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Captive Audience/Pivotal Records
Captive Audience is the electronic music project of Conley/Warwick. The duo was active in the underground tape world and contributed to Tapegerm in its beginnings and later as well. Captive Audience also created short films and distributed them on VHS tapes. Artifacts
Captive Audience – Lost Highway
Lost Highway is a short film by Captive Audience from a 1999 VHS tape, Vol. 2: Six short films. Copyright 1999 Conley/Warwick.
Martin Goldmann’s Ambient Moods
Martin Goldmann is a German electronic artist with a blog and youtube channel where he writes and talks about synthesizers and creating beautiful ambient music. I like Martin’s easy-going personality and his videos are often laced with dollops of humor (see the recent spit-take that prefaces his opinion on the OP-1 Field’s pricing). i recommend…
Things Not To Do
$2 from Displaced Snail Things Not to Do is a 4×3 (approx), 36-page, saddle-stitched zine published by the wonderful Joe Carlough’s Displaced Snail from Philadelphia, PA. Each page of the zine is a numbered listing of things not to do and there are thirty-four of them. #12 is “Don’t look down on people who are not…
Antiquated Future Zine Grab Bag
Zine Review 5084 $10 from Antiquated Future Antiquated Future is a zine, tape and print boutique label out of Portland, Oregon, USA. Their zine grab bag offers a random selection of zines and the selection is joyously random and a great way to get a good handful of zines to quench your zine urges (at least…
Alexandria the Zine
Zine Review 5082 Alexandria the Zine is a perzine of thoughts, photo collages, lists and personal perspective. Issue six is 32 pages with a color cover and hand-stitched with thread binding. Proceeds go to aid for Ukranian Roma and more about them are in the zine, along with lots of other things: the punk band…
Zines As An Alternative to Social Media Fatigue
I come to zines as someone who has published zines for over 30 years. So I live in that space. I also brought my zine obsession to the online digital space very early on. As a computer science major, I was active on bulletin board systems before the world wide web was really a thing.…
Youtube Channel Review: Blezz Beats
Blezz Beats is a swedish electronic/beats producer who features his Maschine in videos and course such as his Maschine Noobs Mastering School. He also offers a bunch of cool plugins and such on his website, along with activities artists can participate in. Recent video topics in April 2022 were: Live Soundation Collaboration (Soundation is Blezz’s…
Joseph Benzola’s Amanita Music
Joseph Benzola is an independent multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer living in NY. He does not conform to one discipline’ idiom~ or theory, but embraces all types of music’s and playing philosophies. He does not see a dichotomy between written or improvised, acoustic or electric, real time or sequenced, jazz, classical, rock, world music, etc. Instead,…
A Look Back at the Homemade Music Shop
The following is the artist index from homemademusic.com circa the year 2000. The links go to the Wayback Machine. Amanita Music‘s Joseph Benzola is an independent multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer living in New York. He does not conform to one discipline, idiom, or theory, but embraces all types of musics and playing philosophies. Areknuteketyrne recordings are…
