Profile Index

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

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…

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)” 

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…

#593 Dino DiMuro was one of my earliest hometaper discoveries and his quirky prog rock pop songs were full of quick changes and slices of life. Dino was first interviewed in GAJOOB #4.

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…

Profile #8847 I first encountered Jim Owen through Songfight.org which is an informal songwriting non-competition. Jim’s recordings were varied and always stellar. Fast-forward fifteen years or more and I run across a couple albums from 2016 that blew me away and I had to find out more.

Profile #699 Jim Shelley’s music combines driving garage rock, folk and britpunk angst. I have a feeling the songs spill out of Jim but it’s an unquenchable fire. He sent at least 12 albums to GAJOOB for review over the years and that’s probably not the half of it. You can find his music on…

Profile #1 In my mind, Michael Chocholak’s music was that of a true sound artist. It isn’t so much guitar , synth or electronic-based as it is based on whatever sound it was and what it became. He was a support of GAJOOB’s printed zines from issue #6 and sent a couple tapes from that…

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.

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.

Profile #00474 Tom Furgas was the first hometaper interviewed in GAJOOB’s first issue from 1987. His tape, Courtesy Patrol’s Razor Clocks with collaborator Bill Lehman was an early spark in my now lifetime love affair with homemade music.