on air AUGUST 10 / 6 PM at KWTF
after broadcast now available (*for ever*) at archive.org another show that presents Electronic Cottage compilation 004
1. Fast Cars - California Dawning - colored vinyl single / A_side
- http://www.methodrecordsandmusic.com 2. Cary Grace - Limelight - CD - Tygerland - http://www.carygrace.com 3. Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Long Song Of The Saroos band: https://thebluegiantzetapuppies.bandcamp.com - CD - "a gathering of the fish" an exclusive & free compilation CD for Fruits de Mer Records' club members - http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com >>> SPECIAL...Electronic Cottage...back again! 4. Eduardo GOZNE - The Great Flood (Genesis 7.12) 5 Aimee Grace Naworal - Haint Blue 6. Jeff Central - HAL No 4-6 from CD - Electronic Cottage Compilation 004 - https://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-cottage-compilation-004 > ELECTRONIC COTTAGE - alternative international community dedicated to homemade & DIY experimental art and music, Cassette Culture, Mail Art and zines - https://www.electroniccottage.org/ > Electronic Cottage Magazine Issue One April 1989 (download) https://archive.org/details/ElectronicCottageMagazineIssueOneApril1989 7. nheap - two types of awakening - cd - flying in silence - http://www.nheap.com 8. Levente - Johannes Vermeer / The Concert - CD - Lost Works - https://levente.bandcamp.com/
9. Dan Droid - ABD - CD - Liberated - http://dan-droid.co.uk/
10. Anton Barbeau - 8x A Lady - CD - Antronica 2 - http://www.antonbarbeau.com 11. Dorninger - Dead Zone - CD - 8K - http://www.base.at 12. One Foot In The Groove - Groove 3 - CD - Grooves 1-12 - if you want to get in touch, write to me! 13. Chawa Lilith - Poor Boy 14. Chawa Lilith - Son of the Moon 13/14 from CD - Persian Prince - http://www.chawalilith.com http://www.LordLitter.de
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I watched the video of Wolfgang Dorninger's lecture on the cassette culture, which was part of the Cassette Culture Node Linz exhibition in June/July 2018. It is in German language, so I guess many of you can't enjoy it. This is a real shame because it is an extremely well researched, analysed and presented look at this era of Earth's culture.
Editor's Note: Some people viewing this page on smartphones might not be able to see the embedded video player above. Click on the video of Wolfgang's lecture link above. Even if you cannot understand the German language you should watch the video any way because it contains many great images from the Cassette Culture Node Linz exhibit.
I was part of this era but now hearing the facts being presented in such a well structured way definitely brought some new insight.
Some main basics changed completely since then and thus everything changed. A main statement in Wolfgang's lecture is:" If absolutely everything becomes easy, there is no more output of value." More or less everything in the underground of those decades was created from scratch - own basic ideas were inalienable if you wanted to create, record, paint, write etc. Today everything starts with a program that already defines many basics. The worst are *apps*, where people no longer know/understand what they are doing, what is going on, the app does it all for you. Those apps define your life. "Yeah but.." Yes there is sure always a *but* - I just want to talk about a reality we're living in. When I started using the internet almost every website of artists I visited was a unique creation - often a unity with the released material, whether Pop CD or harsh undergound tape.. Today all websites look alike. And you basically don't exist if you're not on Facebook/Twitter. What a loss of creation. Which leads to the aspect of communication. Wolfgang has a very detailed part in his lecture explaining how communication did work in those days. What it did to oneself, to the process of working, developing, thinking(!) etc. He talked about 3 paged letters with detailed reviews and opinions, about the continuous flow of thinking, writing, sending tapes. (I heard the same from Darrell Draeger of Hermanos Guzanos, who came from a completely different part of the cassette culture, he talks of 4 paged handwritten letters with teeny tiny writing.) A worldwide tight network of deep thought and exchange. Today all this is more or less down to a *click* and a *I like*. What a loss of thought and inspiration. Almost every release