Tape-Trading

Tape trading is called the exchange of music on cassettes.

The early eighties, was used to make other interested attention both on unknown music groups, as well as very rare records and demos that possibility. Through the Tape Trading many bands reached a very large degree of popularity. One of the best examples are probably Metallica, due to the distribution of their two demo tapes "Power Metal" (1981) and " No Life 'til Leather" (1982 ) after a short time arouse the interest of several record companies and managers and a short time later to worldwide fame could get.

It was important to the tape -trading, especially for music lovers who lived in the Soviet bloc, as it was here often hard to come by publications from the West.

The tape -trading was conducted principally by fans, not by the respective artists themselves Thus, material that seemed advisable, further copies to friends, who then passed on this again to other interested parties, etc.

Nowadays, the tape trading is almost completely extinct. Since the advent of digital media, there is scarcely any interest to play cassettes in hard work, and thus, are used today on MP3 discs, the possibilities offered by the Internet and on CD- R or MiniDisc back.

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