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Tapegerm began as a project on GAJOOB’s Homemade Music website. I reached out to several artists whose tapes I’d reviewed and thought might be interesting for people to work with loops culled from them. Artists like Linda Smith, Chris Phinney, J Mundock, Baneemy and others. A dozen or so people participated in the forum and…
This was originally released on Dollar CD around 2003 and reflects the kind of recordings I was making, both solo and with many others. Dollar Store Confessions by Briyan Frederick credits released May 27, 2024 1. “What Tomorrow Brings” – words by Briyan Frederick, music by Dick Metcalf (Rotcod Zzaj) and Briyan Frederick. Dick sent…
The fifth collection of material created by artists collaborating within the Tapegerm Collective. Cover art by Bryan Baker. Tapegerm sprung from GAJOOB’s homemademusic.com website where we hosted a collaboration project offering a downloadable pack of loops by Linda Smith. Soon the artists participating in the project were chatting online and decided to take the project…
No.1801 GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker, 4/1/1989: This is a compilation tape put together by Tim Alborn of Incite! It’s apparent to me that that zine is borne simply out of the love of doing it– and this tape gives me the same feeling. Bands represented are: High Risk Group, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Ed’s Redeeming…
What follows is the pages of the full contact book which was included with these tapes, expanded to include the full audio from the master compilation tapes, along with updated links and a brief bit of recollection from me.
I released eight 60-minutes tapes that were made available with GAJOOB #7. I reached out to everyone submitting something for review and asked if they wanted to appear on the compilation tapes and I included everyone who said yes. I think it stands as a good reflection of the wide range of recordings being created…
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…
GAJOOB Archive #5449 via Ken Clinger NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW VELVETA HEARTBREAK – DONT FORGET THE CHEESE: MJB ’89-92 $5.00 Michael J. Bowman is back with a brand-new best-of compilation! These 16 awe-inspiring tracks were recorded at home, and originally released on cassettes. Velveta Heartbreak is his new moniker, but…
GAJOOB is published by Briyan Frederick (aka Bryan Baker) since 1985, in print and online. You’ll find archival stuff here. New reviews are at Discover Sounds. Send me yours. Join a project and create something new. DiY.

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