Childhood Cassettes: Roberta Flack (and friends)
Childhood Cassettes looks at the tapes we listened to as young rapscallions. Today’s edition is all about Roberta Flack (and friends).
Tag: Cassettes
Childhood Cassettes: Paul Young & Car Journeys With My Dad
Childhood Cassettes looks at the tapes we listened to as young rapscallions. Today, I reminisced about journeys with my dad (alongside Paul Young) to his hometown.
Childhood Cassettes: Reggae Music From My Youth
Childhood Cassettes looks at the tapes we listened to as young rapscallions. Here’s the lowdown on my childhood defined by reggae music before all that hip hop stuff kicked in.
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday Cassette Boxset
Rappcat’s have announced the reissue of MF Doom’s Operation Doomsday on two cassettes in a special metal case. Obviously.
Review: Jonwayne - Cassette 3: The Marion Morrison Mixtape
Jonwayne recently released a new mixtape and The Auracle enjoyed it so much, he almost forgot to submit the review we asked him to write. Let’s not beat around the bush here, folks: Jonwayne’s latest tape is all killer, no filler. I’ve seen his name bandied about on Twitter and whatnot but never thought to …
TECHNOLOGY: Mixtape Alpha - The Stylophone Synth In A Cassette Tape
A collaboration between Chicago’s Open Music Labs and MIT’s Jie Qi has garnered a re-release of the Mixtape Alpha, a synth that fits in a cassette case. Anyone remember the Stylophone? It was a mini analog synth controlled with a wired stylus and championed by Australian artist and former Animal Hospital dude Rolf Harris in …
Tobacco Company Challenge Stones Throw Over Jonwayne Cassette
Phillip Morris, the guys behind tobacco giants Marlboro, handed Stones Throw a cease and desist letter over Jonwayne’s Cassette cover. The concept behind sampling needn’t be about music. Yesterday, Stones Throw published an article on their website about the lawyers from Philip Morris (in charge of brands like Marlboro, Benson & Hedges, Cambridge, Chesterfield, Players …
FREE DOWNLOAD: Exile - Cassette
Beatmaker Exile releases a free mixtape featuring rare Blu & Aloe Blacc tracks. I do love a good free mixtape (as long as it’s actually good). Rest assured, when I heard Exile had released one, I was on it immediately. Cassette is a collection of unreleased tracks taken straight from his four-track recorder. Amongst the songs, you …
Jonwayne & Jeremiah Jae – Cassette
Rumours that record labels would be dropping CD releases shocked me somewhat as I thought it was a bit premature. After all, CDs aren’t exactly archaic and I’d rather have a physical copy than lose a digital copy for god knows how many reasons. Clearly none of this seemed to worry Jonwayne as he put …