January 2012
M. Nomized has been doing electronic music home recording for 3 decades. Known also as Michel Midrange, born in Paris in 1956. Musician, composer, author, singer, poet and graphic designer started 75 with contemporary music and sound research. Info and music here
Complete catalog of free downloadable albums from drone and minimalist specialists, Earth Mantra. Drone On
Nostalgie de la boue blog features lots of experimental tapes such as BCO and more. Blog You
Ninah Pixie of Big City Orchestra and the UBradio Salon produced a two hour audio special on Women Of The Underground. Go get it here
Extensive blog of underground German tapes from the 80s and more. Sehr gut
Bleak offers downloads of underground sounds by Whitehouse, Dust Orchestra, special compilations and more. Go Bleak
Otherzine describes itself “:OTHERZINE 21’s content hovers between at least two poles of eclectic artistic endeavor. On the one hand, writings from the cinematic end, and on the other, expressions of the city as can only be found in history, or in spaces of human imagination.” Good job
Grounded Mag features writing, music and art. Nice web resource
Jeff Surak’s Zeromoon label doles out many fine experimental releases and also offers some free downloads
Australian band, Vocabularinist delivers some garage rocking on this youtube piece
Anybody’s Guess is an eclectic program of spoken word, sounds, noises and music. I even have a couple of songs on Vol. 40. Program archives
Complex Silence is a drone series archived for your listening pleasure
Russia’s Full Of Queers describes itself as such “:the artists contributing to this collection wish to protest the proposed law outlawing the discussion of homosexuality and transgenderism in russia “. Check it out
New album from DJ urinal Cake and myself ( Don Campau) called “Soap & Salt. Free download/streaming
In 1996, Dave Fuglewicz and Dick Metcalf ( aka Rotcod Zzajk) released an album called “Journey To Reality”. For your listening pleasure
Holy Page is the label of Christian Filardo. Free downloads and info on current tape releases. Good stuff
Vuzh Music is run by long time music maker, C. Reider. His blog has interesting writing and music resources. Vuzh Music
The Misterio Impossivel blog features lots of bizarre underground music from the heyday of the cassette era. dark and eerie
Musician and DJ, Dave Mandl has archived his great cassette by The Tone Poets from 1986 called “Treble”. A real classic of home recording
Michael J. Bowman presents a neat video about creating his unique art works.
You tube video featuring many brand of tapes going through the tape head.
Enlightening interview of Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven about home recording, distribution and the frustrations of indie music making.
Steve Albini’s infamous article about indie musicians getting screwed.
Reddit is some kind of cassette culture resource for materials, collaboration and more.
Seattle area artist Neil Campau ( no known relation) has set up a web site for the traveling musician to use as a resource. Really good idea
Another article heralding the return of the cassette. This time in The Wall Street Journal
Кассетная Культура is a super underground Russian site. Very cool
Winfried Pickart of the German tape label, Weed Music, recently passed away leaving a legacy of many fine tapes
Free album download of the duet I have with Russell Leach, inside/outside, a project that uses percussion and electronics. It’s yours to have
Screwtape is the long time noise project of Australia’s Andrew McIntosh. He is serving up tons of free music here
Free download of improvising group, PaperBag, here
Russ Stedman interviews home taping legend, Dino DiMuro for autoreverse
Russ Stedman has also put together his own youtube channel featuring music and various moments from his life.
Russ has also put together a site devoted to the unreleased recordings of the late Scott Johnson, aka Love, Calvin
All sorts of cool stuff at the blog called, K7 Heaven
Indie Music Daily is a place where you can get your music reviewed.
“Deutsche Kassettentäter. The rise of the German homerecording tape scene, part #1″, a podcast by Felix Kubin. Best of Tonspur Tapes
Interview with Argentine guitarist and no input mixing artist, Federico Barabino
WFMU DJ Brian Turner offers ha show about cassette culture as a download. Some excellent rare material
Interview with yours truly, Don Campau, with autoreverse online, summer 2011.
An autoreverse review of a recent album by Dave Fuglewicz and Hal McGee, Synergistic Reconstruction
Aufabwegen is a German label, magazine and online resource. Reviews and info galore
