[Thor Joachim Haga]

I should add that there has been some development since the original post in 2011. In 2020, my parents moved into an apartment, and in the process they threw away a lot of my old cassettes. But I fortunately managed to save some of them (see pictures below). Not that I’m going to play them very much, but they’re nice mementos to have. I actually didn’t own a cassette player when I “rescued” them. The old, trusted Akai walkman was long since lost, as was my HiFi cassette player from my youth. But I did find three walkmans (walkmen?) while tidying my late uncle’s house last year. I’m probably going to sell two of them, because I know they’re popular among hipsters, and keep the remaining for myself. Just in the small chance that I DO want to play them again.

A friend of mine runs a small indie electro label, and they release several albums on cassettes. So the scene that Sophie describes above is not that unusual; there’s still a market for these things.

The cassette survivors: