August 19, 2006

Cassettes and their Decks

Filed under: the latest - =lloyd= @ 4:51 pm

So just the other day me and =vic= were wondering to what extend the TapeDeck is still being used…

Me myself, I have two decks, both are broken down and my technical skills are insufficient, so no tapelistening pleasure for me. But apart from that, I consider myself, quite a tape-afficionado. Ain’t nothing better in the palm of my hand than a killer tape.

Anyway, we were wondering right, and the answer didn’t come, so here’s the question, dearest reader:

a. Do you have a tapedeck?
b. Do you have tapes laying around?
c. Do you actually put the tape in the friggin’ deck every once in a while?

Please do answer, also the non-commenting visitors (I see you! statistics blow your cover away, you can’t hide!)
Help us out here, ask around, tell a friend, we need to know. It’s a matter of national importance, really.

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  1. a) yep
    b) yep
    c) yep

    btw, mijn ‘van widder voe gidder’-tape is kapot, wsl door te veel af te spelen, fixt mij keer ne nieuwen

    Comment by Vjeetn — August 19, 2006 @ 4:56 pm

  2. a) Sure do!
    b) Hell Yeah!
    c) Uhm…not really, no…

    Comment by Mathieu — August 19, 2006 @ 5:16 pm

  3. a) jazeker!
    b) telt een leeg dooske ook?
    c) dat moet geleden zijn van sinds dat leeg dooske hier ligt, zo’n zes maanden dus (maar waar is de f*ckin’ bijhorende cassette?)

    Comment by Lou the Non-Commenting Visitor — August 19, 2006 @ 6:08 pm

  4. Now look here, lloyd. Me myself, i still listen to tapes in my car, coz it’s the only thing that’s in my car worth listening to.
    As they continue to play a lot of crap on the radio (shit’s ridiculous to think that the reason why it’s probably crap is that maybe i’m just not in the right mood at the time to listen to this perticular song…blablabla.. it’s crap!), and since i don’t have a cd-player yet -because i drive an old car- , i still listen to tapes.

    Hmm.. makes me come up with this new question..

    d) How many of you still have a tapedeck in your car?

    i bet a lot of you do! So why get rid of the concept “mixtape” on an actual cassette?! To hell with CD’s, i sez.

    As a matter of fact, i was just having a conversation about tapes, cassettes, with my man Soon, from the BTJ, and he told me he hadn’t been listening to tapes quite a while, and recently rocked one of his old cassettes in a deck. He was amazed by the vibe and nice sound coming from his deck. “People that switch on a lot from cd to cassette back and forth maybe don’t know the difference that well”, he said, “but i was amazed from the feel of it, as i had been listening to digital media for a while now.”

    Heh, well… not even mentioning the cool size of the tape, which fits in the hand, (you can even tuck it away easely in your pocket) there’s still a lot of aspects of a tape that are just way cooler than a friggin’ cd.

    Hey, well whaddaya know. I still rock tight shit on my tapedeck!

    Comment by =vic= — August 19, 2006 @ 7:46 pm

  5. a) Ja
    b) Ja (een hele collectie uit de tijd van de échte walkman)
    c) Ja, in de auto heb ik geen keus, daar zit enkel een tape deck. (RJD2 op tape whut!)

    Comment by Boterham — August 19, 2006 @ 7:53 pm

  6. a) off courzzzzzzzzzeee
    b) 2 full shoeboxes
    c) once and a while

    en begint dan maar keer aan mixtape volume 2 njé :o )

    My ears need it!!

    Comment by beatbear — August 19, 2006 @ 8:23 pm

  7. a) naturalemente, in the car and in my room (with a slight hiss)
    b) jazeker, e stik of 600
    c) everyday

    Comment by anatool analoog — August 19, 2006 @ 8:25 pm

  8. en wie van jullie heeft er nog

    d) een tapedeck in de auto ?

    Comment by =vic= — August 19, 2006 @ 8:31 pm

  9. a) Waarom zou je dat wegsmijten?
    b) Superveel tapes van vroeger
    c) In de auto, ik heb nog zo’n een casette met experimentele hiphop en zo een vorm van dub met hiphop, ik check dat elke maand!
    Anders wat oude dingen, bodycount & ice-t, kriskros,… hell yeah
    d) Ja

    Comment by Imran — August 19, 2006 @ 10:16 pm

  10. a. Do you have a tapedeck?
    tzalwel
    b. Do you have tapes laying around?
    a box full of tapes without covers, (actually it’s the box of my old technics shdj1200 mixer)
    c. Do you actually put the tape in the friggin’ deck every once in a while?
    Just spend 8 months relistening to my whole tape collection everyday in the kitchen while cooking, still some tapes to go

    Comment by aezr — August 19, 2006 @ 11:45 pm

  11. yes
    yes
    yes

    Comment by Jamezon — August 20, 2006 @ 12:16 pm

  12. Yes, Yes and Yes

    Comment by Tribble — August 20, 2006 @ 12:18 pm

  13. a) yes

    b) sure, mostly belgian mixtapes

    c) once in a while

    Comment by BCM — August 20, 2006 @ 12:27 pm

  14. a. i have several
    b. i have lots
    c. in the car i play tapes, sometimes i rock them in my deck at home too !

