what’s your favorite album that your own on DCC tape,
the one that is available on DCC but you don’t own (yet?)
and the one you would like to see being released on DCC, even if the label is Sony Music.
Well, let’s start with my albums…
A DCC that I just bought : BLACK SHEEP : “A wolf in sheep’s clothing”, a really great rap album by a underrated band from US.
The DCC that I would really really have (but expensive…) : MC SOLAAR : “Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo”. One of the best album of this french rapper.
The Favorite album; Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The one we did not get…… the remaining 300 lol
The one we would like to be released on DCC…. Michael Jackson - Thriller
I think we had a similar topic before but that’s alright .
The tape that I played most often was my mix tape that I played in the car on my DCC824 car stereo. I had an Iomega Jaz drive on my computer and I used my DCC730 and my DCC175 to fill an entire 1 GB disk up with CD singles in my collection. I bought a lot of CD-singles in those days and used DCC Studio to make a mix tape out of them. When I got tired of the tape, or when the tracks got too predictable while I was playing the tape, I just went into DCC Studio and changed the compilation file to remove some tracks and add some other ones. So the tape changed all the time back then. I still have it.
A release that I would like to hear on DCC is Thunderstorm, a disco band from the Netherlands in the early 1980s. Back then, I had a copy of their album on cassette but it sounded horrible. I had copied it from a tape from the public library and I suspect that someone once made a copy on a bad cassette deck and returned the copy to the library while they kept the original. Some (maybe all?) of the songs are on YouTube but unfortunately they sound just as bad as my tape, in exactly the same way. Maybe whoever posted them on YouTube also had a copy of the same tape that I had, or maybe the master tape was really that bad.
Oops sorry for the double-topic, you can merge them if you want.
I used to make a mix-tape when I have my DCC170. I think it wasn’t as much easy as it would be with a DCC175 but it was cool even so.
Each month, I was using the same blank tape but replacing the last songs (4 or 5) by another. Once I reached the end of the tape, I started over. Of course, as the new tracks weren’t not exactly the same length of the previous ones, it makes longer silences, but I just had to push the “next track” button to skip to the next song.
Last year, I re-used the exactly same tape to make a new mix-tape with new tracks from the 2020’s.
I listened to Thunderstorm on Youtube, it sounds like a very cool band, I like them. Maybe you should buy the vinyl and make your own recording. ^^
Well, like most prerecorded DCCs, it’s probably pretty rare and hard to come by. Especially here in the USA, where DCC in general never really seem to get much traction in the marketplace; I’m struggling to recall whether any of the music stores around me back in the day actually carried them at all… (Then again, the fact that I can’t recall any, probably answers my own question. )
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