Category: Retro Technology
CHECK OUT THESE INGENIOUSLY DESIGNED RECORD PLAYERS
Sounding good and looking great, these are some of the more special portable record players you will ever see. If playing vinyl didn’t already make you look really really good, these portable record players will give you that extra touch of pizzazz when throwing on your favorite 12″. Fumihito Taguchi’s beautiful and elegantly simple designs … continue reading
THE MOST MAINSTREAM RECORDS RECENTLY RELEASED ON CASSETTE
Did you know that there’s a tape version of Justin Bieber’s ‘Purpose’ out there? MICHAEL ANISER Cassettes are most commonly thought of as a niche medium that catered to a nerdy audience of experimental music enthusiasts and freaks. But recently these little plastic boxes have made a comebackand seem to be on the brink of re-entering … continue reading
Grooving on the ’70s: Vinyl chic spins back into fashion
Posted on timeslive.co.za, By Harry Wallop, 25 February, 2016 RETRO: The vinyl look Image by: BLOG.HOOKERFURNITURE.COM The hotly anticipated HBO television series Vinyl launched on DStv last week. It’s a collaboration between the director Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger and promises to do to the music industry what Mad Men did for advertising: celebrate the … continue reading
Cassettes roll back into fashion: Format follows vinyl with huge boost in sales after acts start releasing albums on tape.
Posted on dailymail.co.uk, By SEAN POULTER, 22 February 2016 Music fans on both sides of the Atlantic are returning to the cassette two decades after they were replaced by the CD, and more recently digital downloads. This nostalgia for the old format comes despite the frustrations that led to their decline, including their tendency to become scrambled and … continue reading
Technology’s Future Looks a Lot Like the 1970s
Analog tapes, printed photos and vinyl records from venerable brands are among the anachronisms that will vie for attention this year alongside the highest fidelity ever achieved in consumer video, photos and music devices. IMAGE: Getty Images Some products featured at CES – the mammoth annual consumer electronics show that occurred earlier this month — can produce … continue reading
Buying Guide: The Best Record Players For Your Listening Pleasure
Posted: 10/28/2012 Huffington Post | By Shana Ecker While there have been several new forms of media introduced into the market over the last few decades to improve the way we listen to and record music, vinyl records haven’t gone extinct, and there is good reason behind that. This format provides a sound that is … continue reading
A VISUAL INTRODUCTION TO RECORD STORE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA
posted on the vinyl factory.com 14.4.15 Photographer Mike Spitz and journalist Rebecca Villaneda talk us through Californian record store culture and share a gallery of photos, taken from their forthcoming coffee table book The Record Store Book. Words: Rebecca Villaneda Two of the most iconic record stores in Southern California are also the oldest: Canterbury Records in … continue reading
For the record, vinyl still rocks over digital and CDs
Posted on Northernstar, by helen Hawkes GROOVY TIMES: Nick Barovsky, owner of The Audio Room, Lismore, has seen a positive swing back to analogue technology and vinyl. EVERYTHING old is new again, at least on the music front. On the back of figures from the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA), which reports vinyl sales jumped … continue reading
Lasonic BoomBox due to be released in September!
Old School Soul. New School Style. Long gone are the days of 8 tracks, cassette tapes, and wires. Blast your music loudly and wirelessly through the Lasonic i931BTQ boombox. Leave your Bluetooth enabled music device safely by your side. The Classic reborn. Product Features • BLUETOOTH – Bluetooth Connectivity to any Bluetooth Enabled Phone or … continue reading
