Tag : pre-recorded
This friday started the International Disco Fair at Barcelona, like every year, and I went to see which vinyls and cassettes I could find. It’s a nice fair, though expensive as you have to pay 6€ to enter, no matter if you buy or not. After some searching I found some, though it wasn’t easy: […]
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 […]
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 recently noticed that there are new labels releasing new music on cassette. Based on what I’ve learnt regarding the quality of prerecorded cassettes, I thought I’d give them a try. I also knew about a small label called Kissability, ran by Jen Long that I knew of in this video I’ve recently posted here. […]
This is one of those machines that load the prerecorded magnetic tape onto an empty cassette. It does it so fast that it’s almost impossible to watch how it actually cuts the tape and sticks it to the reel, but it indeed does…
Today I wake up with a notification about a great new video from Techmoan. This time is more an educational video, and it talks about how prerecorded cassettes were made in the 90s using new digital duplication bins. In those years majority of people gradually lost interest on cassettes, in favour of the new CDs, so […]
I was browsing through eBay when I suddenly found a guy that was selling hundreds -literally- of prerecorded cassettes for good prices. My eyes quickly opened. He was offering medium-sized boxes with 44 randomly picked cassettes for good prices. I liked the idea of those boxes and I’d like to order one or two, but not randomly […]