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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
M. Ward / Singer-Songwriter
Digital
Radio
Tape
Vision
Younger
Cassette
Coming
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Sounds
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You know, we were outdoorsy types, my folks, and one of the first tapes I got, a friend gave me a cassette tape of Ella Fitzgerald singing with the Count Basie orchestra. And it was the first time, really, that someone's voice had really spoken to me, and it was just so pure.
Kt Tunstall / Singer-Songwriter
Folks
Orchestra
Pure
Tape
Time Me Voice
Cassette
Count
Ella
Fitzgerald
Spoken
Types
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The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson / Actor
Awards
Broadway
Broadway Shows
Exposed
Idolized
Myself People New
Cassette
Distant
Once A Year
Package
Tapes
Tony
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I remember my father playing a cassette for me when I was fifteen - Amjad Ali's 'Durga.' He said, 'This is from our part of the world. You must listen to it.' And I continued rewinding it and listening to it from early evening until midnight. By the end of it, I was nearly in tears.
Adnan Sami /
Evening
Fifteen
Midnight
Remember
Said
Tears
World Me Remember
Ali
Nearly
Cassette
Early
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Growing up, I was definitely surrounded by music all the time. My parents used to always play music; my dad used to have reggae on. I remember walking around with a cassette recorder, and I used to just record the songs I would hear on the radio so I could play it back when I feel like.
Stefflon Don /
Reggae
Time Music Dad
Cassette
Play Music
Recorder
Surrounded
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After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time - one of the very first Sony stereos which had speaker and radio included so I could record the radio and build up cassette tapes of music, gospel singing, adverts, evangelists.
Leo Sayer /
Company
Radio
Singing
Sony
Unique
Warner Brothers
Time Music Beautiful
Build
Gospel
Brothers
Cassette
Evangelist
Gave
Included
Record
Present
Speaker
Tapes
Warner
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I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.
El-P / Hip-Hop Artist
Beats
Deck
Five
Minutes
Rap
Used
Lot
Had
Box
Beat
Boom
Cassette
Dual
Take
Liked
Record
Loop
Mic
Pause
Pressing
Tapes
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I'd asked for things like the 'Footloose' soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon's 'Graceland,' U2's 'Joshua Tree' and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste.
Pedro Pascal / Actor
Footloose
Good Taste
Miles
Remember
Taste
Tree
Walking
Warehouse
Album
Pretty
Asked
Birthdays
Buy
Cassette
Michael
Jackson
Shop
Paul
Pretty Good
Simon
Soundtrack
Thriller
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After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Crude
Discovering
Feeding
Ramones
Cassette
Discovered
Mic
Plugging
Recorder
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My older brother gave me a cassette tape of Mr. Bungle, and I couldn't stop listening to it. I used to drive around Colorado in a Mustang II - it was when they got away from the muscle-car Mustangs, so it was sort of old lady. I couldn't go above 45 mph in that car, but I would drive around listening to Mr. Bungle.
Derek Cianfrance / Film Director
Colorado
Mph
Old Lady
Older Brother
Tape
Car Me Drive
Cassette
Lady
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
Haley Joel Osment / Actor
Athens
Birmingham
Living Room
Cassette
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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
Nathaniel Rateliff /
Church
Garage
Heard
One Day
Secular
Tape
Cassette
God Good Music
Created
Led
Led Zeppelin
Supposed
Zeppelin
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I always loved music and would listen to the radio and watch out for new stuff. When I was about nine or ten, I would go around to me friend's house on a Sunday when the top twenty was broadcast on the radio at 6 P.M., and we would tape it on a cassette, and then we would take turns in sharing it over the next week.
Maria Doyle Kennedy / Actress
New Stuff
Nine
Sunday
Tape
Turns
Music Always Me
Music Me New
Broadcast
Cassette
Sharing
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I ran to get my cassette recorder and sang 'We Got the Beat' into the recorder to document it. I knew I had written something special. It took two minutes. I didn't labor on the lyrics. It's a simple song, which goes back to the '60s, when I had my ears glued to the radio for the Stones, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys.
Charlotte Caffey /
Beach
Beach Boys
Ears
Labor
Minutes
Radio
Ran
Something Special
Special
Stones
Boy
Cassette
Document
Glued
Sang
Recorder
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. / Businessman
History
Technology
Artist
Changed
Consumed
Development
Digital
Industry
Music Industry
Piano
Player
Tape
Vinyl
Very
Also
Artists
Cassette
Cd
Created
Disc
Download
Formats
Inevitably
Story
The History Of
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Bob Dylan is my idol. Everybody has that person growing up that made them see things a little differently than they did before, Dylan is that guy for me. My dad gave me the 'Blonde on Blonde' album on cassette tape when I was seven or eight. It took me a while to get into Dylan's vibe, but once I did, I never looked back.
Richard Harmon /
Blonde
Dylan
Eight
Tape
Dad Me See
Bob Dylan
Cassette
Idol
Vibe
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When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.
Jenny Lewis / Singer-Songwriter
Bangkok
Internet
Liz
Songwriting
Teenager
Thailand
Accessible
Poetry Music Me
Month
Cassette
Embodied
Raw
Stayed
Trip
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I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.
Lee Ranaldo / Musician
Our Time
Setting
Songwriting
Sonic Youth
Cassette
Outlet
Sketches
Tapes
Years And Years
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Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.
Adrian Younge / Composer
Christmas
Beats
Instruments
Sampling
Music Where Me
Cassette
Innately
Producing
Recorder
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I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, 'This sure beats respectable life in England.'
Simon Sebag-Montefiore / Journalist
Beats
Dark Side
Georgia
Moon
Respectable
Riding
Life Thinking Remember
Bodyguards
Cassette
Mountains
Floyd
Mercedes
Pink
Shotgun
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My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives on the weekend, whenever we were driving back on these three-hour drives, he would be playing the musical soundtrack on repeat, on the cassette in our car, to the extent that we begged him never to play it again.
Chris Chibnall /
Confession
Embarrassing
Obsessive
Cassette
Drives
Extent
Relatives
Repeat
Soundtrack
Visit
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