woah shit !!! glossy paper !!! very impressive !!!! and silver you say hrmrmm ..

Not what i've heard, apparently they are ditching the CD and going old skool. Their new release will be on Cassete. Quality!

YES!! LOL

i love cassettes, they rock. i own like 50 of them..all classical asian tunes with some prodigy and crystal meth. Lovely.

I'm still trying to replace every cassette I own with cd's. Not going to happen in my lifetime though...

I'd like the new Chems album on BR in full HD Vid... ;)



(And a live album)

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I'm still trying to replace every cassette I own with cd's. Not going to happen in my lifetime though...

ew. tapes, what a shitty format they were!! the quality sucked, they aged and the broke. i was quiet cutting with my tape collection. i chucked out alot of albums, which i would not recommend to anyone. your music collection should NEVER be lost, it's part of your soul!! i archived a few special tapes on to cd, the stuff i knew i would still listen to. all i have left is a carrier bag of about 15 unlabeled cassettes. i don't know whats on them, i have nothing to play them on. but i can't bring myself to throw them out.

Tapes were stinkin awful - but remember how great they were once upon a time? So convenient! So compact! And a real good cassette stereo for your car would set you back a few dollars. They played well only one time, after that they were worn out. Cassettes had issues. I can't count how many times my tape players ate my tapes. Here in California where I live, your car turns into an oven on any given day, so that meant you had to be extra careful you didn't leave tapes in your car stereo or else they'd melt. Then you were really screwed and had to get a new stereo.



I think my husband and I have something like 250 or so cassettes altogether. A decent portion we've replaced with cd's, others we can't because they are random mix tapes (thanks to my brother) but quite a few of them either melted or have been lost to time after all the moving we've done over the years... but I can't seem to part with them either. I don't know if it's worth it to replace every single tape. I really don't see the need to replace that old Dexy's Midnight Runner's cassette I got when I was 12! ;)



But hey, while we're dreaming, here's hopin' the new Chemical record is released on 8-track!!!

yeah whirly you know your roots. Cassettes just fuckin rock. The way they are designed and everything is classic. Cds are ok but there is no fun in making a mix cd. Now mix tape is a whole different story. It's so much fun (the pain one goes through while making a mix tape for someone is just....lovely)

chemicalreaction Escribi�:

yeah whirly you know your roots. Cassettes just fuckin rock. The way they are designed and everything is classic. Cds are ok but there is no fun in making a mix cd. Now mix tape is a whole different story. It's so much fun (the pain one goes through while making a mix tape for someone is just....lovely)

i totally disagree with you reaction!! i'm not into this retro shit, there not classic in my book. but who am i to tell you, you are wrong?? as for creating mixes, you don't know how much effort i go to to produce my mix cd's, but the process is what i love. i love cd's!!! apart from the mountains of disc that clutter my house and car!! those little disc are every where.



one question, is the humble cassette still a standard format?? i wouldn't have a clue if i went to my virgin store whether they still sell them?? answer on a post card please.



having said that the digital age is a little bit of a dissapointment. we now live in an age of compression which is sad. quality has suffered at the expense of compression. MP3 is the future?? i hope not i hate the sound quality. digital radio, it used to be good but that getting more compressed with more channels added so the quality has gone down the toilet. an as for my digital cable, i hate it!!!! i'll go back to analogue any day, except i can't!! whenever there is any action on the TV the picture get very pixilated. and they call this progress!!!!

i was not talking about professional mixing sneaker. Just a regular you know, download mp3s from Kazaa and just burn em on a cd. It is a very easy process as oppose to looking for cassettes everywhere you go and hoping to find a song you like or even better something totally unexpected(that's how i rediscovered chems btw).And when you do find it the feeling of achieving something is great. Also i used to make mix tapes for my friends and myself and they used to love my selection.It was my version of essential selection if you may. But those good ol days are gone...now i just google everything.

This is progress i guess but there is just no real fun in it. Recently i have been diggin through old(and when i say old i mean 70's-80's old) cassettes and i found some japanese composer whos music is just incredible. The speical effects...and everything, very sci-fi. Anyways the point is i used google to do a search on the him and it turned to be fun, reading about his life and listning to his newer compositions. Here technology did help me. Wait i dunno where i am goin with this. ANYWAY i not the retro kindda guy but i still like some old skool stuff.

yer i knew what you were saying reaction. your the pause and record kinda kid. what i do, and you do when compling music is completely different. but i just hate tapes!!! maybe because of too many holidays as a kid in rainy cornwall, listening to abba fuckin up on the "old dears" car stereo in a ford capri. i dunno. what you like/dislike is cool. as i said, who am i to tell you different??!!

i like the kct to make a mix of traxx like chemreaction say, but i hate the albums in kct�s are horrible.



the cd are always the best option for make a music collection.



and the mp3...well the quality is crap. anyway i use them

I remember making mix tapes, it was such a tedious task. It took forever to do! If I made a mix tape I'd have to set aside a large chunk of time to pick out the right songs from the right records/tapes, pause and delay ff and rw etc. between songs just to get the flow right. It was an art form to do it right yet I never quite mastered it. Like I said before, I still own lots of mix tapes. There is a warm nostalgia to them, they remind me of the times when I had the hours to burn just making a mix tape or two. Those hours in my room all to myself, just me and a bunch of tunes to choose from. But damn, they were a pain because of the sound quality issues and it got real old real fast always having to press 'pause' just in time before the next song came in... and if you didn't, then you got a blip second recording of the next song's intro, then you had to stop everything, go back and listen for the end of the song, then press 'record' to erase the blip, then rewind and listen again to make sure you got the offending noise out, then start on recording the next song again... grrrrr what a pain in the butt!!!



Making average mix cd's comes so much easier these days, I welcome it with open arms. To the average person like myself who burns things to take in the car or work - and given that I have time issues and constraints here, burning is a great solution. But to the sneakerbeater, I can see his point. To him, making those mixes is like his livliehood so more attention to detail and whatnot are going to go into the finished product.



Anyway - back to cassettes. Anyone here have a dual tape deck on their stereo or boombox? Now *those* were the coolest just for fucking around. That's where the fun in making real low-tech remixes came into play, just bouncing bits of songs back and forth and recording them from one deck to the other. My friend and I made a really horrible remix of Prince's "Kiss" that turned out so shitty it was funny! She still has the incriminating evidence laying around... somewhere!

making mix tapes was my hobby, i'd spend hours compiling them. ah the ol' days.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

But to the sneakerbeater, I can see his point. To him, making those mixes is like his livliehood so more attention to detail and whatnot are going to go into the finished product.

oh i wish!!!! just a very enjoyable hobby. fork lift truck driving, thats where the money is!!

so when is this splitting going to occur. never probaly

i don't want the forum to be split. it's just good the way it is. what we need is more users

No, all you need is me.

come on, then X-D