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SoLaRiS
DESECRATION
Yet more east/west electro world fusion taken from my new album ' Sea Sand Stars & Space ' which is an entirely FREE download now available over at JAMENDO . This song features my own work with TAKIM drums and Bob Rapens ' BLUE ' synth. It's somewhat darker than the other tracks. Credits: Ed Drury guest artist, Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops. Genre: World Fusion. -->please comment (4).

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Code Mango
Mock
Track 22. May 2008. Originally recorded and arranged January 2006. Remixed May 2008. Omnitechnomatrix & Mental Anguish Megascorpion Guest Artist Loops. Code Mango Personal Vocal Loops. Credits: . Genre: MASTERMIND MATRIX. -->please comment (0).

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Mental Anguish
Chucklebee
This song was written for my very good friend Chuck Barnett who passed away January 14th,08 from injuries which occurred from a motorcycle accident about 5 days prior. Missed deeply. One final farewell a salute perhaps. Thanks to Cystem for the awesome guitar loops. The mix is very ear goggle friendly & smokeable. Play Loud. It includes only guitars & fx. Credits: A few Cystem Open Loops, Cystem Guitar Loop CD Vol.2, Mix & stuffing Mental Anguish. Genre: Ambient. -->please comment (5).

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hebephrenic
Paradox
Credits: Loops by Arthur Loves Plastic, International Garbageman, Hal McGee, and Scott Carr. Genre: Experimental. -->please comment (2).

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Buzzsaw & The Shavings
Luncheon at Delmonico's as the Stocks Plunge
Though the buffets of Fortune are exhaling gusts that carry all economy downward, a remnant of stalwart optimism refutes all the signs of a stock market crash and forays to the Delmonico Hotel off Wall Street for luncheon awash in jazz, irreverence and flappers and hopefully of at length a decade's duration until Central Europe proves troublesome again. Credits: Includes Mental Anguish Open Loops, Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops and Cystem Open Loops. Genre: Rock & a Hard Place. -->please comment (3).

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David Fuglewicz
Crystal Jungles Of Mars
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The last place to visit on Mars for this trip is the serene Crystal Jungles. Do not feed the animals. Credits: Mental Anguish Open Loops and Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops. Genre: Interdimensional. -->please comment (4).

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Don Campau
Bootstrap Theory
Don Campau: electronics, recorder, moog, lap steel, guitar and bass. Credits: Loops by Cystem Open Loops, International Garbageman Open Loops, Hebephrenic Open Loops, Dave Fuglewicz Open Loops, DJ Get Yo Fat On Open Loops, Mental Anguish Open Loops, Anti- Gravity Workshop Open Loops. Thanks to all!. Genre: Abstract. -->please comment (3).

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britva
Ira (C2B)
"Anger makes the face swell up and the veins grow black with blood" - Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Grinding of teeth and a blade in between.. Credits: GEMAfreie-welten guest artist, Contagion,Fever Spoor guest artist, Free Loop Sample Pack - Hebephrenic. Genre: Hardcore. -->please comment (1).

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Omnitechnomatrix
XYZ
Credits: Loops By Mental Anguish open loops and Omnitechnomatrix open loops - : Mix By Omnitechnomatrix. Genre: Interdimensional. -->please comment (1).

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Datawhore
Alien Barbie
Created using text from Canadian Jan Pozsgay and loops from Michael Thomas Jackson. On the subject of schizophrenia, this piece uses diverse documentary material to support Jan's superb reading. Part of the Datawhore collaboration with Canadian West Coast creators. Credits: Datawhore - Jan Pozsgay - Michael Thomas Jackson guest artist. Genre: Abstract Ambient. -->please comment (2).

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SoLaRiS
SUFI QAWWALI
Apart from the Tapegerm loops this is mostly all my own work using the BAGLAMA and TAKIM vst's for the plucked strings and drums. A continuation of a fascination with east west fusions.This is taken from my new album now available for free download at JAMENDO Credits: Omnitchnomatrix Open Loops, Ed Drury Guest Artist. Genre: World Fusion. -->please comment (1).

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David Fuglewicz
Rivers Of Mars
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The rivers of Mars will carry you away. Watch out for that entrenching tool! Credits: Omintechnomatrix Open Loops David Fuglewicz Open Loops and private loops. Genre: Interdimensional. -->please comment (3).

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Hal McGee
Hal McGee's Audio Insult
...with sounds and pre-recorded material by Hal McGee, K Paul Boyev (Otolathe), Andrew Chadwick (Ironing, Capstan Drive), Al Margolis (If, Bwana), Aaron Zarzutzki, Charles Rice Goff III, Phil Klampe, Jen Sandwich, Ego Death, Michael Thomas Jackson. Credits: David Fuglewicz Open Loops, Mental Anguish Open Loops, Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops. Genre: Experimental. -->please comment (3).

