OUR COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF CASSETTE BASED RECORD LABELS:
UNNECESSARY FRICTION RECORDS
THIS GUY USED TO DO UP TAPES:
I THINK I FELL IN LOVE WITH TAPES THROUGH
1. they are cute little guys with character and faces, like pretzles, bearded and unbearded
ART IS NOT A CONTEST!
CASSETTE CULTURE BULLITEN BOARD
HERE YOU CAN FIND A PERSUASIVE REASON TO GO ALL TAPE.
TEENAGE WHORE TAPES
POPGUN RECORDINGS
LIL' LION
BEST KEPT SECRET (of italy)
RUB-A-DUB TAPE CLUB
SANITARY RECORDS
UNREAD RECORDS
NATRIX NATRIX RECORDS
CHOCOLATE MONK
MONOTONE RECORDS
MORC RECORDS
WHIRLING CLOUD RECORDS
TABEL TAPES
TWONICORN RECORDS
NOT NOT FUN
KAW TAPES
PLASTIC DUCK RECORDINGS
THIS GUY OCCASIONALLY SELLS TAPES...WINK WINK
K RECORDS
(an ongoing list of lust as we wake up enough to remember)
2. you can put them in yr pocket
3. transportable music for the public (walkman)
4. cds have a small small life span
5. tapes DONT SCRATCH. you will never be listenin to a fatboy slim TAPE and be wonderin' if the cd is skppin or not.
hopefully you will never be listenin to fatboy slim EVER anyway
6. TAPES ARE FOR THOSE OF US THAT PRACTICE PATIENCE NOW AND AGAIN.
7. you can play it in yr car wo adding any gadgets
8. four tracks
9. mix tapes of vinyl sound beautiful
10. TAPES ARE CHEAP, AND REUSABLE.
11. TAPE IS LIKE VINYL IN MANY WAYS, BUT ABOVE ALL IT ENCOURAGES THE LISTENER TO HEAR SOMETHING IN IT'S ENTIRITY. AS IT WAS PLANNED.
I KNOW MANY PEOPLE THAT CAN'T SIT THROUGH AN ENTIRE ANYTHING.
I BLAME CRACK-SMOKING MOMS AND ASPARTAME, NOT TAPES.
12. it only takes the eraser end of a pencil to fix 'em
13. you can start and stop a tape, not pause it forever while it beeps like a moron machine
14. you can see just how it works
15. they don't skip when you go down bumpy roads.
16. they don't require a computer.
17. from magnetic coil of microphone onto magnetized recording tape; from
magnetic cassette to magnetic playback head to the magnet which pushes
the speaker cone and finally back to actual vibrating sound waves.
magnets are cool.
18.
please send YOUR reasons for loving tapes to kateyrxx@peddlingrecords.org or gordon@peddlingrecords.org