Homemade Alien Music podcasts
A podcast-style program hosted and narrated by Hal McGee featuring selections from his personal collection of classic cassette releases of homemade experimental, electronic and rock music of the 1980s and 1990s and some from the 2000s and 1970s. I published 17 Homemade Alien Music programs at podomatic.com in 2006. All 17 are reissued here, with links below to each of the programs.
Many thanks to Jerry Kranitz of Aural Innovations for hosting these programs.
Homemade Alien Music 1 (58:53)
Bene Gesserit Insane Music For Insane People, Vol. 1, 1981
Alien Planetscapes Systems And Controls, 1983
P16.D4 Cadavres Exquis compilation, 1984
Mental Anguish Hellhole, 1983
Vox Populi! Introduction A La Theorie De La Subjectivite Relative, 1982
Mans Hate Suffer In Silence, 1984
SMERSH A Murder Of Crows, 1984
Ken Clinger KC: 6, 1984
DDAA La Famille Des Saltimbanques, 1984
Richard Franecki Two Drones, 1983
Walls Of Genius Before ...And After, 1984
Étant Donnés Mon Coeur, 1986
Viscera A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies, 1984
Mark Fink and Bill McCandless Nice Noisy Toys
Homemade Alien Music 2 (59:44)
Don Campau Pinata Party
Dave Fuglewicz Every Electric Part Of You Too, 1991
Thehorsehessick Pulp, 1984
Disism Disism, 1986
Merzbow Chant, 1984
Tara Cross Concocting Chaos, 1983
Lt. Murnau Lt. Murnau's Greatest Risks, 1980
If, Bwana Beware The Sleeping Squid, 1985
Lord Litter Tape Heads Two compilation, 1998
Monochrome Bleu Mirage compilation, 1986
Zanstones The Subtle Art Of Puddle Pushing, 1984
Algebra Suicide ltd. ed. Live At Links tape, 1988
Le Syndicat L'Arme De Force, 1986
Twa Digs Under Paris I Shin Ohn, 1984
Comando Bruno Comandant Bruno And DX Club, mid-80s
Homemade Alien Music 3 (60:20)
Ptose Production Present "Eat Your Fish", Poisson Soluble, 1983
Pacific 231 "Coprophilie", Ritual Dos Sadicos compilation, 1983
Psyclones "Keep It Together", self-titled cassette, 1982
Michael J. Bowman "Smokedrink", Wonderbred World, 1990
Attrition and Audio Leter "The Christening", A Critique Of Leisure Consumption, 1983
Minóy "Give Me Your Money", Level 10 compilation, 1985
Het Zweet "Vocus", eponymous tape, Sound Of Pig label, 1985
Architects Office "I Chris", Memorial Issue, 1984
Haters "Brokess", Hear The Roar Of Mountains compilation, 1985
The Dave "Old Lady Dirt Box", Lois, 1984
XV Parówek excerpt from Rózowy Hiper-balonik, 1996
Sadistic Gossip "Dead Poets Don't Shave Their Heads", Confessions Of A Shit Addict, 1983
Pascal Comelade "Bolero cubiste", Bel Canto Orquestra, 1985
Theatre Of Ice "A Militant Hymn", The Haunting, 1983
Sleep Chamber "Dream Distillate", Gut Level One compilation, 1983
Homemade Alien Music 4 (60:46)
Masaki Best Text Of Japan compilation, 1986
Cultural Amnesia The Uncle Of The Boot, 1983
Randy Greif It's In A Box, 1983
Jay T. Yamamoto Bruit Non Stop, 1995
Rig Veeda Callous Friends, mid-1980s
Tasaday Riflessi Sensibili, 1984
Solomonoff and Von Hoffmannstahl Swim Or Die, 1984
Costes Il En Reste, 1985
Stimbox Stimbox 7, 1994
Konstruktivists Psyko-Genetika II, 1983
Controlled Bleeding Swallowing Scrap Metal compilation, 1984
An Bene and Pierre Lambow L.A. Mantra compilation, 1983
No Unauthorized Mail Art 6 X 10 = 60 Volume Two, 1986
Nox Acte II, 1983
Jarboe untitled personal edition, ca. 1986
Homemade Alien Music 5 (60:00)
Van Kaye & Ignit A Slight Delay, 1981
Big City Orchestra Necronomicon 3 compilation, 1986
X Ray Pop After Bathing At Berlin With Adolf Opera, 1984
1348 The Slow Walk, 1988
Unovidual Beyond Step One compilation, 1984
Malok Electronic Cottage Compilation #1, 1990
Schlafengarten Memorandum, 1984
Cock ESP The Fine Art Of Anal Intercourse, 1995
Magisch Theater Het Magisch Theater And Insanity, early-mid 1980s
EHI A Fear Of Staircases, 1994
Kevin Harrison and Steven Parker Against The Light, 1982
Allegory Chapel Ltd. Assaults On The Human Body, 1990
Diseño Corbusier Stadia, mid-80s
K2 Hypertrophy, 1994
John Trubee And The Ugly Janitors Of America The Deserts Of Utah, 1985
Homemade Alien Music 6 (60:00)
This edition of Homemade Alien Music features independent tape releases that were listed in the January 1985 Cause And Effect catalogue.
