Tapegerm Collective – Germination 2.1 (Digital, 2010)
DOWNLOAD @ ARCHIVE.ORG ARTIST/LABEL NOTES: Axel Mundi – “Guru” Credits: Axel Mundi; Random 12-Pack Challenge. Genre: Musique Concrete. SoLaRiS – “Tangerine Dreaming” Just as it says on the tin Credits:…
ACID Planet: A Glimpse Back at a Forgotten Music Hub
Before SoundCloud, before Bandcamp, and long before today’s AI-fueled music generators, there was ACID Planet—a vibrant online community built around Sony’s pioneering loop-based DAW, ACID Pro. From the early 2000s…
Tapegerm Collective – Germination Volume 2 Number 2 (Digital, 2003)
DOWNLOAD @ ARCHIVE.ORG ARTIST/LABEL NOTES: 01 The Incomplete Orchestra Mad Symphony 2010 A redo now that I have a Shure PG58. (I was mostly broke and confident I could make…
Daily Tapegerm 26 March 2025
Today’s Daily Tapegerm is 10 source audio files from a random gamegerm. CREDITS Sources by: David Alexander McDonald, Insecta Sonic, Arthur Loves Plastic, Darph Nader, Blind Mime Ensemble, mystified, Suckling…
Daily Tapegerm 25 March 2025
Today’s Daily Tapegerm is from the Tapegerm archive. It’s by Magical Cigarette, February 2005. It’s a manipulated voice saying, “That’s just an illusion you’ve built in your mind,” with a…
Daily Tapegerm (royalty-free audio seeds) 21 March 2025
This is a tapegerm from Dave Fuglewicz’s Open Loop Directory in 2005. Dave was a founding member of the Tapegerm community and left a large body of work with his…
Daily Tapegerm Royalty-Free Audio Seed 20 March 2025
Today’s tapegerm is a recording I made today of our offset press running and stopping. Let’s here what you make of it. Tracks Stop the Presses! by Blind Mime Ensemble
Daily Tapegerm Free Audio Seed 19 March 2025
Today’s tapegerm is me (Briyan Frederick of Blind Mime Ensemble). This is a 3-track serial pattern on Kontakt Signal Half Life, Arturia Analog Lab V ARP 2600 New Vision by…
Daily Tapegerm Free Audio Seed 18 March 2025
The key is C Phrygian with a passing B note, with me playing S.K.Y. Keys Everything Right, Apple Percussion, Arturia Analog Lab V Multimodulpad. The percussion is finger played and…
Tapegerm first started as an offshoot of homemademusic.com early in 1999. I was featuring cassettes on pages with a set of loops offered to visitors to download and create something new. Soon there was a bunch of artists doing it and it evolved into us sharing our own loops in a central pool and lots of cool music and friendships developed.