AXIA K-Metal compact cassette tape
compact cassetteMaybe you have never heard of AXIA so far but sure you know FUJI. Indeed this stylish AXIA K-Metal c…
We love music, compact cassette and help nerds to relax. Finally.
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What we love
Imagine a nerd being born in 2030. By 2040 that brain might be interested in vintage compact cassette. How will it experience that ludicrous piece of plastic which brought us so much joy, freedom and happiness? We will build a little archive to help with that.
In 2021 we have TMI, FOMO, Covid-19 and what not. But what about a relaxing, surrealistic and calming meditation 24/7 on demand? We create Tape-Meditation for nerds.
If you listen to music from a vinyl record or real compact cassette tape, there is one major difference to listening on your phone: you can SEE it go round-and-round… “like a record baby”… To us, music, which made a real “analog experience'” via compact cassette tape is spiced up with happiness and life. We enchant your music with that, too.
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Giving back
We like to share useful stuff we learned on our journeys.
Archive
We will share pictures and videos of vintage compact cassette tapes. Our focus is on Type IV (metal) tapes.
Meditation
Relax with our Tape-Meditation nerd videos at YouTube with different camera angles and ASMR unpacking experience.
Premium-Tape-Service
We enchant your beloved music tracks or STEMs with the real premium vintage tape sound. With Love.
Relax with Tape-Meditation nerd videos. Finally.
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Who dis?
When nerds collide, ludicrous things happen…
Chris
Germany
Takashi
Japan
75+
Compact Cassette
models to archive
30+
Meditation Experience
in years
60+
Experience in making music
in years
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Music enchantment
To us, music radiates more LIFE when it once did touch REAL tape of a compact cassette.
ME-1
*€99
**¥ 13,199
20 minutes max
5 audio files max
STEMs meet Type II or IV tape
Final Mixes meet Type IV tape
Recorded with Love
Vintage Customer Support!
ME-2
*€149
**¥ 19,849
40 minutes max
10 audio files max
STEMs meet Type II or IV tape
Final Mixes meet Type IV tape
Recorded with Love
Vintage Customer Support!
ME-3
*€199
**¥ 26,529
60 minutes max
15 audio files max
STEMs meet Type II or IV tape
Final Mixes meet Type IV tape
Recorded with Love
Vintage Customer Support!
Please note: the * is for Germany and EU, the ** is for Japan. For other areas, please ask us for your price.
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Thoughts
Real tape does something to the music. It makes us smile 🙂
Is the tape effect unique? That’s an interesting question. We can talk so long about this, I still use real compressors to master, 1178, 9098 and 2la2a are in my collection and they are my favorites (actually I loved 670s I tried in studios, but never had a chance to buy one).
Can we get similar results using a plugin? Yes in some cases, but something is definitely missing on software. I can’t tell what it is exactly, the comfort and the relief you feel when you insert these to master cannot be recreated by software somehow. Tapes also does that to my ears.
タカシ
Takashi Watanabe
Nerd, Tôkyô
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What we are good at
Variety
There are SO MANY different compact cassette tapes! Each one makes us smile 🙂 Collide with us and join the fun!
Precision
Think about Studer, ReVox, SONY and TDK.
Put ZEN on top.
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Love
We love music.
We love Spaceballs.
We love quantum physics.
Global
We speak human, English, German and Japanese. The world is a precious place.
This is our tiny-tiny-tiny contribution.
Nerds
We live Kaizen.
We understand analog and digital.
We are crazy diamonds shining on…
Music
Music is a major influencer of our brain. If you care about your body, mind and soul – listen to fine analog audio waves.
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Our ludicrous Blog
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