An Online Collection of Found Cassette Tapes
Intertapes is a collection of found cassette tapes — some contain music and others voice memos. Each entry includes images of the tape, a description/track listing, and the actual audio (on Soundcloud).
This one was recorded off of a NYC radio station in 1994 and includes tracks from Mary J. Blige, Wu-Tang, Snoop Dogg, and Heavy D.
This tape found recently in Berlin was also recorded in 1994 by someone named Sven and includes tracks by Underworld & Laurent Garnier.
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That WBLS 1994 one took me back!! Thank you!
I still have a suitcase full of cassettes from the 80s and 90s when I was working in remote places and a stereo wasn't feasible, but tapes and a blaster were! Does that make me a hoarder?! Most were full albums. I'd buy vinyl and record them for the road. Made a lot of mixtapes too but mostly gave those away. I liked making custom labels on the inner card sleeve thingy. Might make an interesting photo! Then CDs gradually took over followed by burning mixes for friends as that tech became easy. Then a brief period of handing off thumb drives. Haven't shared music physically for probably a decade now.
Related: a collection of paper-backed reel-to-reel tapes from the 40s and 50s that you can listen to in mp3 format.
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