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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

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115 points naves | 2 comments | 30 Jun 25 18:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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comprev ◴[30 Jun 25 22:21 UTC] No.44428545[source]▶
DATs are partly responsible for the huge resurgence in the sale of brand new/unreleased "old school" dance music.

There's a vinyl record label called Deep Jungle [0] which specialises in sourcing unreleased (or very limited pressings originally) 90s jungle/drum&bass straight from the artists - for a fair price.

Each release has a backstory often involving getting boxes of DATs down from the attic! The music is remastered with modern technology.

Demand is high (literally selling out within minutes!) as the label covers both older customers (who went raving in the 90s) and the younger generation exploring older music.

[0] https://www.discogs.com/label/31362-Deep-Jungle

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1. jamesfmilne ◴[30 Jun 25 22:39 UTC] No.44428699[source]▶
Yeah DAT was big in electronic music.

Everyone in DnB documentaries talks about going to Music House with DATs to get dubplates cut to play in the clubs later on that evening.

This would have been before CD-Rs were commonplace, early 90s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnB/s/hl1MiCvzqD

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2. ethagnawl ◴[01 Jul 25 00:02 UTC] No.44429233[source]▶
I believe DAT was also very popular in the 90s "taper" scene. I know someone who used to record Phish shows and I believe that's the format they used.