tyfung t1_j00sack wrote on December 13, 2022 at 6:24 AM Reply to TIL Western music traveled to China in the 80s through these cracked cassette tapes. Once discarded as trash, and shipped to China's black market from abroad, they were purposefully destroyed by labels to prevent resales. And these tapes influenced a generation of musicians in China. by fangz_fabricated Radiolab did a three episode podcast on this very topic. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-mixtape Permalink 5
tyfung t1_j00sack wrote
Reply to TIL Western music traveled to China in the 80s through these cracked cassette tapes. Once discarded as trash, and shipped to China's black market from abroad, they were purposefully destroyed by labels to prevent resales. And these tapes influenced a generation of musicians in China. by fangz_fabricated
Radiolab did a three episode podcast on this very topic. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-mixtape