Category: Profiles

  • 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…

  • Susan D.

    Susan D.

    Profile 8851 Susan D. is Dutch creative, living in Amsterdam, lover of nature and art (specialising in landscapes and architecture). I came across her work while looking for creative vlogs on youtube.

  • Gabe Miller

    Gabe Miller

    Profile #8749 Gabe Miller is an electronic music producer and Youtuber from California, working in lots of genres, with special emphasis on progressive and electro house. His music is well worth checking out. I follow his YouTube channel to keep up with new synth and standalone sequencer-type gizmos and things.

  • 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…

  • Evolution Control Committee

    Evolution Control Committee

    Profile 102 The Evolution Control Committee was created in 1986 by Columbus, Ohio’s Mark Gunderson. The project was an early pioneer of “Plagiarhythm” a self-coined term for music which heavily utilizes copyright music as its basis for new art, often with an agitational bent. In recent years, Gunderson is found teaching new media art at…

  • 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.

  • Daniel Prendiville

    Daniel Prendiville

    Daniel Prendiville’s bandcamp page describes him as a, “Purveyor of fine pop, electronic, ambient, dub and experimental music since before the dawn of time (pretty much)” 

  • 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/

  • Minóy

    Minóy

    P00014 Minóy was a noise artist based in Torrance, California. His cassettes from the early 90’s were filled with washes of sound, often handcrafted with functional custom shells with elements encased in plastic. He passed in 2010. An archive of material as well as curated new releases are available at Minoy Cassetteworks.

It is basically the sound of a man having a nervous breakdown. But I generally do some of my best work when I’m hovering on the edge of insanity.Jim Shelley
gajoobzine.com/library/jim-shelley-interview-gajoob-10-1992/

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