2 abang sufi(Pak Labu,Mera Naqib He)
1 abang haraki(Abe Lan)
2 adik blog
http://www.paduansuara.blogspot.com/
http://brat-mikrajovic.blogspot.com/
SELAMAT BERJUMPA LAILATULQADAR.
p/s:Si Romeo terlalu rindukan Laila.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Di Manakah Abi - Versi Unplug
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Onde-onde untuk pengunjung setia http://kaset79.blogspot.com khasnya.
Terima kasih atas sokongan anda kepada karya kami sejak sekian lamanya.
Petikan gitar oleh enai, dhuat memang tak tau main gitar hehehe.
Nota kepada Cpol dan Enai:
Biarlah suara aku tak sedap pun, asalkan jujur :)
Asalkan kita PUAS kan?
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Onde-onde untuk pengunjung setia http://kaset79.blogspot.com khasnya.
Terima kasih atas sokongan anda kepada karya kami sejak sekian lamanya.
Petikan gitar oleh enai, dhuat memang tak tau main gitar hehehe.
Nota kepada Cpol dan Enai:
Biarlah suara aku tak sedap pun, asalkan jujur :)
Asalkan kita PUAS kan?
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Jujur terhadap diri.
Suka siapa? Luahkanlah!
Nak nyanyi lagu? Nyanyi sahajalah.
Namun, ada batasan gerak diri perlu kau patuhi.
ALLAH dan Rasul panduan hidupmu.
Sememangnya, kata-kata kesat kan menggoncang Aqidah yang goyah.
Kau masih bertahan.
Berpandukan ilmu Qalam.
Mendefinisikan sesuatu sejelas benar.
Sejujur mungkin.
Semadikan ia selama-lamanya di jantung hatimu.
AKU BERSAKSIKAN BAHAWA TIADA TUHAN SELAIN ALLAH DAN AKU BERSAKSIKAN BAHAWA
MUHAMMAD ITU PESURUH ALLAH.
Jujurlah dengan ikrar ini sampai bila-bila.
Selain itu, jujurlah juga
Jujur terhadap solatmu.
Jujur terhadap karyamu.
Jujur terhadap dakwahmu.
Jujur terhadap kerjamu.
Tidak berlakon.
Jujur sejujurnya.
Kamu ingin jadi soleh kan?
Jujurlah menjadi soleh.
p/s:Secara jujurnya aku memang tak suka Ahmad Badawi.Menyampah!Mempermainkan hukum ALLAH.Sudahlah Malaya dijajah beratus tahun oleh Siam,Portugis,Ingeris,Jepun, kini orang dalaman, UMNO? Seakan-akan zaman kegelapan eropah, saintis dihalang, kini pencetus revolusi(orang jujur) dihalang.
Suka siapa? Luahkanlah!
Nak nyanyi lagu? Nyanyi sahajalah.
Namun, ada batasan gerak diri perlu kau patuhi.
ALLAH dan Rasul panduan hidupmu.
Sememangnya, kata-kata kesat kan menggoncang Aqidah yang goyah.
Kau masih bertahan.
Berpandukan ilmu Qalam.
Mendefinisikan sesuatu sejelas benar.
Sejujur mungkin.
Semadikan ia selama-lamanya di jantung hatimu.
AKU BERSAKSIKAN BAHAWA TIADA TUHAN SELAIN ALLAH DAN AKU BERSAKSIKAN BAHAWA
MUHAMMAD ITU PESURUH ALLAH.
Jujurlah dengan ikrar ini sampai bila-bila.
Selain itu, jujurlah juga
Jujur terhadap solatmu.
Jujur terhadap karyamu.
Jujur terhadap dakwahmu.
Jujur terhadap kerjamu.
Tidak berlakon.
Jujur sejujurnya.
Kamu ingin jadi soleh kan?
Jujurlah menjadi soleh.
p/s:Secara jujurnya aku memang tak suka Ahmad Badawi.Menyampah!Mempermainkan hukum ALLAH.Sudahlah Malaya dijajah beratus tahun oleh Siam,Portugis,Ingeris,Jepun, kini orang dalaman, UMNO? Seakan-akan zaman kegelapan eropah, saintis dihalang, kini pencetus revolusi(orang jujur) dihalang.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Saya bercadang akan membuat rakaman mahal untuk lagu 'Hizbullah' ini.
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Lirik saya terlupa semasa menyanyikan lagu ini.Jamming bersama enai.
:) Nantikan kemunculan semula lagu ini.
p/s:liriknya berkisarkan seseorang yang meninggalkan kemewahan(tilam nan empuk) demi membebaskan tanah Islamnya dari dicerobohi.Akhirnya pejuang ini mati syahid.Nak tahu lanjut, baca lirik di entry sebelum ini :)
Berikut adalah sampling lagu asal.
TENTERA ALLAH (hIZBULLAH) - DEMO
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OH TERBANGLAH ENGKAU MERPATI
JELAJAH LANGIT TUJUH
KHABARKANLAH RAHSIA SUCI
JIWA KHAIBAR YANG UTUH
ADA PANJI DI PUNCAK TINGGI
ADA JANJI TERPATERI
AROMA SEHARUM KASTURI
BUKAN ENGKAU BERMIMPI
KALAU BUNYI GENDANG DIPALU
GEMURUH DI KAMARMU
SARUNG TUBUHMU DENGAN MISI
BEBASKAN TAMAN INI
c/o
LASKAR CINTA MELANGKAH MENCARI MIMPI
KETEMU BIDADARI DI BATAS LIKU
MERPATI PUN TERSENYUM MENYANYI-NYANYI
INGIN PULANG KEMBALI KE PANGKUAN-MU
Prosa:Cpol
Ritma:Ahmad
Album:Filsuf Sufi:Suatu Terapi
(Recycle lagu daripada Album Gagasan Pendakwah 2006)
Nota Ahmad:Ni demo tau.Rakaman dengan izin ALLAH, selepas raya.
Sang tentera ALLAH yang rindu yang teramat untuk bertemu KHALIQnya.
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Lirik saya terlupa semasa menyanyikan lagu ini.Jamming bersama enai.
:) Nantikan kemunculan semula lagu ini.
p/s:liriknya berkisarkan seseorang yang meninggalkan kemewahan(tilam nan empuk) demi membebaskan tanah Islamnya dari dicerobohi.Akhirnya pejuang ini mati syahid.Nak tahu lanjut, baca lirik di entry sebelum ini :)
Berikut adalah sampling lagu asal.
TENTERA ALLAH (hIZBULLAH) - DEMO
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OH TERBANGLAH ENGKAU MERPATI
JELAJAH LANGIT TUJUH
KHABARKANLAH RAHSIA SUCI
JIWA KHAIBAR YANG UTUH
ADA PANJI DI PUNCAK TINGGI
ADA JANJI TERPATERI
AROMA SEHARUM KASTURI
BUKAN ENGKAU BERMIMPI
KALAU BUNYI GENDANG DIPALU
GEMURUH DI KAMARMU
SARUNG TUBUHMU DENGAN MISI
BEBASKAN TAMAN INI
c/o
LASKAR CINTA MELANGKAH MENCARI MIMPI
KETEMU BIDADARI DI BATAS LIKU
MERPATI PUN TERSENYUM MENYANYI-NYANYI
INGIN PULANG KEMBALI KE PANGKUAN-MU
Prosa:Cpol
Ritma:Ahmad
Album:Filsuf Sufi:Suatu Terapi
(Recycle lagu daripada Album Gagasan Pendakwah 2006)
Nota Ahmad:Ni demo tau.Rakaman dengan izin ALLAH, selepas raya.
Sang tentera ALLAH yang rindu yang teramat untuk bertemu KHALIQnya.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Sumber:email
Moga bermanfaat.
Kasihnya Anak
"Jangan kau sakit hati IBU AYAH, Jgn kecewakan mereka.. Kerdhaan
ALLAH x kan hadir tanpa keredhaan Kedua Ibubapa... Ya-ALLAh ampunilah
dosaku, Ibubapaku, adik beradik, kaum muslimin & muslimat & orang-orang
yang aku kasihi.. AMIIN YA Rab..."
