I may have mentionned it earlier on this blog, vinyl is not the only analogic (some would say "old") format that is gaining back success these days. Cassettes are also getting back. Actually, the little plastic boxes never left in some countries ; they lead the show in the third world, mainly in Africa and Asia.
Bandcamp recently posted an article about the come-back of tapes, stating for example that the sales in UK alone tripled last year.
In the world of diggers, there is of course the unique Awesome Tapes From Africa, always on the run to unveil marvelous African sounds. The blog indeed announced the next release, a tape by Hailu Mergia, an Ethiopian musician who once in a while gets the internet mad with his one and only vinyl album. The guy behind the blog, Brian Shimkovitz, can even drop mixes made of tapes, and tours around the globe.
All in all, tapes are a solid format, that is here to stay.
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