Dude, I wanna say in like, 2003, I was recording bands to cassette in my parents basement on a tascam portastudio. It was a decent one, with nice meters, and faders. I think it had 8 inputs, obviously mixed down to 4 tracks. It was a blast. I've been meaning to get a newer model portastudio. Lots of people still actually use them. Off the top of my head, Alessandro Cortini was using cassettes live with Nine Inch Nails like, a couple years ago. He'd have loops recorded to each track, and use the faders to bring in the parts.

Just starting to listen to your tracks, sounds hilarious.