I remember from those days had a unique approach, in sound and production. whether guitarband or soundscape musician - almost every participant was individual! That was based on A) the simple fact that the recording means needed to be approached in a clever way to get your own 100% out of them (how to avoid hiss, how to boost 4 tracks to 12, etc) - and B) the idea of being *different* was part of the attitude. "I don't want to be like *Joe Walsh* I know there is a different way to play this kind of music - I am not one of them." Today if one has a laptop, a simple studio program and several samples, one can *create* something that sounds like a *big* studio production. And too many want to sound like *Joe Walsh* today - so I get *Joe Walsh* clones 'till it hurts for airplay - all with super shiny newletters and guest musicians that already played with this or that *star*. Too many act like being part of a major music scene - in fact many aspects that made me flee the *music scene* in the 1980s are now a part of the *indie underground*. I would like to put some real emphasis upon the fact, that in the past I always had the impression that there really was a will to "do something, go somewhere, change something, be part of a cultural revolution". I guess this was part of the culture in those days. If you created some very harsh shocking noise in these years and made some unconventional statements that was enough to be really *different* and push culture! ... today? Today I have to admit I often get the impression everybody is sitting comfortably and playing the music / making the sound they like ... and that's it - a nice little world where all is fine - I'll post it and then collect likes.. Combined with the narcissism that became part of today's culture this is often pretty unpleasant .. to say the least. I heard an interview with a long working Berlin photographer who said when being asked about differences between now and then that today everybody walks about as if being photographed / filmed all the time .. *noone* acts natural anymore - everybody is a little *star*. Well - selfies and smart phone movies created a new breed of clone. What did *Social Media* do to in-depth culture pushing communication? What is behind the *I like*? Why do you like? what exactly do you like? How do you like? Can you still go deeper? If so, why don't you do so? Do you still have more words? If so, why don't you use them? This way of communication is paralysing and dulling .. and yes .. all this came to my mind listening to Wolfgang Dorninger's lecture about a time and a scene that was really different... I was there and it all came back with a BANG. I think that we as artists need to look for *different* ways.
LORD LITTER'S MAGIC MUSIC BOX - 2018 - 31
on air AUGUST 3 / 6 PM at KWTF after broadcast now available (*for ever*) at archive.org another show that presents Electronic Cottage compilation 004
https://archive.org/details/0803LordLittersMagicMusicBoxInternational201831
1. Ken Elkinson - A Day in a Life - CD - beatles spa day, Volume 1 - http://www.kenelkinson.com 2. Miserable Les - Temptation - CD - 7 Deadly Songs - wanna get in touch? Write to me. 3. Wilson - Silver Lining - CD - Old School, New Rules http://www.pinkhedgehog.com 4. Mickey Stephens & Poor Blue - Childhood - CD - Wasteground http://www.thewasteground.com - in depth article about Mickey Stephens' background since the 1970s: https://clclt.com/charlotte/local-singer-revisits-the-wasteground-of-his-northern-ireland-youth/Content?oid=9658719 5. Nathan Hall & The Sinister Locals - Tunguska Tydfil - LP / CD Tunguska Tydfil http://www.nathanhallandthesinisterlocals.com/ 6. John Howard - Siblings - CD - Storeys - http://kidinabigworld.co.uk >>> SPECIAL...Electronic Cottage...back again! 7. Don Campau - Too Hot For Hands - http://www.doncampau.com 8. Frank - That's how I would like to be remembered https://frankaudiffret.wixsite.com/fjna 9. Juan Angel Italiano - Barrio Tassano https://juanangelitaliano.bandcamp.com/ 7-9 from CD - Electronic Cottage Compilation 004 https://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-cottage-compilation-004 > ELECTRONIC COTTAGE - alternative international community dedicated to homemade & DIY experimental art and music, Cassette Culture, Mail Art and zines - https://www.electroniccottage.org/ 10. Don Campau - disclaimer #1 - CD - Disclaimer https://doncampau.bandcamp.com/album/don-campau-disclaimer - http://www.DonCampau.com 11. Xposed 4Heads - Ladies and 4Heads 12. Xposed 4Heads - Choose to be Human 12/12 from CD - Choose to be Human - http://www.joyfarm.com 13. Ward of Cause - Hipster Plate 14. Ward of Cause - A kind Word (excerpt) 13/14 from CD - Antinomy - https://soundcloud.com/user-513798751 http://www.LordLitter.de
