[spectre] From the vault: A short history of the audio cassette. Curated by Felix Kubin

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<http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/wim-langenhoff/capsula>. A short history of
the audio cassette. Curated by Felix Kubin*



On the origins of the cassette format with former Philips
employee Wim Langenhoff.



http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/wim-langenhoff/capsula



As a former employee at Dutch electronics conglomerate
Philips, Wim Langenhoff was involved in the development of the audio
cassette. He was also a member of The New Electric Chamber Music Ensemble,
an Eindhoven-based artists’ collective that became notorious in the region
for their anarchic performances in the late sixties. The cassette tape
played a vital role for the pre-digital generation, providing an
inexpensive way to record directly from the radio or vinyls and to create
mixtapes for friends and lovers. As a side effect, it also triggered the
emergence of an underground cassette scene.
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