christian plumber - "Yes, Virginia, There Are Christian Plumbers." (early/mid 90's)

nevermind the basic lack of cover art.
this is a pretty good piece.
it has aged REALLY REALLY well.

i tried, boy did i try, but i couldn't figure out how to cut this tape.

so here is the whole thing (programme repeated on both sides of the tape)
the tracks listed, in order are here (click to enlarge)

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Twitch - "anti-twitch: you have broken my spirit" (1998 a.i.musick)

some 8 years after my first cassette, back in '98, just as twitch was dying a painful death, this conceptual cd was released.

this was back when i still held some shameful positions...i was a christian, 'human logic and reason' were bad things (as opposed to faith and 'true knowledge'), and the use of computers in compositions were nowhere in sight...

it was all about cassettes and self righteous hand-me-down 'truth from above'...

oh yes and dorm rooms, many dorm rooms.

track 1 consists of experimental industrial sounds, rhythm, vocals, samples, beats, & noise...which still sounds really good to me, though quite dated.

track 2 consists of a series of mini-cassette recordings of philosophical debates/conversations layered over each other from 97 & 98.

originally drawn up for a cassette release, the actual release came in the form of a ltd.ed. of 5 cd-r with different artwork for each copy.

1.the pulse of a nation (corruptica)

2.the voice of human logic & reason

approx 62 min.

320 mp3

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various - "america the beautiful" (1994 RRRecords)

Car Chase 1-01 Rougeux / Negativland – Happy As A Clam In The Land Of Uncle Sam 2:16 1-02 Kings Of Feedback – Fuck America 4:36 1-03 Barry Dalive – Choakin' The American Chicken 4:35 1-04 Mono Pause – Come Into The Future 3:29 1-05 AMK – Forever Only 2:58 1-06 Vampire Rodents – Bosch Erotique 2:16 1-07 John Wiggins – Zappa Map : God Bless Frank Zappa 1:29 1-08 Thomas Dimuzio – Yard 2:44 1-09 ST 37 – New Arrival 2:54 1-10 Mandible Chatter – Dead White American Pelvis 3:02 1-11 Idea Fire Company – Pure Joy 3:12 1-12 Gregg Turkington – Recipes And Reflections 3:34 1-13 Chop Shop – 4x4 1:58 1-14 Luxurious Bags – Filling Station Fix 3:08 1-15 Grae.Com – Build The Bomb 3:18 1-16 Small Cruel Party – 1860 / 30.xii. Birds Explore Trees 15.v.1960 3:22 1-17 Hands To – Kin Tozo 4:16 1-18 TAC – What Do You Do? 2:50 1-19 Slughog – Hangman 3:31 1-20 Randy Greif – History Lessen 4:11 Stun Gun 2-01 Out Of Band Experience – Bonerland 0:44 2-02 Faxed Head – American Phenomena : The Wireless Rattle 2:24 2-03 Lee Ranaldo – How Much Needs Crushing? 2:44 2-04 Neil Hamburger – That's My Life 3:24 2-05 Phil Milstein – Louie 3:15 2-06 Borbetomagus – Fur Mutti 4:41 2-07 Horse-Cow – How The Other Half Lives 3:12 2-08 Commode Minstrels In Bull Face – Wild Sandferrier's Owymee Creek Dreams.Ibid : 1901, 1946, 1977. 3:40 2-09 Goosewind – Intro Screaming / Lawn Otis Johnson 3:22 2-10 The Easy Goings – My Compromise 3:44 2-11 Philip Perkins – Untitled (ATB) 2:08 2-12 Blowhole – Divinings 7:27 2-13 Shrilltower – Song For The Immigrant Laborers 3:24 2-14 Specula – Can't We All? 2:23 2-15 Nisi Period – The Beatles Ruined Everything 4:39 2-16 Nicolas Collins – Lightning Strikes Not Once But Twice 6:51 2-17 The Haters – Climate Antenna 2:06 2-18 Crawling With Tarts – Dream Of The Fallen Soldier 2:41 2-19 ConDemek – Piece On Earth, Pt.2 3:09 2-20 Scott Marshall & Mark Giangrande – Vichy, U.S.A. 1:37 disc car crash disc stun gun

michael prime - "aquifers" (1993 RRR)

