Open Collaboration Projects

Category: Profiles

  • Angela Sandberg

    Angela Sandberg

    P08842 Angela makes comics and zines and music as Putty with husband, Eric, among other things featuring characters spun from all this creativity.

  • 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…

  • Pillow Image Ltd.

    Pillow Image Ltd.

    P02208 Pillow Image Ltd. is the tape label run by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt, releasing tapes by The Silly Pillows, solo releases and collaborations with notables like Dan Fioretti, Ken Clinger and others.

  • Dave Fuglewicz

    Dave Fuglewicz

    P00151 Dave Fuglewicz was a creator of electronic music since the early 80’s and active in independent music circles since 1990. As a longtime Tapegerm collaborator, he explored a wide range of styles working both solo and together with a wide range of artists from noise to spoken word. Before his passing he archived a large body of…

  • Chris Ballew

    Chris Ballew

    GAJOOB Profile 00373 Chris Ballew first came to GAJOOB #5 (spring 1990) with the band project EGG, an artist collective from Somerville, MA, USA. They were included on the first GAJOOBilation cassette tape with their song, Sperm Factory from their Smell Me Fist cassette. Download MP3 audio. In 1997 I was gathering songs for GAJOOB’s…

  • YU/Home Productions

    YU/Home Productions

    YU is C.U.Squirm, Rod Miles and Bentley Shaft. Three real men doing what real men do. GAJOOB received their cassette album, Illusion of Control, from Home Productions, Austin, Texas.   http://livingarchive.doncampau.com/early_experiences/dwain-woodruff This band shows a sophisticated flair for bizarro transmutations of rock styles that seem to range from Zappa to the Residents and beyond. … It’s just…

  • Aural Films (Poison Plant)

    Aural Films (Poison Plant)

    Aural Films is a music label run by Jack Hertz of cassette network era label Poison Plant. Aural Films releases soundtracks for movies that do not exist, covering a wide range of styles ranging from the familiar to the unheard. Often on the same release. Now accepting submissions for all types of challenging music(s). Contact Jack via…

  • Ecto Tapes

    Ecto Tapes

    GAJOOB lists Ed Canfield as the person behind Ecto Tapes (Discogs lists  Gianni Santillie ?), an Oklahoma City based cassette label. Artists include Teen Lesbians & Animals and Eel O. as well as co-releases from labels such as Harsh Reality and Big City Orchestra.

  • ITN (International Terrorist Network)

    ITN (International Terrorist Network)

    Jeff “Central” Chenault co-founded the International Terrorist Network, an industrial label. He is perhaps best known as a member of 10-Speed Guillotine with Andrew Isold (Alois) and was also in Edison’s Office Boy with James Towning (Fact TwentyTwo) and The Weird Love Makers with Mark Gunderson and Greg Fernandez. Chenault ran the Comfort Stand net…

The melody is ethereal, floating above the rhythm like a specter, enveloping the listener in its ghostly embrace.gajoobzine.com/albums/marguerite-sissie-this-yokai-i-know-digital-2023/

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