Blank Tape: Electronic Cassette Culture
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2016
- A short film about the new wave of DIY labels, producers and artists who've found a home for experimental electronic music on cassette.
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A film by Sam Campbell & Sonal Kantaria
Produced by The Vinyl Factory 
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Let's keep Cassettes Alive !!! ❤❤❤ Cassettes are still Alive and well in 2023 #
Long live tape cultures, pause tapes, beat tapes, DIY, albums, cassingles, various music genres, Dj mixes, electronic, noise, multi track, performance, installations, data tapes and beyond!!!
I love cassettes!!
Vinyl Eyezz make more cassette vids 😩
but you are vinyleyezz where is cassetteeyezz?
Why?
make casseteyezz plzzzzzz!!!
get back to work
Is good to know that more people still have the love for tapes. I definitely have. My first tracks I recorded directly on tape in the late 1990s. I really want to record an album which i release on cassettes. I have quite huge collection of tapes and recorders which I am proud of:) all the best
guardians of the galaxy restarted cassette culture! and as a gen z, I'm proud to say I'm in love with the 70s-90s tech! we make up about a third of the cassette tape market buying right now and it might grow passed the numbers it sold and guardians of the galaxy isn't the only thing that's restarted cassette culture
fantastic doc! 🙂 we just did a whole lofi-alt-folk concept album on a tascam portastudio cassette recorder. couldn't have done it any other way. the way the tape makes it sound is essential for what we were trying to do
Ever since I’ve A/B’d the same album on cd and tape, I made the determination that despite the bright headroom of 10 KHz + on CD the cassettes bass and low-mid response is definitely fuller and more pleasing, despite any tape hiss
I hear cd "pointy" and the sound equivalent of having a white light lamp pointing to your face.
i watch this video maybe 3 times every year since 2017 when i was a senior in high school. tried to start a tape label back then but didnt keep up with it. every time i watch it i want to try again lmao
Try again. 🙂👍👍👍
Honestly as a musician I love the idea of releasing like 20 copies of a cassette, all with different art work
I Got Little Tears In my Eyes Cause My Family and I Brought the Cassette Back In 90's, I Still have a Cassette In My Bedroom, I Listening to it Ones In the While
true underground sounds and experimental art process !
Excellent short film on cassette tape & culture. Love it.
guardians of the Galaxy restarted cassette culture! and as a gen z, I'm proud to say I'm in love with the 70s-90s tech! we make up about a third of the cassette tape market buying right now and it might grow passed the numbers it sold and guardians of the galaxy isn't the only thing that's restarted cassette culture... plus tapes have art on them and you can put whatever on the face of the cassette itself wether it's an art of someone, a thing, a picture of women, a retro look, or whatever you can put them on the tapes and that's what makes them not only cool collection item but the face you can interact with them and play music from them
You know, this is one of my favorite youtube channels hands down. Such production quality, so detailed. I love every single video.
Glad I found out that the synthwave band The midnight was selling cassettes on their website.
I’m tired of people saying that Only millennials listen to tapes I was born in 1989 I am a millennial and I remember very clearly my parents listening to cassette tapes when I was a little boy and I used to make a mix tapes as a child all the time I love my vintage pioneer cassette deck and it sounds amazing. The ct-f950 almost exactly like techmoans and it’s built like a tank.
well of course older generations listened to tape. no one is saying only millennials have been the only people ever to listen to tape. people listened to tapes from the 60's-90s. its just that the millennials are the only "younger" generation to bring back tapes after they died out in the 90s.
And this one goes to my playlist of the most favourite videos on RUclips
I seriously prefer cassettes over digital audio. I do hope that pop artists release their music on the format also.
I personally use a few different formats (Vinyl, digital, Cassette). There are different things I like about each format. There are also things that annoy me about each format. Audio is subjective. What I prefer may not be another persons choice. I just find it sad when someone makes a blanket statement such as "Digital can do everything better". Really? By what I have just stated I must infer that they mean "Digital can do everything better.. for them" since they do not speak for me. Forums are about opinions and people love to be right. Consider this: maybe it is okay for another person to like something for their own particular reasoning. It's okay to like stuff. As I get older I am learning to respect the choices of other people and I may even listen to them for a while until they attempt to force feed their views to me. BTW, welcome to Tapeheads Noel.