Kevyn Dymond Objekt No. 2 compilation, 1984
Paul Kelday Worlds Apart, 1982
Dega-Ray Clasp/Click
O'Nancy In French O'Nancy In French, 1984
Gargoyle Mechanique House Of Dogs, 1984
Fetus In Fetu Fetus In Fetu, 1984
Marco Cacciamani Step
John Wiggins Anagenic
Gerechtigkeits Liga Live In Antwerpen, 1984
Hunting Lodge S/M Operations Live At The Harrington Ballroom, 1983
Drunken Dolphins Pictures Become Suspicious, 1984
Master/Slave Relationship The Desire To Castrate Father, 1984
Dog As Master Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog, 1984
Polar Praxis werk één, 1983
Psychological Warfare Branch Aural Fixation compilation, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 7 (58:38)
JABON As Fess, Cause And Effect label, 1986
Amy Denio National Holidays , 1986
Post Prandials Douch Ex Machina, EE Tapes, 1996
Vidna Obmana Near The Flogging Landscape, Violet Glass Oracle label, 1990
Paper Bag Victimless Crime, 1985
Club Moral Le Petit Mort' compilation, Cthulhu
Rik Rue Dub For St. Rita, Pedestrian Tapes, 1984
Agog Is No Man, Broken Flag, 1986
Port Said Eve Of Departure, 1982
D.Z. Lectric Plaisirs Solitaires, D.Z. Product, 1982
Darren Copeland Three Faces, self-released, 1986
Die Form European Square Volume One compilation, Bande Blanche, 1986
Homogenized Terrestrials Attacking The Scars, 6 On The Dot, 1994
Poison Gas Research self-titled cassette, mid-1980s
Mauthausen Orchestra 6 x 10 = 60 Volume Three compilation, Korm Plastics, 1986
Homemade Alien Music 8 (60:03)
Yximalloo 15 songs, Sakura Wrechords label, 1982
Merz "El Signo", from Necronomicon 2 compilation, 1985
Crawling With Tarts "Strand Of Eyebrows", Hasel Rüte, ASP, 1987
Influenza Prods. "Brice Le Chat", Cheek-A-Bomba, 1984
Tom Furgas "Fightin' For Yer Soul", The Facts Lie, 1984
Dissidents "Die Presidents Sind Entthront!!!", The Presidents Rule!, Priapismus, 1982-83
The Violence 1/2 "Echoes Of Paris", The Memory Waltz, Nihilistic Recordings, 1998
Vivenza Unité Objective, Ladd-Frith, 1986
Etat Des Stocks "Aliens In Brussels", Neue Muster Volume Eleven, Tonspur Tapes, 1984
John M. Bennett The Blur, Luna Bisonte Prods., 1987
Abner Malaty "Flash", self-titled, Cracked Cranium Cassettes, 1985
Sack Harald Sack Ziegler "Neon", Intrendent Fansette Kassetten Trilogie Compilation 5-10, 1986
Andrzej Dudek Dürer "Metaphysical - Telepathic Electronic Music", Metaphysical - Telepathic Activity, 1984
La Sonorite Jaune "Deux Autres Voix", Ersatia, SJ Organisation, 1987
37 Pink Corrective Justice, Greyscale,mid-1980s
Ceramic Hobs "Pulled Off My Bike Again, Tape Heads #2 compilation, HalTapes, 1998
Deleted "Animals In The Zoo", Tape Heads #3 compilation, HalTapes, 1998
Homemade Alien Music 9 (58:09)
Cause And Effect Special Number Two
This edition of Homemade Alien Music features independent tape releases that were listed in the January 1985 Cause And Effect catalogue
Gertie "Wandern", Overdoses Of Roses, Stichting Stopcontact label
Maybe Mental "My Son", Animisum II, 1984
Avant-Dernières Pensées "El Desfile De La Victoria", Arte Deshecho, 1984 Cintas
Cleaners From Venus "Summer In A Small Town", Under Wartime Conditions, Man At The Off-Licence Tapes, 1984
Pierre Perret Gaia, La Terre
Blackhouse "Born Again", Pro-Life, 1984
Bande Berne Crematoire "Rosa Bernet", self-titled
Mystery Hearsay self-titled cassette, Mystery Hearsay label, 1984
Pliny The Elder "Hungry Mutant Corpusles", from Torpid Liver #1
Roberta Eklund Piano Improvisations, 1985
Der Akteur "Brain Operation", Accident In The Year Dada X
Yard Trauma "Answer Before Question", Reptile House, Iconoclast International, 1983
Peter Catham "21 Today", Onslaught cassettezine No. 3, Idiosyncratics, 1983
Robert Rich "Cave Paintings", Trances, 1983
Fusako Takahashi - Minoru Numazawa - Masanori Hashimoto Koutei
Homemade Alien Music 10 (61:09)
R. Stevie Moore "Melbourne", Stevie Moore Returns, 1976
Daylight Savings Time "Composition #31", No Indian Gaming, American Tapes label, 1995
Seiei Jack Nakahara and Magthea "The Apocalypse", The Joke Project 1984
Jeff Greinke "Exciting Small Particles", Before The Storm, Intrepid, 1984
Ferial Confine Meiosis, Broken Flag label, 1985
Ray Carmen "I'll Get You For That", Naive Assumptions, late 1980s
Croiners The Relentless Rhythm Of Change, Jim Tapes, mid-1980s
Noisebitch "Tired Of Playing These Parlor Games", Jailtime, Smell The Stench Tapes, 2001
Hands To "Guerilla Jazz", Do Not Touch Them, Sound Of Pig, 1987
Camera Obscura "Tokyo", Orient & Mecanique, 1984
The Nocturnal Emissions "Rusting Shells", The Fight Goes On, Staal Tape, 1984
Expose Your Eyes Music To Go Mad To, SCUM, mid-1990s
Context Necrophonie, Tonspur Tapes, 1987
Crash Worship "Bobby Jojo Bobo & The Bobby Jojo Bobo Orchestra", Hit After Hit, Rocco Fresco, 1986
Absolute Body Control "Waving Hands", International Sound Communication No. 1 compilation, Mans Hate Productions, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 11 (44:07)
In this special edition of Homemade Alien Music, Hal McGee tells the story of the creation and history of his first cassette tape release of homemade experimental music, 60 Minutes Of Laughter, from 1982.
