- We Are Rewind has launched a Duran Duran-themed Walkman
- The transportable cassette participant honors the album Pop Trash’s twenty fifth ‘Duranniversary’
- Priced $199 / £149 (approx. AU$299) – and I’ll dance into the fireplace for it
I get it. I am the right demographic – name it The Reflex or my analog-loving nature, however I’ll Dance into the Fireplace to get my palms on this cassette participant.
As a dedicated Durandy (sure, that is the time period I want; ‘Durannie’ sounds a lot older) I additionally love me a cassette Walkman – simply see my love letters to FiiO’s beautiful choice and even We Are Rewind’s Elvis-themed Walkman from earlier within the 12 months.
And this one will probably have me Hallucinating Elvis as soon as extra, as a result of it celebrates the twenty fifth Duranniversary of Pop Trash, an album that was at all times on heavy rotation in my five-disc CD participant (why sure, proper subsequent to my Lava Lamp…) and also you even get a reissue of the album on cassette together with your buy, in addition to a pencil – in fact you get a pencil.
I can’t wait to take heed to Simon Le Bon’s unbelievable vary and Roger Taylor’s impetuous drum fills on this Walkman – I really feel prefer it’s positively screaming ‘Why-y-y-y do not you utilize me?’
We Are Rewind does not say what kind of sparkly jewels this participant is one way or the other encrusted with (they’re in all probability not diamonds guys, that is Pop Trash) however in the identical manner that wild boys at all times shine, so will this participant…
Above all, do not say a prayer for me now, put it aside ’til the morning after I’ve managed to get my palms on this Walkman, OK? Of all of the Walkmans in all of the gin joints on Planet Earth, that is the one I need.
August moon’s give up to a mud cloud on the rise?
No, it is only a very sparkly Walkman!
Do you even need to know something about it? As a result of for me, the aesthetic is greater than sufficient for my poor Gen. X coronary heart to crave it. At any time when I think about Rio dancing on the sand, I’ll now think about her holding this Walkman, with the cool sea breeze catching the wires from her headphones – similar to that river twisting by way of a dusty land.
However for anybody scanning this missive considering Is There One thing I ought to Know?, We Are Rewind (an organization that makes a speciality of such issues, simply see the agency’s trendy boombox for starters) tells me that the Duran Duran Walkman is supplied with “a singular headphone amplifier designed with cassette playback in thoughts”.
You additionally get Bluetooth connectivity for hooking it as much as one of the best Bluetooth audio system or greatest earbuds you could find, and a chargeable battery (neglect these nasty AAs) that ought to final for 12 hours earlier than it wants a jolt of juice.
I will not cry for yesterday, however I do love digging out my previous cassette assortment – a reminder of the Peculiar World I generally really feel I’ve misplaced.
How a lot? After all: it is out there from at this time, priced $199 / £149 (so round AU$299) and for that value, wild boys’ll by no means lose it…
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