Just lobbed out all my music cassettes and feel rather sad about it

[ska invita]

I've still got the embarrassing techno compilations I made aged around 16 / 17. The music's alright but my attempts at cover design were a bit knaff... Basically called things like Mind Warp, - Beyond the Quazar. Covered in coloured insulation tape. Not played them for years.

i wish i had some of my old teen early 20s mixtapes - ive got some slightly later ones (ripped in case anyone other than me fancies hearing them http://mikusmusik.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/old-tapes-cant-stop-love.html + http://mikusmusik.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/dusty-tapes-bass-persuasion.html), but id love to hear those first attempts. Ive chucked a load of tapes but kept McVities Rock Classics 1 as it was my first tape had to eat 20 packs of jaffa cakes to get that!Cant part with it after that...

 

[xenon]

Will have a listen later. Mine weren't even mixes. Just a mixture of stuff recorded from pirate radio back then. NRG and some other Croydon station IIRC and techno shows on Kiss / BBC London... I never really got into vinal. I've lost my proper hardcore mix tapes. Groove Rider, Ellis Dee and Sy thingy etc.

 

[ska invita]

Will have a listen later. Mine weren't even mixes. Just a mixture of stuff recorded from pirate radio back then. NRG and some other Croydon station IIRC and techno shows on Kiss / BBC London... I never really got into vinal. I've lost my proper hardcore mix tapes. Groove Rider, Ellis Dee and Sy thingy etc.

still good memories
mine were on mates decks with their records and some laboured and well worked out clanging mixes

 

[19sixtysix]

My camper has a cassette player. I enjoy my past coming alive when driving along.