Cassette Culture
autor: Cassette Culture & DIY Music
Post-Punk’s High-Water Mark: Four Nights in London, 1979
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The stories of the global underground movement that shaped experimental music and culture, told by the artists that were there…
For two decades during the '80's and '90's, the international mail system fostered a network of underground artists, exchanging cassette tapes of music and homemade artwork – all under the radar of mainstream media. Taking the DIY message of Punk as a jumping off point, we travel through the network to find the creators of the fanzines, the music, the labels and events.
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- Post-Punk’s High-Water Mark: Four Nights in London, 1979 · 31 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 10The high-water mark of post-punk. Looking at the bill of the four nights at the YMCA in Central London during August 1979, its hard to deny that assertion. Final Solution’s bill…
- Mind Bomb: The The & Eyeless In Gaza · 28 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 9Our Industrial News "tapes received" trail reaches into the early 80s, and attention turns to quality. Robert H. King leads us into this episode, where we speak with Matt Johnson…
- Let The Tribe Grow: Chris Connelly Receives The Gospel Of DIY · 29 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 8Searching for connection and community; we track the story of Chris Connelly (Fini Tribe, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pigface) discovering Throbbing Gristle via the John Peel…
- Tapes Received: The Factory Connection · 30 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 7Some of the most surprising and revealing connections surface in this episode. Two worlds that rarely get mentioned in the same breath: Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records…
- Tapes Received: Industrial Music for Industrial People · 26 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 6From 1978-1980, Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records published a newsletter called Industrial News. With a philosophy of exchange and transparency, they listed attendance…
- No Words, No Titles, No Meaning - The World Of Alien Brains · 29 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 5The strange, uncompromising world of Alien Brains, the project led by Nigel Jacklin that helped define the outer edges of the early 1980s DIY cassette underground. Emerging from…
- Evolution of Snatch Tapes & The Storm Bugs · 30 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 4A hard to imagine London of derelict warehouses and ruined public buildings birthed the short, intense life of Snatch Tapes, the late-70s cassette label founded by Philip…
- Under the Westway: 1979 Portobello Punks · 27 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 3Emerging from the squats, free gigs and improvised studios of late-70’s Portobello Road, F*ck Off Records operated at the volatile intersection of hippie idealism and punk DIY…
- Deleted Funtime Rewind · 1 h 0 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 1After we spoke with Mark Automaton for our episode on Deleted Records and the Instant Automatons, he kindly shared his recollections of the music and bands presented on the…
- Integrated Circuits: Colin Potter, ICR and the Cassette Network · 28 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 2Emerging from the same late-1970s underground that fuelled punk, DIY cassette culture, and European electronic experimentation, we explore the influence of Colin Potter - sound…
- Deleted Records & The Instant Automatons · 28 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 1Underneath the safety pins, television expletives and bondage trousers that came with Punk in 1977, there was a coded message for those ready to hear it. Resolutely independent…
- Season 2 - DIY Revolution: Owning The Means Of Production · 5 min · Řada 2The artists who made the template - In Season 2 we’re delving into the very origins of the underground cassette music scene from the late 70s and early 80s, featuring insights…
- Checkpoint Staalplaat: Revisiting Radical Sound, with Geert-jan Hobijn · 24 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 15From vinyl to cassettes and the occasional... flexi-postcard! Geert-Jan Hobijn reflects on Staalplaat’s origins as a cassette label, and some current releases. In this special…
- Copy This Mix · 26 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 14Music mix by Joshua James Amberson drawing on cassette releases reviewed in issue #3 of the Copy This Cassette zine. Joshua is publisher of the Basic Paper Airplane zine, and…
- Inside the Zine: Copy This Cassette with Blake Werts · 29 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 13From the worlds of mini-comix to independent music, D. Blake Werts is the creative force behind the fanzine, Copy This Cassette. Martin Franklin and co-host Jerry Kranitz sit…
- Underground Goes Overground: Freakbeat, & Planet Dog · 27 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 123D glasses at the ready, we speak with Richard Allen, editor of psychedelic magazine Freakbeat, founder of Delerium Records, and Michael Dog of Club Dog, Megadog and Planet Dog…
- Third Mind, Fourth Dimension · 33 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 11Armed with fanzines, cassette tapes, and a fierce DIY spirit - two teenagers from Herne Bay helped shape the UK’s underground music scene. In this episode, host Martin Franklin…
- Post-Punk Publishing, with Attrition and Adventures In Reality · 27 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 10Tales of handmade 'zines and the cassette underground with two key figures: Martin Bowes of the electronic-industrial band Attrition, and Alan Rider of the Adventures In Reality…
- Wild Planet 1983: The World Gets Weirder · 25 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 9From the provocative performances of Throbbing Gristle at the Lyceum to Einstürzende Neubauten's infamous stage-demolishing concert at the ICA, this episode captures the moment…
- Erotic Art, CDr's and a Mystery Device from Hybryds · 15 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 8Amazing artworks, CDr's and a mystery device. The full unboxing experience of the package sent to us from Belgium by Sandy from the Hybryds. This is the Bonus version of the…







