Also there's been a good amount of interfacing recently between the noise
underground (which has always favored tapes) and the world of proper
dance/techno/idm/etc.
I've noticed alot of material being released both digitally and on
cassette. I imagine there's a good amount of listeners who are into
collecting some sort of physical media but do most of their listening
digitally. CDs for most have no value as an aesthetic object sitting on the
shelf, and vinyl is too much of a pain in the ass to press. Therefore tapes
are ideal for small pressings and legitimize what would otherwise be a
digital-only release, which carries (sadly) stigma, at least to some.
Tapes are fun to dig through and usually get looked over. Found a Terrance
McKenna and Spacetime Continuum collab in my local record store with full
on like 8 panel artwork.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Christopher Mauldin <kit.mauldin@yahoo.com
quoted 1 line wrote:
> wrote:quoted 41 lines that's the businessman answer. I think the real answer is that cassettes
> that's the businessman answer. I think the real answer is that cassettes
> tap into a deep nostalgia for people of a certain age and it's a bit of an
> ironic snub to hi-fi audiophile/vinyl culture, celebrating the limitations
> of the format.
>
> this is not a apologist's defense of the trend (I have not purchased a
> real tape since maybe the Wu-Tang Forever double-pack in '97), just a
> casual observation.
>
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> *From:* Dave at EAR/Rational Music <dave@ear-rational.com>
> *To:* IDM <idm@hyperreal.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, December 18, 2015 9:36 AM
> *Subject:* Re: new yaporigami on detund
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> I’ve got a label that puts out CDs and frankly I get the same question
> from people about CDs!
>
> But the answer is simply–if there is enough demand to facilitate
> production of any kind of physical release, why not?
>
> Dave
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> On Dec 18, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Alan Lucas <alucas@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Serious question: why are people doing cassette releases in 2015?
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://detund.bandcamp.com/album/eye-hand
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
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