    Comment by j to the c — August 20, 2006 @ 12:35 pm

  15. a. tapedeck,walkman
    b. zeker,zelfs nog nieuwe,int plastiekske
    c. meestal me walkman onderweg..

    Comment by 1352 — August 20, 2006 @ 1:17 pm

  16. a. I got more than 1 tapedeck and a couple of walkmans
    b. i got about 7 shoeboxes filled with mixtapes, old tapes, compilationstyle, taped of the radio & so on..
    c. yeah, i do play tapes in the (my brother’s) car, and at home. Back in the days nobody killed anyone over a walkman…

    Comment by Sharp — August 20, 2006 @ 1:18 pm

  17. a) jep. & bij toeval (?) de vrijdag nog een walkman cassette mét voice recorder (ooh) gekocht.
    b) lying around als in mooi geordend in een lade..jep.
    c) soms..

    Comment by hestapnie — August 20, 2006 @ 1:18 pm

  18. Oi Pikeys!

    I still have a tapedeck and I still use it!!! Old punkrock-tapes, Deftones and ofcourse the superb After-Hours tape are still in rotation at my crib. I still even use a walkman besides my mp 3-player to enjoy those golden compilations!

    Don’t let the tapes die!

    Peezel,

    Mid.

    Comment by Midleft — August 20, 2006 @ 3:54 pm

  19. A. Yes, I actually got 4, I guess. That is if I count that ficherprice deck my sister got in too

    B. Yes, I got several tapes layin around. Even got a special Santa Clause songs edition my granny gave me back in the days when i was a good boy.

    C. Yes, i do put my tapes in my deck every once in a while. The one that’s in it the most and even right now as you read this is “Teip Jin - Van wudder voe gudder” by 2 cool cats doin their thing. Still wonderin where that Teip Twji stays

    Comment by Callewaert Tim — August 20, 2006 @ 4:04 pm

  20. oomph we

    Comment by digitalovers — August 20, 2006 @ 4:12 pm

  21. love tapes

    Comment by digitalovers — August 20, 2006 @ 4:13 pm

  22. 6 tapedecks

    Comment by digitalovers — August 20, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

  23. blijven dubben!

    Comment by digitalovers — August 20, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

  24. en vergeet jullie koppen
    niet af en toe te kuisen…

    bij het randje, edgar

    Comment by digitalovers — August 20, 2006 @ 4:18 pm

  25. NATUURLIJK

    JA EEN AANTAL

    BEJA ZKEER ALSK FIFA2006 AANT SPELEN BEN

    Comment by Anonymous — August 21, 2006 @ 9:15 am

  26. 3 times yes

    Comment by dyno — August 21, 2006 @ 9:44 am

  27. a. Yeah we do, in fact we have several! (and I’m waiting for my first boombox I ordered a while ago-oldskoolio) We used to have it in the car, but that car’s dead now.

    b. Laying around? Hell no; way too tidy…but do have them …those highschool Alanis Morisette tapes haha…I also have my own “mix”tapes, demotapes, …

    c. Sure! Stealing Mids Afterhourstapes while showering! Waiting for Mid to install a deck in my new car! (I say NO to cd-crap)

    (I do have a little confession to make: I hate the part where you have to forward or rewind till the bit you like…shhhht)

    Comment by Sis — August 21, 2006 @ 9:51 am

  28. a)Yep
    b)Ja
    c)Tuurlijk
    d)Yes!

    Comment by Rafla — August 21, 2006 @ 9:57 am

  29. Broken down Technics tape deck
    small shitload of mixtapes (jammer dat de tapes tegenwoordig op cd komen)
    tapedeck in de auto ipv een cd-speler en ik check enkel m’n tapes in de auto. Zou niet weten hoe de radio klinkt :)

    Comment by duvelman — August 21, 2006 @ 10:28 am

  30. a) ja
    b) ja
    c) veel rondslingerende tapes, maar die komen zelden in het deck terecht… wel enkel tapedeck in de auto dus daar hebben mijn ‘nostalgie-tapejes’ toch nog enig nut!

