Mod, Repair And Maintain Your Cassette Tapes With 3D Printed Parts

The benefit of 3D printers is that they have made it relatively easy to reproduce just about any little plastic thing you might happen to break. If you’re one of the diehards that still has a…

Wear Your Fave Cassette Tapes As A Necklace With This 3D Printed Adapter

While packing merch for a recent gig, I realised I had the opportunity to do something a little fun. I’d released an album on tape, and spent a little extra to ensure the cassette itself was …

Guido Möbius "Chayyam" (featuring Prak Chum)

Guido Möbius - Chayyam (featuring Prak Chum) Taken from "A million magnets (and more)" Limited edition cassette w/ bonus track on superpolar Taïps, out Friday 2 December 2022 on superpolar Taïps. Pre-orders start 25 November 2022. 12" LP already...

A Cassette Interface For A 6502 Breadboard Computer, Kansas City-Style

It’s been a long time since computer hobbyists stored their programs and data on cassette tapes. But because floppy drives were expensive peripherals and hard drives were still a long way fro…

PUTRID OFFAL [Fra] “Unformed“ 04/91 (Autoprod - 1991 Réédition 2021)

Trente ans après la sortie de cette première cassette de PUTRID OFFAL , la voici exhumée pour revenir hanter les collections de bandes magnétiques ! Pionniers du goregrind en France, le trio de Valenciennes comporte à l’époque Franck Peiffer à la...

The End Of The Electromechanical Era

When viewed from the far future, the early years of the 21st century will probably be seen as the end of a short era in human technological development. In the beginning of the 20th century, most e…

There’s Not A Cassingle Thing Missing From This Cassette Deck Masterclass

For [ke4mcl], this whole cassette craze of late is not a new discovery so much as it is a personal nostalgia machine. Since [ke4mcl] sees a lot of basic questions go unanswered, they made an incred…

EUROPE [Swe] Out of this world (Epic / CBS - 1988)

Il était peut-être temps qu'il s'en rende compte en pleine tournée, mais le guitariste John Norum décide de se barrer du groupe qui vire un peu trop vers le…commercial à son goût et est remplacé par le très bon Kee Marcello . Le fait est que cet...

Modern Tape Echo Made Easy

Modern popular music increasingly relies on more and more complicated and intricate equipment and algorithms to generate catchy tunes, but even decades ago this was still the case. The only differe…

Audio Cassette Tape Data Retrospective

It has been a long time since we stored software and computer data on audiotape. But it used to be the de facto standard for hobby computers and [Noel] has a great video about the Amstrad’s s…

TrueTape64 Is A PC Interface For Your C64 Datasette

Back in the distant past of the 1980s, software was distributed on audio tape. Ones and zeroes were encoded as tones of different frequencies, and tapes were decoded by specialised hardware which c…