 23th. I’ll be CJ’ing with cassettes and walkmans at El col·leccionista, Barcelona. View in Maps. CANCELLED! June 30th, at sala Apolo, Barcelona, into the Cassette Culture […]

Once more, Barcelona is doing something different and innovative, and this time it will be a prerecorded cassette market. It will be in the famous Sala Apolo, just one evening. There will be many small cassette labels that will sell and share their new releases. There also will be new and small artists that are […]

One of the most recognizable issues of the cassette is the background hiss. Almost any person in this world (30 years-old and above, though) whom you ask about cassettes will complain about this particular thing: the hiss. Magnetic tape has many good things, but it also has drawbacks, and one of them is the hiss. […]

Cassette revival is becoming stronger each month. Even for hard rock bands. Metallica announced they will release a new luxe set with cassette and AC/DC released a cassette just for the Record Store Day past april 21. I was one of the buyers of this limited edition release. Only 2500 were released in the world together with a […]

I’d like to test some of the new manufactured tapes that are available today for an article. So I contacted the NAC and asked them if they would agree to send me a pair of tapes to test. And they agreed, and I had to pay just the shipment. So the tapes arrived two weeks […]

I know, I know, cassettes can sound great! But you know, many people out there (and even here) do think that they suck and sound horribly, but cassettes scale very well with your gear. And if you use excellent gear, even a very old tape can sound great. To demonstrate that, I’ve made a video […]

Toshiba has just announced that it is launching a new radio cassette that promises high res sound, the Aurex TY-AK 1 and plays it, radio, cassette and also from USB and SD card. Aurex is the hi-fi brand that Toshiba has been using for many years, similar to Panasonic with Technics. The player contains a […]

I’ve just seen this online template and could’n wait to share with all of you. It’s an awesome job by Blaines Murphy The template works into the browser so there’s no need to have Microsoft Word or anything like that. You just have to fill up the text you want, upload the image and you’re […]

These are the latest cassettes that I’ve added to my collection. Some of them I found in a flea market and the UCX-S was a gift from my friend Mankamaz. I’ve never seen one of this tapes in my country: In fact I wasn’t even aware that they existed. Same for this one: I bet […]