i degrade all my mp3s to around 64kbps. Dat warmth.
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:53 am
by bassrael
just found this thread via the Kahn & Neek tape thread and wanted to brag about my very first musical release ever: In 2002 I was featured (as MC Skukol) on a tape only release of Cologne / Bonn based rap crew Cool Clique. I wasn´t producing back then, just rapping all day The tape is quite worth a couple of quit now, if you can find it somewhere...lol
JBoy wrote:Has the controbuz tape been mentioned yet?
think he mentioned it himself!
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:49 pm
by pkay
in a world with high emphasis on sound quality, I'd pay the extra cash to not have my music distributed on the worst medium we've dealt with in modern times
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:54 pm
by garethom
pkay wrote:in a world with high emphasis on sound quality, I'd pay the extra cash to not have my music distributed on the worst medium we've dealt with in modern times
cool
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:01 pm
by pkay
garethom wrote:
pkay wrote:in a world with high emphasis on sound quality, I'd pay the extra cash to not have my music distributed on the worst medium we've dealt with in modern times
cool
just sayin you can't dodge the hipster factor when cd's are infinitely cheaper than cassettes.... especially when they're doing 4 color glossy J-cards, and 2 tone printing on the tapes. Ruins the whole cheaper medium argument.
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:06 pm
by Shum
cool.
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:29 pm
by wolf89
pkay wrote:
garethom wrote:
pkay wrote:in a world with high emphasis on sound quality, I'd pay the extra cash to not have my music distributed on the worst medium we've dealt with in modern times
cool
just sayin you can't dodge the hipster factor when cd's are infinitely cheaper than cassettes.... especially when they're doing 4 color glossy J-cards, and 2 tone printing on the tapes. Ruins the whole cheaper medium argument.
yeah but when you're doing horrific obscene power electronics having it sound all grimey and tape like adds a certain quality to it that enhances what the music is like anyway.
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:55 pm
by __________
Some people still have tape players and like to use them...isn't it just that simple, or am I missing something?
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:56 pm
by __________
bassrael wrote:just found this thread via the Kahn & Neek tape thread and wanted to brag about my very first musical release ever: In 2002 I was featured (as MC Skukol) on a tape only release of Cologne / Bonn based rap crew Cool Clique. I wasn´t producing back then, just rapping all day The tape is quite worth a couple of quit now, if you can find it somewhere...lol
£10 Bag wrote:Some people still have tape players and like to use them...isn't it just that simple, or am I missing something?
that too.
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:16 am
by alfreton audio
cassette is the new vinyl... (its like the late 70's all over again)
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:32 am
by pkay
wolf89 wrote:
pkay wrote:
garethom wrote:
pkay wrote:in a world with high emphasis on sound quality, I'd pay the extra cash to not have my music distributed on the worst medium we've dealt with in modern times
cool
just sayin you can't dodge the hipster factor when cd's are infinitely cheaper than cassettes.... especially when they're doing 4 color glossy J-cards, and 2 tone printing on the tapes. Ruins the whole cheaper medium argument.
yeah but when you're doing horrific obscene power electronics having it sound all grimey and tape like adds a certain quality to it that enhances what the music is like anyway.
except the tapes you're listening to are likely Type I Dolby B, which are total shit, and were likely duplicated at INSANE speeds which is terrible of sound quality and creates notorious amounts of Signal noise to noise. So if the vibe you're going for is being 15 riding around in a pontiac grand am with factory speakers, the left one blown out, the right one rattling because its ripped, your default GM tape deck cranked up to 9 on the bass 8 on the trebble, and the cassette heads laced with pot smoke and droning at a -8% speed then yeah I'm imagining there is some vibe to it. The vibe being either I don't know enough to know this sounds like shit or I'm trying so hard to enjoy a cassette that I don't care how bad it sounds.
I mean if you really wanna be old school you need to buy a transceiver and broadcast the tape to a $100 or less boombox, you need to record it on a casio blank cassette (120 mins cause fuck it we dont care about fidelity), and you need to record it on the terrible heads from an FM source.
Now we're talking vibe. Nothing says bass music like terrible clipping!
Re: Cassette Releases
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:18 am
by garethom
Ultimately, some releases only come out on cassettes, and I want to listen to them. That's why I made this thread!