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To this day my favourite tapes are not my rave tapes, they're my pirate tapes where you can listen to MCs practicing their lyrics rather than working the crowd. .
Rather than revisit the subject of his favourite tapes, I ask Finch about how pirate radio shaped various moments of his life: starting with his teenage discovery of Dream FM and finishing with the birth of grime in his mid-twenties.
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It was an early xmas present and it literally went everywhere with me" StephanoBentos – Run DMC's Raising Hell on one side and Rush's 2112: "A C-90 with Run DMC's Raising Hell on one side and Rush's 2112 on the other was my favourite tape.
We reached out to some our favourite tape imprints so theycould weigh in on the subject.
We reached out to some our favourite tape imprints so they could weigh in on the subject.
This is going to be no one's favourite mix-tape.
Like many who tuned into the pirate stations that saturated London's FM bandwidth in the 90s, Finch recorded his favourite broadcasts on tape – not for posterity but to "share the wealth", as he puts it, with his schoolmates.
Likewise, there were the Playboy magazines that would always appear in the garbage cans at my elementary school, or the one kid in my class who found his dad's favourite porn VHS, taped under the pool table in his basement.
Of course, consumers have always copied their favourite songs on to cassette tapes without killing the record companies; but doing it on the Internet is easier, and the quality is better.For the moment, the only Internet-based security system available is watermarking.
By the late 60s - when I'd found out about it - he had amassed an astonishing collection of hundreds of thousands of 78's, LP's and reel to reel tapes (apparently his favourite recording out of all of them was the "mating call of the haddock")!
All he wants to do is make you mix tapes of his favourite indie bands and show you his rare collection of first-edition Dylan Thomas hardcovers, but NO.
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