Do you reckon tapes will ever have resurgence or are they totally dead?

I still got about 150 tapes in a few boxes. Some are original but most are just you know copies of stuff. I think maybe the rarer the music the more value it may say have. E.g I've got Eno's 'Bush of Ghosts' and 'On Land' on tape plus The Black Dog's 'Spanners' just to mention a few.

I didn't really continue buying tapes after about 98 I think. The last thing I bought on tape was a Nucleus compilation.

Thoughts?

i will never understand the appeal of tapes

I haver never seen a tape IRL

maybe they'll come back for a bit. like vinyl. maybe people will get all nostalgic.

if not on a big scale, at least there are heaps of little circle on the internet that enjoy tapes and tape culture. there are artits who still release on tape too, like some hip hop beat, reverby indie bands and mellow 80s nostalgists.

some consider it just a thing that trendies do though.

as with other old mediums, the faults with the technology are actually the appeal.

  On 10/20/2010 at 4:36 AM, ieafs said:

http://www.alteredzones.comhttp://www.dntrecords.com/home.html

I'm starting to visit alteredzones a lot lately

  On 10/20/2010 at 7:49 AM, Backson said:

maybe they'll come back for a bit. like vinyl. maybe people will get all nostalgic.if not on a big scale, at least there are heaps of little circle on the internet that enjoy tapes and tape culture. there are artits who still release on tape too, like some hip hop beat, reverby indie bands and mellow 80s nostalgists.some consider it just a thing that trendies do though.as with other old mediums, the faults with the technology are actually the appeal.

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7764-this-is-not-a-mixtape/

I always liked seeing limited edition cassette tapes on merch tables, especially ones with handmade sleeves, because they are usually cheap and a lot more personal and nifty than a band's burned CD-R release. Cassettes are ANTI hi-fi, they have the faded, nostaligic, play-it-so-many-times it sounds BoC-ish appeal.

Now 8-tracks are almost dead. They were so outdated and silly that a documentary from 1995 was highlighting they small cult of collectors. Melvin's released a live EP on that format as a gimmick...they were so inconsistent that some cut out at different times and few had different tracks altogether.

I'm 24 and I had a walkman for a few years before CDs and then iPods were the default. Kids now have no major experience with analog devices, and they're less than instant operating aspects, so it'll be wierd to see how many look back with curiosity 10-15 years from now. Though if some popular indie artists release music solely on cassette or vinyl, they'll have to check it out.

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Tapes act to make tangible the connection between a creator and their listeners, and the attentive and often handmade packaging speaks to this exchange. One instance of this relationship is revealed in the description provided for the Gilgongo Records “Singular Set” series, a run of cassette releases recorded directly onto the tape by the musician in an edition of one. Gilgongo’s James Fella explains that for the project, “…the emphasis is on reaching out and sharing something specific with one other person, that an unrepeated portion of time and creation was individually cut and passed on to one other person to hold onto as their own.”

Rhizome - 101 Cassette Labels

No Longer Forgotten Music

hurry - study engineering at university level

then we can design our own analogue formats that surpass all else :D

  On 10/20/2010 at 12:15 PM, chunky said:

hurry - study engineering at university level

then we can design our own analogue formats that surpass all else :D

i say we get onto wire recording before anyone else does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

wow. do want.

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i love cassettes because they make u listen to the whole side

i love the way tape saturates and sounds

i don't really care about the hiss

i have big boxes filled with all of the music i created from the first part of my career on cassette and I have been slowly going thru all of them and dumping the good shit onto my computer

i also have an 8 track analog 1/2 in tascam tsr 8 that i will never ever part with

i don't give a fuck that hipsters like cassettes -BFD

i like that lots of stuff is still released on cassette

i think cassettes rule

too bad they haven't appreciated in value like vinyl has [with few exceptions]

oh and by the way

cds degrade over time and loose data

tape is a sturdy format

  On 10/20/2010 at 2:00 PM, modey said:

i say we get onto wire recording before anyone else does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

Or 35mm Optical..

  On 10/20/2010 at 2:00 PM, modey said:

  On 10/20/2010 at 12:15 PM, chunky said:

hurry - study engineering at university level

then we can design our own analogue formats that surpass all else :D

i say we get onto wire recording before anyone else does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

very interesting, thanks!

They will only survive among ungerground artists and groups. Some drone and ambient artists are frequently releasing on cassette, just because of the obscurity of the format which goes well with the level of obscurity in their music.

Who knows, maybe the hipsters will revive it and praise is as the coolest format, like, ever.

we're exploring that option. plus, they are fun to design!

Some people even want dead formats like Laserdiscs. I didn't even know these things existed until last night at a friend's house. At first I thought they were film soundtracks on vinyl, but I picked them up and looked at them and thought "oh my holy fucking JESUS this record looks like a CD only WAY BIGGER". It was then explained to me quite thoroughly what the fuck they are and I calmed down but am still slightly befuddled and perplexed by the whole goddamn thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc WHAT THE FUCK

only as some sort of gimmy revival thing. Tapes are pretty shit. They'll eventually become useless as the ambient radiation will destroy them.

Also, sell me your spanners tape.

I do not like tapes.

Also, lol, my middle school used some laserdisc stuff just six years ago.

  On 10/20/2010 at 2:22 PM, yikes said:

 

tape is a sturdy format

So not true.

  On 10/20/2010 at 6:40 PM, Candiru said:

Some people even want dead formats like Laserdiscs. I didn't even know these things existed until last night at a friend's house. At first I thought they were film soundtracks on vinyl, but I picked them up and looked at them and thought "oh my holy fucking JESUS this record looks like a CD only WAY BIGGER". It was then explained to me quite thoroughly what the fuck they are and I calmed down but am still slightly befuddled and perplexed by the whole goddamn thing.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc WHAT THE FUCK

I think they were a bit more popular in Japan, but they're always kind of ahead of everyone else. I remember watching Topgun at the base exchange (i.e. department store of military bases) around 1996-97 when I lived in Okinawa. It was the shit...the whole chapter skipping feature was MINDBLOWING back then!

They made video games on the format too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4swgYTIGbg&feature=related

  On 10/20/2010 at 10:30 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 10/20/2010 at 2:22 PM, yikes said:

 

tape is a sturdy format

 

So not true.

Bahahahaha, tapes are sturdy?

Page one of any books about tapes: Tapes will deteriorate fast than any other platform.

just curious - how many younger people have some sort of tape player at home/work?

to Hipsters : you can buy tapes in bulk for your label/releases in every colour imaginable, still....

i heart tapes. but i'm not a hipster.

If you consider me young?

I have 2 tape decks on my stereo and at least 3 other boxes than can play em.

  On 10/21/2010 at 1:14 AM, chassis said:

If you consider me young?

 

I have 2 tape decks on my stereo and at least 3 other boxes than can play em.

yeah, but not in an offensive way. i meant like teens/early 20's peeps. the youth of today.

i'm actually interested in doing a very limited tape release meself. hipster-esque or not, i quite like the idea. :)

I don't like the hiss with tape

I hated it when tapes got chewed up or kakky from dirty car stereos

tape can sound interesting slowed down like in SAW2

I prefer the sound of minidisks