I've been going through a box of old cassettes, some of which date back to the late Seventies, and am photographing a few of my favourites before I throw them out. I have a tape player with a digital output but the sound quality isn't very good, although it is great to hear snippets of radio announcers in between the songs I taped off the radio. So rather than digitising the contents, I've started an ongoing playlist as a memento, with each cassette in roughly chronological order and the songs in the order that they appear on the tapes. Some of them immediately transport me back to working late at night in the darkroom, and to other very significant moments in my life, and anyone who ever worked in the Lad Lane or Pembroke Lane studios will find a lot of the music very familiar…
You can listen to the ever-growing playlist via this link.