Kepada yang bermasalah dengan ibu, baca pula cerita saya ini dan
bandingkan penderitaan kita serta layanan terhadap ibu kita. Saya
dilahirkan sebagai anak kedua dalam tiga orang cahaya mata
sepasang suami isteri ber'jenama'. Dilahirkan pada tahun 1968. Berkulit
hitam (ala anak mamak gitu). Kebetulan adikku juga perempuan yang
mempunyai kulit putih melepak. Seawal usia aku mengenal tanah aku telah
dibiarkan bermain di panas bertambah hitamlah kulitku dan bertambahlah
kebencian ibu.
Aku dibiarkan bermain dengan abang bersama kawan kawan lelakinya
yang lain sedangkan adikku duduk di rumah. Apabila bergaduh akulah
yang akan dibelasah teruk, tak cukup dengan caci maki. Hingga
kini bekas torehan pembaris yang patah di pipi kananku masih berparut.
Ketika tu aku pernah terfikir untuk lari kerana mengikut penilaian ku
sendiri aku ni anak pungut kerana perbezaan warna kulit membuatkan aku
dibenci oleh ibu. Sedih rasanya.
Ketika makan, aku hanya mendapat kulit ayam, daging yang sipi
sipi terlupa di kikis dari tulang, dan dicampakkan saja pinggan ketika
menjamu selera. Ketika mengadap rezeki hatiku sentiasa sebak.Hanya
hatiku menangis. Ada juga ketikanya aku menjamah nasi dengan berkuahkan
air mata. Tak payahlah diceritakan di sini kelak aku sendiri tidak tidur
lena apabila mengenangkan.
Semasa peperiksaan penilaian aku pergi tanpa menjamah apa apa
makanan dan aku hanya diberikan pensil dua batang, pemadam dan
pembaris, pun begitu sebaris gigiku yang cantik ku hadiahkan
untuk ibu demi mencium tangannya sebelum menduduki peperiksaan. Aku
berjaya menjadi antara 10 terbaik di sekolah. Aku berjaya ditempatkan di
asrama penuh. Tetapi disebabkan kenakalanku, aku dibuang. Menyesal betul
ketika tu. Aku kembali semula tinggal bersama ibu dan ayah. Semasa
tingkatan 3 aku hanya diberi tuisyen Matematik sahaja sedangkan adikku
(tingkatan satu) di beri kesemua matapelajaran dan berhantar berjemput.
Sedangkan aku kena tukar dua kali bas baru sampai tempat dituju. Ketika
ayah memasuki dewan mengambil keputusan percubaan SRP ayahku diberikan
standing ovation kerana anaknya bakal menggegarkan namasekolah. Ayahku
terpanar sehingga menitiskan air mata semasa menungguku pulang dari
sekolah.
Ibuku membungkam kerana adik dan abangku tidak setanding.Tetapi
aku tidak pernah mendabik dada. Sekali lagi aku berjaya memasuki
asrama penuh.
Kali ini aku bertekad untuk menjaga tatasusila. Alhamdulillah
aku berjaya juga melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negara. Seperti biasa aku
tetap inginkan bau ibu. Akan ku telefon ibu setiap kali menjelang
peperiksaan, minta halalkan makan minum, minta dia menyayangiku walaupun
jauuuh di sudut hatinya.
Aku menangis. Aku tahu dia pun begitu. Sekembaliku dari luar
negeri aku berkahwin. Bencinya padaku masih belum pudar. Aku ingat
lagi kata katanya semasa menghantar ku ke rumah besan, yang tidak
terungkap di sini.
Biarlah ia reput bersama kain kafanku namun tidak tergamak ku
ceritakan disini.
Semasa ibu nak ke Mekah aku berjengket jengket dari jauh
menghantar ibu dengan linangan air mata kerana ibu tidak mahu
mendakapku, di dalam hati, biarlah ibu selamat, jangan sampai ibuku
terjatuh atau dipijak oleh jemaah lain (ibu pergi ke sana dengan muhrim
lain kerana ayahku telah tiada).
Semasa ibu memasuki ruang legar, ibu terjatuh kerana orang
terlalu ramai berebut rebut sehinggalah aku mengangkat tangan di
tengah-
tengah orang ramai sambil berdoa "Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku aku tidak
redha ibuku disakiti oleh umat lain semasa dia hilang dari
pandanganku hinggalah ibuku selamat pulang"
"Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku, aku gadaikan segala penderitaanku semasa
di dalam jagaan ibu dengan kesenangannya menunaikan segala ibadah
tanpa ada cacat cela, Aku serahkan ibuku dalam jagaanMu . . .
panjang lagi doaku. Kalau tidak kerana anak anakku menangis mau
rasanya aku solat sunat di lapangan terbang itu bermunajat.
Alhamdulillah, sekembalinya ibu dari Mekah, aku yang ditujunya.
Diciumnya pipiku ibarat selapang padang pasir pipiku di cium dan
dicium.
Katanya beliau hanya teringatkan aku di setiap tempat suci.
ALHAMDULILLAH.
Hingga kini hubunganku dengan ibu tidak pernah terjejas.
Kadangkala itu terlepas jua namun tidak pernah aku kecil hati.
Ku jaga dengan penuh hati-hati. Ditambah lagi aku sudah punya
anak, ku jaga dan semai mereka dengan penuh kasih sayang, yang tiada
berbelah bagi. Kalau tajuk asalnya ibu pening dengan perangai
anak, kini aku nak menyeru anak yang berpandangan demikian terhadap ibu
yang mengandungkan selama 9 bulan , melahirkan kita dengan seribu satu
penyiksaan yang bersengkang mata ketika kita demam. Alahai, walau
didukung ibu dari sini ke kota Mekahpun belum tentu kita dapat membalas
jasa ibu . . .
Bertaubatlah. Sedarlah syurgamu di telapak kaki ibu . ... . Apa
yang ingin di kongsi bersama, setiap kali lepas solat berdoalah agar
kita dikurniakan hati yang bersih walaupun warna kulit kita
lebih gelap dari malam. Hati yang bersih akan terpancar di wajah.
Moga bermanfaat.
Kasihnya Anak
"Jangan kau sakit hati IBU AYAH, Jgn kecewakan mereka.. Kerdhaan
ALLAH x kan hadir tanpa keredhaan Kedua Ibubapa... Ya-ALLAh ampunilah
dosaku, Ibubapaku, adik beradik, kaum muslimin & muslimat & orang-orang
yang aku kasihi.. AMIIN YA Rab..."
Kepada yang bermasalah dengan ibu, baca pula cerita saya ini dan
bandingkan penderitaan kita serta layanan terhadap ibu kita. Saya
dilahirkan sebagai anak kedua dalam tiga orang cahaya mata
sepasang suami isteri ber'jenama'. Dilahirkan pada tahun 1968. Berkulit
hitam (ala anak mamak gitu). Kebetulan adikku juga perempuan yang
mempunyai kulit putih melepak. Seawal usia aku mengenal tanah aku telah
dibiarkan bermain di panas bertambah hitamlah kulitku dan bertambahlah
kebencian ibu.
Aku dibiarkan bermain dengan abang bersama kawan kawan lelakinya
yang lain sedangkan adikku duduk di rumah. Apabila bergaduh akulah
yang akan dibelasah teruk, tak cukup dengan caci maki. Hingga
kini bekas torehan pembaris yang patah di pipi kananku masih berparut.
Ketika tu aku pernah terfikir untuk lari kerana mengikut penilaian ku
sendiri aku ni anak pungut kerana perbezaan warna kulit membuatkan aku
dibenci oleh ibu. Sedih rasanya.
Ketika makan, aku hanya mendapat kulit ayam, daging yang sipi
sipi terlupa di kikis dari tulang, dan dicampakkan saja pinggan ketika
menjamu selera. Ketika mengadap rezeki hatiku sentiasa sebak.Hanya
hatiku menangis. Ada juga ketikanya aku menjamah nasi dengan berkuahkan
air mata. Tak payahlah diceritakan di sini kelak aku sendiri tidak tidur
lena apabila mengenangkan.
Semasa peperiksaan penilaian aku pergi tanpa menjamah apa apa
makanan dan aku hanya diberikan pensil dua batang, pemadam dan
pembaris, pun begitu sebaris gigiku yang cantik ku hadiahkan
untuk ibu demi mencium tangannya sebelum menduduki peperiksaan. Aku
berjaya menjadi antara 10 terbaik di sekolah. Aku berjaya ditempatkan di
asrama penuh. Tetapi disebabkan kenakalanku, aku dibuang. Menyesal betul
ketika tu. Aku kembali semula tinggal bersama ibu dan ayah. Semasa
tingkatan 3 aku hanya diberi tuisyen Matematik sahaja sedangkan adikku
(tingkatan satu) di beri kesemua matapelajaran dan berhantar berjemput.