@Çerastes that's what they said about Vinyl and now it's so popular that even in my town 2 record stores have popped up when a few years ago we had none. Eventually cassette will gain alot more popularity just like Vinyl
😍😍😍 futureretro, I'm looped in analogue 😍😍😍
this definitely needs a tracklist!
It does. Credits.
To me cassettes are the best. They have a warm sound and I still have some cassette (around 100) in little storage. I had more but some jerk off broke into my car stole my radio and my bag of cassette 😬
I still use tapes all the time. Although I've gone digital with some things; it lacks the warmth and depth that a quality tape can provide. Ive found myself using digital formats when I want to make a master recoding because of the low noise level and the extended frequency range. Some recordings I will make a copy on a tape for listening. The tape makes the recording sound more alive and real to me. It adds a little something extra to my listen expearence. Plus, I love watching the wheels go round and round. I really love to watch them roll. (John Lennon).
Çerastes I do a lot of recordings in above 44khz at 32 bit so I'm aware of how digital audio can sound. You must have missed the part where I said I go digital because of the lower shelf noise and higher frequency response.That's why I stated that I make my master recordings using digital formats. I use tape strictly for fun afterwards . I'm sorry but you compared a MP3 to tape as sounding warm because of the lower high freq response and I've never heard anyone say that before. Lmao!! MP3s sound hollow and lack depth because of the low bit rates. I'm gonna respect your option but it's sounds like you don't really have any experience using quality digital or analog equipment. Maybe you just don't understand what I'm talking about because you've never heard a quality tape recording before. If you had than you would know what I'm taking about. Plus when I say tape I'm referring to open reel tape and not cassettes. Sorry I was not specific with that part.
cassettes 4ever
OH the vaporwave albums showed up! awesome!
Love working with cassettes!
Now I'm hungry for more.
Video is very well made.
Thank you for this!
Cassette does have its distinctive quirks; it's a pity we don't have them around anymore.
Brilliant!
The cassettes have the charm of the physical format and beautiful designs. But you should use a good tape and make a good recording. The music is played without haste, without the tremor of a finger changing the track.
The ones in this video are cheap ferric ones. A good recording on a good metal or chrome tape with Dolby s is superb.
lizichell2 I cringed when I saw them playing on a crappy Aiwa "Walkman". That's when you realize that they don't really care about sound, but about the novelty of tape.
Exactly.
It reminds me of vinyl. Like cassette, it takes some knowledge and some effort to get as much out of the format as possible.
Somebody playing a record off of a Crosley with a ceramic pickup won't get as much out of it in terms of sound quality compared to playing it off of a Thorens with a decent and properly configured magnetic cartridge.
Watcher3223 Ahh, the cassette snobs arrived, with a trimmed moustache on their fixed gear.
Nah, a real snob wouldn't be using cassettes _at all._
Sounds better than an MP3. Do you think the digitlal agenda cares about sound quality with cheap ipods or listening to the music on a cell phone ?
So cool this is still happening in the online era of SoundCloud, streaming services, etc. Scarcity = fascination
I have always had a couple of chrome tapes to edit my diy masters and put them onto the cheaper tape for the day to day use and often made 2 of then some onto the computer for my own use and if/when the tape fails make a new mix tape.
Would love to see something like this for Vaporwave and future funk tapes
Cassettes loves me back
I want a tour of this factory!!! PLZ!!!!
well done...!
I can't say I love cassettes like Yinyl Eyezz but I do still have a cassette deck in my system for the rare times I stumble across a cassette from days past that I simply can't pass up.
With my experience with cassette tapes. A good normal tape can sound just as good as a chrome tape. When using a very good quality recorder.
Very very good
I could have watched an hour long doc on tapes :)
I worked on the tapematic 2000 at Capitol records in the eighties.
FYI Cassette sound emulation software is widely used across music production
Cassettes are the best. Cheap and sounds excellent
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This video would have you believe cassettes are on the verge of making a huge comeback, and as much as I love the format, they're not coming back big anytime soon. Most manufacturers stopped making them, you can't find them in stores, Sony stopped making the cassette Walkman, you can hardly find new cassette decks / players in any retail outlet, and all the major record labels issue new music mostly on CD and digital download, with the occasional vinyl LP release. Cassettes may have this cool analog sound that some people dig, but much like 8-track tapes, phonograph records and Edison wax cylinders, it's an outdated piece of technology, and just a novelty for a niche group of people.
