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I still don't understand why people blindly hate tapes. These are people doing it purely for the nostalgia and aesthetic and they are aware about it. Tapes are fun, records are fun, cd's can be fun.

Keep on keepin on tape threads.

>>50666090
I don't fuck with cds anymore. I used to only collect them then moved to vinyl. I am primarily focusing on tapea now tho

This is one of my favorites. LTJ Bukem - Love of Life

a live 1995 DJ set recorded off the soundboard to DAT. Only ever released as a limited edition cassette.

Here's a link if anyone's interested:
https://mega.co.nz/#!sAcVTDoJ!CV4aDEJJ9eFsE1MkXNKAm1XDXBEAkMIuLey9kBzDr98

probs my favorite cassette.

>>50666159
Lul I am laughing
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>>50665971
Based Homeshake. Love his new album

>>50666197
Yeah i can't wait for my tape to come in. Didn't like it as much as homeshake tape but very little is that good. It is a great album tho. Cash is money rules

Love cassettes yo.

Most of the local projects release cassettes and now I see lots of bigger bands releasing cassettes as well, its cool.

I also run a cassette label, its fun, cheap and easy to do.

>>50666225
Link to label?

>>50666140

I'm going to nostalgia so hard...

>>50666240
5cmrecordingsmusic.bandcamp.com

It's mainly ambient and synth releases, sometimes venturing into other stuff

>>50665971
I used to buy lots of vinyl, now mostly just CD's and never cassettes for new stuff. They're interesting at least, and I need to pick up an old cassette player from Goodwill at some point just for shits and gigs, since my parents gave me their old tapes.

>>50666266
Cool stuff I'm thinking about starting a label. How lucky have you been at people buying tapes/how do you get the word out about them

Goodwill is heaven for cassettes 55 cents can't beat that

>>50666318
A couple purchases every now and then, nothing too crazy.

Send copies to review blogs yo:
Tabsout Podcast
Tiny Mix Tapes
Decoder Magazine
Tape Famous
Raised by Gypsies

If its good they'll usually check it out.

>>50666347
Oh shit cool so I was planning on doing a release of 25 so you would suggest ordering extra copies to send to those blogs or should I email mp3's thanks for the help!!

>>50666383
They like physicals more as a heads up.

r8 my tape collection

>>50666318

Be ready to have boxes of un-sold music around your flat, also send shit to reviewers like the guy above said, it helps get the word out. Make print out ads (you can fit 4-12 on an 8x11 and print them in black and white) that you can give away at shows or tape to venue bathroom walls with packing tape. Check out your options for production, don't settle for the first guy you find for anything, look around you you might be saving two thirds of what the first guy was asking. Lastly, have fun, this will stress you out at times but you should feel thirsty for a bleach on the rocks at the end of the day, don't take on too much at once and be ready to talk to people.

press of 25 of my band's demo/ep thingy. lots of people were interested just because it was a tape release, so yeah it helps. do it yourself tho, we did it through a local tape label to help the guy out and he was kind of a dick and we realized we could've done it all ourselves for about $80

>>50666318
I actually just started a label and was scared I wasn't gonna sell anything but them yesterday I got 4 sales. It's a really sweet when you make a sale. Good luck!

If anyone wants to check out my tape here us a link

Humansoundsrecords.bandcamp.com

and here's my personal tape collection, missing a few recent purchases

>>50666677
Crazy quad dubs

>>50666703
i'm usually not crazy about gets but holy shit that means my collection is based as fuck lol

>>50666657
do you have pictures of the tapes?

>>50666140
nice

What do people find so aesthetically pleasing about cassette tapes?
Vinyl I can understand, with the large album art and tactile nature of it, plus a shiny black (or sometimes coloured) disc seems a lot prettier than a little plastic box. What's the appeal?

>>50666806
nostalgia
easily stackable, which satisfies our autism
plus cassette tape gets a kind of dirty fuzzy sound to it the older it gets. i, along with many others, like that sound.

>>50666806
theyre cheap to make and an actual physical object instead of just digital files
these are the only reasons for its revivalism

>>50666771
Yeah these are the tapes they will be on. Started dubbing them yesterday Just ordered labels and j cards so once they come in I will be able to ship these puppies out

http://boxenstien.com/
cassettes available here

>>50666771
>>50666880
Here is what the j cards will look like but with the suburban campers album cover and info of couse

>>50666880
nice, that was the OP pic for the last tape thread that lasted 3 days or whatever lol. feels good to make something physical doesn't it? can't wait to make more music just so i can dub tapes in my room

>>50666946
Yeah it sure does. I really wish I was musical but am not so I'm glad I have the means to support a really small label to get some good music out there for people. Pretty cool you can do a tape run for such a low price

got 5 preordered/in the mail

>>50667050
yeah running a label seems really fucking cool as long as you don't fuck with the artists too much lol, i'm sure you're a good guy/girl though. like if you look at the label that pressed my band's tapes (>>50666653) the name of the label is way bigger than the name of the band. we asked to do Pink, and he said he could only do Light Blue after originally syaing he could do pink, and we figured out that he only said so because he ordered a shit-ton of light blue tapes, and literally the first 5 releases he did were all on light blue tapes, so he was just ordering in bulk and being a cheap asshole. he then said that of the $5 for the tapes he gets 3 and we get 2, and wouldn't give us more than 6 to sell at shows lol

>>50667137
>dat Twin Peaks soundtrack
HNNNNGG. Ready for Season 3 in 2016?

