It’s over 90F in New York City this summer week. Time to open the fire hydrants and check out this old school mix.
“poppin and lockin kid!” – latinoheat2109
For more info: wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_tape
photo credit: macq
This entry was written by , posted on July 6, 2012 at 11:01 am, filed under music and tagged 1980's, boombox, breakdance, cassette, mixtape, New York City, summer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
What is the fastest adopted gadget of the past 50 years? It must have an Apple logo on it right? Nope. The boombox entered our lives quicker than the iPhone, Wii or Walkman. I had several including a massive Conion with an alarm system. Be sure to check out the Ghettoblaster flickr Group: click here. If you’re looking for the best modern take on a portable radio check out the Jambox or TDK Three Speaker Boombox. I always liked the idea of people blasting their music and forcing their loved art onto others. Oh well… back to my white earbuds.
“It’s the boombox. The boombox. This startling revelation was brought to light in a paper in the Journal of Management and Marketing Research. The conclusion is the result of checking the overall level of adoption of a variety of new technologies by the 7th year of their existence. The numbers show that the boombox was number one. For a little context, not only did it beat out the cellphone and the desktop computer but also every other variety of mobile music devices, of which I think we can all agree, the boombox is by far the least efficient and the most annoying.” – geekosystem.com
For more info: geekosystem.com/fastest-adopted-gadget
This entry was written by , posted on March 26, 2012 at 6:01 am, filed under hardware, political and tagged boombox, Ghettoblaster. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
In high school I had a massive Conion boombox. To see a photo of it: click here. It had dual cassette decks, phono inputs and an alarm. I miss people brazenly blasting their sound out to the world. We really don’t scare old people as much as we should these days. This is why I welcome with two wide arms open the smashing new TDK Three Speaker Boombox. It’s very large, has an OLED display, woven carbon fiber speakers (no need for protective grills), USB, 1/4 inch, RCA and minijack inputs. I want one to plug my iPad into and annoy everyone with my music apps. I wouldn’t mind walking through my local mall blasting Nitzer Ebb’s Let Beauty Loose through it. I guess I’d be arrested. How times change.
“But the real show-stopper of TDK’s boombox is the design, which strikes a balance between retro hi-fi, ’80s nostalgia, and a Syd Mead-like futuristic look. We’ve seen the retro, machined knob hi-fi look done before on systems like the Soundfreaq Sound Platform, but the materials were all plastic. We’ve seen ’80′s boombox nostalgia nailed with the Lasonic i931, but again, the materials were plastic and the sonics were awful. Even the whole daring futuristic speaker design has been trudged out before by companies like Altec Lansing and Harman Kardon–but I’m telling you, the TDK box has them beat.” – cnet.com
For more info: cnet.com
This entry was written by , posted on December 4, 2010 at 5:16 pm, filed under hardware and tagged boombox, Conion, Nitzer Ebb, TDK, Three Speaker Boombox. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Living in New York in the 80′s I spent a good amount of time recording the local radio onto cassette tapes. Classic rap shows like DJ Red Alert’s Rap Attack on Kiss FM and DJ Marley Marl on 103.5 WBLS. I also grabbed freestyle hits like When I Hear Music by Debbie Deb and Silent Morning by Noel. As my music taste broadened I discovered I could pick up a faint signal from a alternative Long Island Radio Station WLIR and recorded Depeche Mode, New Order and other new wave masterpieces.
I had a giant Conion boombox I bought at the Spring Valley flea market. It was the size of a car door! It had a double cassette deck, turntable inputs, an alarm and the above said FM tuner. If you want to see how big these boomboxes really were check out this YouTube video.
One of my favorite pastimes was making mix tapes for my friends and the car. Heading over to Tower or Sam Goody to pick up a 10 pack of blank Maxxell XLS-II 90s was a weekly journey. I miss opening the plastic wrapping and cracking open a clean new (more…)
This entry was written by , posted on October 16, 2007 at 6:08 am, filed under Uncategorized and tagged boombox, cassette, radio. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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