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iN ThE HousE/kalmar
Still going strong
Hello Tapegerm-friends. This is the first upload for over a year. About time, or :) Hope u will like it. Its kinda noicy and rocky somewhat. // iTh. Credits: Fever Spoor guest artist, International Garbageman free loop project 014, Cystem free loop project 014.. Genre: Mashuga Melody. -->please comment (2).

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David Fuglewicz
Caverns Of Mars
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The caverns are cool and full of mysterious creatures and energies.
Please watch your step. Credits: Dave Fuglewicz Open Loops. Genre: Interdimensional. -->please comment (4).

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M.NOMIZED - Music For Reversed Loops
Tapegerm collaboration vol.3. Cd with seven tracks. Featuring Hal McGee, Arthur Loves Plastic, Mental Anguish, Blind Mime and International Garbageman. Produced in limited boxset by Fraction Studio France. P.2007.-- €10 from M.NOMIZED

Blind Mime Ensemble Tapegerm Vol. 1
14 tracks from the Blind Mime Ensemble studio featuring loops by The Tapegerm Collective.-- $7.00 from Blind Mime

Live from the middle of nowhere
Heuristics Inc. performs live from Happy Head Studios, broadcasting improvised and composed electronic pieces into the wild hinterlands of the Internet. Imagine listening to ambient and electronic music in some bar downtown. Now imagine listening to the same music on the surface of Mars. Next imagine listening to the music in the comfort of your own home, streaming live over the internet. Then imagine listening to the same music at home on CD! In the recent past you could have experienced almost all of these situations, and with the new Heuristics Inc. album "Live from the middle of nowhere" you can experience at least one of them! HInc "Live" features live music, some composed, some improvised, from four different Heuristics Inc. concerts, including several that are not available anywhere else! Bonus addition: this is the first HInc CD to include a photo of the man behind Heuristics Inc.!-- $10 from Heuristics Inc.

HARSH REALITY MUSIC CDS
Harsh Reality Music has been bringing you the best in experimental electronic music since 1982. Bucketloads of cassette tapes are available from the old hometaper days & a bunch of CD's are available. You can find all the CD's HERE on the main music page & in the individual artist pages. Experimental electronics, space rock, industrial, ambient, avant-garde, power electronics & much more. The image for this is just one of many CD covers of the items available. -- $8. from Mental Anguish

Mental Anguish - Open Loops Vol. 5
Fifth CD in the ongoing series features 15 tracks made from the Mental Anguish Open loops Directory Open Loops 5 at Tapegerm. Includes some excellent mixes by Hal McGee, Anti - Gravity Workshop, Kamakura, Insecta Sonic, Buzzsaw & The Shavings, CYSTEM, Mental Anguish, Jim Tyrrell, Dark Syde, DJ Get Yo Fat On & Renedo. $ 8 postage paid USA, $ 10 postage paid overseas. -- $8 from Mental Anguish

The Tapegerm Collective creates loops for creative audio explorers. Gigabytes of loops are freely available in return for attribution and playing here and elsewhere. We exist by virtue of supporting artist donations, audio and CD purchases, and volunteer coding bees. Participation is free and encouraged. We've been expanding audio horizons for over six years. Listeners will find a wide range of music through an array of dynamic playlists sure to suit any mood or interest. Your comments are welcome.

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FEATURING Buzzsaw & The Shavings

Having spent the better, or at least indifferent portions of the last 15 years or so on the periphery of various too-well defended musical scenes alerted to my presence in a creative Scythia releasing cassette, vinyl and CD indie morsels perfectly spiced to tempt the appetite of Folly, I drew too near to Tapegerm and I was captured in a wend of loop, and in the ensuing struggles to free myself, a fresh provision of Folly decided to call the result a mix. More mixes are forth through ninecoming, but I hesitate to say more as double-digits provoke a bad elevation sickness. Ah, but I seem to be green already, as green as the tracks to be found over at VBC BROADCASTING-Very Bad Considering Broadcasting-Considering what? I leave that answer to you dear friends as you are quite inventive enough to make me feel better. :)

Under a Pour of Malmsey
Credits: Mental Anguish Open Loops, Cystem Open Loops and Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops Mix.

