#128: the good old cassette

Today on OE1 there was a “Quasi”-Obituary of the cassette, because, although not quite “dead” is, but has as a storage medium and long music truck lost its place. Although they are still there, people, their cassettes in now 7. to 8. Dub generation and repeatedly “new” record, then fitted with a walk instead of a Walkman MP3 player through the streets of Vienna. One called it a dystopian listen to music device, the so much overcapacity poses, up to his death (and actually longer) Listen to music. His last cassette also sent from the Ferry Meidling beginning of the 2nd millennium to his eavesdroppers even recorded programs. Which reminds me, the importance of cassettes were once for me, aufnzunehmen to complete programs (Comfort Zone!), Self shot (sung, spoken, voluntary and involuntary), Music mixes for all moods …

Today we face our music lists together, with a lot of passion with the appropriate transitions, Categories and Headings. Voice recorder on cell phones and music tracking software work on a button and digitize almost anything we want. But it is to be compared with the life? How often do we really hear us today to stored files? How often, however, we have a cassette taken in hand, over and over again. It was nice already. Until the moment, where it comes, RECORDED that the event was already resumed late, one song, that loves you sooooo, was fully talked again at the end, the stupid bands have once again caught in the recorder, …

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