Recently going through old stuff, I moved my collection of tapes. For a long time, as that collection just collected dust, I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably never go back to this collection; I just replenish it the collection with CDs instead. However, over half the tapes were old recording of compositions I wrote and produced as a teenager, so those were obviously excluded from the plan to remove and replace. <\/p>\n
Then, one sunny afternoon, probably the first day of 2011 when I drove with the windows down, (I guess it was February 23 according to what is about to follow) I heard a piece of story<\/a> on NPR about cassette tapes. I recall thinking just how the tape medium really suites certain kinds of music, so I got excited about playing some tapes in my last functioning tape deck \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in my car.<\/p>\n I found some old Megadeth<\/a> tapes I made (from CDs I owned), and took them to the car. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just amazing how tape sounds on hard rock music \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the drums, the harsh guitars, the sizzling cymbals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it just works with tape. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just amazing how hard rock music sounds on tape \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the drums, the harsh guitars, the sizzling cymbals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it just works with tape. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost like the foggy filter on soap operas that make everyone look better than they do in real life. I also listened to some Music Instructor hits<\/a>, and given my spoiled ears of highly polished digital electronic music, the tape nicely glazes the gaps in the old-school 808<\/a> and other synths going through an analog board<\/a> and probably to analog tape<\/a>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to listening to the rest of the collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently going through old stuff, I moved my collection of tapes. For a long time, as that collection just collected dust, I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably never go back to this collection; I just replenish it the collection with CDs instead. However, over half the tapes were old recording of compositions I wrote and produced as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[43,42,40,41,39],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflective","category-review","tag-analog","tag-cassette-tape","tag-megadeth","tag-music-instructor","tag-tape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}