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Cassette culture

Index Cassette culture

Cassette culture (or the cassette underground) refers to the practices surrounding amateur production and distribution of recorded music that emerged in the late 1970s via home-made audio cassettes. [1]

78 relations: A Band, Anarcho-punk, Atlanta, Aube (musician), Barry Douglas Lamb, Big City Orchestra, Bootleg recording, Bullshit Detector, Burger Records, C86, Cabaret Voltaire (band), Campus radio, CD-R, Chumbawamba, Clock DVA, Demo (music), Dino DiMuro, DIY ethic, Do it yourself, Eclecticism in music, Factsheet Five, Falling A Records, Fanzine, File sharing, Final Program (musical group), Fostex, Gnar Tapes, Grateful Dead, Home recording, If, Bwana, Industrial music, Jim Shelley (musician), K Records, Little Fyodor, Lo-fi music, Mail art, Martin Newell (musician), Minóy, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture, Mixtape, Multitrack recording, New York City, NME, Noise music, Olympia, Washington, OP Magazine, PBK (composer), Post-punk, Psyclones, Punk ideologies, ..., Punk rock, Record Collector, Recording studio, Richard Youngs, Riot grrrl, Rough Trade (shops), Scratch video, Social media marketing, Sound collage, Sound of Pig, Sounds (magazine), Sterile Records, Storm Bugs, Tape trading, Taper (concert), TASCAM, Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine, The APF Brigade, The Apostles (band), The Haters, The Insane Picnic, The Silly Pillows, Third Mind Records, This Window, Throbbing Gristle, Tronics, Tuff Enuff Records, United Kingdom. Expand index (28 more) »

A Band

The A Band are a British musical collective formed in Nottingham in the late 1980s.

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Anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk (or anarchist punk) is punk rock that promotes anarchism.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Aube (musician)

(January 13, 1959 – September 25, 2013), better known by his stage name Aube, was a Japanese noise musician.

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Barry Douglas Lamb

Barry Lamb (born 9 May 1963 in South Shields, England) is an English experimental musician.

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Big City Orchestra

Big City Orchestra is a long-running art/anti-art group based generally in California.

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Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority.

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Bullshit Detector

Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label.

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Burger Records

Burger Records is an independent record label and record store in Fullerton, California.

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C86

C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from British independent record labels of the time.

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Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire are an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.

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Campus radio

Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution.

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CD-R

CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format.

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Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba were a British band that formed in 1982 and ended in 2012.

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Clock DVA

Clock DVA are an industrial, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Dino DiMuro

Dino DiMuro (born March 24, 1957) is an independent composer, musician and producer.

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DIY ethic

DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert.

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Do it yourself

"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things without the direct aid of experts or professionals.

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Eclecticism in music

In music, eclecticism is the conscious use of styles alien to the composer's own nature, or from a bygone era.

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Factsheet Five

Factsheet Five was a periodical mostly consisting of short reviews of privately produced printed matter along with contact details of the editors and publishers.

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Falling A Records

Falling A Records is an Essex, England based independent record label founded in the late 1970s by Barry Lamb and Peter Ashby.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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File sharing

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.

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Final Program (musical group)

Final Program was a pioneering Scottish minimal synth band formed in Stirling in 1978.

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Fostex

Fostex (フォステクスカンパニー) is a Japanese audio equipment manufacturer.

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Gnar Tapes

Gnar Tapes is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Home recording

Home recording is the practice of sound recording in a private home, rather than in a professional recording studio.

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If, Bwana

If, Bwana is the pseudonym of the influential noise music artist Al Margolis.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Jim Shelley (musician)

Jim Shelley (born February 29, 1952) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, writer, painter, and former high school teacher.

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K Records

K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington founded in 1982.

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Little Fyodor

Little Fyodor is the performance name of Dave Lichtenberg, an underground punk/garage musician from Denver, Colorado, who has been on the scene for two decades.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (originally spelled low-fi and alternately called DIY) is an aesthetic of recorded music in which the sound quality is lower than the usual contemporary standards (the opposite of high fidelity) and imperfections of the recording and production are audible.

