21st Century
Though in the mid-'90s cassette culture seemed to decline with the appearance of new technologies and methods of distribution such as the Internet, MP3 files, file sharing, and CD-Rs, in recent years it has once again seen a revival, with the rise of tape labels like: Already Dead Tapes, American Tapes, Bart Records, Bemböle Cassettes, Breaking World Records, Brown Interiour Music, Bum Tapes, Burger Records, Cakes and Tapes, Cooper Cult, Crash Symbols, Crepusculo Negro, DNT Records, Econore, Fadal Records, Fairchild Tapes, Field Studies, Full Of Nothing, From the Wheelchair to the Pulpit, Green Records and Tapes, Healing Light, Heresee, Holy Page, Hosehead Records, I had An Accident Records, Leaving Records, Life's Blood Aural Releasing Entity, Lost Sound Tapes, Mellotronic Archive, Mirror Universe, Moon Glyph, Night People, No Kings Record Cadre, Not Not Fun Records, Notes and Bolts Records and Tapes, Object Tapes, Obsolete Audio Formats, Olde English Spelling Bee, Otherworldly Mystics, Pizza Night, Pop Gun Recordings, Pug Records, Purr Tapes, Retirement Records, Roaches Watch TV, Sangoplasmo Records, Scotch Tapes, Silenzio Statico, Space Idea Tapes, Spookytown, Spring Break Tapes, Stunned Records, Tapeworm, Technicolor Yawn Tapes, Thumbs Off Records, To Hip To Hop Tapes, Tour De Garde, Wohrt Records & Tapes, Woodsmoke and Workerbee Records.
An exhibition was held at Printed Matter in New York City devoted to current American cassette culture entitled "Leaderless: Underground Cassette Culture Now" (May 12–26, 2007).
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