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    January 2012

    By Don Campau | 15 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.

    Synergistic Reconstruction by Fuglewicz and McGee

    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

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