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Mid-1980s GE and Maxell cassette player advertising was next-level
In a post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare, handsome models will find the oppression with their … GE cassette players. Look, it all makes some kind of 1985 sense. This is exactly how people do not feel about their smartphone in 2024. I don’t know exactly what the GE marketing department was doing in the mid-80s – let’s […]
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Maxell would like you to know that they still make audio cassette tapes
Memorex, Sony, TDK — most of the names once associated with selling blank compact cassettes to consumers have since discontinued production. But one holdout still making tapes is Maxell – and their social media manager does not what you to forget it.
Peter Kirn - September 25, 2023
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Keysette is a micro piano to cassette instrument – and limited edition faux vintage
It’s the musical invention that “should not exist, but does.” Keysette is an unholy combination of the 80s and 90s worst cheap synth technology with the worst cassette adapter technology and – is kind of impossible not to love.
Peter Kirn - June 21, 2023
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Listen to some gorgeous ambient music coming out on tapes
Peter Kirn - May 31, 2017
Music Music tech
Step inside the mystical sound world of Circular Ruins
Peter Kirn - March 22, 2017
Music Music tech
Look inside the world of cassette tape culture in this short film
Peter Kirn - December 1, 2016
Music Music tech
You Haven’t Heard of 30drop, But You Should Hear This New LP [Techno]
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2015
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