Comments on: Long Distance Poison … On Cassette! http://www.sequenza21.com/2012/01/long-distance-poison-on-cassette/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Sun, 19 May 2013 04:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chris Becker http://www.sequenza21.com/2012/01/long-distance-poison-on-cassette/comment-page-1/#comment-26571 Chris Becker Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:00:54 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=6989#comment-26571 “Long thought extinct”? By who, exactly? I don’t think tape trading culture ever went away. And in fact, when I relocated to NYC from New Orleans over 14 years ago, the first musicians I met handed me cassettes of their music.

But then again, when I arrived in Houston a couple years ago, the first musicians I met provided me with link after link to Soundcloud and other sites for digital files. But at shows I always see 7 inches, 12 inches, cassettes, and CD-Rs. I’m not exaggerating.

At one of my first Houston gigs, we had people buying both the vinyl and CDs we had on sale equally.

Here’s a recent article I wrote about the joy of physical product:
http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-30-11-23-44-rare-birds-the-joy-of-the-physical/

P.S. And mp3s through “good equipment” still sound like…mp3s. You can’t polish a turd. But that’s not to say the medium doesn’t have a place in my life. But I know what I’m hearing be it substandard or “hi-res.”

P.S.S. Who’s Steve Smith?

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