Now that CD sales are slowly declining, artists are either releasing in savvy vinyl records or in USB music flash drives.
What’s awesome about USB Music flash drives is that you can customize them in almost any way you want! And if you’re a musician, you’d want a design that screams MUSIC. What better way to do it than to have a cassette tape design!
Here are some of the coolest cassette tape-inspired USB albums:
#1 XSSEMBLY CASSETTE USB
#2 BAND OF THE HAWK CASSETTE USB
A 4GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive that resembles a classic Cassette Tape. It has different LP covers on each side to make it more collectable and personable.
The artwork on the tape is aptly designed to match the band –Band of the Hawk —- and is just one of the many artistic designs that graced the tapes’ cover. To think that they have different LP covers for each side makes it more exciting to buy and collect.
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#3 & JULIET MUSICAL CASSETTE USB
White USB 3.0 cassette tapes produced for & Juliet Musical. This white cassette tape USB with a hot pink band printed on it spells girly and maximalist, which matches the musical perfectly. Even with the simple design it is still very eye-catching if it comes in loud colors.
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#4 FRENCH ACCENT CASSETTE USB
White USB cassette memory sticks . Produced for the French Accent
A simple yet very beautiful cassette USB. Add it with the cassette cases and ta-da! Another beautiful product with simplicity doing its tricks, again.
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#5 RUDI ARAPAHOE CASSETTE USB
Black USB memory stick cassettes in cases with printed J-cards. Produced for Rudi Arapahoe. Here we have a black cassette tape giving us a retro feeling with its white label printed on it. It also comes with a white folded j-card with the song lyrics and a clear case. Classy.
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#6 THE COMPLETE SECOND YEAR CASSETTE
The Complete Second Year Cassette, also known as Live from Covernt Garden, is a USB stick made to look like a cassette tape. It contained the 52 episodes that make up Year Two of No Such Thing As A Fish, as well as the unique filmed episode No Such Thing As Snooker Avocado.
The sticker on the tape has this DIY mixtape look which will make us wish it’s the 80s again. Le sigh.
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#7 SILK WILDERNESS ADVENTURES CASSETTE USB
Silk Wilderness Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road on our cassette USB memory drives
This one has two types of print one is the usual way of printing while the other is the full body print. In this case, I prefer the full body print because the smaller details of the artwork are more visible and it just looks livelier don’t you think?
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#8 BUTFIRST CASSETTE USB
A creative double butterfly case set containing a baby pink audio cassette and white USB cassette drive with additional content. Produced for Butfirst, a creative agency in Switzerland.
White cassette tape USB together with the baby pink audio cassette tape looks very cute right? And with a well thought out case it looks better. This agency is certainly creative.
Which of these USB albums do you like the most?
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James Hill is a veteran of the music industry. He first worked at Warner Reprise Records then later joined Interscope/ Geffen Records where he managed producers and songwriters and got his first platinum record for Keyshia Cole’s The Way It Is. He is now helping indie artists with branding and manufacturing through his company Unified Manufacturing, a CD/DVD/vinyl and merch company in LA.
