The cassette tape is the audio equivalent of the AK-47: cheap and easy to mass manufacture; highly usable with the minimum of skills and experience; and a symbol and tool of revolutions. Marc Masters doesn’t use that metaphor in his excellent and truly exciting book on cassette tapes, but he doesn’t have to. He outlines the story of how the cassette came to be the dominant recording medium on a global scale during the 1980s and into the mid-1990s, and by doing so shows how essential cassettes were to so many musical movements that they would have been impossible without the tapes that, as he points out, are so easy and satisfying to hold in your hand.
Comus "Diana" - First UtteranceCarola Baer "Golden Boy" - The Story of ValerieJenny Hval "Classic Objects" - Classic ObjectsGodspeed You! Black Emperor "Sleep (excerpt)" - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To HeavenBoris "Beyond Good and Evil" - WKitty Prozac "Vacation Song" - None Shall Be AfraidPitted "Like That" - So PittedThe Garrys "Sintaluta" - Get Thee to a NunnerySham Family "This Blue Mob" - Sham FamilyChoke "Perfect, Plastic" - ForewardDJ Sniff "Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice" - Parallel Traces of the Jewel VoiceHajj "Reverse Catharsis" - Drag Me Into The VoidGábor Lázár "Boundary Object III" - Boundary ObjectThe Threshold HouseBoys Choir "A Time Of Happening" - Form Grows RampantComusFirst UtteranceDianaCarola BaerThe Story of ValerieGolden BoyJenny HvalClassic ObjectsClassic ObjectsGodspeed You! Black Emperor
March 11 ShowComusFirst UtteranceDianaCarola BaerThe Story of ValerieGolden BoyJenny HvalClassic ObjectsClassic ObjectsGodspeed You! Black EmperorLift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To HeavenSleep (excerpt)BorisWBeyond Good and EvilKitty ProzacNone Shall Be AfraidVacation SongPittedSo PittedLike ThatThe GarrysGet Thee to a NunnerySintalutaSham FamilySham FamilyThis Blue MobChokeForewardPerfect, PlasticDJ SniffParallel Traces of the Jewel VoiceParallel Traces of the Jewel VoiceHajjDrag Me Into The VoidReverse CatharsisGábor LázárBoundary ObjectBoundary Object IIIThe Threshold HouseBoys ChoirForm Grows RampantA Time Of Happening
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