THE RECORD OF TAPES

What compels the collector? What's the drive that consumes the collector to obsess and hoard? Nostalgia? Childhood memories? That indelible imprint that Freud loves to ponder? Who knows? All I know is that we all love to collect things. And for the creator of tapedeck.org, that thing is audio tape cassettes. On this page you'll find a catalog of different cassettes, neatly organized, but devoid of much written history. Where did these tapes come from? What's the difference between metal, chrome, and ferro? Who are these mix tapes meant for? Some slow jams for that long lost love? It's all left a mystery at tapedeck.org. Only the simple beauty of this defunct medium remains, now locked in a digital filing-cabinet.