Do you feel the same way about vintage cars or a Monet? How about a 62 Stratocaster? Old shit ya know? 😆✌🏽
Ahhh yes the cassettes still got a shitload pre-recorded ones got rid of the home-made ones over the yrs.
still play them once in a while always keep them fully spooled when not in use
I noticed this footage was recorded on vhs tape them days I don't miss much
i cant recognise what tape deck model is... at 3:27... on the shelf, when dan davies talking...
I put Skrillex EPs Scary Monsters and Bangarang onto a blank tape. It sounds pretty good!
Can the record labels please release modern cassettes encoded with Dolby noise reduction?
Whats songs are played in the background?
Doing small runs is O.K..The high speed mass tape dubbing machines sucked.I use to run one.
If you're just recording off your vinyl record or another well made tape it will sound good.
Anyone know the track at 0:42? or any of the tracks for that matter? I don't understand why a music central channel would make a video featuring music and not credit.
the soundtrack ? please !
Tape didnt come back. It never died
Just gotta have those f@ck... tapes! Love em! :)
What is the track that is playing from :38-1:30? It's beautiful.
As much as we'd want it, cassettes will never come back. Compared to records, tapes are ages into the future. It's not very complicated to press new records, or even build tools from scratch since the technology is so archaic. Now imagine the technology for tape, starting from chemical compounds. Even if production is restarted, the machines are old and new replacement parts are non existent, the recording equipment, the heads, motors drives and all that stuff is not and will not be made anymore since it would be too expensive to make it worth. Also the players that we use are not getting younger, yes the belts are still made but there are many other things that wear out. With records it is much cheaper and simpler. It's just too bad. I love tapes.
GENIUS
Can you please ID the track that plays in the background at 3:20
I'm back in beeswax, plus I know how to repair, the tapes too.
anyone know what the tape mixer at 2:53 is?
originally released by the Festival of Failure, 2009
I am really happy that they made a comeback but where can you buy a nice good quality player/recorder? I have over 10 tape decks and some Walkmans but since tapes are manufactured again, why don't they start making some good quality gear again? Simple answer is because big brands couldn't give a crap about it and they know that there isn't a big market for good but expensive gear, so we are stuck with just maintaining old gear and hoping that they will last yet another year!
This deck is being made new in 2018: ruclips.net/video/eep1kLdaURA/видео.html
Quality looks pretty alright. Could be better but the only way that's happening is if the subculture grows significantly. There is still a saturation of old machines that cost a small fortune when they were new, so the quality will naturally be higher. Why buy a new machine for $700 (theoretically for new high quality deck?) when they can just get an old one in perfect condition for $2-300?
If people were willing to pay remotely close to the inflation-adjusted price for a new deck they could certainly make new ones to quality standards, better even with modern manufacturing and tech, but everything is based on demand. The best chance we have of seeing really great machines returning is spreading the love of cassettes to more new people.
what is the music at 3:16???
5:04 what track is that? So bea
Anyone know the track at 3:33. Thinks it's by 1991 or best available technology. Cheers
It's 'Inbalance' by Best Available Technology. Says it in the credits.
I got SIRIM and I want to apply cassate to make album, I just got storage building, and we're still work on, I am glad if I got business and contrek.
gud vid...
SHOUT OUTS TO 2814
Hello! Someone selling cassette duplicator? I need to buy one outside USA (problems with customs..) thank you!!
track at 2:34?
Track ID at 4:14??? Anyone?
I want to pick Indonesia song to give back-gold album, Kenwood- was Indonesia .30 dB mega bass2
KABALUI, KG, KIAMBOR, BLACK TAPE AND ORANGE TAPE FOR JIM AND NISSA
I agree!!¡! all my shit was done on Porta Studios🎹🎧💫
inspired by tape
Is video tape next?
I think DVCAM is still in use...
2:44 nice aiwa walkman
damn your subscribed to a lot of youtubers
What's that mixer at 3:04?
Vanessa Louzon after some research, I found the Yamaha MT3X
That's a 4 Track homestudio recorder, used by many folks to record their demos on. There were also versions that had 8 tracks you could record on one cassette. The Tascam Portastudio machines were the most famous known ones for that. However they all require Type II tapes to work properly.
