Longtime home recording icon Don Campau has begun the monumental task of archiving his vast discography on the Internet Archive, making decades of independent music available for everyone to explore. The collection — Don Campau Discography — brings together hundreds of albums, collaborations, and compilations spanning from the cassette underground of the 1980s through his ongoing creative experiments.
Campau has long been one of the pillars of the global DIY and home taping movement. Through his radio program No Pigeonholes, his work as a label curator, and a prolific personal output that blurred boundaries between rock, spoken word, electronic, and experimental recording, he’s spent over forty years chronicling and contributing to the world of independent sound.
This new Internet Archive collection is both an act of preservation and generosity — an open library of personal history and artistic evolution. Many of the recordings are handmade originals once traded by mail or heard only on college radio and cassette compilations. Now, they’re searchable, streamable, and preserved for future generations of curious listeners.
For those who came of age swapping tapes, or for anyone discovering the roots of the home recording revolution for the first time, this digital archive is more than nostalgia — it’s living history. GAJOOB salutes Don Campau for continuing to do what he’s always done best: keeping the music alive, unfiltered, and free.
