Currently in progress in Linz, Austria, Cassette Culture Node Linz is a fantastic exhibition curated by Wolfgang Dorninger dedicated to the Cassette Culture of the 1980s and 1990s. One of the features of the exhibition are listening stations where visitors can listen to continuously-playing cassettes loaded with music from cassettes of the 1980s and 90s. Wolfgang asked me to create a 90-minute program of selections from cassettes that were distributed by the Cause And Effect Distribution Service, which was operated by Debbie Jaffe and me in the mid-1980s. In the 192 kbps MP3 players below you can listen to the program that I created, which includes short excerpts from the cassettes I chose plus narrations and commentaries by me in-between the tracks, very much in the style of a radio program or podcast. I selected cassettes that were listed in the first Cause And Effect Cassette Distribution Catalog in January 1985. Here is the playlist of Side A of the tape (45 minutes): – Schlafengarten: Memorandum – Walls Of Genius: Before ...And After – Viscera: A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies – Dog As Master: Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog – Master/Slave Relationship: The Desire To Castrate Father – Dega Ray: Clasp/Click – John Wiggins: Anagenic – Twa Digs Under Paris - i shin ohn – Sue Ann Harkey: I tell you everything, just not out loud – Let's Have Healthy Children: OSLWMMGIB? After you click on the PLAY button it might take several seconds for the file to load, so please be patient.
Here is the playlist of Side B of the tape (45 minutes): – Sadistic Gossip: Confessions Of A Shit Addict – Bene Gesserit: Insane Music For Insane People Volume 1 – Magisch Theater: Magthea and Insanity – DDAA: Prehistoric Rejet – Architects Office: Memorial Issue – Theatre Of Ice: The Haunting – Grey Area: Anatomy Of Coincidence – Paul Kelday: Worlds Apart – Cleaners From Venus: Under Wartime Conditions
34 Comments
Neal D Retke
6/26/2018 08:48:08
That looks amazing ~!
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6/26/2018 08:56:22
I just can't stop staring at the pictures! So GREAT! Wolfgang created a piece of Art! Have to admit I'm a bit speechless ..
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Rafael González
6/26/2018 10:28:58
I LOVE IT! It’s wonderful!
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Hal McGee
6/26/2018 16:37:57
I have added five new photos to the bottom of the page that Wolfgang sent to me this afternoon.
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Rafael González
6/26/2018 17:58:00
A fantastic exhibition Everything looks great
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Little Fyodor
6/26/2018 17:02:03
Holy freaking moly!!!
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Little Fyodor
6/26/2018 21:04:35
Okay, listening now!
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Hal McGee
6/27/2018 00:52:59
Fyodor, many of the answers to your questions can be found at the Cassette Culture Node.Linz Group on Facebook, of which you are a member! - https://www.facebook.com/groups/144094299622110/
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6/27/2018 00:55:45
Looks very impressive. Wolfgang -- is there a genuine audience for your exhibit? Are people of all ages visiting and listening? Is there a curator onsite to answer questions?
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6/27/2018 05:24:58
Dear friends!
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Little Fyodor
6/27/2018 22:13:19
Hi Wolfgang, good to talk to you again!
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Frank
6/28/2018 00:23:40
Wow, that looks like an amazing exhibition!
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Frank
6/29/2018 05:24:18
Hal, is it possible to put your program downloadable somewhere? If I try to listen, it gets interrupted very often and that's not a great listening experience. I know, it's my internet provider :(
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Hal
6/29/2018 06:39:44
Frank, yes I will provide a download of the program in the future. At the moment I have no Internet service for my desktop computer due to the crazy lightning and thunder storms that we have here in a Florida. I hope to have Internet service again later today.
Hal
7/2/2018 00:37:16
Hello Frank! I just added downloadable MP3s to the page.
Frank
7/3/2018 22:03:51
Thanks Hal!
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Lumen K
7/4/2018 14:03:43
What a wonderful tribute to Cause and Effect and the artists that participated. It is a lovely exhibition.
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7/8/2018 05:17:15
Hallo,
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Hessel Veldman
12/21/2018 07:02:19
Hi cassette lovers,
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Hal McGee
12/21/2018 08:32:40
Hello Hessel, thank you for your comment. For me here at EC one of my goals is to find ways to maintain the spirit of the cassette days of the 1980s and to translate that feeling to this online community. I feel that the cassette itself as a medium is no longer necessary or desirable. Our task here at EC — and it is a fun task! — is to create a virtual space where we can all gather in fellowship with our comrades, and feel safe — unlike the toxic environments of BIG social media! I think of EC as an online block-party or hang-out for experimental audio and mail artists who value their independence and the DIY spirit, and also value the connections, contacts, and exchanges of ideas of a community of like-minded artists.
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12/22/2018 05:15:35
Dear Hal, 12/22/2018 05:12:19
Dear Hessel,
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Little Fyodor
12/22/2018 10:38:26
Haha, boy I sure wish I knew why that young'un was so surprised this music emanated from the 80's! Possible reasons flow through my mind, but of course possible reasons are just that until you actually know! I guess the most obvious possibility is that he or she just associates the 80's with the big hits of that day. But of course, lesser known and more experimental music has been made at all times! To me, the experimental musics reflected in the cassette network are the very spirit of the 80's, just as psychedelic music, which may have made it onto vinyl but rarely sold as well Englebert Humperdinck, was the spirit of the 60's! Well, I guess that's just my view of it -- obviously! Anyway, so glad the young folk are taking an interest and that you're helping make that possible!! Hey, cultural history is interesting stuff!! There'll probably be *someone* to take an interest in this stuff for aeons....
Rafael González
12/21/2018 09:34:37
I love cassettes, they are also very useful to be manipulated and create sounds, but I think we should also create with the technology that we have available right now, especially to distribute music, words, sounds. But the original idea of those times, the spirit, must always continue. EC is a great and confortable place!
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Rafael González
12/21/2018 10:27:07
But everything that is done to remember that time is very important and beautiful. Cassettes are pieces of art. I have not been able to see this exhibition physically ... but I think it has been fabulous! It is another of the good things that EC has, we can be in contact and we can share our projects, ideas and has allowed me to approach this exhibition.
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Hessel Veldman
12/21/2018 12:10:35
Great all these reactions ont his topic.
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Rafael González
12/21/2018 15:58:40
That's true, the scene in the Netherlands was amazing. Thanks for info/link!
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Hessel Veldman
12/21/2018 17:20:44
And check No Longer Forgotten Music by Frans de Waard. He started in 2007 with writing and giving permission for downloads on his blog with the first years loads of cassette releases. Among them also Exart cassettes.
Hessel Veldman
12/21/2018 19:01:30
Latest tweet Archaic Inventions:
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Rafael González
12/21/2018 19:40:40
Yes, I know No Longer Forgotten Music! So great!
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Hessel Veldman
12/26/2018 18:16:21
For Concertzender I will start January 10 with a 2019 series of Electronic Cottage content.
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Rafael González
12/26/2018 18:26:50
Honestly, this is great!
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Hessel Veldman
12/26/2018 18:39:19
And iT is! Mainly because it’s up to us, Who were the creaters of this eighties cassette madness, to conserve the beauty of an era that shaped the DIY attitude and gave attention to the creation in progress. By recording in action.
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Rafael González
12/26/2018 18:56:59
It is a great inspiration to continue forward, with the same attitude for the 21st Century
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