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Man I fucking love tapes, they are just a dope medium, small and with personality. Beat up, fucked up tapes still has character and almost added to the listening experience. Yeah they were a pain but you could treasure a dope tape. Mp3's aint shit to me, I can't treasure a fucking file. I can't hold that shit in my hand and look at the artwork. It's not collectible, it's just a bunch of shitty bleeps on a hard drive. I got stories about tapes, mp3's don't have stories other than defunct websites and nerds I don't remember sending me horrible quality mp3s.
The worst part about tapes was fucking loosing them. So many tapes that got lost in moves, melted in cars, crushed, eaten, stolen, or just staight up worn the fuck out. Fucking sucks man, I lost shoeboxes of stuff when I moved to the bay. Coming up the 5 the tapes got blown out in the wind and I had no idea until I noticed this 20 foot line of magnetic tape flying out of the back of my truck. Shit was fucked and I couldn't sit there on the side of the freeway all day turning pencils inside reels so I just had to toss the tangled mess of memories in a fucking rest stop dumpster.
Anyways I'm currently trying to digitize all my tapes so I'll be posting more shit soon. Next up is probably the 1200 Hobos Tapes, Skills, Techniques tape. Got some miami bass tapes and stuff I want to get up too.
I wonder how the next generation will fetishize the halcyon days of the MP3.
ReplyDeleteYo sergdun, have you heard the last tum tum mixtape called "defintion of a zillionaire" ? Some good shit on it, like "posted up", a song with a fucking great beat.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard that mixtape yet but I'll peep game for sure
ReplyDeletei lost alot of electro funk tapes that i had around 84-86 so i completley feel you....
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