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If you’ve ever been intrigued of a dusty cassette you found in a thrift shop or if you’re just looking for a new time-sink you have to check out Intertapes , a site that digitizes “found cassettes” sent in over the world, then posts them in full for anyone to listen to. The catalog is small at the moment only 14 cassettes but already fr interesting. (let that sink in)

There’s a bootleg cassette of music played at a Spanish nightclub in the late 1990s (lots of squelchy noises and relentless bass) and a 90-minute recording of New York hip hop station WBLS captured in ‘94 (Warren G.

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‘s “Regulate” represent), amid more mysterious choices, like this haunting recording from a “destroyed cassette tape found on the side of the coast highway near Heraklion” in Greece; this tape full of ominous noises found in a parking lot in Tbilisi, Georgia; tape of binary code from Barcelona ; and a cassette recorded in the USSR featurng 1970s pop hits. I love how each cassette is treated like an important archeological object, because in a way, they are discreet time capsules made more poignant and warp that speaks to the time that’s passed since this audio was captured and the ephemeral nature of analogue recording.

From musical snapshots to accidental field recordings, these tapes are fascinating for there mere existence in the modern day, where the question of who recorded them and why adds a layer of mystery to each one. The Daily Ready to do everything better?

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Use this instead Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our and . You May Also Like The ongoing cassette tape revival Intertapes could be viewed as a reflection of the growing cassette tape revival , a movement that celebrates the outdated format.

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