"The first order came in 1989: 10 cassettes. With that began Analogue Media Technologies, a company created to help bands market their music." .... "Analogue now says that cassette recordings make up 25% of the business. That is quite a change from five years ago, when cassette tapes seemed to be going the way of the defunct 8-track cartridge - the music format that was popular in the 1960s and 70s.
Audio purists love the analogue sound that comes from the classic cassette. "Digital will always be ones and zeros," says Fernando Baldeon, a sales consultant at Analogue. "Analogue is still the best sound from a recording."
Vinyl, the purist's darling, has that sound, but it also has a hefty price tag - C$14.10 ($13.80; ÂŁ9.09) per record for a set of 100, compared to C$1.29 for cassettes. Although cassettes are still slightly more expensive to produce than CDs, they add value for many of what Mr Baldeon calls "lo-fi" bands: punk, hip hop, metal and experimental groups."
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