The program starts with a 10-minute introduction by Hal. Then he plays Side One of 60 Minutes Of Laughter in its entirety. Afterwards, Hal makes additional comments.
Side One of 60 Minutes Of Laughter:
"Red House, Blue House" – DJ & HM
"Voulez In The Voulez" – GS
"Ant War" – HM
"Kurtz Kapers (Apocalypse Later)" – Kurtz Memorial Band
"A Different Kind Of Music" – Viscera
"Love In The Tropics"
"Starvation And Beating" – Viscera
"Floatin' On The Waves" – Dancing Invisibles
"Love Is On My Side" – Trish & The Swishettes
"Home" – Viscera
"Composition" – HM
"Outraged Civilized World" – Viscera
"Another Simon And Garfunkel Hit"
"Three Blind Pigs" – Residential Rick
"To Tristan, With Love"
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" – Trish & The Swishettes
"Seeing The Future" – Viscera
"Airplanes And Engines (Are Beautiful)" – Dancing Invisibles
"Husband And Wife Scenario"
"New Eyes"
"Pain Research" – Trish & The Swishettes
"Improv" – Gabble Ratchet
"Apple Pie"
"Wurlitzer Intermission" – DJ
Look for Homemade Alien Music 12, in which Hal McGee will continue the story of 60 Minutes Of Laughter, and he will play Side Two of the tape.
Homemade Alien Music 12 (50:28)
In this special edition of Homemade Alien Music, Hal McGee continues to tell the story of the creation and history of his first cassette tape release of homemade experimental music, 60 Minutes Of Laughter, from 1982.
If you have not already done so, please listen to Homemade Alien Music 11 to hear the first part of this special edition of the program.
The program starts with a 11-minute introduction by Hal. Then he plays Side Two of 60 Minutes Of Laughter in its entirety. Afterwards, Hal makes additional comments.
"Wurlitzer Intermission (cont)"
"Collage/Gertrude Stein" - Gabble Ratchet
"Dharma Proclivity/Butchered Calf" – Jolifanto Karawane and Mipoola Palinga
"Tinyness" – Park Avenue Rick
"Live At The Sanctuary" – JK & MP
"Bird Is Dead" – HM & DJ
"I Love You I Love You I Love You"
"Repercussive Illusion" – HM
"WWIII" – Army Brats (RK, DJ, HM)
"WWIV" – Army Brats
"My Balls" – L. Extentensa (Toby O'Brien)
"Public Lavatory, Blue Light" – HM & DJ
"The Edge" – Viscera
"Negative Image"
"Everything And Nothing" – Viscera
"Tiger Talk" – Burnt Circuits (DJ & HM)
"I Don't Understand" – DJ w/ 'Mr British'
"Silly Love Songs"
"Why Do You Do It?"
"Freedom To Be Immoral" – The Conversations
"Accepting Things As They Are" – Viscera
Homemade Alien Music 13 (59:45)
Harsh Reality Music label special
Mental Anguish "High Road", Bloodbath, 1985
Cancerous Growth "Incestual", Bound To Die, 1985
Viktimized Karcass "Ha!", A Matter Of Principle, 1984
Kapotte Muziek "Stazione", Bahnhof, 1988
Mitch Rushton "Moscow To Novosibirsk", Trans-Siberian, 1988
M. Finnkrieg "Invocation", Down The Poppy Stairs of Heaven, 1988
blackhumour "tab to block bicuspid", Penetration, 1989
Brume "Panzerfaust 3", France compilation, 1990
Doc Wör Mirran "Fastly Skitso", Music From A Divided Germany compilation, 1989
Odal "Untitled", The Netherlands compilation, 1989
PBK "Nobody Hears This Dog's Cries", U.S.A. Volume 2 compilation, 1989
AMK "Montage #24", U.S.A. Volume 2 compilation, 1989
Alien Planetscapes "Atom Bomb Blues", Everybody's Mad At Amerikkka, 1987
Parade Of Sinners "No Happening", Woundz Never Heal! compilation, Volume 2, 1988
Mental Anguish and John Hudak "Booming Skulls", Multiple Morning Green, 1989
Gorgonzola Legs "The Performance", Short Stories, 1989
Homemade Alien Music 14 (60:00)
Hal McGee plays music from Alain Neffe's Insane Music label of Trazegnies, Belgium.
The first four tracks are from the Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 1 compilation:
Japanese Genius "Pikah o Papikah ??" (1981)
Cortex "Cortex A" (1981)
Human Flesh "Indians" (1981)
M.A.L. "Insects In Love" (1974)
four tracks from Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 2, all from 1982:
Pseudo Code "Waiting For Zorro"
Legendary Pink Dots "Time Dance"
Colin Potter "I Am Your Shadow"
Portion Control "Shift And Shuffle"
four selections from Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 3 (1982):
Metamorphosis "Flesh Trade"
Pseudo Code "Watoo-Watoo"
Merzbow "Envois #4"
Let's Have Healthy Children "Polychrome"
two tracks from Bene Gesserit Live In Belgium And Holland (1983):
"Tonight"
"Death Is Not A Betrayal"
"Kent Should Like It" from Human Flesh: The Third Human Attempt
"Nothing To Do" (1978) by I Scream, from Tomorrow Is Another Day
two excerpts from the Four In One, Vol. 1 compilation:
Etat Brut "Sollicitation Ext."