Sedangkan aku kena tukar dua kali bas baru sampai tempat dituju. Ketika
ayah memasuki dewan mengambil keputusan percubaan SRP ayahku diberikan
standing ovation kerana anaknya bakal menggegarkan namasekolah. Ayahku
terpanar sehingga menitiskan air mata semasa menungguku pulang dari
sekolah.
Ibuku membungkam kerana adik dan abangku tidak setanding.Tetapi
aku tidak pernah mendabik dada. Sekali lagi aku berjaya memasuki
asrama penuh.
Kali ini aku bertekad untuk menjaga tatasusila. Alhamdulillah
aku berjaya juga melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negara. Seperti biasa aku
tetap inginkan bau ibu. Akan ku telefon ibu setiap kali menjelang
peperiksaan, minta halalkan makan minum, minta dia menyayangiku walaupun
jauuuh di sudut hatinya.
Aku menangis. Aku tahu dia pun begitu. Sekembaliku dari luar
negeri aku berkahwin. Bencinya padaku masih belum pudar. Aku ingat
lagi kata katanya semasa menghantar ku ke rumah besan, yang tidak
terungkap di sini.
Biarlah ia reput bersama kain kafanku namun tidak tergamak ku
ceritakan disini.
Semasa ibu nak ke Mekah aku berjengket jengket dari jauh
menghantar ibu dengan linangan air mata kerana ibu tidak mahu
mendakapku, di dalam hati, biarlah ibu selamat, jangan sampai ibuku
terjatuh atau dipijak oleh jemaah lain (ibu pergi ke sana dengan muhrim
lain kerana ayahku telah tiada).
Semasa ibu memasuki ruang legar, ibu terjatuh kerana orang
terlalu ramai berebut rebut sehinggalah aku mengangkat tangan di
tengah-
tengah orang ramai sambil berdoa "Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku aku tidak
redha ibuku disakiti oleh umat lain semasa dia hilang dari
pandanganku hinggalah ibuku selamat pulang"
"Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku, aku gadaikan segala penderitaanku semasa
di dalam jagaan ibu dengan kesenangannya menunaikan segala ibadah
tanpa ada cacat cela, Aku serahkan ibuku dalam jagaanMu . . .
panjang lagi doaku. Kalau tidak kerana anak anakku menangis mau
rasanya aku solat sunat di lapangan terbang itu bermunajat.
Alhamdulillah, sekembalinya ibu dari Mekah, aku yang ditujunya.
Diciumnya pipiku ibarat selapang padang pasir pipiku di cium dan
dicium.
Katanya beliau hanya teringatkan aku di setiap tempat suci.
ALHAMDULILLAH.
Hingga kini hubunganku dengan ibu tidak pernah terjejas.
Kadangkala itu terlepas jua namun tidak pernah aku kecil hati.
Ku jaga dengan penuh hati-hati. Ditambah lagi aku sudah punya
anak, ku jaga dan semai mereka dengan penuh kasih sayang, yang tiada
berbelah bagi. Kalau tajuk asalnya ibu pening dengan perangai
anak, kini aku nak menyeru anak yang berpandangan demikian terhadap ibu
yang mengandungkan selama 9 bulan , melahirkan kita dengan seribu satu
penyiksaan yang bersengkang mata ketika kita demam. Alahai, walau
didukung ibu dari sini ke kota Mekahpun belum tentu kita dapat membalas
jasa ibu . . .
Bertaubatlah. Sedarlah syurgamu di telapak kaki ibu . ... . Apa
yang ingin di kongsi bersama, setiap kali lepas solat berdoalah agar
kita dikurniakan hati yang bersih walaupun warna kulit kita
lebih gelap dari malam. Hati yang bersih akan terpancar di wajah.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Alhamdulillah Siaran Alternatif Anda WTV8 kini sudah kembali beroperasi sepenuhnya setelah terganggu buat sementara oleh serangan penyanggak siber yang bacul.
Ikuti siarannya di http://wtv8.tv/ atau http://wtv8.tv/v2
Sedang ditayangkan:
1. BERSIH serah memo Tragedi Batu Burok ke SUHAKAM
2. Tun Dr M dakwa BN sedang kumpula berbillion ringgit untuk pilihanraya
3. Shamsiah Fakeh: Pejuang Yang Dilupakan (ulangan)
dan banyak lagi.
Terus berikan sokongan anda dan hebahkannya kepada kawan-kawan.
Ikuti siarannya di http://wtv8.tv/ atau http://wtv8.tv/v2
Sedang ditayangkan:
1. BERSIH serah memo Tragedi Batu Burok ke SUHAKAM
2. Tun Dr M dakwa BN sedang kumpula berbillion ringgit untuk pilihanraya
3. Shamsiah Fakeh: Pejuang Yang Dilupakan (ulangan)
dan banyak lagi.
Terus berikan sokongan anda dan hebahkannya kepada kawan-kawan.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Tazkirah Dhuat
Assalamualaikum tuan-tuan yang mulia, semoga berada dalam keadaan beriman hendaknya.
Tuan-tuan yang saya muliakan,
Tahukah kalian bahawa majoriti kehancuran masyarakat di Malaysia adalah disebabkan UMNO?
Kita telah menyerahkan tampuk pemerintahan kepada yang bukan ahli.
Bagai tikus membaiki labu.
Ya, kita seharusnya memilih pemimpin yang BERIMAN.
Wahai tuan-tuan yang beriman, yang saya muliakan.
Saya pasti kalian sedia maklum bahawa islam itu merangkumi kehidupan, kita sebagai pentadbir alam dan menjaga agama.
Islamlah kehidupan kita, yang kaya dengan kepelbagaian.
Pusing-pusing kot manapun, islam mengguli segalanya.
Kitalah yang lemah, membiarkan maksiat berleluasa, mungkin juga melakukan maksiat bersama, seterusnya menjadikan yang baik-baik itu 'ghuroba'.
Kita menjadi semakin malu untuk melebarkan syiar islam apatah lagi untuk menegur adik muda yang kurang ajar di hadapan mata kita, beromen sewenangnya.
Tuan - tuan yang saya kasihi, walau siapapun kalian, nelayankah, petanikah, engineerkah, dalam ertikata ini, saya sanjung kalian selagi kalian menjaga iman, melakukan yang terdaya walaupun kecil untuk menterjemahkan juga nahi mungkar, disamping melakukan amal maaruf.
Tuan-tuan yang saya hormati sekalian,
Apakah bisa amal maaruf berdiri sendiri tanpa nahi mungkar?
Keduanya saling memerlukan.
Jauhi prejudis sesama kita.
Jauhi memandang enteng sesama kita.
Berkasih sayanglah dan saling hormat-menghormatilah.
Ayuh tuan-tuan sekalin, kita laksanakan 'kerja iman' agar masa depan generasi kita menjadi cerah dan menjadi generasi bertakwa.
Ahmad Dhuat.
p/s: Jangan lupa 'Extra' solat, 'Extra' AlQuran, 'Extra' doa di bulan berkat nanti.Orang beriman akan kuat berperang di bulan berkat.Tapi pada hemat saya, orang beriman akan 'RECHARGE' di bulan Ramadhan menantikan 'PERANG QUBRO' yang pasti datang dalam bulan mendatang.Bersiap siagalah iman tuan-tuan di bulan Ramadhan.
Assalamualaikum tuan-tuan yang mulia, semoga berada dalam keadaan beriman hendaknya.
Tuan-tuan yang saya muliakan,
Tahukah kalian bahawa majoriti kehancuran masyarakat di Malaysia adalah disebabkan UMNO?
Kita telah menyerahkan tampuk pemerintahan kepada yang bukan ahli.
Bagai tikus membaiki labu.
Ya, kita seharusnya memilih pemimpin yang BERIMAN.
Wahai tuan-tuan yang beriman, yang saya muliakan.
Saya pasti kalian sedia maklum bahawa islam itu merangkumi kehidupan, kita sebagai pentadbir alam dan menjaga agama.
Islamlah kehidupan kita, yang kaya dengan kepelbagaian.
Pusing-pusing kot manapun, islam mengguli segalanya.