    Zo Alex, ik hoop dat dit aan je verwachtingen voldoet qua roeselaarse comment… Aangezien ik een internet-leek ben heb ik mezelf hier echt wel overtroffen!
    Veel succes morgen!

    Comment by elke — August 21, 2006 @ 11:53 am

  31. Goedendag.

    Cassettes! Geniale uitvinding. Door cassettes kon ik muziek opnemen, helemaal zelf, fantastisch. En dan liep ik heel hard naar de radio als het een goed liedje was, en dan drukte ik op het rode knopje. En zo kon ik maar de helft van Gangsters Paradise meezingen.

    Ik heb nog een hoop van die mixtapes liggen, van toen De Afrekening nog ‘de max’ was en ik alle leuke nummertjes tapete. Ik schreef zelfs netjes alles op wat ik opnam en stak dat papiertje dan in het doosje. Man, man, nostalgie.

    Ik moet eerlijk zeggen dat het lang geleden is dat ik nog een van die cassettes heb beluisterd. Ze zitten in een schoendoos in de kast, klaar om herontdekt te worden. Al is mijn smaak ietwat geëvolueerd. Ik hou je op de hoogte.

    Comment by Jill — August 21, 2006 @ 2:23 pm

  32. Wie heeft niet van die momenten dat hij het rode bolletje zocht op zijn cassetterecorder. Enige moeilijkheid was dien play en da rode bolletje induwen!!! HaHa inderdaad Nostalgie…

    Greetz

    Comment by Imran — August 21, 2006 @ 6:35 pm

  33. a. Not anymore…jammerjammer, er kwam een rookpluimpje uit en POEF!, ‘t was gedaan.
    b. Die liggen er nog wel
    c. Dat wordt, antwoord a in acht nemende, zeer moeilijk.

    Comment by Arianne — August 21, 2006 @ 6:59 pm

  34. 1. yess
    2. yess
    3. Oooh yess, fuck mee pumps over and over againnnn

    Comment by sarita — August 21, 2006 @ 8:31 pm

  35. a) Ja
    b) Ja
    c) Eerder uitzonderlijk
    d) in de auto niet nee

    Kort en bondig en int nederlands was ook goed hé?? :)

    groetjes

    Comment by Joyce — August 21, 2006 @ 9:11 pm

  36. Save the tapes and them tapedecks!!!!!!!!!!!

    a) multiple and still rockin’ the ‘walkman’ daily
    b) a whole freekin’ lot , and i cherise them
    c) all the time

    in time buying music will be buying sum bitz that u can’t hold in your hand anymore(i-tunes ‘n shit). It’s there,but u can’t see it. Snif…

    Comment by Courtasock — August 23, 2006 @ 7:07 am

  37. abc = Yes-I

    Koppel tapedecks, nen oooop tapekes, luster der hjille doagn noa, bajoak!!

    @ vic: yep, tapedeck in the car en zeker dak lustere noa tapekes in den otooo…

    Tapekes byt koken, byt douchen, @ de blaarmeersen, ip stroate en in den otoo, tapekes zyn killer!!

    P’s

    Comment by oowhohahaa!! — August 23, 2006 @ 5:44 pm

  38. a) ja
    b) Los uit de pols, Brave Stars, Hip Hop Narratives, 4elementz bounce II, Dj Safe P. the ultimate groove & scratch master.
    c) Daaglijks in de auto; ook al is een goed tapedeck voor in de auto moeilijk te vinden deze dagen.

    Comment by Anonymous — August 24, 2006 @ 5:50 pm

  39. 1. yow
    2. castro en pollux demo
    3. uhu

    Comment by Anonymous — August 25, 2006 @ 12:55 am

  40. 1. ja
    2. verscheidene demo’s, Menazmixtape en albums van oa familia en parazitii uit Roemenië…
    3. heel af en toe, maar ben van plan ze eens over te zetten op pc, handig als je sommige nummers wilt skippen enzo…

    Comment by Kenshin — September 3, 2006 @ 3:11 pm

  41. 1. Bejoak gie
    2. Ge meug gerust zien
    3. Veelz te winnig, maar ben van plan daar veranderinghe in te brengen van van die CD’s krieggek utslag.
    4. Mennen oto is binn voe ne SL 1200 in me dashbord te plooi’n!

    Teip, CD, Mp3, zwort plastiek, … it’s all good… voe mie goat em over wuk dat er ip stoat…toch?

    Comment by Dwoopn — September 23, 2006 @ 9:58 am

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