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NEWEST ACTIVATED ARTISTS

Dereck Higgins
While playing bass has been my primary mode of known musical activity I have always had an interest in sound/noise and electronics. My first introduction to this world came when my older brother got Steve Reich's "Come Out" from the library. It just struck a deep nerve. I started doing tape collages with two cheap reel-to-reels and then moved to four-track cassette in the '80's. Currently like most folks I'm using my computer as the hydra-head for my work. My other band related work can be... Website: http://www.myspace.com/dereckhiggins

crystal awareness
started making noise in 1980 with bass guitar, amps, electronic gadgets and gizmos. started building analog synths and fx in 1985. now using all the above and computers. Website: http://www.gardenofsensualdelight.com/DBAR.html

mikadams
It started with a Fostex 4-Track, then eventually a 256 mhz computer with one gig of hard drive space and a program called Fasttracker, I am a long time collaborator with hometaping legend Chas. Goff III, having been a co-Turkey in Taped Rugs bands, "Turkey Makes Me Sleepy" and "Magic Potty Babies". Through the years, my computers have grown more powerful and faster as my knowledge base of recording and music has grown wider. Most of what I make these days utilizes programs such as Ableton... Website:

Abstract Audio Systems
Website: http://www.mtrec.com

Systems Theory
Systems Theory is an internet project that started at the rec.music.progressive usenet newsgroup. It consists of Greg Amov (from San Diego), Steven Davies-Morris (from London) and Mike Dickson (from Edinburgh). The project performs a highly cinematic progressive-electronic / world music / prog-rock / fusion hybrid, welding high-tech modern electronica, moody ambience and acoustic ethnic styles with spacerock aggression, a dash of free-jazz exploration, and a splash of old-fashioned... Website: http://systemstheory.net

1GB+ on 2 Loop CD's Each CD contains well over 500MB of loops with a diverse range of instruments and perspectives, ranging from straight percussion, guitars, keyboards, etc., to wild bits of noise and other ether. It's quite unlike any collection of loops you've experienced before. This is an essential collection of loops at a low nonprofit collective price.

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Thank you

As tapegerm nears it's eighth year of existence I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that this blog still exists and to thank all participating artists for their contributions.

Loop On!

posted by Scott --3/29/2008 01:34:00 PM

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Tapegerm welcomes new Gold Artist Morphine Jello

Welcome Morphine Jello to Gold mix artist status we appreciate your support!
http://www.morphjell.blogspot.com/

posted by Mental Anguish --12/21/2007 12:07:00 PM

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CONTAGION - event of 5th may

Just a short info on the event on 5th may - an 24 hour ongoing immersive project with lots of collaborating in mixing, soundfixing and trixing, streaming and more! Please check out more at project page at http://www.tapegerm.com/Contagion and also forum post at http://www.tapegerm.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2443#2443 for latest updates.

Please come along! This project is open for anyone!

posted by Björn Eriksson --5/02/2007 08:54:00 AM

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New Tapegerm Guest Artist Gemafreie-welten - Gemafreie Musik, Sound und Musikproduktion, Royalty free Music and Soundeffects

We have a brand new guest artist up Gemafreie-welten. "GEMAfreie-welten offers a wide range of Royalty Free Music and Soundeffects." They have given Tapegerm 638mb of loops to work with. Some made especially for Tapegerm. Loads of drums, basslines, synths, fx, soundcsapes & much more. Tapegerm & Gemafreie-welten look forward to hearing your mixes.

When uploading your track or tracks be sure & put in the credits section:

GEMAfreie-welten Guest Artist

Just like it is above! This will make sure the track or tracks go on the page. Plus it gives your song or songs more exposure.

Tapegerm Guest Artist Gemafrie-welten

Enjoy!

posted by Mental Anguish --2/16/2007 12:43:00 PM

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New Guest Artist Yuroun

We have a brand new guest artist page up by Tapegerm Free Mix Artist Yuroun.
162mb of loops available only at Tapegerm. Made by Yuroun exclusively for Tapegerm. Synths, drums, basslines & lots more. They await your downloading & your working with them. Tapegerm & Yuroun look forward to hearing your mixes.

When uploading your track or tracks be sure & put in the credits section:

Yuroun Guest Artist

Just like it is above! This will make sure the track or tracks go on the page. Plus it gives your song or songs more exposure.

Enjoy!

posted by Mental Anguish --2/04/2007 03:44:00 PM

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New Guest Artist Ed Drury Available

We have brought back the excellent guest artist Ed Drury that we had up about 3 years ago. We have a brand new set of loops just up freshly made by Ed for tapegerm. 86mb, 46 loops of guitars, bass, drums, bassoon, throats, didgeridu, djembe, bullroarer, synths, tambura & more. They await your downloading & your working with them. Tapegerm & Ed look forward to hearing your mixes.