Mécanique Végétale "Zona Periodica"
Homemade Alien Music 15 (59:34)
Problemist "No Physical", After Sanity, Ladd-Frith label, 1985
:$oviet:France: "Mama Piss", Garista, Singing Ringing, 1982
Herd Of The Ether Space "Macabre Curiosity", Suicide Driver, Taped Rugs Productions, 1994
Macronympha excerpt from Notes From Underground, Self Abuse Records, mid-1990s
F/i "Echo River", The Circle Is The Square, Ladd-Frith, 1986
Usward "Free Electronic Age", Nature And The Electronic Age, 1986
Black Leather Jesus excerpt from Crossburnt, E.F. Tapes, 1995
Jessica Rylan excerpt from Wiped Away, Durable Stimuli, 2006
NOMUZIC "The Negative Sundance", In/Divi/Dualism, audiofile Tapes, 1986
Coup De Grace excerpt from Commencement / Corpse Education, 1984
Culver "Anon", from split tape with E.H.I., FDR Tapes, 1996
The Majestic Twelve "Incident At Cole Strang Road", Inklab Works, 1996
R.H.Y Yau "Context-Dependent", Void Fraction, Auscultare, 1997
Psyclones & Schlafengarten "Life Is Like Death...", Life Is Like Death With The Lights On, Ladd-Frith, 1984
Ashtray Navigations excerpt from Find A Magic Lantern In The Woods, Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, 1995
Laxative Souls "N.N.", Desinfektionsraum, Multiple Configuration, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 16 (56:49)
Russ Stedman "Love Under", 1987 - Rewind And Pause, Cassette Culture Compilation Volume One CDR, 2006
Busyditch excerpt from Fudgesicle double cassette, Black Sedan Studios, 1993-96
Aube "Electro-Dynamic-Power", E-Power, G.R.O.S.S., 1994
D.D.A.A. "The Riddle's Standards", Prehistoric Rejet, Illusion Production, 1983
Ono excerpt from the title track of Kate Cincinnati, 1982
De Fabriek "Doni I", Elegy #2 compilation cassette, EE Tapes, 1997
M.Nomized "L'abîme complet", Music For Piano And Loops, EE Tapes, 1995
Rotten Piece "Truncated Bug Regenerator", Plasma Apparitions CDR, Lazy Squid Rekkids, 2003
Outermost "The Structur Of Corruption", Corruption CDR, Tornado Production, 1998/2000
CJJBROZT "Menthal Shock", Marxistmusic CDR, Red Star Budapest, 2000
Sue Ann Harkey "Kinetic Harmony", I Tell You Everything, Just Not Out Loud, Cityzens For Non-Linear Futures, 1984
Q.R. Ghazala "Zeitgeist Mechanique", No Machine Is Silent double cassette compilation, Realization, 1995
Neo Zelanda "Francês Básicos", Necronomicon 1 compilation, 1984
Selfs Without Shells "Go On And Find You Out!", Electronic Cottage Compilation Volume One, 1990
Non Toxique Lost "Die 4 Tempramente", Necronomicon 2 compilation, 1985
Ken Clinger with Belinda Subraman "Vessels", KC.06, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 17 (49:09)
Hal McGee plays the first half of the Cause And Effect May 1985 Catalogue Aural Sampler cassette. Experimental and electronic music from the mid-1980s cassette music scene.
In January 1985 Debbie Jaffe and Hal McGee launched the Cause And Effect International Cassette Distribution Service. Cause And Effect distributed cassettes of homemade, independent and underground experimental, electronic and industrial music by artists in USA, Belgium, France, England, Canada, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, and Japan.
This sampler tape contained 30-second excerpts from every cassette listed in the second Cause And Effect Catalogue, from May 1985. During the first part of the program you will hear excerpts from these releases:
BORBETOMAGUS Live At Inroads
PACIFIC 231/LE SYNDICAT Alliance
VOX POPULI! La Cathedrale Morte
MERZBOW Ushi-Tra
CONTROLLED BLEEDING Day Lungs
S/M OPERATIONS LIVE AT THE HARRINGTON BALLROOM
VISCERA Hot And Cold
VISCERA Who Is This One
VISCERA A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies
VISCERA In A Foreign Film
SCHLAFENGARTEN "Strange New City/Mouse Night"
LES ENFANTS (TERRIBLES) "Charnel/Lust"
THE CONCRETE ETENDUE
ROBERTA EKLUND Go Tell It On The Mountain
ROBERTA EKLUND Piano Improvisations
MASTER/SLAVE RELATIONSHIP "Fanatic"/"Embracing Power"
MASTER/SLAVE RELATIONSHIP The Desire To Castrate Father
DOG AS MASTER Black Body
DOG AS MASTER Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog
JACK Up
MONOCHROME BLEU
MONOCHROME BLEU/JOSEF K. NOYCE
OCCUPANT No Specific Answer
ROBERT RICH Drones
ROBERT RICH Trances
RICHARD FRANECKI Points
RICHARD FRANECKI Zones
RICHARD FRANECKI Test Pattern
RICHARD FRANECKI Two Drones
F/i Illumanati
F/i Lords
F/i Zombie
F/i Y
Many thanks to Jerry Kranitz of Aural Innovations for hosting these programs.
