{"id":9652,"date":"2019-02-23T02:54:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2019-03-04T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T10:00:31","slug":"cassettes-still-rock-and-hiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/23\/cassettes-still-rock-and-hiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassettes Still Rock (and hiss)"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s cool to spool again as the cassette returns on a wave of nostalgia<\/h1>\n

Sales are soaring and current stars are releasing tracks on the format\u2026 but is anyone actually listening to them?<\/em><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Nosheen Iqbal<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pause. Stop. Rewind! The cassette, long consigned to the bargain bin of musical history, is staging a humble comeback. Sales have soared in the last year \u2013 up 125% in 2018 on the year before \u2013 amounting to more than 50,000 cassette albums bought in the UK<\/a>, the highest volume in 15 years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite a fall from the format\u2019s peak in 1989 when 83 million cassettes were bought by British music fans<\/a>, but when everyone from pop superstar Ariana Grande<\/a> to punk duo Sleaford Mods<\/a> are taking to tape, a mini revival seems afoot. But why?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the tangibility of having this collectible format and a way to play music that isn\u2019t just a stream or download,\u201d says techno DJ Phin<\/a>, who has just released her first EP on cassette as label boss of Theory of Yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find them much more attractive than CDs. Tapes have a lifespan, and unlike digital music, there is decay and death. It\u2019s like a living thing and that appeals to me.\u201d Phin left the bulk of her own 100-strong cassette collection in Turkey, carefully stored at her parents\u2019 home, but bought \u201c20 or 25 really special ones\u201d when she moved to London. \u201cI\u2019m from that generation,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a nostalgia thing \u2013 I like the hiss.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from The Guardian It\u2019s cool to spool again as the cassette returns on a wave of nostalgia Sales are soaring and current stars are releasing tracks on the format\u2026 but is anyone actually listening to them? by\u00a0Nosheen Iqbal Pause. Stop. Rewind! The cassette, long consigned to the bargain bin of musical history, is staging a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}