Finding the lost beauty in old music cassettes

Located in a quiet alley in Taichung's Meicun Road sits an old white house with the words "Nostalgia is time flying to bygone days; melancholy an unfinished story" – this is Cassette Hunter.

On opening the door, one faces a dazzling selection of cassettes, as if entering a time tunnel and traveling back in time. In the early 1980s, cassettes flourished and replaced vinyl records. However, by the end of the 1980s, cassettes began to decline, and digital CDs gradually became the mainstream carrier of music in Taiwan. You Can-bin (游璨賓), founder of the Taichung’s Cassette Hunter said that helping people journey back to the happy memories of yesteryear is the gift he provides patrons.

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從音樂卡帶找尋遺失的美好

座落在台中市美村一路的靜謐小巷內，有一幢白色老宅，透明玻璃上頭寫著「懷舊是時光倏忽回到過去，感傷則是彼時的故事未竟」這裡是感傷唱片行。

一推開門，卡帶音樂繚繞，彷彿進入時光隧道，歲月倒轉，回到當年的卡帶時代。八〇年代初期，卡帶興盛流行，取代了黑膠唱片。然而至八〇年代末期，卡帶便開始沒落，而數位化的CD漸漸成為台灣主流的音樂載體。因此感傷唱片行創辦人游璨賓說，能讓光顧的人能藉著卡帶音樂，懷想過去的自己與美好，是感傷唱片行想要送給這些人的禮物。

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