This gorgeous Dark Side of the Moon portable tape player will make you believe that the cassette revival is no nonsense after all, especially since it comes with a new remastered tape of the album.

We Are Rewind’s WE-001 Tape Player Gets Limited Edition The Dark Side of the Moon with Custom Design
Includes the first tape version of the remastered 50th anniversary edition of the album in the box.
Available today for $199 / £159 (about US$310)

Every once in a while, I get an email about products and a product launch that really makes me go “Damn!” aloud. And seeing the first images of the new version of their We Are Rewind cassette player decked out in Pink Floyd colors was one of those occasions.

The limited edition ‘Pink Floyd The dark side of the moon images on the front (with a Pink Floyd logo on the back), but also comes with a certificate and a tape version Dark Side in the box.

(Image credit: We’re rewinding)

The cassette is especially interesting, because it is the first time that the 50th anniversary remastering of the album is available on tape, and it may well be the only time.

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The Pink Floyd x We Are Rewind cassette player and its packaging, showing the box containing the player, album cassette and certificate. — (Image credit: We’re rewinding)

Nick Mason of Pink Floyd joked: “I still have my Nakamichi on the shelf and I hope to try it with the new one The dark side of the moon cassette. Am I right in assuming that the next big problem will be The dark side of the moon In a large package consisting of the album divided into 78 RPM records?”

I already have a WE-001 on the shelf at home, next to my amplifier, and I still find myself extremely I’m tempted to pick up this new version anyway.

The back of the Pink Floyd x We Are Rewind cassette player, showing the Pink Floyd logo.

(Image credit: We’re rewinding)

The WE-001 player is a modernized tape player, with an attractive aluminum design and Bluetooth 5.1 compatibility, as well as an audio jack for wired headphones. A statement from We Are Rewind says there’s a “unique headphone amp designed with cassette playback in mind,” and I have to say it sounds good, although if you choose old tapes the quality may vary depending more on the tape than what’s inside the player.

Even nicer is that if you want to get back into mixtape culture (and I do! I wrote about wishing streaming services would offer more options around this in playlists), there’s a line-in, so you can record to tape from another player.

But my desire for this version isn’t really about anything the player can do or how it sounds. I just want that thing on my shelf.

The Pink Floyd x We Are Rewind cassette player featuring the Dark Side of the Moon album logo on the front, with a triangular window where the prism would be.

(Image credit: We’re rewinding)

If you feel the same way, it’s available to buy now (while it lasts) for $199 / £159 (around US$310). The non-Floyd version of the WE-001 costs $159 / £129 / AU$269.

If progressive rock isn’t your thing, you might also be drawn to another special edition of We Are Rewind featuring quite a different look: the jewel-encrusted Duran Duran version.

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