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Order and disorder in a freeform haze of terribly-played guitars, shorted-out electronics, found audio detritus, strange sounds from strange lands all around. Psych-punk-junk, collage, even pop. Lots of in-studio live performances to boot.
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June 8, 2010: special: Experimental cassette culture w/RYAN MARTIN from DAIS Records/Period Tapes
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Brian is joined today by Ryan Martin of Dais Records/Period Tapes/York Factory Complaint to dig out dusty boxes of found tapes old and new, discussing cassette culture starting in the late '70s post-industrial / synth realm and going through the '80s and '90s up until the deluged tape scene today. Playing avant Fluxus cassettes, artist recordings, tape manipulations, unheard dialogue, drone noise and warped field recordings. Things are going to get weird. Thanks to Period's Lou Calderola for photosnaps! Check out DAIS Records, a label co-run by Ryan, and Period Tapes, run by Ryan and Lou.
Listener comments! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:02pm
βrian:
Ah, that's better. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:06pm
Carmichael:
Aha, Brian! Nice to hear from your musical tastes. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:08pm
βrian:
Aye, it reminds me of the lullabies Mom used to sing. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:08pm
Carmichael:
WMP stopped working for me. I'm back on Flash. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:09pm
βrian:
(Not Brian T, by the way.) | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:15pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:
welcome home! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:17pm
BT:
Thanks everbody - had an awesome time in Europe but missed the show. Brought back lotsa kool stuff we'll play next week, but enjoy Ryan's tape treasures, some unreal soundz comin' yr way today. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:18pm
Matt:
I am staring at the photo of tapes in complete and utter envy | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:19pm
aaron in chicago:
more photos! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:27pm
BT:
We got a bunch coming. Dig the hand-written Throbbing Gristle tape on deck! 1976 just "Gristle" Gen gave Ryan, with a street address typed on the back...intense. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:30pm
Michael Moore:
Pets or meat? | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:34pm
dc pat:
new fave tune: Soft White Fur | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:38pm
Carmichael:
Notice the Hoor-Par-Kraat and These Feathers Have Plumes have serial numbers only 4 digits apart. By the same label, or same artist perhaps? | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:39pm
BT:
Yep, they are both on Period Tapes, Ryan and Lou Calderola's label. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:44pm
Carmichael:
Thanks, that makes sense. I somehow thought they were all found tapes. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:45pm
don:
how am i supposed to go around my apt doing my little chores when i'm sitting here hypnotised? damn you!!! :^D | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:46pm
ab:
me too! I want a cuppa tea but i can't leave my computer... and the kitchen is two floors down,,, | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:47pm
BSI:
Wonderful stuff. This was the world I came from, seems like centuries ago. Impossibly limited handmade tape-label stuff..... Still have devious fantasies of re-issuing much of that stuff, the old comps... but no time, no time... | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:57pm
dc pat:
wait...I missed THEE Guy Debord? | |
Tue. 6/8/10 3:58pm
dc pat:
jeeze, that's it, no more ice cream for a month.. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:06pm
Bruce:
Great tunes to code C++ by! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:17pm
Lulu:
really good sounds! thx for sharing! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:20pm
Bruce:
NWW! Yow! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:24pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:
so frickin busy today I haven't heard a second of this show. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:32pm
BSI:
whee! Illusion of Safety = wheeee!!!!! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:33pm
EH:
The whole show has been fantastic so far! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:36pm
BT:
Thanks EH, totally diggin Ry's bag o goods here too. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:42pm
Bruce:
Photos are great, thx very much! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:44pm
Flaco:
Soundtrack to the Reagan years. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:45pm
J-Mar:
You got the Bethel comp, by any chance? That was a favorite of mine when I was in high school. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 4:58pm
BSI:
Illusion of Safety = also playing down here (DC) at this year's Sonic Circuits festival. September.... | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:04pm
don:
it's just a minor point... i went to Danceteria to see Neubauten but they weren't there for some reason. i don't know if they ever actually played there. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:09pm
BT:
I was thinking that was the joint where they started the fire...wrong perhaps! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:11pm
don:
that was probably in '83. i saw them finally in boston, '85. no fire on the stage! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:14pm
Ryan:
they definitely did play there on February 23, 1984. A bootleg exists of the show. I know there were supposed to have been other shows but thats the only know of a recording of that show. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:15pm
jeff-m:
digging the show, thanks Brian and guests | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:16pm
don:
yeah, i was back up at school by then so i never would have known about that. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:17pm
Ryan:
From Pop Matters interview: "...looking back nostalgically over the band’s New York City performance history (after announcing, sadly, that this tour would probably be their last in America), recalling the long since disappeared venues they had played—the Danceteria, the Palladium—and the trouble they caused with their eccentric stage show." | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:20pm
don:
now that is some impressive encyclopedic knowledge :^) in fact as i listen i'm straightening up around here, unearthing tons of tapes myself. just found Noizunzuri, recorded on WFMU 8/27/90. i was looking for that. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:32pm
Flaco:
Thanks for this show, guys. Can you do this more often? | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:50pm
lou:
this middle eastern food is so good! yum! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:51pm
paul b:
I knew a guy in college, Mark Robinson, who used to do this sort of thing: Self-made self-illustrated, self-distributed cassettes. I still have one of them, an X Mass cassette I think it says on it. He would number them as official outputs of his label which was called TeenBeat though he rarely made more than a handful of any particular one. Mark also had a band called Unrest. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:52pm
BT:
Coincidentally Paul B: Unrest will be live playing on this very program July 20th! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:53pm
lou:
YES! Unrest! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:55pm
paul b:
Wonderful, WFMU is such a terrific organization! Tell MarK I said hello -- Paul From WMUC... | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:56pm
BT:
Maybe we'll do the set remote from the Tube Bar in Jersey City. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:57pm
chris:
what a sick show, Brian. Thank you and thanks to Ryan for being a kick ass dudely-dude as well. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:59pm
don:
awesome, guys. come back again. | |
Tue. 6/8/10 5:59pm
dw:
awesome stuff, thanks! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 6:02pm
Ryan:
That was fun, thanks!!!! | |
Tue. 6/8/10 10:27pm
Tsitso:
Hey there, where did you find a copy of the For Your Ears Only - Jersey Beat Comp Vol. 2? I've been looking for this, and am having a really hard time finding it. Any leads would be really appreciated! | |
Wed. 6/9/10 7:20pm
Chelimar:
Fabulous! | |
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