I was a Dj in the '80s that used cassettes exclusively... all tracks recorded from vinyl. However the trend in my area then did not include that club style 20-30sec clip format, in fact doing that at an event would get you boo'd out of the building, it wasn't until the '90s when that started to creap in. And I'm thankful for that because mixing on cassette was labor intensive to put it mildly. I had really good decks compared to most everybody else... some mid level Teac single bay units that could produce the same SQ as CD, with a basic mixer it was possible to do a pretty good job at mixing live but there was no beat matching.. at least not on the hardware, it was all down to track selection to keep the tempo flowing so you really had to know your music. I had hundreds of tapes and could instantly lay my hands on the correct tape to cue up the next track at a live event. That was my thing... every event was live not pre recorded like many others did, but obviously there were groups of songs that often got played in the same order because of how they flowed together. I also made quite a few mixed tapes, even tried my hand at layering tracks on top of one another with overdubing.. now there is a great way to waste several hours creating a single track.
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