by Jay Garrett on January 18, 2010
Righty – you love the retro vibe, perhaps wearing some cool Space Invader tights, but you’re rocking some modern headphones – you’ve ruined the look!
You could get yourself some mighty fine Koss Porta Pros, which I’ve owned and loved but they might be a little ‘off-the-shelf’ for someone as cool as you.
May I present the ‘Tracks’ headphones from the fantastically named Danish company – Aiaiai!
These have a distinct whiff of the Walkman ‘phones and are admittedly styled on the personal audio classics which must’ve helped Sony beat Phillips in the compact cassette player wars back in the 80’s.
You get the comfy foam ear-pads that slide on brushed steel head braces.
Whilst their looks are stuck in my favourite style period the ‘Tracks’ are 21st Century with the latest in driver technology and you should be getting decent audio from the 40mm speakers.
These will also play nice with Blackberry’s and iPhones so there you go.
£44.50 will get you stepping out from the crowd!
Check the range out at Aiaiai.dk
by Jay Garrett on September 30, 2009
Those of you out there of a certain age will be able to recall the romance of putting together a mix tape.
In the Americanised, but still fab, film version of the great book Hi Fidelity – Rob puts the art of the mix tape thus:
“The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway… I’ve started to make a tape… in my head… for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done.”
So for those who laugh at tape cassettes why not put your sounds on a USB stick, put the stick inside the ancient-looking cassette tape, then scrawl all over it for that authentic retro vibe?
There’s 6 different designs as well – will the fun ever end?
Body-pop over to Suck UK and gettem!