Kitalah yang lemah, membiarkan maksiat berleluasa, mungkin juga melakukan maksiat bersama, seterusnya menjadikan yang baik-baik itu 'ghuroba'.
Kita menjadi semakin malu untuk melebarkan syiar islam apatah lagi untuk menegur adik muda yang kurang ajar di hadapan mata kita, beromen sewenangnya.
Tuan - tuan yang saya kasihi, walau siapapun kalian, nelayankah, petanikah, engineerkah, dalam ertikata ini, saya sanjung kalian selagi kalian menjaga iman, melakukan yang terdaya walaupun kecil untuk menterjemahkan juga nahi mungkar, disamping melakukan amal maaruf.
Tuan-tuan yang saya hormati sekalian,
Apakah bisa amal maaruf berdiri sendiri tanpa nahi mungkar?
Keduanya saling memerlukan.
Jauhi prejudis sesama kita.
Jauhi memandang enteng sesama kita.
Berkasih sayanglah dan saling hormat-menghormatilah.
Ayuh tuan-tuan sekalin, kita laksanakan 'kerja iman' agar masa depan generasi kita menjadi cerah dan menjadi generasi bertakwa.
Ahmad Dhuat.
p/s: Jangan lupa 'Extra' solat, 'Extra' AlQuran, 'Extra' doa di bulan berkat nanti.Orang beriman akan kuat berperang di bulan berkat.Tapi pada hemat saya, orang beriman akan 'RECHARGE' di bulan Ramadhan menantikan 'PERANG QUBRO' yang pasti datang dalam bulan mendatang.Bersiap siagalah iman tuan-tuan di bulan Ramadhan.
Monday, September 10, 2007
This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna
Quindlen at the graduation ceremony of an American university
where she was awarded an Honorary PhD.
"I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't
Ever confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here
this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be
hundreds of people out there with your same degree: there will be
thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will
be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your
particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your
life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your
mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank accounts but also
your soul.
People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier
to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is cold comfort on
a winter's night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've
received your test results and they're not so good.
Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried
never to let my work stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer
consider myself the centre of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to
laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage
vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends and they to me.
Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would
be a cardboard cut out. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for
lunch. I would be rotten, at best mediocre at my job if those other
things were not true.
You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are.
So here's what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a
manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger pay cheque, the larger
house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you
blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on
a breeze at the seaside, a life in which you stop and watch how a
red-tailed hawk circles over the water, or the way a baby scowls with
concentration when she tries to pick up a sweet with her thumb and first
finger.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love
you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the
phone. Send an email. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are
generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have
no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that
you want to spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beer and
give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister.
All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good too, then doing
well will never be enough.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes, the way
the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.
It is so easy to exist instead of to live.
I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the
destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today
is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the
world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it,
completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling
others what I had learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of
the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the back yard with
the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal
illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it
ought to be lived".
Quindlen at the graduation ceremony of an American university
where she was awarded an Honorary PhD.
"I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't
Ever confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here
this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be
hundreds of people out there with your same degree: there will be
thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will
be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your
particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your
life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your
mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank accounts but also
your soul.
People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier
to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is cold comfort on
a winter's night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've
received your test results and they're not so good.
Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried
never to let my work stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer
consider myself the centre of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to
laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage
vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends and they to me.
Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would
be a cardboard cut out. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for
lunch. I would be rotten, at best mediocre at my job if those other
things were not true.
You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are.
So here's what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a
manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger pay cheque, the larger
house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you
blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on
a breeze at the seaside, a life in which you stop and watch how a
red-tailed hawk circles over the water, or the way a baby scowls with
concentration when she tries to pick up a sweet with her thumb and first
finger.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love
you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the
phone. Send an email. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are
generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have
no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that
you want to spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beer and
give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister.
All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good too, then doing
well will never be enough.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes, the way
the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.
It is so easy to exist instead of to live.
I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the
destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today
is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the
world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it,
completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling
others what I had learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of
the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the back yard with
the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal
illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it
ought to be lived".
Tak sangka juga ya, akhirnya aku berjaya juga menjadi 'wedding singer'.
Sepupu (adik perempuan) saya bernikah semalam (Dija) dan saya mempersembahkan 2 lagu untuk beliau dan suaminya.
Antara lagunya adalah 'Hidup Pasti Melangkah' (new arrangement)-belum dirakamkan lagi.
Ini adalah kerana perjalanan beliau untuk menuju ke gerbang pernikahan banyak onak duri, gelora serta halangan.
Dija, abami berbangga dengan semangat kecekalan Dija, dan semoga berbahagia dunia akhirat.
HIDUP PASTI MELANGKAH
VERSE
ANDAI / TERLUKA-DITUSUK-SEMBILU
PANDANGLAH / PADA KATA-KATA
MENDUNG / TAK AKAN SELALU
MURUNG PASTI BERLALU...
DIBALIK / SURAM-KAMAR SEPI
RUPANYA / KASIH TERSEMBUNYI
BIAR-DIRI-DICEMUH /
GURIS-HATI-NAN LULUH /
YAKIN TAK AKAN BERUBAH...
CHORUS
INGIN-KUTINTA / LANGIT BIAR MEMUTIH
BASAH DI-DALAM / ZIKIR INSAN TERPILIH
KILAU AGUNG-MU / PASTI DI DALAM KALBU
TERUKIR-SALJU / RINDUKU...
TERASA-PIMPINANMU / SEPANJANG WAKTU
BERTAKHTA DI-NURANI / KEAGUNGAN-MU /
HIDUP PASTI-MELANGKAH / MENUJU RINDU /
DALAM-JANJI / YANG SATU...
Prosa:Cpol
Ritma:Ahmad
PUAS! (syok sendiri)
Menyanyi kat hotel mewah disertai 'sound system' nan hebat!.
Sepupu (adik perempuan) saya bernikah semalam (Dija) dan saya mempersembahkan 2 lagu untuk beliau dan suaminya.
Antara lagunya adalah 'Hidup Pasti Melangkah' (new arrangement)-belum dirakamkan lagi.
Ini adalah kerana perjalanan beliau untuk menuju ke gerbang pernikahan banyak onak duri, gelora serta halangan.
Dija, abami berbangga dengan semangat kecekalan Dija, dan semoga berbahagia dunia akhirat.
HIDUP PASTI MELANGKAH
VERSE
ANDAI / TERLUKA-DITUSUK-SEMBILU
PANDANGLAH / PADA KATA-KATA
MENDUNG / TAK AKAN SELALU
MURUNG PASTI BERLALU...
DIBALIK / SURAM-KAMAR SEPI
RUPANYA / KASIH TERSEMBUNYI
BIAR-DIRI-DICEMUH /
GURIS-HATI-NAN LULUH /
YAKIN TAK AKAN BERUBAH...
CHORUS
INGIN-KUTINTA / LANGIT BIAR MEMUTIH
BASAH DI-DALAM / ZIKIR INSAN TERPILIH
KILAU AGUNG-MU / PASTI DI DALAM KALBU
TERUKIR-SALJU / RINDUKU...
TERASA-PIMPINANMU / SEPANJANG WAKTU
BERTAKHTA DI-NURANI / KEAGUNGAN-MU /
HIDUP PASTI-MELANGKAH / MENUJU RINDU /
DALAM-JANJI / YANG SATU...
Prosa:Cpol
Ritma:Ahmad
PUAS! (syok sendiri)
Menyanyi kat hotel mewah disertai 'sound system' nan hebat!.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Siaran Ulangan
ADA APA DENGAN RAMADHAN? (2006)
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Rakaman Untuk Dunia - Ada Apa Dengan Ramadhan?
Player hanya dimainkan si situs ini sahaja.
Mengungkap perjalanan puasa oleh dua adik-beradik kecil (Harith dan Nurul).
Wawancara bersama guru sekolah rendah, mengenai puasa si adik-adik kecil.
Wawancara bersama tetangga di kejiranan mengenai perjalan ramadhan sewaktu mereka masih kecil.
Menampilkan lagu ngetop di tahun sudah.
Nak tahu? Dengarlah rancangan ini...
Nak downlaod pula audio ini? - sila ke http://dhuat.multiply.com/music/item/35
dan downloadlah Rakaman Untuk Dunia Siri ke 2 -Ada Apa Dengan Ramadhan?
