Mass Productions works with Umass Boston to preserve early Boston Hip Hop music

In the next few weeks, Mass Productions will be starting another audio archive project. This time for Umass Boston. This archive is about 500 cassette tapes from Leccos Lemma’s early Boston Hip Hop radio program.

The tapes consist of both the full radio program, as well as the original cassettes submitted from Boston city youth.   Considering the varying quality of recorders used,  each tape is going to require custom azimuth calibration  to retrieve the best audio from the tapes.

Mass Productions will also be photographing the tape cases, which are often decorated with interesting graffiti art.