When I go back to the early 90s, I remember the music I was listening to at the time more than the actual memories from my life. In 1990 I was only 10 years old and in that impressionable time of growing up, it was the always the music that moved me most. And when I had certain cassette tapes in my hands, pressing play on my portable cassette player took me on journeys in my headphones I had never been on before. My older brother Todd’s collection of cassettes was my only source of music to listen to so when I opened that old empty shoebox full of cassettes from under his bed, it was always a choose your own adventure type of experience for me. So in the early 90s as an 11 or 12 year old, I had no idea what was about to happen to me when I grabbed that cassette for the first time.
Read moreTHE PORTABLE CASSETTE PLAYER
Would you believe me if I said that the cassette culture is growing? Would you believe me if I said that top artists are now manufacturing small runs of cassette tapes again? What if I told you that two companies have released brand new portable cassette players in the last couple of years? Well that is what’s happening. Cassette hype is picking up a lot of steam and the analog feels they provide take both teens and adults in their 40’s and 50’s back to their music collections.
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