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unusual facts about Cassette



8-track tape

Another is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Live/1975-85, which was one of the very few boxed sets to be released on vinyl, cassette, compact disc, and eight-track tape.

Above Ground

The group played locally and at the Punakaiki Music Festival (West Coast, New Zealand); and would have been forgotten like a lot of bands had Page not recorded nearly every practice and concert and organised the "Gone AIWA" cassette (1983), re-released in 2011 on vinyl by Siltbreeze.

Ariel Rechtshaid

They self-released a cassette demo entitled Attack of the Killer Cheese and began playing shows around southern California, establishing themselves amongst a prolific ska scene including bands such as Reel Big Fish, No Doubt, Dance Hall Crashers, and The Aquabats.

Baganda music

Cooke, Peter (1990, 2006): "Play Amadinda: Xylophone music from Uganda (Instructional cassette or CD and book), produced in collaboration with Albert Ssempeke, (for use both in East Africa and in multi-cultural education in UK, USA etc.) (Edinburgh 1990 - Revised 2006), 29pp.

Black Moon Rising

Working for the US Government to retrieve a cassette with vital information, Sam Quint, a former CIA agent (Jones), runs into Marvin Ringer (Lee Ving), another hitman he replaced, who is after the same cassette.

Blue Star Wicca

Tzipora Klein (née Katz), who had joined the coven in 1977, and with her then-husband Kenny Klein, left on a folk music tour after the 1983 release of their cassette Moon Hooves in the Sand, which contained Blue Star liturgical music.

Cadillac de Ville series

In total, 4,168 had the standard Symphony Sound system, while 543 were ordered with the optional Bose stereo (310 with cassette, 233 with compact disc).

Call It Home

It was released on LP, cassette and CD formats in 1993 on Dog Gone Records, a label owned by former R.E.M. manager Jefferson Holt.

Chromasette

Chromasette was the first cassette-based TRS-80 Color Computer magazine produced by David Lagerquist and was an offshoot of CLOAD magazine.

Derek Prince

During this time Prince was becoming widely known through his cassette-tape Bible lectures, and he became involved with the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.

Dopamine Records

Shumaker founded Dopamine as a cassette-only indie label in 1995 and merged with Maniatis' label Amalagate Records in 2000.

Eduardo Mateo

Cuerpo y alma (Sondor 84332 y 44332, Cassette tapes and vinil disc 1984)

Electronic Cottage

Jon Pareles on cassette underground, The New York Times, May 11, 1987

Fat Worm of Error

They have released a split cassette with Deerhoof on Deathbomb Arc and appear on a compilation mastered by Hans Grusel with Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Nautical Almanac, Metalux, Wolf Eyes, Mono Pause, Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet, Tarantism, Tom Recchion, Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth, Pod Blotz, Smegma, Panicsville, and others on Resipiscent.

Fuzzy Cloaks

They released their debut cassette "Solar Hits" in 2011 on Kind Turkey Records.

Garista

Subsequently it was re-released by the music label Singing Ringing, again in audio cassette format (UK, 1985), and then by Charrm in audio cassette, 12 inch vinyl and CD formats (UK, 1990).

Happiness Is You

The album was never released on cassette and did not finally see release on CD until 2012, as part of the box set Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection.

Hard Hats

Being released around the same time as Beat about the Bush by Show of Hands, this album has a rocky edge to it, and was released on CD and cassette.

He's Coming Back

He's Coming Back is the first Newsboys' release, this album was a two cassette set that was handed out only at early concerts.

Here's to Special Treatment

Here's to Special Treatment is the second album (cassette) of Conor Oberst.

IlyAIMY

I Love You And I Miss You was originally a 4 member musical ensemble that formed in the mid-1990s, the members were rob Hinkal, William Schaff, Carin Wagner (now Sloan) and Sonny Roelle all of whom were students at The Maryland Institute College Of Art at the time and released a two cassette (90 min each) collection of songs and recorded another that was not released.

Innocent Bystanders

In 1983 the band released a cassette entitled Live at the Subi, recorded at the Subiaco Hotel with a mobile recording truck.

Interurban Press

(Before VHS video-cassette players became commonly in use, Interurban Press had offered a small number of films in Regular-8 or Super 8 format.)

Let's Hear That 1 Guy

Let's Hear That 1 Guy, released in 2009, is a re-release of the first recording (originally released in 1996 on cassette) by That 1 Guy.