Moga bermanfaat.
p/s:Terima Kasih atas sokongan sahabat Rakaman Dunia - Sahabat2 dari Malaysia,Indonesia,Timur Tengah,Australia-Melbourne,UK Ireland...
ADA APA DENGAN RAMADHAN? (2006)
powered by ODEO
Rakaman Untuk Dunia - Ada Apa Dengan Ramadhan?
Player hanya dimainkan si situs ini sahaja.
Mengungkap perjalanan puasa oleh dua adik-beradik kecil (Harith dan Nurul).
Wawancara bersama guru sekolah rendah, mengenai puasa si adik-adik kecil.
Wawancara bersama tetangga di kejiranan mengenai perjalan ramadhan sewaktu mereka masih kecil.
Menampilkan lagu ngetop di tahun sudah.
Nak tahu? Dengarlah rancangan ini...
Nak downlaod pula audio ini? - sila ke http://dhuat.multiply.com/music/item/35
dan downloadlah Rakaman Untuk Dunia Siri ke 2 -Ada Apa Dengan Ramadhan?
Moga bermanfaat.
p/s:Terima Kasih atas sokongan sahabat Rakaman Dunia - Sahabat2 dari Malaysia,Indonesia,Timur Tengah,Australia-Melbourne,UK Ireland...
Thursday, September 06, 2007


Yang ku takuti, akhirnya berlaku jua.
KASET HAMPIR PUPUS!
Semalam, berjalan di KLCC, kelmarin di Subang Parade, kaset audio tidak kutemui!
Kaset kosong juga sukar di dapati.
Buat makluman saudara Tawel khususnya,
saya benar benar menghargai keperihatinan anda tentang kaset ini.
Anda seorang sahaja yang komen perihal kaset ini.
Seikhlas hati saya, terima kasih saudara Tawel :)
Di era 80an, proses dubbing amat sinonim dengan masyarakat Malaysia di ketika itu.Kumpulan rock underground yang kian malayarkan sayapnya, menyebarkan demo-tape mereka melalui dubbing.
Begitu juga kaset-kaset ceramah, kaset-kaset nasyid di ketika itu.
Kaset Khomeini 1979 tak tercapai dek capaian saya untuk didubbingkan :)
Kaset, pada pengamatan saya, mempunyai 3 jenis yang umum iaitu, Normal(ferro) , type II(chrome,CrO2) dan metal.Saya sering menggunakan jenis chrome disebabkan kualiti rakamannya yang kurang bunyi bisaing dan kepekatan bunyi rakamannya berbanding jenis biasa.
Pada tahun 1997, sewaktu saya menziarah keluarga di Singapura, didapati di sana, tiada kaset musik dijual di kedai musik.Kebanyakannya adalah CD dan Minidisc.Sesetengah pendapat menyatakan bahawa apabila taraf hidup sesebuah masyarakat kian tinggi, masyarakat tersebut secara tidak langsung tidak lagi menggunakan format klasik seperti kaset.
Jikalau ini diambil kira, bermakna Malaysia telah mencapai kejayaan material sepertimana pencapaiaan Singapura di tahun 1997.
Hasil pembacaan internet sahaja meletakkan negara yang mundur dan membangun sahaja yang masih menggunakan kaset seperti Vietnam, India,Indonesia, Timur Tengah dan sebagainya.
KENAPA KASET?
Apabila kulihat rodanya berputar, seolah-olah ia bercakap denganku heh!
Kaset lebih 'jiwa' berbanding format digital.
Bayangkan anak muda sekarang ini, kurang bersabar dan cuma perlu skip untuk mendengar track pilihan dan mereka mungkin saja bisa mendownload segalanya(walau tidak disukai mereka) disebabkan kapasiti mp3 mereka yang berGIGA byte!
Untuk pengguna kaset pula, mereka perlu selektif dimana mereka hanya akan dubbing track yang benar-benar mencapai kepuasan hati mereka.
Apabila ini terjadi, maka tiadalah masalah untuk skip dan sebagainya kerana track lagu yang dipilih memanglah yang paling enak didengar.
Mereka bersabar dalam membuat senarai lagu yang akan didubbing dan mereka menghargai sendiri koleksi dubbing yang mereka lakukan dengan penuh sabar.
Realiti zaman sekarang ini, lebih meyakinkan untuk membuat format KASET dimana tiada lagi anasir dubbing ke atas karya asal saya dan juga kerana anak muda hari ini tidak tahu apakah itu dubbing, dan mereka cuma tahu cumalah multiply, encrypting, mp3ing.
Apakah mereka akan membeli kaset player di gedung raya hari ini semata-mata henda mendengar musik saya?
p/s:Anehnya, 'blank audio cassette' juga sukar didapati di gedungraya ketika ini.
Di Ireland gimana ya bro Tawel?
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
2 Kempen yang tertunda.
Kempen 1-mendengar kembali kuliah Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.
Sebenarnya, saya amat menghargai ilmu TGNAANM.
Oleh sebab itu jugalah, setelah beberapa kali dinasihati oleh Mok Usu saya, supaya mendengar, memahami dan menghayati menyebabkan
saya dan sahabat terpanggil untuk melancarkan kempen mendengar kuliah rakaman audio TGNAANM.
Kami akan mengumpulkan segala kuliah beliau didalam format mp3.
Mempergiatkan 'dubbing' kaset terpilih, kuliahnya dan diberikan secara percuma kepada umum.Atau juga menjualnya dengan harga kos tanpa untung.
Sebenarnya, saya agak sedih juga dengan kualiti rakaman TGNAANM, dan kalau diberi kesempatan, ingin juga saya sendiri turun padang dan mengajar orang di sana cara rakaman yang bersih dan betul.
Ini adalah kerana, kita akan terlalu penat nak 'struggle' untuk memahami butir kata TGNAANM dek rakaman yang ala kadar melepas batuk di tangga.
Bunyi bingit, angin menzahirkanpenat; penat bukan untuk menghadam ilmu tetapi penat untuk meneka apakah perkataan atau ayat yang diucapkan.Kualiti teruk bebenor.
Kesian orang banyak seperti saya yang begitu hampa.
(Bukannyo hambo dok pahe bahaso Kelate.)
Dubbing atas dubbing juga menyebabkan penurunan kualiti kaset.
Bayangkan 10 generasi dubbing.
Dubbing seharusnya darpada SATU master cassette sahaja.
Kempen 2 - Transcend
Tulisan/grafik/karya/audio/filem/animasi bloggers terpilih akan diterjemahkan formatnya daripada medium maya(virtual) ke medium realiti(objek yang boleh dipegang) untuk disebarluaskan kepada umum.
Formatnya adalah; tulisan, makalah atau grafik yang telah diprint, CD atau kaset yang telah diburnkan kuliah atau ceramah ilmiah.Begitu juga VCD atau DVD mengenai flem dakwah, majalah,animasi.
Download > burn > beri secara percuma kepada mad'u.
Bukan semua orang memiliki internet bukan?
Kempen perlu logokah? Perlu digazetkankah ?
Uhhh tipikalnya....
p/s:Jauhi daku dari berlaku RETORIK, amin.
p/s:Dah lama tak makan nasi paprik.
Kempen 1-mendengar kembali kuliah Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.
Sebenarnya, saya amat menghargai ilmu TGNAANM.
Oleh sebab itu jugalah, setelah beberapa kali dinasihati oleh Mok Usu saya, supaya mendengar, memahami dan menghayati menyebabkan
saya dan sahabat terpanggil untuk melancarkan kempen mendengar kuliah rakaman audio TGNAANM.
Kami akan mengumpulkan segala kuliah beliau didalam format mp3.
Mempergiatkan 'dubbing' kaset terpilih, kuliahnya dan diberikan secara percuma kepada umum.Atau juga menjualnya dengan harga kos tanpa untung.
Sebenarnya, saya agak sedih juga dengan kualiti rakaman TGNAANM, dan kalau diberi kesempatan, ingin juga saya sendiri turun padang dan mengajar orang di sana cara rakaman yang bersih dan betul.
Ini adalah kerana, kita akan terlalu penat nak 'struggle' untuk memahami butir kata TGNAANM dek rakaman yang ala kadar melepas batuk di tangga.
Bunyi bingit, angin menzahirkanpenat; penat bukan untuk menghadam ilmu tetapi penat untuk meneka apakah perkataan atau ayat yang diucapkan.Kualiti teruk bebenor.
Kesian orang banyak seperti saya yang begitu hampa.