>>50667137
holy shit how much was your Loveless tape?

>>50667137
>all 3 Jonwayne tapes.
o i see u alright. i only have #3, i had #1 but i sold it on discogs for $50 lol

>>50667168
Damn that sucks, yeah I am not trying to make money at all just want to recoup costs. I actually reached out to the band I'm putting out myself cause I wanted one of their tapes really bad. And they were totally down!

>>50667137
>mfw you spent like $40 on madvilliany, donuts, and simpson on cassette

that twin peaks cassette tho

got this by Harmony Korine + Friends a few months ago. haven't even listened to it yet lol

pic is from internet. actual tape is at my parents' house now

>>50667241
that's good to hear, and yeah that's why the next time my band wants to do a tape release we're just gonna do it ourselves or just talk to the person pressing it for a while to make sure they're not gonna fuck us over. the guy totally moved away 2 states and said he was gonna try and get them in record stores over there but he literally does no promo at all now lol

>>50667175
hell yeah, keeping my hype at bay until i see some more promotional material though.

>>50667191
managed to get it with Glider for $45 or so

>>50667247
i'm a huge supporter of stones throw's tape releases even though they tend to be overpriced. probably going to cop the cakedog and TITTY releases too

>>50667287
all good, i'm just jelly because i wanted donuts and madvilliany but was too cheap to cop

>>50667247
>>50667329
madvillainy * oops

>>50667286
I've been trying to do promo but it is hard to get people to post about your stuff. Mu has been my best friend for selling. AL 4 sales came from here. Hopefully a blog will pick the tape up though and I can then have finds to do another release! That's my end goal helping cool bands out

updated full tape collection as of today

>>50667451
>Mu has been my best friend for selling

i know that feel! people here can be surprisingly awesome like that

>>50667504
u have girly feet

>>50665971
>tfw I will never own this tape
http://www.discogs.com/Exploring-Jezebel-She-Extracts-The-Last-Drop-Of-Torture-Out-Of-The-Penance-And-Will-Add-An-Hour-Or-T/release/2102509

>>50665971
I see vinyl as a way for small bands to make physical copies of their music, i personally don't see the appeal, but I'm glad there's a way for bands that don't have the resources to press on vinyl to share physical copies of their stuff

>>50667671
Vinyl is so fucking expensive tho. I love vinyl way more but tapes are easy & cheap

I luv tapes I have spent too much money on them lately

>>50667565
>u have girly feet
ya i bet u think it's cute

>>50667906
m-m-m-
m-maybe

Anyone ever heard of LAKE? One of the band members sent me a tape of an unreleased album. Probably my favorite tape

>>50667948
lel

>>50668422
used to play shows with them in olympia. truly great band. too bad more people don't know of them

So, outside of music recording, tape purism is a thing now?

I expect Metal tapes (or at least chrome) would be a prerequisite.

>>50668721
Wow that is freaking awesome. They are definitely my favorite band been trying to get everything from them. They are really nice people too. I am a bit obsessed lol if you happen to have any of their tapes I don't have I'd definitely buy them from you

>>50668749
And ambiet, drone stuff

>>50665971
Yeah Homeshake. Love it. Peter is gonna go places with these tunes man

Why not just make cds, or get a job save up and make vinyl

>>50666677
Mac Demarco tapes. Nice.

I would suck a dik gor that 2 rock n roll night club tape

>>50668422
Wow anon this is great stuff thank you so much

i only have emo tapes

i havent bought anything in over a year since i decided spend all my money on a vita and weeb games

>>50669625
Cassettes sell better than CDs

>>50669760
Did you download it the other night when I posted it

>>50669760
>>50669867
I actually made a dub of this unreleased album and I have another unreleased album by them and have those two in a mega file I will share if interested?

>>50669836
In what universe record stores usually only have vinyl and cds I rarely see new shit on tape

>>50670071
Talking about merch tables at gigs. Record stores generally carry a small percentage of all new music available.

>>50669966
yeah please do share, i wasnt on /mu/ last night. I'd love to hear more from them. You got me superstoked on this band :)

i love cassettes, i want more black metal ones though
what is a good online shop/label that have international orders? I want some raw black metal demos

>>50670345
Enjoy
https://mega.co.nz/#!WgcECCLY!jA3JHSFhMNz__0FClMq544AAgku1NJVYCZSlhvQBrf4

>>50665971
damn, i was gonna cop this tape but when it came time to buying they were already sold out

>>50670434
maybe Burger Records has some Metal. Other than that i dont really know any large Cassette retailers :S

>>50670485
Yeah I slept on him and missed out but back in LIke March a guy posted it on discogs and I snatched it up

>>50670434
Acephale Winter is solid for atmo black metal.