Homemade Alien Music 1 (58:53)
Bene Gesserit Insane Music For Insane People, Vol. 1, 1981
Alien Planetscapes Systems And Controls, 1983
P16.D4 Cadavres Exquis compilation, 1984
Mental Anguish Hellhole, 1983
Vox Populi! Introduction A La Theorie De La Subjectivite Relative, 1982
Mans Hate Suffer In Silence, 1984
SMERSH A Murder Of Crows, 1984
Ken Clinger KC: 6, 1984
DDAA La Famille Des Saltimbanques, 1984
Richard Franecki Two Drones, 1983
Walls Of Genius Before ...And After, 1984
Étant Donnés Mon Coeur, 1986
Viscera A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies, 1984
Mark Fink and Bill McCandless Nice Noisy Toys
Homemade Alien Music 2 (59:44)
Don Campau Pinata Party
Dave Fuglewicz Every Electric Part Of You Too, 1991
Thehorsehessick Pulp, 1984
Disism Disism, 1986
Merzbow Chant, 1984
Tara Cross Concocting Chaos, 1983
Lt. Murnau Lt. Murnau's Greatest Risks, 1980
If, Bwana Beware The Sleeping Squid, 1985
Lord Litter Tape Heads Two compilation, 1998
Monochrome Bleu Mirage compilation, 1986
Zanstones The Subtle Art Of Puddle Pushing, 1984
Algebra Suicide ltd. ed. Live At Links tape, 1988
Le Syndicat L'Arme De Force, 1986
Twa Digs Under Paris I Shin Ohn, 1984
Comando Bruno Comandant Bruno And DX Club, mid-80s
Homemade Alien Music 3 (60:20)
Ptose Production Present "Eat Your Fish", Poisson Soluble, 1983
Pacific 231 "Coprophilie", Ritual Dos Sadicos compilation, 1983
Psyclones "Keep It Together", self-titled cassette, 1982
Michael J. Bowman "Smokedrink", Wonderbred World, 1990
Attrition and Audio Leter "The Christening", A Critique Of Leisure Consumption, 1983
Minóy "Give Me Your Money", Level 10 compilation, 1985
Het Zweet "Vocus", eponymous tape, Sound Of Pig label, 1985
Architects Office "I Chris", Memorial Issue, 1984
Haters "Brokess", Hear The Roar Of Mountains compilation, 1985
The Dave "Old Lady Dirt Box", Lois, 1984
XV Parówek excerpt from Rózowy Hiper-balonik, 1996
Sadistic Gossip "Dead Poets Don't Shave Their Heads", Confessions Of A Shit Addict, 1983
Pascal Comelade "Bolero cubiste", Bel Canto Orquestra, 1985
Theatre Of Ice "A Militant Hymn", The Haunting, 1983
Sleep Chamber "Dream Distillate", Gut Level One compilation, 1983
Homemade Alien Music 4 (60:46)
Masaki Best Text Of Japan compilation, 1986
Cultural Amnesia The Uncle Of The Boot, 1983
Randy Greif It's In A Box, 1983
Jay T. Yamamoto Bruit Non Stop, 1995
Rig Veeda Callous Friends, mid-1980s
Tasaday Riflessi Sensibili, 1984
Solomonoff and Von Hoffmannstahl Swim Or Die, 1984
Costes Il En Reste, 1985
Stimbox Stimbox 7, 1994
Konstruktivists Psyko-Genetika II, 1983
Controlled Bleeding Swallowing Scrap Metal compilation, 1984
An Bene and Pierre Lambow L.A. Mantra compilation, 1983
No Unauthorized Mail Art 6 X 10 = 60 Volume Two, 1986
Nox Acte II, 1983
Jarboe untitled personal edition, ca. 1986
Homemade Alien Music 5 (60:00)
Van Kaye & Ignit A Slight Delay, 1981
Big City Orchestra Necronomicon 3 compilation, 1986
X Ray Pop After Bathing At Berlin With Adolf Opera, 1984
1348 The Slow Walk, 1988
Unovidual Beyond Step One compilation, 1984
Malok Electronic Cottage Compilation #1, 1990
Schlafengarten Memorandum, 1984
Cock ESP The Fine Art Of Anal Intercourse, 1995
Magisch Theater Het Magisch Theater And Insanity, early-mid 1980s
EHI A Fear Of Staircases, 1994
Kevin Harrison and Steven Parker Against The Light, 1982
Allegory Chapel Ltd. Assaults On The Human Body, 1990
Diseño Corbusier Stadia, mid-80s
K2 Hypertrophy, 1994
John Trubee And The Ugly Janitors Of America The Deserts Of Utah, 1985
Homemade Alien Music 6 (60:00)
This edition of Homemade Alien Music features independent tape releases that were listed in the January 1985 Cause And Effect catalogue.