Moonblood

Blut und Krieg (1997) (666 on cassette, 333 on vinyl, 200 on picture disc)

Music to Raise the Dead

The cassette, featuring the kind of hard rock for which Resurrection Band would eventually become known, was recorded not long after the Jesus People USA community had moved from Minneapolis to Chicago, but before they found a permanent home in Uptown.

Narayana Gowda

After 6 years, he returned to Bangalore to join the South India Computer Ltd, a hardware assembly company in Koramangala, and from there moved to the Vysya Bank and from there to start Pushpa Garments and put his hand into financing and the Srimata Audio Cassette company.

Neil Burke

Although he co-founded the follow-up band Born Against with guitarist Adam Nathanson, he left early in its career, appearing only on its demo cassette and first compilation track.

New Zealand hip hop

Early Hiphop releases in New Zealand include the collection Ak89 - In Love With These Rhymes, compiled by Simon Laan and released by Auckland radio bFm in 1989 (on cassette only), and a variety of releases by Southside Records, owned by Murray Cammick.

Njáls saga

This song later appeared in 1981 when the group released its single Iður til Fóta (in the cassette version only).

Rob Nilsson

It was produced by Bay Area art house exhibitors Don Taylor and Ben Myron, and executive-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Signal 7 pioneered the use of ENG video cameras and small portable U-matic cassette recorders for dramatic film production, and was shot over the course of four nights.

Ryan's Fancy

15 Drink-a-Long Songs (Cassette Reissue of "An Irish Night at the Black Knight Lounge) (1982))

Sam Rosenthal

Begun by Sam Rosenthal in 1983 as a way to release his own solo electronic music, Projekt Records spent its first three years as a cassette-only label with a series of titles that are now long out-of-print.

Side Street Ramblers

They also appear on Here's to The Winners (LP, cassette, 8-track) with the Vocal Majority.

Steffan Cravos

As DJ Lambchop he released a cassette-only release called "Cashing in on Cool Cymru" in which he slags Kelly Jones over a break beat.

Steppin' onto the Scene

This EP was produced by Manix and self-released on cassette on March 3, 1990.

Sweet Empire

In February 2010 the first recordings, entitled The Flood, were released on 7" and cassette via the label Black Death.

The Elektrik Keyboard

In the late '70s it added personal computers and MIDI music to its lineup, and began publishing Apple II computer software written by programmer Chris Oberth. The software, advertised in the company's catalog and sold on cassette, largely consisted of games including some that emulated popular arcade titles.

The Snow

The Snow is a track by the British group Coil, available on the album Love's Secret Domain (1991) and also released as a 12" vinyl, cassette and CD EP. A music video of "The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)" was directed by Peter Christopherson.

Tigerbomb

The first two tracks are professionally recorded versions of songs from the Alien Lanes LP (the original LP versions were recorded on four-track cassette).

Time of the Twins

The abridged version was published by Random House Publishing on audio cassette format in 1991, which included music, sound effects and featured narration and voice acting by Peter MacNicol.

Toyota Camry Solara

Interior changes include Optitron gauges, blue backlighting in the rest of the car's controls, a new steering wheel design that is somewhat similar to the recently revised Camry SE's steering wheel, revised shifter, MP3 and WMA CD playback capability, external audio device (e.g. iPod, Zen, cassette) auxiliary port connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity, and voice-activated navigation on the SLE V6 models.

Uh Oh… No Breaks!

Washington, D.C.'s Slickee Boys' third "proper" album (not including compilations or live releases), Uh Oh… No Breaks! was released on LP and cassette in March 1985 by Twin/Tone (a Minneapolis label best known for having released The Replacements' early records) with the catalog number TTR 8544.

Video tape recorder

The development of the videocassette followed the replacement by cassette of other open-reel systems in consumer items: the Stereo-Pak 4-track audio cartridge in 1962, the compact audio cassette and Instamatic film cartridge in 1963, the 8-track cartridge in 1965, and the Super 8 home movie cartridge in 1966.

Walkman

A portable personal stereo audio cassette player, called Stereobelt, was first invented by the German-Brazilian Andreas Pavel in 1972.

Watching the Wildlife

The 7" packaging made reference to animals, with a panda and dolphin on the sleeve. The cassette single made more references to sex. To wit, the instrumental mix was dubbed "The Condom Mix" on the cassette single.

William Kapell discography

The listing below contains only Compact Disc releases and does not contain 78rpm, LP, Cassette, or 8-track tape releases.

Winley Records

Death Mix was a vinyl pressing of a third- or fourth- hand cassette tape copy of a bootleg recording of a Bambaataa Zulu Nation night at James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1980.


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