When uploading your track or tracks be sure & put in the credits section:

Ed Drury Guest Artist

Just like it is above! This will make sure the track or tracks go on the page. Plus it gives your song or songs more exposure.

The guest page has been updated as well, new info, pictures & a new track that Ed did using only the loops he provided.

Enjoy!

posted by Mental Anguish --12/16/2006 12:36:00 PM

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(((NOMUSIC))) Festival X

( ( ( N O M U S I C ) ) ) F E S T I V A L X
http://www.nomusic.org - festival@nomusic.org

-< 48 Participants >-
-< 24h Continuous Audio Streaming Festival >-
-< Realtime Simultaneous Dual Live >-
-< Audio Live Performing only via Internet >-
-< Creative Commons Audio License - No Archivz >-
-< Stream Live Audio - Double/Split Channel >-

* Stream Start :
13th December 2006 (00h00 / 00:00am) [GMT+0 Greenwich Time]
Stream End :
13th December 2006 (23h59 / 11:59pm) [GMT+0 Greenwich Time]

* Playlist & Timeline :
http://www.nomusic.org

* With :
Tapegerm Collective / Martin John Callanan / Struktur / Simultaneous
Translation / Djet / Crashbonsai / Rod Stasick / Suzywan / DFM RTV INT /
Oima / Times Up - Tim Boykett / Jean Voguet / Cat Hope / Davidly /
Schmacke's world / Soundispatch / Jakob Riis / Soundart & the musicians /
Ieva / Flushing Device / Carl Stone / Neil Kaczor / AKM / James Wyness /
Robinsonhotel / El-g / GentleJunk co. / Sonic Kitchen / Nanofamas /
Aloardi / O.m.s. - n.m.a. / Jerome Joy / The RYBN / Bernhard Loibner /
Kaffe Matthews / Erik Minkkinen / Sun Plexus / Jon Eriksen / Arnfinn
Killingtveit / Chris F / Ra]va[ge / Androvirus / Julien Clauss / Cedric
Pigot / laboiteblanche / Carl.Y

* More infos :
(((NOMUSIC))) started on June 2001, according to the principle that a
diffusion site on Internet should correspond to the representation of the
singular performances of a new generation of artists, musicians,
performers and other actors of the electronic scene. The creation of this
open diffusion site proved to be necessary because of today’s difficulty
to perform disembodied concerts of electronic music on stage, in a
classical frontal (actor/audience) representation space.
Nowadays, these emerging new multimedia performances allow everybody to
approach music in a more singular way, with a different listening practice
and on a more sharing scene.

Every year since 2001, (((NOMUSIC))) offers one or more festivals which
programming is geographically variable and which function is to relay in a
coordinated way a 24 hours earth revolution of no-musicians @ home. This
virtual earth revolution materializes a world wide sound cover of 24 time
zones according to the universal time [GMT 0]. This gives to participants
who are scattered all over the world the opportunity to take part in the
festival. The participation is free of charge and the recruitment is made
exclusively on Internet through diffusion lists. The selection is not made
according to practices and genres criterion but rather according to the
approaches and artistic positions which should echo the logic of the
festival.

(((NOMUSIC))) platform offers two types of live. In its classical form,
the participant plays alone at home for one hour. He can also play in
dual. Dual is a live in which two geographical sites are linked via
Internet and mixed together in stereo (participant 1 on the left channel
and participant 2 on the right one).

(((NOMUSIC))) wishes to generate improbable duals and gatherings between
two participants during one hour time in a web audio performance.
We make no storage because we think that Internet is a huge database which
conveys already a great amount of dead informations and we don’t want to
pollute it further. We are thus in favour of instant access to a selective
event. The mechanism of the programming is not automated; it is relayed
manually for 24 hours without any interruption by
laboiteblanche and Carl.Y., two real human routers who are at the service
of continuous audio stream and who endure technical difficulties and give
rapid formation on the technologies of streaming to all the
participants.

(((NOMUSIC))) stands between musical negation and anti-bruitism, in a
non-silent interstice of audio manifestation. It allows the
composer-performer to be his own auditor, in a place where nothing should
be heard but just felt as a new entity to observe.

Enjoy your flight with us !

laboiteblanche & Carl.Y

posted by Mental Anguish --12/06/2006 11:56:00 AM

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Tapegerm welcomes new Gold Artist M.Nomized

Welcome M.Nomized to Gold mix artist status we appreciate your support.

