the mix tape. It was insanely easy to make your own compilations, before drag-and-drop and streaming obliterated such concerns. Now, Phonocut (from €1499; blanks from €55 for ten) brings something ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording ... steel-strip tape recorder at the BBC in 1937.

The vinyl of the week this time is “Aja” by Steely Dan from 1977. Aja—pronounced like Asia—is the sixth studio album by the rock duo. Each song on the album had a different musician ...

Steely Dan’s broadly acclaimed third album, Pretzel Logic, will return to vinyl for the first time ... non-EQ’d, tape copy, and Gaucho, which will be sourced from a 1980 analog tape ...

As announced in a press release, Steely Dan’s Gaucho ... first seven records to vinyl. Audio engineer Bernie Grundman remastered the Gaucho reissue from a 1980 analog tape copy that was ...