woodpunk, to vinyl
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My love for the audio is well documented, but every now and then I take things up a level. There's nothing quite like the sound of an open reel tape, recorded direct from the original master (or in this case, the archive safety tape*).

Many people say that is the ultimate way to play music, but the music they're talking about was almost always originally recorded onto tape.

This beats vinyl.

*Now playing: Billy Idol's criminally overlooked concept album Cyberpunk.

vingtroiseize, to ArtificialIntelligence
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VicentePrecio, to cassettes Spanish
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Buenos días Mastodontes!! Hoy al café nos acompaña la más pequeña de una saga de grandes artistas, Rosario. Así que a ritmo de flamenquito vamos entrando en calor para recibir a este gélido sábado. Que tengáis un buen día. ☺️

@cassettes

david_senate, to Vintage
david_senate,
Jacme, to music Catalan
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"10 years of harmony" un àlbum de The Beach Boys que recull tant cançons antigues com rareses inèdites fins aquell moment @cassettes
https://youtu.be/iOdfXisA9go?si=FURs9Z_a7_hKljT0

selzero, to 8bit
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Jacme, to music Catalan
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Sergio Mendes & "Arara", lp del 89 en què revisita algun dels seus grans èxits amb cançons de nova collita @cassettes #music #nowplaying #brasil #k7 #samba #cassette
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n7kGKDzq_wZ48nUtWh-ePPGb0mXE5KA1o&si=Obr8fN5roZKknxEk

Aldi, to vinyl

Music prices in late 1980’s

$7.99 - $12.99/Budget $4.99 - $9.99
$6.99 - $9.99/Budget $3.99 - $5.99
$14.99 - $18.99/Budget $7.99 - $11.99

That’s the reason why I don’t accept today’s prices. So absurd.

Single records prices in late 1980’s:
• 7” vinyl 45rpm $1.99 - $3.99/Budget $0.99 - $1.99
• Cassette Single $1.99 - $3.99/Budget $0.99 - $2.99

And in late 1990’s prices were inflated: had the same cost as an full-length album.

The the records companies complained about piracy. Seriously that’s so ironic.

Seen from an artist at their site today:
• Vinyl record: $39.99 - $49.99
• Cassette: $34.99
• Compact Disc: $ 16.99 - $19.99

The problem today: not only the prices are ridiculously high, but they are uneven.

Prices of the records in my country today:
• Vinyl record: $84.99 and up
• Cassette: $37.99 and up
• Compact Disc: $37.99 approximately

That’s a big insult to the music lover.

VinylRecords Analogue

Jacme, to music Catalan
@Jacme@mastodont.cat avatar

Vangelis & "Portraits (so long ago, so clear)", un recull de 20 anys de la seua música @cassettes
https://youtu.be/cc6dfUQaCRY?si=-l5CZtJzFOBkIuAE

Jacme, to music Catalan
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Jacme, to cassettes Catalan
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"Ainda" de Madredeus. Acabat de traure el celofan esta tarde, a l'etiqueta posava 2410 ptes: un luxe de l'any 1995 que m'he agenciat per un euret @cassettes
https://youtu.be/ySDTdM_8E_A?si=9xtyIjlhqslRdDCW

mrc, to random
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Now that I own a player again, I learned that there are still albums released on tape, occasionally. Too bad this one costs $60, worth more than the entire "music center" :D

Screenshot of Taylor Swift's Midnights album on Amazon, sold on CD, Vinyl and "Audio, Cassette" ($59.99).

cdamian,
@cdamian@rls.social avatar

@mrc as a bit of fanboy, I can tell you there are quite a few releases available.
My recent acquisitions were a Tresor tape on Bandcamp and De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising.
There is sadly no proper search on Amazon to find tapes.

mrc,
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@cdamian Neat, although I have no big ambitions with cassettes, you got me interested:) Will definitely try to buy something fresh on , maybe locally in Berlin or Budapest. I might even have a vintage somewhere!

janbeta, to VintageAudio
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New video! I'm repairing and restoring a 1977/78 Sansui SC-1100 tape deck. Replacing the belts, recapping the boards and doing lots of cleaning and lubrication. Link: https://youtu.be/pgC-ewegKlk #Sansui #VintageHifi #VintageAudio #TapeDeck #Repair #Restoration #Cassette #Tape #SC1100 #VUmeters

killyourfm, to analog
@killyourfm@layer8.space avatar

I'm kicking off my Hurricane Blonde blog the only way I know how: with a 1400-word origin story. Find out how this whole musician thing started, and why I'm recording my next release on tape!

https://hurricaneblonde.com/2023/12/30/songs-from-the-shadows-an-origin-story/

Jacme, to music Catalan
@Jacme@mastodont.cat avatar

La captura d'avui de pillats al meu camell de confiança, amb el celofan posat i tot al de Madredeus i al de The Beach Boys. Els propers dies els anirem encetant i escoltant @cassettes

MathC, to mastodon
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Decided to come back to and be more of an engager rather than a broadcaster - as a wiser man told me in the pub tonight

( @neonbubble 😉 - you effing hate emojis)

So a first post. My daughter got me this for - owned this on since 1988 - but lovely to have the sounds upgraded.

gnitro, to cassettes
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gnitro, to vaporwave
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SrRochardBunson, (edited ) to random
SrRochardBunson, (edited ) to BadInternetBills

This is pretty big news for me & my friends. These are all still demos, but I have all 11 tracks for This Cassette Kills Fascists laid out!
:parrot_beer:

Listen to This Cassette Kills Fascists, an album by

https://on.soundcloud.com/HpV8i

I have a whole to-do list after listening to it on repeat. 😅

This will fit on one side of the cassette, which leaves Side B free for all of the original tracks without the dialogue and my screwing them up, lol. The intention is for people to make mixtapes and remixes of any and everything on the album.

The whole album will be releaded under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 creative commons license to enable this.

"Use art as a weapon."
-John Heartfield

"Find the others."
-Dr. Timothy Leary

https://ko-fi.com/Post/This-Cassette-Kills-Fascists-Y8Y8SB0DJ

seggito, to random
@seggito@ravenation.club avatar

Anyone know any that might want to release my "Volando En El Cielo" on ?

Aywren, to random
@Aywren@gamepad.club avatar

Went to my Mom's house today to help with some decorations, came back with this!

A receiver and dual deck - everyone in my family had their own (including me) back when I was in high school (date this back to the 1990s). I think the receiver was my Mom's and the deck was my sister's.

Had to order new speaker wire and speakers, but excited to see if these will still work for playing my cassettes.

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