Visiting ‘La Cassetteria’ in Madrid
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This week I had to visit Madrid for work and met a guy that is also a cassette fan. He took me to the ‘La Cassetteria‘, a very curious cassette label that also has a store where they sell their own releases as well as old cassettes, new launches and even walkmans and decks.
He has many walkmans and stuff displayed there, very interesting:
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Just after entering, you’ll find a wall full of walkmans:
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There are several stands with both old and new cassettes:
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You can also see a closet with some mini HIFIs and boomboxes:
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But the main presence are the big cassette duplicators (specifically Tapematic 2002):
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These machines are totally restored and working. Don’t forget that these guys make new releases.
And finally you’ll find this:
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On which you’ll see new old stock cassettes:
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And the usual modern rubbish:
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I mean those colored fashion cassettes, you know. I don’t know how good those ‘High Quality’ 40, 60 and 90min really are. I guess they are RTM.
I got this soundtrack for me that is a movie I actually hadn’t see but in Spanish it was translated to ‘El chip prodigioso’. To my surprise, this cassette sounds really well:
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And I was listening to it in my Super-DD9 by Dr Walkman while I was travelling back to Barcelona in the high speed train:
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You can find them on Instagram and if you go to Madrid you can visit them here
This entry was posted on Friday, October 27th, 2023 at 8:02 am
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