LORD LITTER'S MAGIC MUSIC BOX 2018 - 8
The German show on air/web in August via http://www.Radio-Marabu.de but already available via archive.org - with this show I'll start presenting the Electronic Cottage compilation. I can't play all 34 tracks but I'll select the tracks that fit into the flow of each show, so I may not play some tracks I like ... it sometimes just does not fit. https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_magic_music_box_2018_8
1. Shaun Robert - Gregorius - CD - Electronic Cottage Compilation 004 - https://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-cottage-compilation-004
> Shaun Robert - https://shaunrobert.bandcamp.com/ > ELECTRONIC COTTAGE - alternative ?international community dedicated to homemade & DIY experimental art and music, Cassette Culture, Mail Art and zines - https://www.electroniccottage.org/ 2. Nathan Hall & The Sinister Locals - Song of a Sourpuss - LP / CD - Tunguska Tydfil http://www.nathanhallandthesinisterlocals.com/ 3. Man & Machine - Earthman (Lost in Space) - CD - "a gathering of the fish" an exclusive & free compilation CD for Fruits de Mer Records' club members http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com 4. Jamie & Steve - It's all because of you - CD - Sub Textural http://www.jamieandsteve.net 5. Fast Cars - Crazy good times - CD - LAX http://www.methodrecordsandmusic.com 6. Dorninger - Synchronized Minds - CD - Hisatsinom, Ueber das Verschwinden http://www.base.at 7. Ken Elkinson - A Day in a Life - CD - beatles spa day, Volume 1 http://www.kenelkinson.com 8. Opera To Relax - Give wings to your dreams - CD - from Life 2 Life http://www.bscmusic.com/en/artist_zone/114/opera_to_relax.htm 9. John Howard - Right here, right now - CD - Storeys http://kidinabigworld.co.uk 10. Modest Midget - Periscope down - CD - Crysis http://www.modestmidget.com/ 11. M.A. Bakker - Ming Zhao Paradise - CD - Rejected Scripts http://www.mabakker.com 12. Ian Whitcomb - Dreams of Old L.A. 13. Ian Whitcomb - Rolling with the Quake 12-13 from double CD - songs without words http://www.picklehead.com/ian.html 14. Jerry Drake and the Front Page Big Band - Do you remember - CD EP - A Tribute to the Big Bands - https://jerrydrake.com/ 15. John Cee Stannard & Blues Horizon - Rum Ol' DO - CD - Stone Cold Sober http://www.johnceestannard.co.uk 16. Schnauser - The reason they're Alive - CD - Protein for Everyone https://schnauser.bandcamp.com/ http://www.LordLitter.de I'm listening to Radio On Berlin right now and I realise I should tell you about it.
A Radio station that goes a different way - so it is still a *real* radiostation with info_shows, music_shows, talk_shows, special_shows etc etc. but all is approached with a *different* mind. The general approach can be described as open minded / experimental_ish but it never ends in a complete chaos, which for my liking does not make any sense these days, where the whole world is a complete chaos. Radio On Berlin shows always give you food for thought. I guess you may be very much interested in *cassette shows*, so for example *The Tape Review Show* is perfect for you. The two Radio On Berlin main characters Rinus Van Alebeek and Adrian Shephard (sometimes with guests) have very humorous in depth conversations about cassettes - of course also playing many tracks from cassettes. Here the cassette is not a cult object but a medium to present a culture far off the beaten path. There are many more cassette related aspects (plus much more!) to discover on Radio On Berlin. Like at the moment the *historic* cassette shows from Don Campau of the 1990s! Or "Rinus Van Alebeek – Letter from Linz, Interview with Wolfgang Dorninger on cassette culture node.linz"...! The shows rotate on a alternating timeline, so whereever you are on this planet there may be a convenient time for you! http://www.radio-on-berlin.com/?page_id=591 - The Time indications are automatically adapted to your local time. http://www.Radio-On-Berlin.com
After one month of daily rotation at Radio On Berlin, now available for listening and downloading at archive.org. The show may be also repeated at the station.