>>50670521
>>50670625
thanks guys

>>50670470
Thanks m8! do apreci8 it gr8ly ;)

>>50670698
you're welcome bb ^^

>>50666140
ohhh i love that tape. it has this unreleased VIP of Say It tahts just fucking mental

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsVOj5WsQE

>>50667137
tommy wright III has a new tape? gotta get on that

Bumpity bumperson

Just recently got into cassette-recording!
Anyone know how to lower the 'hiss' sound of recordings? Is it something that I just have to get used to?

This is my setup:

>>50669783
>For Cameron
God fucking dammit I am so jealous of you

>>50672162
Doing better than me, i record all my stuff on a Yamaha k-420. The hiss is kinda part of the deal.

>>50672162
most conventional tape decks/decks in cars have dolby NR in it which is for noise cancellation.

however the tape hiss is the fun part

>>50672501

I guess i can get used to it.

I seem to get a lot of low end distortion - is analog recording more sensitive to low freq than digital recording?

>>50672620
its probably the hotter preamp of the hardware vs the usually shitty preamps on interfaces

Any alternatives to Discogs for cassette-buying?

sure I'll post these again

still really tempted to get one of the Head Wound City cassettes but I can't bring myself to do it when there are 7"s

>>50672499
Well the old one on the left does some pretty wonky recording, very fun for drumtracks. The one on the right is a great machine - got it yestoday very cheap.

That one looks very scrappy, but it has auto reserve! Thank god for that! Does it only have one input?

>>50665971

Picked this up recently.

I just got a new Storm Of The Lights Bane/Where Dead Angels Lie tape in the mail. It's a re-issue. I had an original copy of it before, and it always worked in my truck, but I tried putting it in my friend's tape deck and it got fucked up. There was tape everywhere. I managed to get it out without cutting the tape and I managed to roll it back up, but I'm too scared to play it again.

>>50667504
Which Mac DeMarco tape is under 2 and Rock and Roll nightclub?

>>50666140
This is really cool

>>50672798
What's in the cloth anon

If people like an aesthetic then they should be allowed to enjoy it.

I haven't got any seeing as I started listening to music a few years after cassettes bit the dust but (as with vinyl) I wouldn't mind giving it a go one day.

>>50672499
Got the rca ins, and audio jack, nothing special, it's old.

>>50672988
not that guy but I have it too, it's a tape he sold on tour with a couple acoustic versions of Mac D / Makeout Videotape songs

>>50673104
>>50672825

>>50673133
whaat is that for sale somewhere? what is the name? im a huge fan of Mac so id love to know

>>50671203
new? the tape is from 2000

>>50665971

The majority of my tapes. There are still a few I haven't listened to/ripped so they're not in this picture.

>>50673300
http://www.discogs.com/Mac-DeMarco-Live-And-Acoustic-Vol-1/release/5119974

all sold out now

>>50673300
it might end up back on the captrued tracks store. i'll sell it to you for $25 lol

There is a store in my city that has 2 Madvillainy cassettes for $10 each. Are they worth the effort of reselling?

I decided to start collecting tapes because they are cheaper than CDs most of the time and a lot of stuff I like isn't even released as a cd anymore but is released on tape. Pic related is what I have so far. I also ordered Ausmuteants, Golden Pelican, and King Tuff tapes online.

>>50673043
a Gas Up Yr Hearse! tape, local skramo
http://gasupyrhearse.bandcamp.com/album/a-banner-year-for-the-sum-of-our-losses-ep

>>50673408
oh yeah i know that one. Still thanks mate. Its one of my favorite live albums

>>50674227
>Purling Hiss
>Jeff the Brotherhood

ma man

So I had this idea of starting a cassette tape trading union. Basically, people donate ten of their own releases and for every 5 cassettes they get one from any artist in the union. It is totally not for profit, only trade. For each ten cassettes available, other artists will be able to enjoy local artists until it's time to restock. Just a thought.

>>50674488

Eh, the majority of tape labels/bands releasing tapes trade their releases anyway.

Does anyone know any good psych pop cassette labels? Like the shit from the 60s but modern day

>>50674530
Yeah but it's always so orderly. I wanted to create a sort of Anarchist chain reaction, in which people simply pick at random what they want for their own music or bring their own cassette players and listen, if they don't like it, they can come back and trade it for another, but there is always enough so that others can keep trading what they don't enjoy for what they do. Meh, sounded like a god idea at the time.

>>50673362
oh is it? damn. i say that cos i just didnt recognize it

This thread kinda makes me want to start trying to popularise cassettes in my area, cause I don't think the indie scene around here uses cassettes.

Like, it'd be really cool to start distributing them for bands around here, though I'm pretty sure it'd be a waste of time and money.

>>50672162
what equipment is that in the setup?

>>50672162
Looks pretty solid. Get that mad ping pong.

Heres mine. I really could use a behringer ultrapatch.

>>50667504
Man I'd love a Rock and Roll Night Club tape.