It's weird but cassettes feel different, like slow food. I listened a lot to FSOL Dead Cities cassette in the 90's and it got under my skin and can't part with it now or any of my old cassettes for that matter
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All right. But we do can concentrate more than 2 sec on a thing, trust me.
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mutes my love for vinly
My cassette records great and plays great some cassettes were made of poor quality I use it for my original music and buy type 2 metal is expensive make my own j cards hand write on the cassette
2:23 oh dude… don't stack your tapes >_> Store them standing vertically!!
Is there a reason why someone should store them vertically?
@@tsarbombacrazy88tsarbomba47 I think it would have to do with how the tape settles.
@@chrisfrancis3826 oh that is true, I was also thinking because of the chromium oxide on the tape itself.
As a format, it's highly convenient and highly versatile at a cheap price - but it gets stretched, the wow and flutter is noticeable at the best of times, any copying results in degradation of the quality.
What bothers me in this video is the exaggerated VHS effects.
LUKE YOUNGER my man
I am now officially old. I know this because people are getting all nostalgic about something that was surpassed by something better when i was in my teens.
I now know how people in their 60's feel when i tell them i like using a typewriter. They look at me like i am crazy because a computer is obviously beeter for writing.
Electronic formats are so much easier to produce and distribute.
Tapes seem to be about the object and collecting rare releases, which is great. I just dont want to see the 'tape sounds better than xyz format' i remember tapes getting wrapped wp in players or twisting and delaminating. They were a pain in the ass and tape hiss made it sound crap unless you bought expensive noise reduction decks.
My question is how many good tape players have been sold?
I remember seeing a stat that vinyl sales were massive but the actual record player sales were pretty low, implying that people liked to buy the records but not necessarily listen to them. Buy the vinyl make you collection look nice and the use the download code to get it and listen to it on your phone!
On vas pas,nous ressortir la k7 !
TAPES DON'T SCRATCH
Ferric Hiss???? NO! Where's the chromium or metal? Where's the Dolby NR?
You don't really need Dolby System to sound good on Compact Cassette (and, if you don't know how to record with it correctly, then the playback with it won't sound good because the Dolby circuit wouldn't be able to track it properly).
But the use of good quality tape is a must along with the use of good quality equipment and recordings done by people who know what they're doing with the format.
Although metal tape is great, using chromium dioxide tape is probably the most ideal way to go as it's a good compromise between performance and economy. That said, you're better off with a high quality normal bias tape than a crummy quality CrO2 tape.
That said, online distribution is the most economic way for an independent to get itself out to listeners as the cost of distribution is going to be the lowest because you don't have to concern yourself with an inventory of physical copies.
That said, it should be easy to fulfill special orders on Compact Cassette as well as Compact Disc (burning your copies on CD-R as opposed to hiring a manufacturer to do a replication run, of course) whereas it will certainly be an investment if you want to distribute your music on vinyl.
Who said anything about licensing?
Uh, when recording, turn the Dolby switch on?
Well, obviously when we're talking about a record company, they did have to pay Dolby for the use of their system and their logos.
But what does that have to do with just using Dolby for personal use?
And, if you're an independent who's recording cassettes as a band rather than as a record company and especially if you're only recording a very small run of copies for fans with your own equipment rather than placing an order with a duplication company, I don't think Dolby would care if you use their NR with your stuff as that's small potatoes.
Ferric hiss. Lo-fi music on a lo-fi medium really just makes sense.
"As many people are buying cassettes now as they were in 1987" - why not checking RIAA database? Go to public.tableau.com/shared/JK2B9NDPJ?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y and select cassettes and cassette singles, you will get 415 million pre-recorded cassettes sold in the U.S. in 1987. The last year on the chart is 2008 with about 100K units sold. Even if 2018 number is twice more, well you get 200K - nothing compared to 1987 numbers. All the talk that cassettes are so easy for DIY are misleading - yes, they can be done in small batches or even at home, but CDs can too, and for digital downloads all you need to do is upload it to a site like BandCamp: no producing anything, unless you want extra merch like posters or T-shirts. I bought stuff on BandCamp, and I have files saved to an external drive, and I have a nice poster. Why would I need a piece of plastic?
How old is EVERYONE in this video... jesus
Couple of years ago everybody made fun of Americans having no culture. Now everything in America is culture. Are you fucking kidding me?
RRR
This is not new to anyone. Old hat from the 1950s and 1960s