https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_radio_on_show_2018_4 1. Marc McDowell and Friends - Dark Weave - CD/LP - Dark Weave - http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com - https://markmcdowell.bandcamp.com/album/dark-weave 2. Anna Homler and Steve Moshier - Giyah - LP/CD - Breadwoman & other Tales - http://www.annahomler.com - LP/CD https://rvng.bandcamp.com/album/breadwoman-other-tales 3. Opera To Relax - Oh what a crazy day - CD - frome Life 2 Life - http://www.bscmusic.com/en/artist_zone/114/opera_to_relax.htm 4. Hal McGee - track 1 - Fanzine + CD - Halzine 11 - http://www.haltapes.com >>> Darrell Draeger's Cassette Culture Blog 5. John M. Bennett & Screamin' Popeyes - "El Ninguneo 02 - MC - El Ninguneo http://1980scassetteculture.blogspot.de/ find John M. Bennett today here: http://www.ElectronicCottage.org >>> Litter Legend...JAH WOBBLE! 6. Jah Wobble - T.V. 7. Jah Wobble - Today is the first day of the rest of your life 6/7 LP - Betrayal - http://www.jahwobble.com/ >>> Litter Legend...Scientist! 8. Scientist - The Voodoo Curse - LP - Rids the World of the evil Curse of the vampires - http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/14/a-beginners-guide-to-scientist/ 9. Breadwinter - Look sharp Feel sharp - CD - breadwinter.3 - http://www.haltapes.com 10. Kurt Schwitters - excerpts from Ursonate - CD - Dada Antidada Merz https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/dada-antidada-merz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters 11. Cheapo Card Company - The Magic Crap (Mega Mix) 12. Magic Moments At Twilight Time - Lights Turn Blue re_release of CD "Creavolution 22" online plus bonus album - http://mickmagic.net/Creavolution%2022.htm 13. Mutant Press - FUKdNRA - from forthcomming CD - http://www.mutantpress.com Radio On Berlin The show is produced for RADIO ON BERLIN which I recommend very much to check out if you want to discover a real different kind of radio. The basic idea is experiment_al_ish but it does not go over the the top. So you also get information, *talk* shows and more! http://www.radio-on-berlin.com In 2016 I produced a 4 hours Radio special - The Generations Unlimited Story based on interviews with Gen Ken Montgomery, Chris Penalosa and David Prescott. After months of broadcast via Radio On Berlin it is now available via Archive.org. It gives you the WHOLE story of Generations Unlimited from the very early days untill NOW - in sound and word!
Lord Litter’s Radio On Show #23 – The Generations Unlimited Story, part 1 PART 1......Gen Ken talks about mainly then ... the beginning, the history, Generator in the 80s/90s...and CONRAD SCHNITZLER.... https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_radio_on_show_2016_23 Lord Litter’s Radio On Show #24 – The Generations Unlimited Story, part 2 PART 2 - The Now.. a conversation .. Chris Penalosa and Gen Ken Mongomery talk about what's going on now... https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_radio_on_show_2016_24 Lord Litter’s Radio On Show #25 – The Generations Unlimited Story, part3 PART 3 - The World of David Prescott.....David talks about then AND now ... https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_radio_on_show_2016_25 Lord Litter’s Radio On Show #26 – The Generations Unlimited Story, Epilogue PART 4 - EPILOG (a CONrad Schnitzler dedication)... https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_radio_on_show_2016_26 Radio On Berlin All 4 shows were broadcasted by RADIO ON BERLIN which I recommend very much to check out if you want to discover a real different kind of radio. The basic idea is experiment_al_ish but it does not go over the the top. So you also get information, *talk* shows and more! http://www.radio-on-berlin.com If you're interested in a healthy dose of Don Campau you might like these two Don Campau specials I produced for Radio On Berlin.
