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- February 24 -

lookhigh: First eight tracks, now another reason to feel old Cassette Tapes Get A West Coast Rewind : NPR “You have the potential of finding some of the most wild, one-of-a-kind tapes out there,” [Dublab co-founder Mark] McNeil marvels. “Home recordings … amazing weird hypnosis tapes … lectures, mixtapes.” Ah, mixtapes. Cassette culture refuses to lose what mixtapes represent: a talismanic artifact, a personalized aesthetic, no sustainable business model to speak of. For the few people still stubbornly making them, cassettes remain a meaningful way to preserve art.

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First eight tracks, now another reason to feel old

Cassette Tapes Get A West Coast Rewind : NPR

“You have the potential of finding some of the most wild, one-of-a-kind tapes out there,” [Dublab co-founder Mark] McNeil marvels. “Home recordings … amazing weird hypnosis tapes … lectures, mixtapes.”

Ah, mixtapes. Cassette culture refuses to lose what mixtapes represent: a talismanic artifact, a personalized aesthetic, no sustainable business model to speak of. For the few people still stubbornly making them, cassettes remain a meaningful way to preserve art.

(via npr)

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