1. Racked 7:16
2. Aquatic Synapse 13:57
3. Rotifers 15:57
4. Timeslips 19:30

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guilty connector - "Henro Pilgrimage (Soundscape Of The Shikoku 88 Temples)" (2002 utsu tapes)

88 untitled tracks.

Toy Bizarre "KDI DCTB 49 / KDI DCTB 23" (1998 drone records)

ltd.ed.250

A: KDI DCTB 49                  7:29
B: KDI DCTB 23                  8:11

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Jeph Jerman (hands to) - "The Second Attention" (2000 Anomalous Records)

1.

The Second Attention (29:35)

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Kiyoshi Mizutani + Daniel Menche - "Song Of Jike" (2004 Niko recordings)

from TOUCHING EXTREMES:
"The second chapter in this gorgeous kinship between Mizutani and Menche is articulated in three different versions of their common vision. The quiet ambience of a country village characterizes the first part; Mizutani’s field recordings - water, birds, people chatting and working - alternate with the appearance of long darkish sounds created by Menche through instruments and an "antique phonograph player", in an enchanting alignment of musique concrete and mystery. The second section is a more intense disposition of treated voices (both animal and human) and monstrous rumbles and hisses, gaining momentum minute by minute without hastening the respiratory functions of our perceptive systems. Mizutani's bucolic soundscapes return in the final segment, bringing back limpid weather and acoustic linearity just slightly disturbed by additional reworking of source material. Two precious men ploughing our gradual detachment from cheap obsessions, two fantastic sonic visionaries unjustly neglected."

		Song Of Jike 1: Kiyoshi Mizutani Mix (21:04)
		Song Of Jike 2: Daniel Menche Mix (19:56)
		Song Of Jike 3: Kiyoshi Mizutani Mix (10:29)

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Hands To - "NAZHA" (1996 manifold records)

going back to stuff like this really makes me miss hands to as well as manifold.

be sure to read the text. not exactly a 'catchy' album, but i am quite glad i bought it.

*tracks are untitled*

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Hands To - "circumscription" (1994 URTHONA)

Raw Materials Collected By: Akifumi Nakajima(AUBE) , Eric Lanzillotta , Jeph Jerman , Patrick Barber , Steve Johnson
Hands To is: Jeph Jerman

1 Prayer / Marling Spike (27:38)
2 Theophagia / Yunwi Tsundi (29:57)


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Various - "NIACIN SUN" (2004 tedium house)

This CD is available only with Bananafish #18 magazine.

There is no music to be found anywhere.

1 Joe Colley   -Excerpt From Cassette Found By Joe Colley #1
2 Joe Colley   -Excerpt From Cassette Found By Joe Colley #2
3 Joe Colley   -Excerpt From Cassette Found By Joe Colley #3
4 Burning Star Core   -You Are Legend
5 Monotract   -Fitty Bomb
6 Joe Colley   -Excerpt From Cassette Found By Joe Colley #4
7 Joe Colley   -Excerpt From Cassette Found By Joe Colley #5
8 Jim Leftwich   -Ouzo And Kudzu Are Dead (Excerpt)
9 Joe Colley   -Excerpt From Cassette Found By Joe Colley #6
10 Nelson Gastaldi   -Symphony No. 3: Siddartha Gautama O El Poder De La Nada (Excerpt)
11 Mecca   -Normal War Between The Neighbours
12 Joe Colley   -Guitar Center In Sacramento On A Saturday
13 Joe Colley   -Excerpt From Cassette Found By Joe

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