Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo is bringing back the awesome sounds of the 80s with a limited-edition cassette release of their latest album, ‘Album Contemporary’.
Alongside the cassette tape, Chromeo have teamed up with the French cassette specialists We Are Rewind to create a custom-designed chrome cassette player. This ain’t your old dusty Walkman, though – this beauty is chrome-plated and rechargeable, blending old-school vibes with modern tech.
The cassette tape itself is a must-have for any Chromeo collector, featuring two exclusive bonus tracks you won’t find anywhere else. We’re talking pure, unadulterated Chromeo funk, delivered in a way that’ll have you reminiscing about the good ol’ days (or maybe just discovering how cool cassettes always were).
Romain Boudruche, CEO of We Are Rewind, knows what’s up: ‘Chromeo has such a distinct sound and style, so the pressure was on to design a cassette player that captured that,’ he said in a press release. ‘The shiny chrome cassette player is a truly unique music player that’s bound to turn heads and bring back the funk.’
And it’s not just Chromeo fans getting in on the cassette revival. According to a survey by the UK’s vinyl packaging firm Key Production, younger music lovers – mainly Gen Z – are actually listening to more vinyl, CDs and cassettes than any other age group. It looks like they’re realising that the 80s and 90s were the superior decades, after all.
Sales of cassettes have been on the rise for ten years straight now, and they even accounted for more than 10% of record sales for ten UK number-one albums in 2022. So, if you’re after a limited-edition piece of Chromeo magic (and a rather swanky cassette player to play it on), head over to the We Are Rewind site this month to pick one up.
We guarantee it’ll be the funkiest purchase you make all year.
