There was a time when the magnetic cassette followed us everywhere on every trip, through every adolescence, in every moment stolen from the radio. From the Walkman to the boombox, it embodied a new kind of freedom long before the streaming era. In the 1980s and 90s, millions of tapes circulated: carefully recorded mixtapes, home-studio demos, radio shows caught on a Sunday night. Then digital formats pushed the cassette aside, labelling it obsolete. And yet, in recent years, it has returned slo