M.Nomized is a recording artist, mail artist, author, collagist and painter, who was born in Paris in 1956. He started his work in 1975 with contemporary music and sound research. In the subsequent 31 years he has appeared on more than 200 solo, collaboration, and compilation CD and tape releases -- on his own Fraction Studio label, and on numerous European, Japanese, and American labels. M.Nomized has recorded and created music in many different styles, including experimental, electronic, minimalist and repetitive musics, industrial, Indian music, "out", Algerian, noise, cyclic and loop-based music, children's theater, ambient, piano, and spoken word. He was involved in the homemade music scene of the 1980s and 1990s, and was well-known for his recordings as a member of No Unauthorized. M.Nomized has collaborated with De Fabriek, Don Campau, Mr. Moto, Carsten Olbrich, The Golozos, Mark Sonnenfeld, The Legendary Poptones, Daniele Brusaschetto, Bidoche Musique, Kora, Messy, Clover Leaf, Mlehst, and many others.

posted by Mental Anguish --10/12/2006 11:36:00 AM

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Tapegerm Welcomes New Resident Loop Artist Code Mango

Please welcome new Resident Loop Artist Code Mango. Looking forward to working with you as a loop artist!

From the city that introduced the world to Al Capone, house music, Eli's Cheesecake and the 2006 Arena Bowl XX champs the Rush comes native-born, raised and based electronic artist Code Mango. Creating electronic music devoted to the universal following one listener at a time (and they tell their two friends and they tell their two friends and so on and so on and so on......), Code Mango's creative techniques are summarized as possessing the determined zeal of a mad scientist and the loose approach of a syndicated TV chef (i.e. Dr. Frankenstein uniting with Emeril). The formula: exploring diverse genres and styles of music, extracting each's significant rhythms and sounds, combining them using an unknown random formula and finally, creating output like no other in the musical spectrum, let alone the electronic music field. In layman's terms, listeners beware!

posted by Mental Anguish --6/28/2006 11:07:00 PM

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Midsummer Nights Germination

Get ready to tune in & listen to some exciting new music offline mixes & live streaming mixes> Join in the chat if you have MIRC using a dalnet server & join channel # tapegerm. The entire event runs from Midnight Friday Until Midnight Saturday (24 hours) Check your time zones for whatever part of the world you are in.

STREAMING LINEUP

Special early stream:

Giuseppe Bancomatti
8.00-8.30 am CDT
(08.00-08.30) GMT

(Starts the 17th of june 4:00 PM-CDT which in Europe time equals 9.00 PM-GMT (or 21:00 GMT in a 24 hour clock format). (Live 30 minute stream by the
following artists listed below. Lineup & times are subject to change. Use the world clock time zone converter to find what time to listen in your area of the world)

International Garbageman
4.00-4.30 pm CDT
(21.00-21.30) GMT

Mental Anguish
4.30-5.00 pm CDT
(21.30-22.00) GMT

shaud
5.00-5.30 pm CDT
(22.00-22.30) GMT

Dave Fuglewicz
5.30-6.00 pm CDT
(22.30-23.00) GMT

Heuristic Inc.
6.00-6.30 pm CDT
(23.00-23.30) GMT

Cystem or Intermission
6.30-7.00 pm CDT
(23.30-24.00) GMT

International Garbageman
7.00-7.30 pm CDT
(24.00-0.30) GMT

Mental Anguish
7.30-8.00 pm CDT
(0.30-01.00) GMT

Dave Fuglewicz
8.00-8.30 pm CDT
(01.00-01.30) GMT

Heuristic Inc.
8.30-9.00 pm CDT
(01.30-02.00)GMT

Giuseppe Bancomatti
9.00-9.30 pm CDT
(02.00-02.30)GMT

Cystem
9.30-10.00 pm CDT
(02.30-03.00)GMT

Click on the Listen text link below at the times listed to hear the live streams.

Listen

posted by Mental Anguish --6/15/2006 12:50:00 PM

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Exciting day coming

We're all getting excited about the upcoming Tapegerm event for next weekend, June 17th. Make some room on your calendar and be sure to join in the fun.

posted by Bryan --6/11/2006 02:59:00 AM

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New Video MediaNoise up

This is a really cool video, be sure & check it out.
MediaNoise is from Tapegerm newcomer, Steve Craig. This video work is a
visual essay, so to speak, on the daily barrage of infotainment slapping
against our collective brains. Sort of a Garbage IN, Beauty OUT kind of
thing. Credit to David Fuglewicz open loops for the didgeridoo sound.
Photoshop, Isadora, and Final Cut Pro were used in its creation.

posted by Mental Anguish --5/29/2006 01:41:00 PM

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