(Bukannyo hambo dok pahe bahaso Kelate.)
Dubbing atas dubbing juga menyebabkan penurunan kualiti kaset.
Bayangkan 10 generasi dubbing.
Dubbing seharusnya darpada SATU master cassette sahaja.
Kempen 2 - Transcend
Tulisan/grafik/karya/audio/filem/animasi bloggers terpilih akan diterjemahkan formatnya daripada medium maya(virtual) ke medium realiti(objek yang boleh dipegang) untuk disebarluaskan kepada umum.
Formatnya adalah; tulisan, makalah atau grafik yang telah diprint, CD atau kaset yang telah diburnkan kuliah atau ceramah ilmiah.Begitu juga VCD atau DVD mengenai flem dakwah, majalah,animasi.
Download > burn > beri secara percuma kepada mad'u.
Bukan semua orang memiliki internet bukan?
Kempen perlu logokah? Perlu digazetkankah ?
Uhhh tipikalnya....
p/s:Jauhi daku dari berlaku RETORIK, amin.
p/s:Dah lama tak makan nasi paprik.

Compact Cassette
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. Although it was originally intended as a medium for dictation, improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications.[1] Its uses ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers. Between the 1960s and early 2000s, the cassette was one of the three most common formats for prerecorded music, alongside the LP and later the Compact Disc.[2] The word cassette is a French word meaning "little box."
Compact Cassettes consist of two miniature spools, between which a magnetic tape is passed and wound. These spools and their attendant parts are held inside a protective plastic shell. Two stereo pairs of tracks (four total) or two monaural audio tracks are available on the tape; one stereo pair or one monophonic track is played or recorded when the tape is moving in one direction and the second pair when moving in the other direction. This reversal is achieved either by manually flipping the cassette or by having the machine itself change the direction of tape movement ("auto-reverse").[3]
History
Philips introduced the compact audio cassette medium for audio storage in Europe in 1963, and in the United States in 1964, under the trademark name Compact Cassette. Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems at the time, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips's decision (in the face of pressure from Sony) to license the format free of charge. It went on to become a popular (and re-recordable) alternative to the turntable for LP records during the 1970s.[2]
Introduction of music cassettes
The mass production of compact audio cassettes began in 1964 in Hanover, Germany. Prerecorded music cassettes (also known as Musicassettes; M.C. for short) were launched in Europe in late 1965. The Mercury Record Company, a U.S. affiliate of Philips, introduced M.C to the U.S. in September 1966. The initial offering consisted of 49 titles.[4]
However, the system had been initially designed for dictation and portable use, with the audio quality of early players not well suited for music. Some early models also had unreliable mechanical design. In 1971 the Advent Corporation introduced their Model 201 tape deck that combined Dolby type B noise reduction and chromium dioxide (CrO2) tape. This resulted in the format being taken more seriously for musical use, and started the era of high-fidelity cassettes and players.[1]
1979 Sony Walkman
During the 1980s, the cassette's popularity grew further as a result of portable pocket recorders and hi-fi players such as Sony's Walkman, which used a body not much larger than the cassette tape itself, with mechanical keys on one side, or electronic buttons or display on the face. Some would partially collapse if they were not actually holding a cassette. As the transistor radio defined small music in the 1960s, the portable CD player in the 1990s, and the MP3 player in the 2000s, so did the Walkman define very small portable music in the 1980s, with cassette sales overtaking those of LPs.[5][2] Total vinyl record sales remained higher well into the 1980s due to greater sales of singles, although cassette singles achieved popularity for a period in the 1990s.[5]
Apart from the purely technical advances cassettes brought, they also served as catalysts for social change. Their durability and ease of copying helped bring underground rock and punk music behind the Iron Curtain, creating a foothold for Western culture among the younger generations.[6] For similar reasons, cassettes became popular in developing nations.
One of the most famous political uses of cassette tapes was the dissemination of sermons by the Ayatollah Khomeini throughout Iran before the 1979 Iranian revolution, in which Khomenei urged the overthrow of the regime of the Shah.
In 1970s India, they were blamed for bringing unwanted secular influences into traditionally religious areas. Cassette technology created a booming market for pop music in India, drawing criticism from conservatives while at the same time creating a huge market for legitimate recording companies and pirated tapes.[7] In some countries, particularly in the Third World, cassettes still remain the dominant medium for purchasing and listening to music.[8]
Decline
In many Western countries, the market for cassettes has declined sharply since its peak in the late 1980s. This has been particularly noticeable with pre-recorded cassettes, whose sales were overtaken by those of CDs during the early 1990s. By 1993, annual shipments of CD players had reached 5 million, up 21% from the year before, while cassette player shipments had dropped 7% to approximately 3.4 million.[9] The decline continued such that in 2001 cassettes accounted for only 4% of all music sold in the United States.[10] Since then, the pre-recorded market has undergone further decline, with few retailers stocking them because they are no longer issued by the major music labels.[8] Sales of music cassettes in the U.S. dropped from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 in 2006. [11] However, as of mid-2007, blank cassettes are still being produced and are sold at many retail stores, and facilities for cassette duplication remain available. Cassette recorders and players are gradually becoming more scarce, but are still widely available and still feature in a notable percentage of Hi-Fi systems.[12]
Cassettes remained popular for specific applications, such as car audio, well into the 1990s. Cassettes and their players were typically more rugged and resistant to dust, heat and shocks than the main digital competitor (the CD). Their lower fidelity was not considered a serious drawback inside the typically noisy automobile interior of the time. However, the advent of "shock proof" buffering technology in CD players, the reduction in in-car noise levels and the general heightening of consumer expectations meant that by the late 1990s, the CD had replaced the cassette as the default audio component in the majority of Western vehicles.
While digital voice recorders are now common, Compact Cassette (or frequently microcassette) recorders tend to be cheaper and of sufficient quality to serve as adjuncts or substitutes for note taking in business and educational settings. Audiobooks, church services, and other spoken word material are still frequently sold on cassette, as lower fidelity is generally not a drawback for such content. While most publishers sell CD audiobooks, they usually also offer a cassette version at a lower price. In the audiobooks application, where recordings may span several hours, cassettes also have the advantage of holding up to 120 minutes of material whereas the average CD holds less than 80.[12]
While cassettes and related equipment have become increasingly marginal in commercial music sales, recording on analog tape remains a desirable option for some. In 2002, Imation received an US$11.9 million grant from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology for research into increasing the data capacity of magnetic tape.[13] Some musicians still prefer to record their masters on magnetic tape for artistic reasons, and some consumers prefer to buy cassettes for the perceived richness of analog sound.[12][14]
Steve Oliver, presenter of 'The Pod' podcasts has attempted to revive the cassette to match the revival of vinyl records. He wrote a blog on his myspace entitled 'C30 C60 C90 Go!' calling for it's greater use. Another stunt was posting a tape of previous podcasts to the first ten people who contact him.
Features of the cassette
The cassette was a great step forward in convenience from reel-to-reel audio tape recording, though because of the limitations of the cassette's size and speed, it initially compared poorly in quality. Unlike the 4-track stereo open reel format, the two stereo tracks of each side lie adjacent to each other rather than being interleaved with the tracks of the other side. This permitted monaural cassette players to play stereo recordings "summed" as mono tracks and permitted stereo players to play mono recordings through both speakers. The tape is 3.81 mm (or 0.150 in.) wide, with each stereo track 0.6 mm wide and an unrecorded guard band between each track. The tape moves at 4.76 cm/s (1 7/8 in/s) from left to right.[15] For comparison, the typical open reel format in consumer use was ¼ inch (6.35 mm) wide, each stereo track nominally 1⁄16 inch (1.59 mm) wide, and running at either 3¾ or 7½ inches per second (9.5 or 19 cm/s).
Cassette types
The original magnetic material was based on gamma ferric oxide (Fe2O3). Circa 1970, 3M Company developed a cobalt volume-doping process combined with a double-coating technique to enhance overall tape output levels. This product was marketed as "High Energy" under its Scotch brand of recording tapes.[16] Inexpensive cassettes are commonly labeled "low-noise", but typically are not optimized for high frequency response.
