I moved into my new house last fall, but a lot of my stuff is still in boxes.  This past weekend, I decided to finally organize my music collection.  I love physical music and still buy CDs regularly, but my all-time favorite format is the cassette.  When I was a kid, cassettes were very popular and I loved listening to my father’s tapes.  Another big part of my youth was making cassettes for car rides or to give to my friends.  It was always a fun time sitting down by the tape deck with blank cassettes and a stack of CDs and making mixes.

Though cassettes are not as popular as CDs or records, I still like to buy them when I can.  Lots of indie bands release music on cassette, so I’ve been slowly building a collection over the past few years.  Here are a few of my favorite cassette releases from Japanese bands.