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decorating
Retro Wallpaper Celebrates the Golden Age of Hip Hop
Turntables, keyboards, cassettes and boomboxes? Yes please. This designer wallpaper by Aimée Wilder costs $140 for a diminutive 27" x 15' roll. Then again, that's enough probably paper to make your point. [aimeewilder via Unplggd] -
robots
TapeScape 'Bot Turns Old Boombox Into Glitch Music Automaton
Using little else than the parts inside an old GE boombox, Michael Colombo made TapeScape, a robot that front-mounts the jambox's tape head and uses it to follow strips of cassette tapes on the ground. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by KeepingTheForeName_GitEmSteveDave: So you can, in theory, set this down on one of those broken tapes that you find rolled out along... 1 Responses | Other threads
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listening test
Handmade Playlist: The Greatest Mixtape I Ever Made
In 1994, I painstakingly crafted the greatest hip-hop mixtape cassette I would ever make, comprised solely of songs on the radio at the time. I was 9. More » -
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My First Album
Who the hell is Richard Marx? Being another baby of Gizmodo, I'm sure I've still got a lot to learn about music, especially since I'm one of those kids who's completely brainwashed by The Mouse. More » -
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Cool Album Art and Packaging: Records, Cassettes, CDs Then Nothing
CDs originally came in long boxes with amazing art. Word went around that they'd go away, since hippies—like Sting—were pissed off about killing trees, but I was sad. Music packaging says a lot about music. More » -
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My First Album
Unlike Mark's first album, my first album unfortunately contained no ninjas. Unless Richard Marx was a ninja. More » -
gallery
I'm All Wound Up: A Gallery of Classic Magnetic Tape Drives and Reels
SSD, Smesh Smesh Dee. Here's my visual tribute to magnetic tape, the storage medium that can be measured in MBytes, minutes and meters. More » -
art
Strange, Archaic Audio Storage Device Used to Create Impressive Musician Artwork
Called "Ghost in the Machine," this artwork from iri5 uses some kind of "cassette" to recreate the likenesses of popular musicians. Apparently, cassettes were used for music and seduction, by way of a "mix tape." More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by anoteoftruth: cmon.. I'm only 25 and I hardly feel that Cassette Tapes are archaic. I still remember having a big clunky... 10 Responses | Other threads
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ugliness
Teac's LP-R500 CD-Equipped Record Player Fell Through Ugly Timewarp
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. This is Teac's LP-R500. Ugh. Sorry, I'll try pulling myself together: it's a modern version of what my grandad used to call a "radiogramme," cramming in an FM radio, a CD player, cassette player and record deck into onesleekancient, massive, clunky box along with an amp and speakers. Admittedly it does let you record your vinyl and tapes to CD. But... ugh. Yours for an ugly $700. [Akihabaranews via Dvice]
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By Kit EatonComment by kungfuhamster: anyone know where i can find a 16 rpm player have been looking for years. i hae a few records... 5 Responses | Other threads
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business sense
Stubborn, Old, Crotchety JVC Finally Ceases Standalone VCR Production
Formats never truly die, but their eras always have a few painful stages of decline. First, there's the arrival of a promising new competitor, then its steady rise, which is invariably followed by a mourning period and the final purging of last-gen products from the market. The last stage of obsolescence for of the long-presumed-dead format is upon us: JVC has announced that production of their single remaining player will stop immediately. More »
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By John HerrmanComment by Curves: I still have my VCR hooked up (DVD in aux ports), mostly due to the fact I am too lazy... 8 Responses | Other threads
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cassette tapes
Cabinet Built From 918 Tapes That Never Thought Things Would End Like This
It's not easy being a tape nowadays. Your only friends are all in jail, everyone inexplicably likes old-farty vinyl more than you, and now people are even using you to build furniture. This is not how it was supposed to go. More »
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By John HerrmanComment by Toshie: What's with the background music? I didn't know crappers did woodworking... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Prison Tapes
Music On Cassette Tape Is Still the Bomb...If You're In Prison
Los Angeles mail order catalog Pack Central may have found the last untapped pocket of consumers willing to pay retail for their music on physical formats—the cellblocks of our great nation's prisons. And not just any format—turns out, music on cassette is the only way to get tunes that isn't screened out as a potential deadly weapon. Wait, they still sell new music on cassettes? More »
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By John MahoneyComment by archercc: Probably popular because its easier to hide up your arse. You know, so nobody knows you have a Mariah Carey... more » | Other threads
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addy essay
Stereos, Tapes, CDs and Vinyl Records: My Frustrating Romance With Old-Fashioned Audio Gear
So, here's the thing. My stereo components have been in boxes gathering dust ever since I became a fully fledged member of the iPosse. Ditto for my CDs, cherished cassette tapes and even a few essential vinyl records. Since Jesus and I are relocating to London, and I've ripped everything I really listen to, you might say it's a no-brainer to throw it all out. But it's not that easy to do, is it?
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home entertainment
Cassette Wallets Let You Carry Nostalgia Around With You
Nothing says "the 1980s" like cassettes. The now dead format holds a dear place in the heart of any child of the '80s who fondly recalls meticulously recording mixtapes, trading for concert recordings by mail on XLII's, and putting Scotch tape over the little hole on the top of that Boyz II Men tape your aunt gave you so you could record songs from the radio over it. More » -
home entertainment
How to: Digitize your Cassette Collection
We may be two formats removed from the cassette era with CDs and now MP3s, but some of those treasured cassettes are just too good to throw out (Journey, anyone?). Rick Broida of Lifehacker has a nice, simple write-up about how to digitize those cassettes. Why would anyone want to digitize a cassette? Well, cassettes have a lot of sentimental value (re: mix tapes from significant others) and if the tapes are in reasonable condition they will sound fine—no need to re-purchase music you already own. More »
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