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Mail art

Mail art (also known as postal art and correspondence art) is a populist artistic movement centered on sending small scale works through the postal service.

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Martin Newell (musician)

Martin Newell (born 4 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter, poet, columnist, and author.

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Minóy

Minóy was the pseudonym of the electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (October 30, 1951 - March 19, 2010).

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Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture

Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture is a 2005 book edited by musician Thurston Moore on Universe Publishing.

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Mixtape

The term "mixtape" (alternatively spelled mix-tape or mix tape) is used to describe various manners in which music is distributed.

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Multitrack recording

Multitrack recording (MTR)—also known as multitracking, double tracking, or tracking—is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Noise music

Noise music is a category of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context.

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Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,479 as of the 2010 census, making it the 24th largest city in the state. The city borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south. Olympia is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. Olympia is located southwest of Seattle, the largest city in the state of Washington.

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OP Magazine

OP Magazine, based in Olympia, Washington, was a music fanzine published by John Foster and the Lost Music Network (leading to the title, which extends the abbreviation LMN to LMNOP) from 1979 to 1984.

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PBK (composer)

PBK (real name: Phillip B. Klingler) is a composer that works in the genres of Noise, Drone and/or Ambient music.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Psyclones

Psyclones is an experimental industrial band started in 1980.

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Punk ideologies

Punk ideologies are a group of varied social and political beliefs associated with the punk subculture and punk rock.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Record Collector

Record Collector is a British monthly music magazine.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is a British musician with a prolific and diverse output, including many collaborations.

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Riot grrrl

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began in the early 1990s in Washington state (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Rough Trade (shops)

Rough Trade is a group of independent record shops in the UK and the US and headquartered in London, UK.

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Scratch video

Scratch video was a British video art movement that emerged in the early to mid-1980s.

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Social media marketing

Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service.

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Sound collage

In music, montage (literally "putting together") or sound collage ("gluing together") is a technique where newly branded sound objects or compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as montage.

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Sound of Pig

Sound of Pig was a cassette culture label started in the early 1980s by Al Margolis in New York City.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Sterile Records

The Sterile Records record label was formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions.

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Storm Bugs

Storm Bugs are a post punk band formed in 1978 in Deptford, London, by Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball who had met in the Medway Towns, England.

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Tape trading

Tape trading is an unofficial method of distribution of musical or video content through the postal system, which was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Taper (concert)

A taper is a person who records musical events, often from standing microphones in the audience, for the benefit of the musical group's fanbase.

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TASCAM

TASCAM is the professional audio division of TEAC Corporation, headquartered in Montebello, California.

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Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine

Launched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan, in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the Tellus cassette series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting-edge downtown music, documenting the New York scene and advancing experimental composers of the time – the first 2 issues being devoted to NY artists from the downtown no wave scene.

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The APF Brigade

The APF Brigade were an anarcho-punk duo from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.

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The Apostles (band)

The Apostles are an experimental punk rock band who developed within the confines of the 1980s anarcho-punk scene in the UK, but did not necessarily adhere to the aesthetics of that movement.

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The Haters

The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States.

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The Insane Picnic

In the early 1980s, English band The Insane Picnic (styled as the insane picnic) were one of the pioneering D.I.Y. cassette bands, composed of members Peter Ashby, Barry Douglas Lamb and Owen Turley.

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The Silly Pillows

The Silly Pillows are an American indie pop band formed by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.

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Third Mind Records

Third Mind Records was a British independent record label, founded in February 1983 by Gary Levermore.

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This Window

This Window was a British musical group formed by Peter Bright around 1985; earlier tape experiments exist from 1979 to 1984.

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Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group, officially formed on 3 September 1975 in Kingston upon Hull.

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Tronics

The Tronics were a London-based band that released records from 1979 to 1984.

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Tuff Enuff Records

Tuff Enuff Records was a queer/riot grrrl record label based in Brighton, UK.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_culture

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