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Cassette Logic: technology that never dies but is already dead
A song about something that never dies but is already dead turned up on a thirty-year-old mixtape this morning. Cassette has a way of delivering what you would never think to ask for.
They are driven by a Series 1000 pre-amp, a piece of kit from the late eighties when British valve design was quietly resurging. It has what must be the most elegant auto-reverse mechanism ever made: Unidirectional Auto Reverse, where the tape does not just switch direction but actually flips itself over and slides back into place. I like similar moments in other corners of life: a safety razor on the skin, a newspaper folded across a table, a record arm lowered by hand.
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