Back to Tape: Why the Cassette Revival Is Thriving in Argentina’s Music Scene

[carride]

Back to Tape: Why the Cassette Revival Is Thriving in Argentina’s Music Scene

Cassettes are making a nostalgic comeback in Argentina’s indie and punk scenes—offering artists and fans a tangible, emotional connection to music.

www.greenbook.org

 

[jewing]

Back to Tape: Why the Cassette Revival Is Thriving in Argentina’s Music Scene

Cassettes are making a nostalgic comeback in Argentina’s indie and punk scenes—offering artists and fans a tangible, emotional connection to music.

www.greenbook.org

Cheap to produce. Vinyl is very expensive. Bands nowadays are glorified black t-shirt salesman. Have you purchased any good tapes?

 

[Robert8808]

Back to Tape: Why the Cassette Revival Is Thriving in Argentina’s Music Scene

Cassettes are making a nostalgic comeback in Argentina’s indie and punk scenes—offering artists and fans a tangible, emotional connection to music.

www.greenbook.org

Interesting to see this, i had thought before your post that AR would have gone down the US track(pardon the pun) 8-track cartridge for music, here in Australia we went with the cassette type you mention, there were 8-track cartridges available here as well though very limited in number & variety, 98% of people here went with cassette tape music.

 

[toast]

In my opinion, cassette tape is an inferior medium. The magnetic material is worn away at the tape head, cassette decks can have many issues with their complicated transport mechanisms. Once premier cassette producers (TDK ) offered Chrome formulation tapes, with vastly superior fidelity to humdrum ferric oxide tapes. Maybe the cassette tape is making a comeback based on nostalgia for dirty sound, and another sign of the twilight of critical listening, for all those who wear earbuds incessantly.

 

[Robert8808]

In my opinion, cassette tape is an inferior medium. The magnetic material is worn away at the tape head, cassette decks can have many issues with their complicated transport mechanisms. Once premier cassette producers (TDK ) offered Chrome formulation tapes, with vastly superior fidelity to humdrum ferric oxide tapes. Maybe the cassette tape is making a comeback based on nostalgia for dirty sound, and another sign of the twilight of critical listening, for all those who wear earbuds incessantly.

The US 8-track cartridge were known to have superior audio quality compared to the cassette which i think had 4-track rendering, possibly the convenience of smaller size of the cassette were what made it popular? dirty sound is a correct summation of the cassette experience for me in general.

 

[Ries]

I clicked on all of the bands mentioned in the article.
None is currently selling a cassette on their bandcamp stores.
I have been to literally a couple hundred bands performances in Argentina since 2007.
Every once in a while, somebody will have 2 or 3 individual cassettes for sale.
most are not even selling vinyl or cds.
Its certainly nothing compared to the resurgence of vinyl.
And, yes, you can have vinyl records pressed in Argentina.
But 95% of argentines, at a minimum, dont buy music at all- they stream on spotify.