Nr. 1 starts with his early band The Roots of Madness, released on Vinyl in 1971 and has much material from tapes up to the late 1980s. Nr. 2 starts with Don as Punk in The Desmonds and has cool guests like his daughter and his wife. The show ends with the last production he recorded with his old reel to reel machine late 1990s. All you need to know about the *early years* of Don Campau. As usual the shows come with playlists. Both shows were webcasted by http://www.Radio-On-Berlin.com in late 2017. >> The Don Campau special, part1 https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_radio_on_show_2017_36_don_campau_special_1 >> The Don Campau special, part2 https://archive.org/details/lord_litters_radio_on_show_2017_37_don_campau_special_2 LORD LITTER'S MAGIC MUSIC BOX - 2018 - 27 on air JULY 6 / 6 PM at KWTF / Bodega Bay California now available at archive.org https://archive.org/details/0706LordLittersMagicMusicBoxInternational201827 1. Blake Jones and the Trike Shop - My Soft Rock Girlfriend - CD - Make - http://www.bigstirrecords.com 2. Caper Clowns - Something Of Value - from forthcomming CD - http://www.caperclowns.com 3. The Spongtones - When it's you - CD - too clever by half -http://www.spongetones.com >> Special: FUCHSIA special edition reissue ............ 4. Fuchsia - The Nothing Song - double LP + DVD + 24pp A4 magazine + fold-out poster - color vinyl, gatefold sleeve - http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com >>> CASSETTE CULTURE SPECIAL.................... 5. Kevyn Dymond - Vacuum Cleaner 6. Dauerfisch - Blue Moon 7. Amy Denio - Marshall's Whitey Wipes 8. Greg Segal - Life in Gameland 9. Don Campau Two Minutes 5-9 from double CD - Cassette Culture Compilation Vol. 1 - http://lonelywhistle.doncampau.com/catalog/rewind-and-pause-cassette-culture-compilation-vol-1 Cassette Culture Archive: http://livingarchive.doncampau.com/ > ELECTRONIC COTTAGE: international magazine and community dedicated to homemade & DIY experimental art and music, Cassette Culture, Mail Art https://www.electroniccottage.org/ 10. Two Headed Emperor - Inspired by Concrete - CD - The Happy Medium and a Depressed Conjurer - http://www.FallingARecords.com 11. Chui Wan - Another Kind Of Love - double CD - "Youth International Party 1967-2018 50th" incl. Abbie Hoffman's "Wake Up Amerika" and "Music is Revolution" compilation, plus booklet, plus poster > http://saintthomasrecords.com/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_International_Party > Youth International Party manifesto! http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/2010541073 12. Deep Imagination - Awake from a Dream - CD - Carefully Kept Secrets - http://www.deep-imagination.com 13. Modest Midget - Crisis (Awake of the Shep) - CD Crisis - http://www.modestmidget.com http://www.LordLitter.de
The German show on air/web in July several times via Radio Marabu but already available via archive.org
.............. a little Tour De Force...
1 Caper Clowns - Sacre Bleu - from forthcoming CD - http://www.caperclowns.com >> Kid In A Big World....lost treasure re_released.... 2. John Howard - Family Man - Kid In A Big World (LP+Mp3) Reissue - http://www.youarethecosmos.com/ > Autobiography, Incidents Crowded With Life, published by Fisher King - http://www.fisherkingpublishing.co.uk/incidents-crowded-with-life/ >> Special: FUCHSIA special edition reissue ............ 3. Fuchsia - Just Anyone - double LP + DVD + 24pp A4 magazine + fold-out poster - color vinyl, gatefold sleeve - http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com 4. Mickey Stephens & Poor Blue - Wasteground Return - CD - Wasteground - http://www.thewasteground.com - in depth article about Mickey Stephens' background since the 1970s: https://clclt.com/charlotte/local-singer-revisits-the-wasteground-of-his-northern-ireland-youth/Content?oid=9658719 5. Mutant Press (and Friends) - Dirty Old Man - CD - Blood for Oil, Songs of the Fugs - http://www.mutantpress.com 6. David Peel - Marijuana Grass - double CD - "Youth International Party 1967-2018 50th" double CD incl. Abbie Hoffman's "Wake Up Amerika" and "Music is Revolution" compilation, plus booklet, plus poster > http://saintthomasrecords.com/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_International_Party > Youth International Party manifesto! http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/2010541073 7. Gnadenkapelle - Legalize Erdbeereis (Albumversion mit allem) - from forthcoming CD - https://www.bscmusic.com/en/artist_zone/11319/gnadenkapelle.htm 8. Walls Of Genius - Make America Mexican Again - the exception online release: https://wallsofgenius.bandcamp.com/album/all-trumped-up-2017 > Walls Of Genius Info: http://www.haltapes.com/walls-of-genius.html 9. Bill Bloomer - Roses, Bridges & Rain - CD - Jubilee - http://www.billbloomer.com 10. Colorway - Give it away - CD - These Are The Days - http://www.colorwaymusic.com 11. Black Note Graffiti - Send Off - CD - Volume II Without Nothing I'm You - http://www.blacknotegraffiti.com 12. Two Headed Emperor - The Wolf and the Lamb - CD - The Happy Medium and a Depressed Conjurer - http://www.FallingARecords.com 13. Sendelica - The Lost City of Cardiza - 3x10 color vinyl / 3D cover & 3D glasses - Chromlech Chronicles III - http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com 14. The Spongetones - Tough Love - CD - Scrambled Eggs - http://www.spongetones.com |
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