大象传媒

Jennifer Lucy Allan hosts the final episode in our month-long celebration of cassette culture, marking the 60th anniversary since its invention.

Following a previous visit to Jen’s living room to raid her vinyl shelves, we return to dig through her extensive cassette collection. There’s electroacoustic experiments from Indonesia from the likes of Minus Equals Plus as well as blues from Bin Idris, whose 2013 tape came packed in a guitar string sleeve with a unique guitar string inside. There’ll be lo-fi pop from Bobby Would from a tape encased in a fishnet, and keening bagpipes from Glasgow musician and inventor Donald WG Lindsay. Plus, some unmarked cassette mysteries, gathered over the years, that we aim to unravel…

Elsewhere, more cassette memories from special guests and listeners, including Mabu Li of the label Dusty Ballz on the ‘cut-out generation’ in 1990s China, composer Maxwell Sterling’s reminiscences on his early tape experiences listening to Kraftwerk in the bath, and guitarist Dennis Bovell on a surprising discovery he made in a record store in Tokyo.

Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3