Photo Richard Purvis
Oh great - a cassette player. Has
Stuff
suddenly gone full hipster?
Don’t worry - we’re not about to start petitioning record labels to release albums on the worst medium imaginable. But the Tascam Portastudio, first launched in 1979 as the TEAC 144, was special. Rather than recording your band’s garage sessions with a standard cassette deck, resulting in a distorted horror-show, a four-track gave you the chance to make something that people would one day have eBay bidding wars over. Well, maybe if you were Depeche Mode or something.