Lou Ottens Dies: Cassette Tape Inventor Who Later Helped Develop CDs Was 94

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Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94.

Chris Willman Music WriterLou Ottens, an engineer who invited the concept of the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, died Saturday at 94, according to news reports from the Netherlands.Ottens was working for Philips when he company unveiled cassettes at a 1963 radio exhibition in Berlin. Prior to the cassette, audio enthusiasts looking for portability had to rely on much bulkier recorders and players; there was never such a thing as a reel-to-reel Walkman for a reason.“It was a big surprise for the market,” Ottens, then 87, said in a 2013 Time magazine story that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the medium being introduced.

Lou Ottens was a Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape, one of the most popular music formats of the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s.Ottens was working for Royal Philips in the 1960s, when the primary formats for recordings were vinyl records and reel-to-reel tapes. Both were clunky and not easily portable, though the reel-to-reel had the advantage of being recordable and rerecordable, not just for playback.

WTOP News.A Dutch engineer, Ottens began working for Netherlands-based electronics company Royal Philips in his early 20s. In 1960, after eight years at the company he’d risen to be head of product development, Dutch News reported.Within a year in the role, he and his team had created the world’s first portable tape recorder, an invention which would revolutionize the music industry go on to sell over a million units.

it was revealed that cassette sales more than doubled in the UK in 2020.The British Phonographic Industry estimated that 157,000 tapes were sold in the UK by the end of 2020, despite two national coronavirus lockdowns.