Kevyn Dymond Objekt No. 2 compilation, 1984
Paul Kelday Worlds Apart, 1982
Dega-Ray Clasp/Click
O'Nancy In French O'Nancy In French, 1984
Gargoyle Mechanique House Of Dogs, 1984
Fetus In Fetu Fetus In Fetu, 1984
Marco Cacciamani Step
John Wiggins Anagenic
Gerechtigkeits Liga Live In Antwerpen, 1984
Hunting Lodge S/M Operations Live At The Harrington Ballroom, 1983
Drunken Dolphins Pictures Become Suspicious, 1984
Master/Slave Relationship The Desire To Castrate Father, 1984
Dog As Master Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog, 1984
Polar Praxis werk één, 1983
Psychological Warfare Branch Aural Fixation compilation, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 7 (58:38)
JABON As Fess, Cause And Effect label, 1986
Amy Denio National Holidays , 1986
Post Prandials Douch Ex Machina, EE Tapes, 1996
Vidna Obmana Near The Flogging Landscape, Violet Glass Oracle label, 1990
Paper Bag Victimless Crime, 1985
Club Moral Le Petit Mort' compilation, Cthulhu
Rik Rue Dub For St. Rita, Pedestrian Tapes, 1984
Agog Is No Man, Broken Flag, 1986
Port Said Eve Of Departure, 1982
D.Z. Lectric Plaisirs Solitaires, D.Z. Product, 1982
Darren Copeland Three Faces, self-released, 1986
Die Form European Square Volume One compilation, Bande Blanche, 1986
Homogenized Terrestrials Attacking The Scars, 6 On The Dot, 1994
Poison Gas Research self-titled cassette, mid-1980s
Mauthausen Orchestra 6 x 10 = 60 Volume Three compilation, Korm Plastics, 1986
Homemade Alien Music 8 (60:03)
Yximalloo 15 songs, Sakura Wrechords label, 1982
Merz "El Signo", from Necronomicon 2 compilation, 1985
Crawling With Tarts "Strand Of Eyebrows", Hasel Rüte, ASP, 1987
Influenza Prods. "Brice Le Chat", Cheek-A-Bomba, 1984
Tom Furgas "Fightin' For Yer Soul", The Facts Lie, 1984
Dissidents "Die Presidents Sind Entthront!!!", The Presidents Rule!, Priapismus, 1982-83
The Violence 1/2 "Echoes Of Paris", The Memory Waltz, Nihilistic Recordings, 1998
Vivenza Unité Objective, Ladd-Frith, 1986
Etat Des Stocks "Aliens In Brussels", Neue Muster Volume Eleven, Tonspur Tapes, 1984
John M. Bennett The Blur, Luna Bisonte Prods., 1987
Abner Malaty "Flash", self-titled, Cracked Cranium Cassettes, 1985
Sack Harald Sack Ziegler "Neon", Intrendent Fansette Kassetten Trilogie Compilation 5-10, 1986
Andrzej Dudek Dürer "Metaphysical - Telepathic Electronic Music", Metaphysical - Telepathic Activity, 1984
La Sonorite Jaune "Deux Autres Voix", Ersatia, SJ Organisation, 1987
37 Pink Corrective Justice, Greyscale,mid-1980s
Ceramic Hobs "Pulled Off My Bike Again, Tape Heads #2 compilation, HalTapes, 1998
Deleted "Animals In The Zoo", Tape Heads #3 compilation, HalTapes, 1998
Homemade Alien Music 9 (58:09)
Cause And Effect Special Number Two
This edition of Homemade Alien Music features independent tape releases that were listed in the January 1985 Cause And Effect catalogue
Gertie "Wandern", Overdoses Of Roses, Stichting Stopcontact label
Maybe Mental "My Son", Animisum II, 1984
Avant-Dernières Pensées "El Desfile De La Victoria", Arte Deshecho, 1984 Cintas
Cleaners From Venus "Summer In A Small Town", Under Wartime Conditions, Man At The Off-Licence Tapes, 1984
Pierre Perret Gaia, La Terre
Blackhouse "Born Again", Pro-Life, 1984
Bande Berne Crematoire "Rosa Bernet", self-titled
Mystery Hearsay self-titled cassette, Mystery Hearsay label, 1984
Pliny The Elder "Hungry Mutant Corpusles", from Torpid Liver #1
Roberta Eklund Piano Improvisations, 1985
Der Akteur "Brain Operation", Accident In The Year Dada X
Yard Trauma "Answer Before Question", Reptile House, Iconoclast International, 1983
Peter Catham "21 Today", Onslaught cassettezine No. 3, Idiosyncratics, 1983
Robert Rich "Cave Paintings", Trances, 1983
Fusako Takahashi - Minoru Numazawa - Masanori Hashimoto Koutei
Homemade Alien Music 10 (61:09)
R. Stevie Moore "Melbourne", Stevie Moore Returns, 1976
Daylight Savings Time "Composition #31", No Indian Gaming, American Tapes label, 1995
Seiei Jack Nakahara and Magthea "The Apocalypse", The Joke Project 1984
Jeff Greinke "Exciting Small Particles", Before The Storm, Intrepid, 1984
Ferial Confine Meiosis, Broken Flag label, 1985
Ray Carmen "I'll Get You For That", Naive Assumptions, late 1980s
Croiners The Relentless Rhythm Of Change, Jim Tapes, mid-1980s
Noisebitch "Tired Of Playing These Parlor Games", Jailtime, Smell The Stench Tapes, 2001
Hands To "Guerilla Jazz", Do Not Touch Them, Sound Of Pig, 1987
Camera Obscura "Tokyo", Orient & Mecanique, 1984
The Nocturnal Emissions "Rusting Shells", The Fight Goes On, Staal Tape, 1984
Expose Your Eyes Music To Go Mad To, SCUM, mid-1990s
Context Necrophonie, Tonspur Tapes, 1987
Crash Worship "Bobby Jojo Bobo & The Bobby Jojo Bobo Orchestra", Hit After Hit, Rocco Fresco, 1986
Absolute Body Control "Waving Hands", International Sound Communication No. 1 compilation, Mans Hate Productions, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 11 (44:07)
In this special edition of Homemade Alien Music, Hal McGee tells the story of the creation and history of his first cassette tape release of homemade experimental music, 60 Minutes Of Laughter, from 1982.
