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 contributed new music based on this material.
As the project evolved on the forum, several of us decided it would be cool if we continued the project by sharing our own looped material. I had been working on a website called Tapegerm which was initially intended to be a place where I offered loops from cassettes as a way to see the sounds from work decades old come alive with new creations. I offered the domain to the group and over the next decade we created large archive of sounds and tracks using the sounds.
The website is still running, but functions mostly as an archive of past work. Occasionally I and maybe someone else will make something new. Much of the sounds and music have been secured for future access on the Internet Archive and I’m developing web apps on GAJOOB.ORG to keep it alive with new projects and activity.
The essential idea around Tapegerm is that sounds can evolve over time, alive with new creations. An album of material based on a small pack of material has a certain soul that breathes with the spirit of past work.
The player below loads a random collection of 14 tracks from the collective’s catalog of albums (as many as are loaded into GAJOOB’s growing database.
Blind Mime Ensemble (Germination Volume 2 Number 3) — Read more
- Impossible Signal Chatter
Blind Mime Ensemble
from the album Germination Volume 2 Number 3
Read more - Mential Anguish - A Virtuoso Deplay ov Psychic Energy
Mential Anguish
from the album Tapegerm Collective - Germination Vol. 1 No. 26
Read more - Spiderz Chapter Three - Dispersal
Zebra Mann
from the album Germination Volume 2 Number 2
Read more - Mad Symphony 2010
The Incomplete Orchestra
from the album Germination Volume 2 Number 2
Read more - Six Daze To Roam (On The Seventh We Rested)
Zebra Mann
from the album Germination Volume 2 Number 3
Read more - Omnitechnomatrix - Wine
Omnitechnomatrix
from the album Tapegerm Collective - Germination Vol. 1 No. 26
Read more - Brave New World - Chapter Three
Zebra Mann
from the album Germination 2.1
Read more - A Writer Blocked
Buzzsaw & The Shavings
from the album Germination 2.1
Read more - I Do Not Understand
Blind Mime Ensemble
from the album Blind Mime Ensemble VS Russ Stedman: I Do Not Get This (Tapegerm Guest Artist Project)
Read more - It's Not So Bad
Cystem
from the album Germination 4 Volume 2
Read more - All Things Considered
Blind Mime Ensemble
from the album Blind Mime Ensemble VS Russ Stedman: I Do Not Get This (Tapegerm Guest Artist Project)
Read more - Ornery Old Goat
Zebra Mann
from the album Germination 4 Volume 2
Read more - Brave New World - Chapter Four
Zebra Mann
from the album Germination 2.1
Read more - circular blades
britva
from the album Germination 4 Volume 2
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Tapegerm ID: 218784
Ztar Bass 9
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218783
Ztar Bass 8
Artist: Mike | BPM: 120 | Key: C | Length: 00:02
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218782
Ztar Bass 7
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218781
Ztar Bass 6
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218780
Ztar Bass 5
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218779
Ztar Bass 4
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218778
Ztar Bass 3
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218777
Ztar Bass 2
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218776
Ztar Bass 1
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.
Tapegerm ID: 218775
Ztar 4b
Artist: Mike McGary | BPM: | Key: | Length:
Project: Acoustica
Tags: Electronic Guitar
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Mike McGary, Tapegerm Collective.