At about the same time chromium dioxide (CrO2) was introduced by BASF,[17] and then coatings using magnetite (Fe3O4) such as TDK's Audua were produced in an attempt to approach the sound quality of vinyl records. Cobalt-adsorbed iron oxide (Avilyn) was introduced by TDK in 1974 and proved very successful. Finally pure metal particles (as opposed to oxide formulations) were introduced in 1979 by 3M under the trade name Metafine. The tape coating on most Cassettes sold today as either "Normal" or "Chrome" consists of Ferric Oxide and Cobalt mixed in varying ratios (and using various processes); there are very few cassettes on the market that use a pure (CrO2) coating.[2]
Simple voice recorders are designed to work with standard ferric formulations. High fidelity tape decks are usually built with switches or detectors for the different bias and equalization requirements for high performance tapes. The most common, iron oxide tapes (defined by an IEC standard as "Type I"), use 120 µs playback equalization, while chrome and cobalt-absorbed tapes (IEC Type II) require 70 µs playback equalization. The recording "bias" equalizations were also different (and had a much longer time constant). Sony tried a dual layer tape with both ferric oxide and chrome dioxide known as 'ferrichrome' (FeCr) (IEC Type III) but these were only available for a short time in the 1970s. Metal Cassettes (IEC Type IV), also use 70 µs playback equalization, and provide still further improvements in sound quality, as well as improved resistance to wear.[16] The quality is normally reflected in the price; Type I cassettes are generally cheapest, and Type IV usually the most expensive. BASF developed a chrome cassette designed for use with 120 µs (type I) playback equalization but this idea only caught on for commercially pre-recorded cassettes.[2]
Notches on top of the cassette shell indicate the type of tape within. Type I cassettes only have write-protect notches, Type II have an additional pair next to the write protection ones, and Type IV (metal) have a third set in the middle of the cassette shell. These allow cassette decks to automatically detect the tape type and select the proper bias and equalization. Many inexpensive models (and the majority of those manufactured recently) may lack this feature. Playback of Type II and IV tapes on such a player will produce exaggerated treble, but it may not be noticeable because typically such devices have amplifiers that lack extended high frequency output. Recording on these units however results in very low sound reproduction and sometimes distortion and hiss is heard. Also, these cheaper units cannot erase high bias or metal bias tapes. Attempting to do so will result in "print through".
Playback length
Cassettes of varying tape quality and playing time
Tape length is usually measured in minutes of total playing time. The most popular varieties are C46 (23 minutes per side), C60 (30 minutes per side), C90, and C120. The C46 and C60 lengths are typically 15–16 µm thick, but C90s are 10–11 µm and C120s are just 9 µm thick, rendering them more susceptible to stretching or breakage. Some vendors are more generous than others, providing 132 meters or 135 meters rather than 129 meters of tape for a C90 cassette. C180 and even C240 tapes were available at one time, but these were extremely thin and fragile and suffered badly from effects such as print-through, which made them unsuitable for general use. Other lengths are (or were) also available from some vendors, including C10 and C15 (useful for saving data from early home computers), C30, C50, C54, C64, C70, C74, C80, C84, C100, C105, and C110.[16]
Some companies included a complimentary blank cassette with their portable cassette recorders in the early 1980s. Panasonic's was a C14 and came with a song recorded on side one, and a blank side two. Except for C74 and C100, such non-standard lengths have always been hard to find, and tend to be more expensive than the more popular lengths. Home taping enthusiasts may have found them useful for fitting an album neatly on one or both sides of a tape. For instance, the initial maximum playback time of Compact Discs was 74 minutes, explaining the relative popularity of C74 cassettes.
Inside a cassette. "Supply reel" and "takeup reel" are from the point of view of the player looking at the back of the cassette: when viewed from the front of the machine, the tape "plays" from left to right (though of course an auto-reverse deck can play in either direction). The tape is pressed into close contact with the head by the pressure pad; guide rollers help keep the tape in the correct position. Smooth running is assisted by a slippery liner between the spools and the shell; here the liner is transparent. The magnetic shield reduces pickup of stray signals by the heads of the player.
Write-protection
All cassettes include a write protection mechanism to prevent re-recording and accidental erasure of important material. Each side of the cassette has a plastic tab on the top that may be broken off, leaving a small indentation in the shell. This indentation allows the entry of a sensing lever that prevents the operation of the recording function when the cassette is inserted into a cassette deck. If the cassette is held with one of the labels facing the user and the tape opening at the bottom, the write-protect tab for the corresponding side is at the top-left.
If later required, a piece of adhesive tape can be placed over the indentation to bypass the protection, or (on some decks), the lever can be manually depressed to record on a protected tape. Extra care is required to avoid covering the additional indents on high bias tape cassettes adjacent to the write-protect tabs.
Cassette players and recorders
The first cassette machines were simple mono record and playback units. Early machines required attaching an external dynamic microphone. Most units after the 1970s also incorporated built-in condenser microphones, which have extended high frequency response, but may also pick up noises from the recorder motor. A common portable recorder format still common today is a long box, the width of a cassette, with a speaker at the top, a cassette bay in the middle, and "piano key" controls at the bottom edge. The markings of "piano key" controls near the handle were soon standardized and this legacy still emulated on many software control panels, though many DVD panels have eliminated the fast forward and rewind buttons in favor of next and previous tracks, which are only implemented on machines which have logic to search for blank spots in the tape. These symbols are commonly the square for stop, right pointing triangle for play, double triangles for fast forward and rewind, red dot for record, and the pause button. Another format is only slightly larger than the cassette, also adapted for stereo "Walkman" player applications.
Main article: Cassette deck
A typical portable desktop cassette recorder from RadioShack.
Stereo recorders eventually evolved into high fidelity and were known as "cassette decks", after the reel-to-reel "decks". Many formats of cassette players and recorders have evolved over the years. Initially all were top loading, usually with cassette on one side, VU meters and recording level controls on the other side. Older models used combinations of levers and sliding buttons for control.
Nakamichi RX-505 audio cassette deck
A major innovation was the front-loading arrangement. Pioneer's angled cassette bay and the exposed bays of some Sansui models were eventually standardized as a front-loading door into which a cassette would be loaded. Later models would adopt electronic buttons, and replace conventional meters (which could be "pegged" when overloaded) with electronic LED or vacuum fluorescent displays, with level controls typically either being controlled by rotary controls or side-by-side sliders. BIC briefly offered models which could be run at double speeds, but Nakamichi was widely recognized as one of the first companies to create decks which rivaled reel-to-reel decks with frequency response from the full 20–20,000 Hz range, low noise, and very low wow and flutter.[18][19] The 3 headed closed-loop dual capstan Nakamichi 1000 (1973) is considered to be the first truly Audiophile High Fidelity Cassette Deck ever made. Unlike typical cassette decks, the recording and playback functions were split onto separate heads (with the third head being the erase head), allowing each to be optimized.
As they became aimed at more casual users, fewer decks had microphone inputs. Dual decks became popular and incorporated into home entertainment systems of all sizes for tape dubbing. Although the quality would suffer each time a source was copied, there are no mechanical restrictions on copying from a record, radio, or another cassette source. Even as CD recorders are becoming more popular, some incorporate cassette decks for professional applications.
An assortment of boomboxes
Another format that made an impact on culture in the 1980s was the "boom box" which combined the portable cassette deck with speakers capable of producing significant sound levels. The boom box became synonymous with urban youth culture in entertainment, which led to the somewhat derisive nickname "ghetto blaster".
Applications for car stereos varied widely. Auto manufacturers in the U.S. would typically fit a cassette slot into their standard large radio faceplates. Europe and Asia would standardize on DIN and double DIN sized faceplates. In the 1980s, a high end installation would have a Dolby AM/FM cassette deck, and they rendered the 8-track cartridge obsolete in car installations because of space, performance and audio quality. As the cost of building CD players declined, many manufacturers offered a CD player, but some cars, especially those targeted at older drivers still offer the option of a cassette player, either by itself, or sometimes in combination with a CD slot. The newest cars often are not designed to accommodate any cassette drive, but the auxiliary jack advertised for MP3 players can also be used with portable cassette players.