The program starts with a 10-minute introduction by Hal. Then he plays Side One of 60 Minutes Of Laughter in its entirety. Afterwards, Hal makes additional comments.
Side One of 60 Minutes Of Laughter:
"Red House, Blue House" – DJ & HM
"Voulez In The Voulez" – GS
"Ant War" – HM
"Kurtz Kapers (Apocalypse Later)" – Kurtz Memorial Band
"A Different Kind Of Music" – Viscera
"Love In The Tropics"
"Starvation And Beating" – Viscera
"Floatin' On The Waves" – Dancing Invisibles
"Love Is On My Side" – Trish & The Swishettes
"Home" – Viscera
"Composition" – HM
"Outraged Civilized World" – Viscera
"Another Simon And Garfunkel Hit"
"Three Blind Pigs" – Residential Rick
"To Tristan, With Love"
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" – Trish & The Swishettes
"Seeing The Future" – Viscera
"Airplanes And Engines (Are Beautiful)" – Dancing Invisibles
"Husband And Wife Scenario"
"New Eyes"
"Pain Research" – Trish & The Swishettes
"Improv" – Gabble Ratchet
"Apple Pie"
"Wurlitzer Intermission" – DJ
Look for Homemade Alien Music 12, in which Hal McGee will continue the story of 60 Minutes Of Laughter, and he will play Side Two of the tape.
Homemade Alien Music 12 (50:28)
In this special edition of Homemade Alien Music, Hal McGee continues to tell the story of the creation and history of his first cassette tape release of homemade experimental music, 60 Minutes Of Laughter, from 1982.
If you have not already done so, please listen to Homemade Alien Music 11 to hear the first part of this special edition of the program.
The program starts with a 11-minute introduction by Hal. Then he plays Side Two of 60 Minutes Of Laughter in its entirety. Afterwards, Hal makes additional comments.
"Wurlitzer Intermission (cont)"
"Collage/Gertrude Stein" - Gabble Ratchet
"Dharma Proclivity/Butchered Calf" – Jolifanto Karawane and Mipoola Palinga
"Tinyness" – Park Avenue Rick
"Live At The Sanctuary" – JK & MP
"Bird Is Dead" – HM & DJ
"I Love You I Love You I Love You"
"Repercussive Illusion" – HM
"WWIII" – Army Brats (RK, DJ, HM)
"WWIV" – Army Brats
"My Balls" – L. Extentensa (Toby O'Brien)
"Public Lavatory, Blue Light" – HM & DJ
"The Edge" – Viscera
"Negative Image"
"Everything And Nothing" – Viscera
"Tiger Talk" – Burnt Circuits (DJ & HM)
"I Don't Understand" – DJ w/ 'Mr British'
"Silly Love Songs"
"Why Do You Do It?"
"Freedom To Be Immoral" – The Conversations
"Accepting Things As They Are" – Viscera
Homemade Alien Music 13 (59:45)
Harsh Reality Music label special
Mental Anguish "High Road", Bloodbath, 1985
Cancerous Growth "Incestual", Bound To Die, 1985
Viktimized Karcass "Ha!", A Matter Of Principle, 1984
Kapotte Muziek "Stazione", Bahnhof, 1988
Mitch Rushton "Moscow To Novosibirsk", Trans-Siberian, 1988
M. Finnkrieg "Invocation", Down The Poppy Stairs of Heaven, 1988
blackhumour "tab to block bicuspid", Penetration, 1989
Brume "Panzerfaust 3", France compilation, 1990
Doc Wör Mirran "Fastly Skitso", Music From A Divided Germany compilation, 1989
Odal "Untitled", The Netherlands compilation, 1989
PBK "Nobody Hears This Dog's Cries", U.S.A. Volume 2 compilation, 1989
AMK "Montage #24", U.S.A. Volume 2 compilation, 1989
Alien Planetscapes "Atom Bomb Blues", Everybody's Mad At Amerikkka, 1987
Parade Of Sinners "No Happening", Woundz Never Heal! compilation, Volume 2, 1988
Mental Anguish and John Hudak "Booming Skulls", Multiple Morning Green, 1989
Gorgonzola Legs "The Performance", Short Stories, 1989
Homemade Alien Music 14 (60:00)
Hal McGee plays music from Alain Neffe's Insane Music label of Trazegnies, Belgium.
The first four tracks are from the Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 1 compilation:
Japanese Genius "Pikah o Papikah ??" (1981)
Cortex "Cortex A" (1981)
Human Flesh "Indians" (1981)
M.A.L. "Insects In Love" (1974)
four tracks from Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 2, all from 1982:
Pseudo Code "Waiting For Zorro"
Legendary Pink Dots "Time Dance"
Colin Potter "I Am Your Shadow"
Portion Control "Shift And Shuffle"
four selections from Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 3 (1982):
Metamorphosis "Flesh Trade"
Pseudo Code "Watoo-Watoo"
Merzbow "Envois #4"
Let's Have Healthy Children "Polychrome"
two tracks from Bene Gesserit Live In Belgium And Holland (1983):
"Tonight"
"Death Is Not A Betrayal"
"Kent Should Like It" from Human Flesh: The Third Human Attempt
"Nothing To Do" (1978) by I Scream, from Tomorrow Is Another Day
two excerpts from the Four In One, Vol. 1 compilation:
Etat Brut "Sollicitation Ext."
