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Were you a part of the Cassette Era?
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Forest dreams
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 15:02
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Do you remember how it used to be before CD's were invented, Your sony walkman and your big cassette/tape collection.
I remember having a big rack, full of cassettes, infact, in one small box somewhere in my house I still have about 200-300 tapes. Right from Boney M, Black Sabbath, floyd(almost all albums), MJ  to Bands like deep forest and Enigma.
Even though I had to fast forward through the tracks I dint like, I still
had a time of my life listening to every new cassette I bought. I even remember My dads antique grapmophone player, with those huge black disks.
Was it just my age? or did you have a time through the cassette era? or were you born at a time when your dad and mum were already listening to CD's.
ofcourse its all so push button convinient now.. innit?
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kazuku
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 15:21
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I loved tapes and speant many years listening to the. Even when I bought a portable cd player after many years I still used my walkman cause the batteries lasted for ages and you could make mix tapes way before you could burn cds 
I still find the occasional tape flying around but dont have a walkman anymore^^
Tapes were cool...sometimes you could swear there was a certain song on one, but sometimes you just couldnt find it, not matter how much rewinding and forwarding you did ;P
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Dogon
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 15:28
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yea yea yea smart arse.... 
I loved em as well, still kept all of em (almost 500-600) right from Bollywood-Hollywood to DISCO to Retro to Nirvana to Jimi Hendrix to Goa Gil to Infected Mushroom to Jagjit Singh to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to Sivamani to James Asher to Metallica to Shaggy to Michael Jackson to.... man i can go on & on......
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Dennis the menace
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 15:33
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i still recieve some demos on MC 
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 15:48
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Argh, the pain, the bad bad bad format MC. All I remmeber is annoying >> and << to rewind and forwind. Only good thing was that I could sit by my mini-sterio and record directly from the radio. But I was REAL happy when "I" got my first CD-player (my mom) and CD (Absolute Music 1). End of the >> << pain. No more fucked up tape usage. No more bad quality and strange (evn how trippy it is) effects because of bad tape and low battery. No more pain trying to find a track. >> << .. No, I like my Cd's and Discman. I wish that format would be forever. I don't want a mp3 revolution either 
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Forest dreams
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 16:05
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^^I remember Absolute Music series.
I remember my brother buying a sony discman for RS.7000 or so which is about 150 us $ at that time, the first CD I bought was "NOW! thats what I call Music"
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sure_smoke_alot
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 16:13
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had hundreds of em' but wen the cd era started jus gifted it toeveryone around me
but yea spent many years listnin to em' i even use to write down the lyrics of the songs spending hrs. rewinding and noting em' out.
now u jus have to google it
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xrust
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 16:23
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i still got a rack ful of them and 4 shoe boxes filled(looking at em right now)
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 16:56
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On 2006-12-07 16:13, sure_smoke_alot wrote:
i even use to write down the lyrics of the songs spending hrs. rewinding and noting em' out. |
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lol - me too  |
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Aida Noridania
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 16:59
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oh be sure i remember tapes too
i even made my first sets on tape and even recorded on those big spool tapes too including cutting and mounting them to change the songs their order etc etc
spent hours and hours and yes i still got some 100 tapes in a box with old jams on it and sometimes i play them, while i am digitizing them on my comp
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Forest dreams
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 17:04
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On 2006-12-07 16:13, sure_smoke_alot wrote:
i even use to write down the lyrics of the songs spending hrs. rewinding and noting em' out. |
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Me too  biggrin:
And that process used to be so much fun, I would usually end up knowing the whole song by the time I would hear it again n again and get the lyrics! I still remember getting the full lyrics of Vanilla Ice - ice ice baby.
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On 2006-12-07 16:59, Aida Noridania wrote:
i even made my first sets on tape and even recorded on those big spool tapes too including cutting and mounting them to change the songs their order etc etc
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thats sooo koool brother! you should give it a listen some time Nothing is said that has not been said before. |
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*Karma Cola*
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 18:53
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yeah.. i was a HUGE tape collector.
I had dozens of tapes from MC hammer, Michael Jackson, Floyd's Division Bell.. along with over a hundred mixed one's.
Only had Astral Projection and Cosomis of tape tho.. even those were mixed ones.
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Dennis the menace
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 19:06
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god bless the ipod
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Anak
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 19:14
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i consider myself as part of it, yes. i have lots of taped radio shows etc. i think those old data carriers (vinyl, tapes) were a lot more stylish than todays cd's or mp3. also, the first goa stuff i had was on tape, bought at some market in london.
my father has a pretty old revox system (a swiss manufacturer, worth pretty much nowadays), and sometimes i listen to some chris isaac or simon & garfunkel on 26 centimetres tape
i love nostalgia
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Posted : Dec 7, 2006 19:23
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On 2006-12-07 19:06, Dennis the menace wrote:
god bless the ipod
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Don't you miss the Discman? Having ONE album to relate to at teh time.
More personal and better to "learn" the album?
I guess I'm kind of mid-skool |
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