Cassette Culture

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Created on: 13 Jan 2010
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'cassette culture' then and now.

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cassette culture kassettenkultur πολιτισμός κασετών cassette cultuur culture de cassette cultura del cassette...

For those interested in the bands and artists first active in the 'cassette culture' of the late 70s to early 90s in the US, UK and Europe and in the new generation of cassettists... take a look at this list of 101 of them:
http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2868

This group is not about mix tapes.

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Keywords/tags:
cassette culture, home-taping, cassette label, post-punk, noise, EBM, industrial music, post-industrial music, minimal electronic, lo-fi, DIY culture, messthetics

A few links:
>> Wikipedia entry on Cassette Culture (a bit of a mess)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_culture
>> Cassette Culture discussion list - Links page (Europe oriented list, but N. American participation and links)
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cassette_culture/links
>> Cassette Culture bulletin board (more N. America oriented)
http://www.cassetteculture.net/
>> 'Wild Planet' - 1983 article listing some of the best-known artists of the European Cassette Culture
http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/articles/wplanet.html
>> The Living Archive - 'Don Campau's personal history of cassette culture, home taping, underground music and radio from the early 1980s to the present.' (currently more N. America oriented but aiming for international coverage)
http://www.doncampau.com/livingarchive.htm
>> Huge image library of cassette-only releases at the site of VOD-Records, a label responsible for many high-quality reissues of cassette culture music.
http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/Gallery_of_Record_Covers_%28appr__20_000_pics___scans_of_Record___Tape_Covers%29-2-80.htm

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mumbianmelodies

Cassette Culture @ reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/cassetteculture/

March 2012
ggr33nway

Recent article on the current cassette scene http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7764-this-is-not-a-mixtape/

January 2012
mumbianmelodies

http://vimeo.com/31676452 This product contains: nudity, strong language, mild peril, off-screen violence, puppet sex... Video made to accompany the new Cultural Amnesia album This Is Not Your Shape.

November 2011
MOTHER_FESTIVAL

www.motherfestival.com/layers/THECASSETTE.html

September 2011
SlackDragon

just uploaded over 75 free tracks to my artist page Velveeta Heartbreak

July 2011
SixShooterSam

http://www.cicadashell.com Awesome Tapes

March 2011
tekhnologia

"Exposition 05" in 1982 (on tape "Sensationnel No. 1" Illusion Production 1983): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNoARaxKhY

December 2010
phr[o]zen

anyone want to trade tape?

November 2010
SOLOMUSIKA

Memories ^__^

July 2010
PLasmoEsmata

DonCampau, http://www.dynamitevision.com/ is a good place to start for UK cassette culture, (70's onwards) and the label is still going...just. Wavis O'Shave is one of their artists who started on cassette and was played on John Peel's show early 80's.

May 2010
DonCampau

I am looking for more writers for The Living Archive. You do not have to be an established author. I am looking for real people and real experiences in underground music and the tape trading community from 1980 to the present. I need additional help with perspectives on the European/ Australian/Japanese scene of the 1980s to mid 1990s. Check it out at: http://www.doncampau.com/livingarchive.htm What about a few paragraphs on your favorite trade or cassette artist of the time?

February 2010