Mécanique Végétale "Zona Periodica"
Homemade Alien Music 15 (59:34)
Problemist "No Physical", After Sanity, Ladd-Frith label, 1985
:$oviet:France: "Mama Piss", Garista, Singing Ringing, 1982
Herd Of The Ether Space "Macabre Curiosity", Suicide Driver, Taped Rugs Productions, 1994
Macronympha excerpt from Notes From Underground, Self Abuse Records, mid-1990s
F/i "Echo River", The Circle Is The Square, Ladd-Frith, 1986
Usward "Free Electronic Age", Nature And The Electronic Age, 1986
Black Leather Jesus excerpt from Crossburnt, E.F. Tapes, 1995
Jessica Rylan excerpt from Wiped Away, Durable Stimuli, 2006
NOMUZIC "The Negative Sundance", In/Divi/Dualism, audiofile Tapes, 1986
Coup De Grace excerpt from Commencement / Corpse Education, 1984
Culver "Anon", from split tape with E.H.I., FDR Tapes, 1996
The Majestic Twelve "Incident At Cole Strang Road", Inklab Works, 1996
R.H.Y Yau "Context-Dependent", Void Fraction, Auscultare, 1997
Psyclones & Schlafengarten "Life Is Like Death...", Life Is Like Death With The Lights On, Ladd-Frith, 1984
Ashtray Navigations excerpt from Find A Magic Lantern In The Woods, Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, 1995
Laxative Souls "N.N.", Desinfektionsraum, Multiple Configuration, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 16 (56:49)
Russ Stedman "Love Under", 1987 - Rewind And Pause, Cassette Culture Compilation Volume One CDR, 2006
Busyditch excerpt from Fudgesicle double cassette, Black Sedan Studios, 1993-96
Aube "Electro-Dynamic-Power", E-Power, G.R.O.S.S., 1994
D.D.A.A. "The Riddle's Standards", Prehistoric Rejet, Illusion Production, 1983
Ono excerpt from the title track of Kate Cincinnati, 1982
De Fabriek "Doni I", Elegy #2 compilation cassette, EE Tapes, 1997
M.Nomized "L'abîme complet", Music For Piano And Loops, EE Tapes, 1995
Rotten Piece "Truncated Bug Regenerator", Plasma Apparitions CDR, Lazy Squid Rekkids, 2003
Outermost "The Structur Of Corruption", Corruption CDR, Tornado Production, 1998/2000
CJJBROZT "Menthal Shock", Marxistmusic CDR, Red Star Budapest, 2000
Sue Ann Harkey "Kinetic Harmony", I Tell You Everything, Just Not Out Loud, Cityzens For Non-Linear Futures, 1984
Q.R. Ghazala "Zeitgeist Mechanique", No Machine Is Silent double cassette compilation, Realization, 1995
Neo Zelanda "Francês Básicos", Necronomicon 1 compilation, 1984
Selfs Without Shells "Go On And Find You Out!", Electronic Cottage Compilation Volume One, 1990
Non Toxique Lost "Die 4 Tempramente", Necronomicon 2 compilation, 1985
Ken Clinger with Belinda Subraman "Vessels", KC.06, 1984
Homemade Alien Music 17 (49:09)
Hal McGee plays the first half of the Cause And Effect May 1985 Catalogue Aural Sampler cassette. Experimental and electronic music from the mid-1980s cassette music scene.
In January 1985 Debbie Jaffe and Hal McGee launched the Cause And Effect International Cassette Distribution Service. Cause And Effect distributed cassettes of homemade, independent and underground experimental, electronic and industrial music by artists in USA, Belgium, France, England, Canada, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, and Japan.
This sampler tape contained 30-second excerpts from every cassette listed in the second Cause And Effect Catalogue, from May 1985. During the first part of the program you will hear excerpts from these releases:
BORBETOMAGUS Live At Inroads
PACIFIC 231/LE SYNDICAT Alliance
VOX POPULI! La Cathedrale Morte
MERZBOW Ushi-Tra
CONTROLLED BLEEDING Day Lungs
S/M OPERATIONS LIVE AT THE HARRINGTON BALLROOM
VISCERA Hot And Cold
VISCERA Who Is This One
VISCERA A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies
VISCERA In A Foreign Film
SCHLAFENGARTEN "Strange New City/Mouse Night"
LES ENFANTS (TERRIBLES) "Charnel/Lust"
THE CONCRETE ETENDUE
ROBERTA EKLUND Go Tell It On The Mountain
ROBERTA EKLUND Piano Improvisations
MASTER/SLAVE RELATIONSHIP "Fanatic"/"Embracing Power"
MASTER/SLAVE RELATIONSHIP The Desire To Castrate Father
DOG AS MASTER Black Body
DOG AS MASTER Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog
JACK Up
MONOCHROME BLEU
MONOCHROME BLEU/JOSEF K. NOYCE
OCCUPANT No Specific Answer
ROBERT RICH Drones
ROBERT RICH Trances
RICHARD FRANECKI Points
RICHARD FRANECKI Zones
RICHARD FRANECKI Test Pattern
RICHARD FRANECKI Two Drones
F/i Illumanati
F/i Lords
F/i Zombie
F/i Y