90sTimeMachine is offering a blast from the past with its DIY Cassette Kit, giving you everything you need to make the ...

If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape.

Let's face it -- real mixtapes made on a cassette tape look cooler than an iTunes playlist. Now you can 3-D print your own digital mixtape so it will look like an old-school cassette.

The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips ...

Both Mixtape Club founders have also discovered plenty of new music due to their tape-trading experiences. Says Hohman: "[On] a mixtape I received this year from a friend, there was this band ...

VideoI’ve been hearing rumors that the cassette tape is making a comeback. First vinyl, now this. Can 8-tracks be far behind? Probably not. 8-tracks are like Betamax and ET for Atari: things ...

I still have a few of my old mixtapes (survivors of a massive 1990s throw-this-obsolete-crap-out purge of my cassette collection), and so I made multiple copies of several, including The Orange ...

Image courtesy of Philips Although the debut of the cassette can be traced back to a 1963 Berlin fair, Philips dates the format's official launch at the company's headquarters in Amsterdam on Sept ...

Lou Ottens, an engineer who invited the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, ... In the 2016 film “Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape,” Ottens said, ...

Cassette Store Day is here again this weekend. The plucky lil' sibling to the better-known Record Store Day focuses its attention squarely on that unfairly ...

Back when I came of driving age, the early 1980s, not-too-terrible-quality cassette recorders and blank cassette tapes were just becoming cheap enough to put mixtapes within reach of ordinary ...

Last December, Brooklyn's Oneida issued a limited-run cassette, Fine European Food and Wine, on Scotch Tapes. Sure, the tape contained years-old live improvisations the band deemed unfit for ...