Cassette revival?! Kylie Minogue latest album released on limited edition cassette

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There seems to be a little buzz over cassettes, but very little.

For blank tapes, looking at eBay prices for chrome and especially metal tapes, they can go very high. Just the other day there were a lot of ten (or so) used Sony Metal-XR's and they hit 80€+, madness. Also it seems that many people who still have big collections of their own recordings, are getting rid of them.

Around 2013 I bought this https://www.discogs.com/Chrome-Brulée-Kiss-The-Hiss-Vol-1/release/4702695 but for some reason the phases of the channels were reversed and as I didn't listen to it, I missed the info on the end of B side, telling about volume 2. Otherwise I'd get that too. At some point, I recorded the tape through line in to the PC and used Audacity to swap the other channels phase back to normal. But I didn't record the fixed audio back to the cassette.

Looking around the internet, it looks like there is quite many companies still offering album recordings from a master file. For example Gotape http://gotape.org/en/prices
 
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I've noticed that millennial's (my age) Went for the 60's and 70's hipster thing, Record players, analog watches, you know the drill. I know quite a few of the generation Z kids and they seem really into the 80's and 90's stuff, Many of them are wearing reproduction Casio Digital watches circa 1985, those big round 1994 glasses, the clothing ect, When I talk about my boomboxes and cassette tape collection, they seem to really enjoy it, It's entirely possible that cassettes will make a comeback! If anything for the low tech hell of it, I actually have friends in this age bracket that have made each other mix tapes..... On tape! lol!
 
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Music fans press rewind! Sales of cassettes boom by 400 per cent in the past five years as top artists release albums on tape as collector's items


*Sales of cassette tapes have shot up in Britain in the last five years, figures show
*Companies are still producing players while tape sales rise by 408 per cent
*Kylie Minogue's limited edition album Golden is at the top of the cassette charts



We all thought CDs had put a stop to the cassette tape. Fast-forward to 2018 however, and it seems music fans are rewinding the clock.
Sales of cassette tapes have boomed by 408 per cent in the past five years, figures show. The resurgence of the nostalgic format, which peaked in the 1970s and 80s, has been driven by artists making limited runs of their albums as a collector’s item. If you threw out your old cassette player along with the flared trousers and vinyl records, don’t worry.

Link to full story on the Daily Mail website...
 
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