Open Collaboration Projects

Category: Labels

  • Right Brain Records: Championing Uncharted Musical Territories

    Right Brain Records: Championing Uncharted Musical Territories

    Right Brain Records, a nonprofit label, stands as a beacon for those artists who dare to venture into uncharted musical territories. The label serves as a platform for musicians to express their unique inner voices in the moment, fostering an environment that encourages musical exploration and experimentation. The ethos of Right Brain Records is rooted…

  • Bangaway Productions

    Bangaway Productions

    #20 Bangaway Productions is a cassette label out of Atlanta, Georgia. I’m not sure if it’s still active, however, there is a YouTube user for Bangaway Productions with the Lowlife #14 Free Tape published recently. Lowlife was a zine also out of Atlanta which also released a small number of noise and experimental cassettes.

  • Rotcod Zzaj | Dick Metcalf | Zzaj Productions

    Rotcod Zzaj | Dick Metcalf | Zzaj Productions

    Dick Metcalf is one of a handful of tireless supporters of underground musicians whose advocacy for artists has been ongoing for 30+ years. Along with reviewing thousands of independently produced albums his own music discography must easily number several hundred, including a large number of collaborations. Dick and I worked with each other throughout the…

  • Harsh Reality Music/Mental Anguish/Chris Phinney

    Harsh Reality Music/Mental Anguish/Chris Phinney

    Profile #662 Harsh Reality is one of the seminal tape labels from the 80’s and into the present, featuring the music of label head Chris Phinney and his long running Mental Anguish project. Phinney was heart behind Tapegerm during its main activity, helping me with the website on a daily basis. Chris published nine issues…

  • That Cow Inc.

    That Cow Inc.

    P00693 That Cow Inc. was a a label located in Pittsburgh, PA. Bands/projects on the label include Trailer Court Flambé, Herr Brine, Telecorps, Sinister Dexter, X Transpose X and Coptik Dot.

  • Irre Tapes

    Irre Tapes

    Label Profile 00232 A seminal West German tape label run by Matthias Lang.

  • Mystery Arts

    Mystery Arts

    Profile 02521 Craig Conley (Prof. Oddfellow) appeared in GAJOOB via his Captive Audience recording project around 1998, with collaborator Michael Warwick. They were part of Tapegerm’s early activities around this time, appearing on the Mix.One album and have a large body of work which includes music, video, books, apps and most probably more (or less).…

  • Grimm Goat Records

    Grimm Goat Records

    The Grimm Goat netlabel was created in 2014 by Bode and is reborn in 2022 to join The Church of Noisy Goat bringing unconventional music that takes place around the world. https://grimmgoatrecords.bandcamp.com/

  • Charles Laurel – Specific Ocean Music

    Charles Laurel – Specific Ocean Music

    Profile 00044 Charles Laurel resides in my mind alongside a few synth-based artists living in northern California who released cassettes both solo and in collaboration with each other.

  • The Tapegerm Collective

    The Tapegerm Collective

    P05368 Tapegerm started in 1999 as an idea for paying creative tribute to the albums in GAJOOB’s cassette library. The plan was to create pages where artists could download audio loops extracted from an album and create something new based on those sounds. It would be an evolving, living work where these creations were continuously…

Campau’s masterful manipulation of sounds, both musical and otherwise, creates a feast for the ears that’s hard to resist.gajoobzine.com/albums/don-campau-stolen-spectrum-digital-2023/

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