Memory Cassette

With a dreamy, cosmic sound, Memory Cassette makes lush neo-disco music that is cinematic, but also danceable. In early 2009, after leaving his position as the former frontman for Philadelphia indie rockers Hail Social, Dayve Hawk leaked a flurry of singles under three similar aliases: Weird Tapes, Memory Tapes, and Memory Cassette, the last being a name designated to his more delicate-sounding work. Because Hawk's identity was unknown when Memory Cassette's first EPs were initially made available on the web, bloggers began speculating about the person behind the curtain. Some...