A head cleaning cassette
Although the cassettes themselves were relatively durable, the players required regular maintenance to perform properly. Head cleaning may be done with long swabs, or cassette-shaped devices that could be inserted into a tape deck to polish the heads and remove smudges and dirt. Similarly shaped demagnetizers used magnets to degauss the deck, which kept sound from becoming distorted. A common mechanical problem occurred when a worn-out or dirty player rotated the supply spool faster than the take-up spool or failed to release the heads from the tape upon ejection. This would cause the magnetic tape to be fed out through the bottom of the cassette and become tangled in the mechanism of the player. In these cases the player was said to have "eaten" the tape, and it often destroyed the playability of the cassette altogether, and resulted in the common sight of tangled tape on the side of the road.[20] Cutting blocks, analogous to those used for open reel 1/4" tape, were readily available though, but mainly used for retrieving valued recordings, through removing the damaged portion of, or repairing the break in, the tape. Creation of compilations was usually by re-recording rather than splicing sections of songs because of the much smaller tape area.
Audio
The Compact Cassette was originally intended for use in dictation machines. In this capacity, some later-model cassette-based dictation machines could also run the tape at half speed (15⁄16 in/s) as playback quality was not critical. The Compact Cassette soon became a popular medium for distributing prerecorded music—initially through The Philips Record Company (and subsidiary labels Mercury and Philips in the U.S.). As of 2006, one finds cassettes used for a variety of purposes such as journalism, oral history, meeting and interview transcripts and so on. However, they are starting to give way to Compact Discs and more "compact" storage media.
Home studio
In the 1980s, Tascam introduced the Portastudio line of four and eight-track cassette recorders for home studio use.
In the simplest configuration, rather than playing a pair of stereo channels of each side of the cassette, the typical "portastudio" used a four-track tape head assembly to access four tracks on the cassette at once (with the tape playing in one direction). Each track could be recorded to, erased or played back individually, allowing amateur musicians (and some professionals) to overdub themselves and create simple multitrack recordings easily, which could then be mixed down to a finished stereo version on an external machine. To increase audio quality in these recorders, the tape speed is sometimes doubled in comparison to the standard; additionally, dbx, Dolby B or Dolby C noise reduction provides compansion (compression of the signal during recording and equal & opposite expansion of the signal during playback), which yields increased dynamic range by lowering the noise level and increasing the maximum signal level before distortion occurs. Multi-track cassette recorders with built-in mixer and signal routing features provide a wide range of features and benefits from easy-to-use beginner units up to professional level recording systems.[21]
Although professional musicians typically only used multitrack cassette machines as "sketchpads", an exception is Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" which was recorded entirely on a Portastudio.
Home dubbing
Home Taping is Killing Music. (And It's Illegal)
Most cassettes were sold blank and used for recording (dubbing) the owner's records (as backup or to make mixtape compilations), their friends' records or music from the radio. This practice was condemned by the music industry with such slogans as "Home Taping is Killing Music". However, many claimed that the medium was ideal for spreading new music and would increase sales, and strongly defended at least their right to copy their own records onto tape. For a limited time in the early 1980s Island Records sold chromium dioxide “One Plus One” cassettes that had an album prerecorded on one side and the other was left blank for the purchaser to use. Cassettes were also a boon to people wishing to tape concerts (unauthorized or authorized) for sale or trade, a practice tacitly or overtly encouraged by many bands with a more counterculture bent such as the Grateful Dead. Blank Compact Cassettes also were an invaluable tool to spread the music of unsigned acts, especially within Tape trading networks.
Various legal cases arose surrounding the dubbing of cassettes. In the UK, in the case of CBS Songs v. Amstrad (1988), the House of Lords found in favor of Amstrad that producing equipment that facilitated the dubbing of cassettes, in this case a high-speed twin cassette deck that allowed one cassette to be copied directly onto another, did not constitute the infringement of copyright.[22] In a similar case, a shop owner who rented cassettes and sold blank tapes was not liable for copyright infringement even though it was clear that his customers were likely dubbing them at home.[23] In both cases, the courts held that manufacturers and retailers could not be held accountable for the actions of consumers.
As an alternative to home dubbing, in the late 1980s, the Personics company installed booths in record stores across America which allowed customers to make personalised mixtapes from a digitally-encoded back-catalogue with customised printed covers.
Successors
A Compact Cassette and a microcassette
Technical development of the cassette effectively ceased when digital recordable media such as DAT and MiniDisc were introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Anticipating the switch from analog to digital, major companies such as Sony shifted their focus to new media.[24] In 1992, Philips introduced the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), a DAT-like tape in the same form factor as the compact audio cassette. It was aimed primarily at the consumer market. A DCC deck could play back both types of cassettes. Unlike DAT, which was accepted in professional usage because it could record without lossy compression effects, DCC failed in both home and mobile environments, and was discontinued in 1996.[25]
The microcassette has in many cases supplanted the full-sized audio cassette in situations where voice-level fidelity is all that is required, such as in dictation machines and answering machines. Even these, in turn, are starting to give way to digital recorders of various descriptions.[26] Since the rise of cheap CD-R discs, and flash memory-based digital audio players, the phenomenon of "home taping" has effectively switched to recording to Compact Disc or downloading from commercial or music sharing websites.[27]
Because of consumer demand, the cassette has remained influential on design over a decade after its decline as a media mainstay. As the Compact Disc grew in popularity, cassette-shaped audio adapters were developed to provide an economical and clear way to obtain CD functionality in vehicles equipped with cassette decks. A portable CD player would have its analog line-out connected to the adapter, which in turn fed the signal to the head of the cassette deck. These adapters continue to function with MP3 players as well, and are generally more reliable than the FM transmitters that must be used to adapt CD players to MP3s. MP3 players shaped as audio cassettes have also become available, which can be inserted into any tape player and communicate with the head as if they were normal cassettes.[28][29]
Repair
Cassettes contain moving parts such as rollers which can become worn, leading to jamming or breakage of the magnetic tape itself. This need not spell the end of a valuable recording: one can extract the tape from the shell of its cartridge and transplant it into a new cartridge. "Eaten" tapes as described above can in many cases also be rescued after running the tapes' back side over a rounded surface such as a pen to re-flatten it as best as possible. A crude repair can even be performed on a severed tape by carefully aligning and reattaching the strand ends against a backing of special mylar splicing tape (normal adhesive tape should never be used on audio recording tape because the adhesive will "bleed" over time), then trimming excess on either side with scissors or a precision knife, enabling a basic playback such as for dubbing out to another recording device.
Better-made compact cassettes are held together by a number of screws, so that they may be disassembled and reassembled. It may be helpful to practice the procedure on blank cassettes first. Care should be taken to ensure that the tape follows the correct path through the cassette before reassembly, and that all of the small parts are in their proper places. If the original, worn cassette is glued together instead of held together by screws, it can be cracked progressively open by inserting a thin blade of metal (such as a screwdriver or knife blade) in the seam between the halves of the cassette shell, while exercising care not to gouge or damage the reels.
The spools upon which the tape is wound are often slotted so that the end of the tape may be freed from one spool and secured to a new spool.
Two other common problems with cassette tapes are: 1) the tape winds unevenly inside the plastic case over time which gives rise to jamming during playback or rewinding, and 2) the felt pressure pad that contacts the magnetic tape eventually falls off. Two solutions: 1) slap the cassette on a flat surface several times and then rewind the tape all the way through without pause (this may have to be tried several times). 2) replace the part composed of the copper and felt pressure pad unit from an unused cassette tape.
Cassette Culture
Cassette culture was in part an offshoot of the mail art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In both the United States and the United Kingdom it owed a lot to the DIY ethic of punk. In the UK cassette culture was at its peak in what is known as the post-punk period, 1978–1984; in the US activity extended through the late 80s and into the 90s. It was largely postal-based (though there were a few retail outlets, such as Rough Trade in the UK) with the artists selling or more likely exchanging music on compact audio cassettes via a loose network of other artists and fanzine readers.
Several factors made the "cassette" boom occur. Obviously the recording format of the cassette tape was important. However, it was the fact that bands did not need to go into expensive recording studios any more. Multi-track recording equipment was becoming affordable, portable and of fairly high quality during the early 1980s. For example, one could purchase a "four track" cassette recorder and get a reasonable sound at home.
Therefore, due to inexpensive (or less expensive) recording and the ease of duplicating tape there was an increase of recording artists. Add to this the fact that college radio was coming into its own. For many years there were college radio stations but they had a new found freedom and power. With the influx of new music from sources other than the major record companies and a quasi-major medium of college radio to lend support the boom was on.
On the heels of the punk/DIY movement of the 70's and the stale, over produced, over hyped stars of the 80's it seems there needed to be another outlet for artists. MTV brought the videos and along with that was another layer of "professionalism" that gave us big hair and over produced sounds. The cassette culture was an answer to this.
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