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Cassette Store Day releases announced for 2015

By | Published on Friday 11 September 2015

Cassette Store Day

The organisers of Cassette Store Day have announced the full list of special releases that will be put out as part of this year’s proceedings. And on the tapes being released will be music from the likes of Girl Band, Alex G, The Maccabees, Kaiser Chiefs, Spector, Radio Soulwax and Various Artists. Actually, there are quite a few releases from Various Artists, they’ve been very busy.

CSD returns on 17 Oct this year, and pre-empting the festivities the event’s co-founder Jen Long told reporters: “Cassette tapes aren’t just a format, they’re a culture, and cassette culture is as much about collaboration as doing it yourself. This year we’ve gone even further to try and include as many tape fans around the world. We want as many people as possible to be able to get involved and put out a tape, put on a gig or event, or get hold of that release they really want”.

Labels will also be encouraged to make their tape releases available online on CSD this year, rather than holding off with online sales to give high street shops a head start. Long goes on: “While we still want as many stores as possible involved, we felt there was too much burden on understaffed shops to order from the release list and smaller labels were being left out. We also felt that fans in more remote areas were excluded from the celebrations if they didn’t have a store near them. Hopefully this way we can include everyone for the best Cassette Store Day yet”.

You can see the full list of this year’s CSD releases here.



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