I was wondering Cassette Tape YouTube and watched and enjoyed these video that I thought you might like too.
Like the above review of the EZcap TapeDigi 1. It’s pretty cool how you can record radio onto an SD card (not that it’s better than recording onto a cassette *wink* or anything.
I have to tell you, I am enjoying getting tapes sent to me (this goober music blogger’s dream). I recently got three different ones sent. First being…
The Nausea: Requiem
So genius how Requiem can create a tense build that somehow keeps going. I can attest that it is good background music for writing or any damn thing really.
Requiem is out of Vancouver BC, and being a fan of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team, I am thinking this would make for some pretty epic tension music before an important puck drop. Very cinematic.
Sansyou took care in creating a nice tape package, including putting it all on cobalt II tape, six page insert and PICKS! Yes I got some picks in the case. Nice atmosphere music too.
Sansyou runs out of DC. There are still cassettes of Spaces In Between available on Sansyou’s Bandcamp page.
ShangGORIL La Records
Such a bummer dude. This package from ShanGORIL La Records came open and empty. I am curious what made all the little dots on it. All the way from Hong Kong too and it cost them over $30 just to send it.
I don’t know what tape they sent me, but maybe it was Gateless Garden:
Nothing like a good cello tape to class up your day. Check out all of ShanGORIL La Records artists on their Bandcamp page.
If you are a label or band that would like to see your cassette on The Tape Player blog or newsletter, send it to:
The Tape Player co Mike Seay 2037 W. Bullard Ave #153 Fresno, CA 93711
Instagram scrolling I came upon a clip of HUM playing “Stars” on Conan O’Brien and it reminded me of how much I loved that song. I then went and watched their performance of it on “120 Minutes” (they played it tighter this time):
So now I am like, well, I never had “You’d Prefer An Astronaut“, maybe it’s about time to find it on cassette. And now I discovered it’s a little bit valuable.
I was wandering through all the music released today and there was ALMOST nothing in the way of cassette tapes – there was like, seriously, one. So I found a recent one to pass along. The Wiffs “Scratch ‘N’ Sniff”
I dunno if I am renaming my Tape Pull segment here or starting a new one but today I was reminded that there was a time when I walked home from school near a record store and I would make sure to walk by the shop to see if there was anything new in the window or inside.
So I felt like starting a no-frills In The Window series. Just posting a new/new-to-me album (with a tape available) whenever I can, so you have something new to see on the blog (and later on the newsletter).
The poster pulled me in. I was unaware of the punk supergroup, OFF!, until then. Also, excited to find out they do have a cassette of Free LSD available on Bandcamp.
If you scroll down the album’s Bandcamp page, you will find the perfectly pink cassette of which (at the time of this posting) there are surprisingly still some left:
I had planned this post for a while and just now finally getting it up. Since then we have all experienced the passing of Steve Albini, making the Shellac/OFF! show in Chicago a somber one – or maybe there will be appreciatively joyful respect for still being around to see a killer live show.
Sadly there isn’t a tape of the acclaimed new Shellac album. But you can always get some blanks and make one (something I plan to do). I feel like Steve would be cool with a bootleg of a Shellac album.
You might be saying, “But Mike, there’s Reddit, Discord, Facebook Groups, Instagram comments, etc, for that stuff now!”
You’re right, but it’s all kind of exhausting. We’re too spread out. Scrolling too much. At least I am.
I thought it would be nice to hang out with and get info from a like-minded cassette tape playing music and analog loving community.
Social media only gives you want it wants you to see and then it goes away – message board stuff stays up and there is no algo’ involved.
Maybe I will be alone on the board. That would suck, but at least I would have this idea out of my system (I have been thinking about doing it for years on other blogs I have). And, quite frankly, I haven’t seen a good forum on even the best music blogs.
But maybe it will be cool too. I hope you join me.
