Kranitz, Jerry/various
Cassette Culture (+book)
'HOMEMADE MUSIC AND CREATIVE SPIRIT IN THE PRE-INTERNET AGE' - Intensive 320 page book written by Jerry Kranitz including a 2CD loaded with almost 160 minutes of cassette culture/DIY artists. The book takes a social history/analytical approach to the growth of the global cassette culture/homemade music network that sprouted and flourished from the post-punk era through the early 1990s. The author explores how the participants communicated, traded, collaborated, and set up cottage industry labels to distribute their work. A long overdue study of this pivotal yet less than comprehensively documented chapter in the post-punk and 20th century independent arts movement stories. CD1: 01. 10-Speed Guillotine 'Temper Tango' 1990 (4:24) 02. Aconite 'The Truth About Cable TV' 1982 (3:05) 03. Another Headache 'Cacophony Continues' 1992 (5:31) 04. Autopsia 'Lebensherrgabe' 1983 (4:59) 05. Beequeen 'EE EA' 1988 (2:18) 06. Big City Orchestra 'Karawane' 1987 (3:44) 07. Bret Hart 'Partytime' 1985 (3:02) 08. Brume 'An Amphibian' 1988 (6:18) 09. Cacophony 33 'Frank' 1986 (1:37) 10. Charles Rice Goff III 'Big Surprise' 1990 (4:11) 11. Dog As Master 'Black Body' (Excerpt) 1985 (4:36) 12. Don Campau 'I Am Not Satisfied' 1983 (3:02) 13. E Coli 'Lag Phase' 'Djihad' 1981 (1:19) 14. E G Oblique Graph 'Fall Into Glass' 1982 (2:21) 15. F/i 'Zombie' 1984 (4:50) 16. Gen Ken Montgomery 'It happened To You' 1983 (3:09) 17. Girls on Fire 'In My Blood' 1985 (1:29) 18. If/Bwana 'Beauty And The Beast' 1986 (3:28) 19. ITN/Mental Anguish 'Force of Waves' (Edit) 1988 (2:24) 20. Jeff Central 'Tragick' 1988 (4:26) 21. Joseph K. Noyce 'The Beat' 1988 (2:37) 22. Kapotte Muziek 'Audio Plagio 2' 1988 (3:58) 23. Ken Moore 'Soft Pretense' 1986 (2:33) CD2: 01. Larynx 'Graett' 1981 (3:00) 02. Lord Litter 'St James Infirmary' 1990 (3:32) 03. Markus Schwill 'The Advantage Of Tape-Music' 1991 (2:29) 04. Minoy 'Eskalith' 1987 (5:16) 05. Monochrome Bleu 'Imagination' 1986 (2:26) 06. Muslimgauze 'Cyst' 1983 (4:20) 07. Mystery Hearsay 'Painted' 1986 (2:03) 08. Non Toxique Lost 'Statements' 1982 (4:18) 09. PBK 'Untitled 04' 1990 (4:48) 10. Philip Johnson 'Two Tracks Unused At The Time' 1979 (3:07) 11. Psi Nukli 'Trip Sequence II' 1988 (5:22) 12. R. Stevie Moore 'Puttin' Up The Groceries' 1978 (2:59) 13. Ri Gillham 'Soundtracks For Imaginary Films' 1980 (2:03) 14. Rimbaud Brothers 'Deceit' 1984 (3:41) 15. Rod Summers 'Sad News' 1984 (3:29) 16. Sheer Zed 'Take A Walk Down The Street' (3:26) 17. Storm Bugs 'Hodge' 1978 (4:54) 18. Taste Of Stool 'Squeeze Bees' 1989 (1:01) 19. Viktimized Karcass '3.32 AM Rain' 1985 (5:24) 20. Vittore Baroni 'Living With Prosthesis' 1985 (2:06) 21. Walls Of Genius 'Sunday, Monday Or Always!' 1983 (2:42) 22. Wolfgang Wiggers 'l'll Cry Tomorrow' 1983 (3:12) 23. Years On Earth 'Opposition' 1982 (2:46)