Cassette cultureFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_culture Cassette culture was in part an offshoot of the mail art...
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t0ner
Oct 21, 2005 9:56 pm
please feel free to post your cassette-related images to this flickr pool. http://www.flickr.com/groups/k7/ About K7 Pictures of or about cassettes. Analog,...
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Gerard
ggr33nway
Oct 21, 2005 10:36 pm
A good collection of images of cassette packaging at this German site... Click 'Cassetten' on the left. http://www.rarecords.de/CasFrameset1.htm Gerard ...
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wormdei
Oct 21, 2005 11:35 pm
G'day Folks My name is Andrew. I came it right at the end of the international home-taper scene, towards the end of the nineties before everyone went digital....
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Al C
omnid2005
Oct 22, 2005 12:24 am
Hi All, Albert Casais here. I used to run the Jill*Off Tapes label from 91-94. Released alot of Harsh noise & experimental by the likes of Ommayyad Zoam, ...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 1:56 am
Hi, Volkz, Tho' my "end-run" is (now) digital, ALL of my products are still generated from 4-trak cassette! I've been "on thee scene" since around 1980 (or...
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damienoujia
Oct 22, 2005 5:17 am
I thought I would introduce myself. I started recording home made music onto tape back in 1990-1991. I had some exposure on college radio and in zines, and...
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damienoujia
Oct 22, 2005 5:22 am
I certainly believe music has changed. Not only for me, as I believe my music has improved greatly now that I have more control over what I am doing in the...
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bempa
Oct 22, 2005 7:23 am
Hello! Just got the word about this group. Sounds very interesting. Was a contributing artist to a local casette label here in Sweden in the mid eighties...
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Haltapes1@...
Oct 22, 2005 9:56 am
Hello Everybody, Hal McGee here. Andrew and Thelonious both make interesting and valid points, and they raise interesting questions. When I first got involved...
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Dave Fuglewicz
dave_fuglewicz
Oct 22, 2005 11:51 am
Hello all, My name is Dave Fuglewicz and this is just a quick intoduction of myself. I became involved in the cassette culture in the '90's releasing my music...
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Andrew McIntosh
wormdei
Oct 22, 2005 11:53 am
"Blank CDRs are dirt cheap, for sure. Blank cassettes cost more than CDRs and are getting increasingly harder to find. It's not exactly true that releasing...
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damienoujia
Oct 22, 2005 12:28 pm
Hal raised a point that home computers costs more than a home studio to record on tape. Sorry, but I have to disagree. First off, you can find a good computer...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 2:37 pm
Yah, I know that sounds like some kinda' "psycho-drama"... but it's actually an INTERVIEW with long-time home-producer (& "cassetteist") Chris Phinney! Check...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 2:45 pm
Hi, Hal, GR8 to see you here... nope, I agree, it IS the "CULTURE" that counts!!! Though (as I pointed out in another post, all of MY projects are STILL on...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 2:46 pm
Hey there, amigo, What's UP? gR8 to see ya' in here, amigo! Zzaj ... downloads ... Collective's ... my tapes ... far. ... synthesizers ... reworking ... ...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 3:04 pm
Hey there, Andrew, ABsoLUTEly! It definitely IS "the Spirit" of DIY that matters here! I know that's what's kept ME going in my efforts all these years! Zzaj...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 3:25 pm
Late last year, I discovered a wonderful (new) site called "Mixposure". It HAS the "spirit of DIY" inherent in it, & many of the artists, though 21st Century...
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Al C
omnid2005
Oct 22, 2005 5:15 pm
on 10/22/05 11:03 AM, Dick Metcalf at rzzaj2001@... wrote: Hey there, Andrew, ABsoLUTEly! It definitely IS "the Spirit" of DIY that matters here! I ...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 5:21 pm
Andrew, NO argument there... in fact, ALL my material (from past & present) is recorded on TAPE before (ever) being digitized... AND, for the digitization, I...
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Dick Metcalf
rzzaj2001
Oct 22, 2005 5:25 pm
Our latest production, "Animal Cracker Odyssey", by "Brigands Of Beat" (Tom Furgas & Rotcod Zzaj), has FULL-song samples available at our catalog page: ...
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Thelonious Octopus
damienoujia
Oct 22, 2005 6:06 pm
In all the discussion on whether the music is better or not, whether the culture of DIY is the same or not, there is one observation I have after coming back...
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Thelonious Octopus
damienoujia
Oct 22, 2005 6:11 pm
If you are a home musician and want to put out a quality CD product, I cannot recommend highly enough www.cafepress.com. You can set up a shop for free, and...
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michael j
emptyj4
Oct 22, 2005 8:17 pm
Hiya floks Seems that there is a concensus that it's the DIY spirit of what is known as 'cassette culture' that is far more important the the media employed....
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cassette_culture@yaho...
Oct 22, 2005 9:42 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the cassette_culture group. File : /Zzaj...
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cassette_culture@yaho...
Oct 22, 2005 9:43 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the cassette_culture group. File : /Zzaj...
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cassette_culture@yaho...
Oct 22, 2005 9:46 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the cassette_culture group. File : /Zzaj...
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cassette_culture@yaho...
Oct 22, 2005 9:50 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the cassette_culture group. File : /Zzaj...
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Andrew McIntosh
wormdei
Oct 22, 2005 11:38 pm
Here's another side to this story. One of the first things I tried to do when making home-recordings was to get in touch with other people. I believed then as...
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Andrew McIntosh
wormdei
Oct 22, 2005 11:45 pm
"DIY cuz ain't nobody gonna DI for ya !" Heh, that's a good one. I like that. Also there was an anarcho-punk band from Queensland called Acid World who talked...
