One minute sample from Touch of cold, a new collaborative album by Ooy and Hal McGee
http://www.haltapes.com/touch-of-cold.html

Tokyo-based audio artist Ooy (formerly collaborator with Conrad Schnitzler and Michael Thomas Roe in Kluster) joins Hal McGee on these 17 short tracks of cold, minimal analog synth.

Ooy and Hal McGee - Touch of cold - 1 minute sample

   Here is a one minute sound sample from The Man With The Tape Recorder by Hal McGee (2007). This is the last 60 seconds of the album. More info, including the CDR and cassette versions, plus download of the entire album can be found here
http://www.haltapes.com/the-man-with-the-tape-recorder.html
   The words at the end wrap around in a sense to the beginning of the tape.
   Fluxus American Gothic Dada absurdist cut-up lo fi lo tech sound art acousmatic bruitistic noise collages, employing chance and random procedures yet highly deliberate, scrupulously chaotic in effect, and without God.

Hal McGee - The Man With The Tape Recorder - 1 minute sample

One minute from a new release on the HalTapes label, "In Loose Disorder" by Mark Sonnenfled and Hal McGee
http://www.haltapes.com/in-loose-disorder.html
a microcassette duo collaboration - 2013

Mark Sonnenfeld's poems for this project were taken from various Marymark Press chapbooks and read in New Brunswick, New Jersey and New York City.
Hal McGee's recordings of daily sounds and spoken words were recorded in Gainesville, Florida.

Mark Sonnenfeld and Hal McGee - In Loose Disorder - 1 minute sample

One minute sample from hipnotismo correo aéreo, a new album of heavy drones by Rafael González and Hal McGee, bristling with electronic energy, on the border of noise, on the edge of rhythm, with stratospheric bursts, and auroral displays.
http://www.haltapes.com/hipnotismo-correo-aeacutereo.html

hipnotismo correo aéreo by Rafael González and Hal McGee - 1 minute sample

- One minute sample from "collaboration with myself" by Hal McGee.
- Available on cassette and CD-R at http://www.haltapes.com/collaboration-with-myself.html
- You can download the entire album at http://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/collaboration-with-myself
- ALBUM INFO AND DESCRIPTION
On Friday, July 26, 2013 I improvised a mix of two 60-minute microcassettes that I had recorded of various random sounds in a collage fashion, sort of arbitrarily. One of the two tapes was originally intended for a collaboration with Rafael González. I took that tape and mixed it with another tape of stuff that I recorded and therefore collaborated with myself in a microcassette duo!

I split the two 30-minute mixes into four 15-minute pieces for your listening convenience. Those of you who like lots of electronic sounds will want to check out part 4 especially.

The two microcassettes include these sounds:

- voicemails and telephone & in-person conversations with Jiblit Dupree (Danny McGuire) - especially on the first three parts.

- extensive use of Korg Monotron analog synthesizers - original, Duo, and Delay - played separately, simultaneously, and linked together - mostly played through a Pignose 7-100 amp, but also recorded via the MIC jack of a desktop microcassette recorder (which added distortion).

- recordings of everyday sounds, such as -
rain on truck roof, bus driver announcement, urine, Chinese fortune cookies, talking with co-workers at my job and with neighbors at the bust stop, bulletin board flyer announcements, my voice saying stuff and making other mouth sounds, raindrops on umbrella, crickets chirping, birds singing, John Wayne had pop music hits!, Bono is a douchebag, Bono saved Africa!, shotgun, murder in the neighborhood, Casio keyboards (VA-10, circuit bent SK-1, SA-47), melodica, voicemails from three special guest contributors, ukulele, if you don't believe in anything you can't lose faith, Kim Kardashian & Kanye West & the Devil's spawn, the voices of my brother and father, there are a thousand ways to die, handjobs & blowjobs, water pump, piano lady in the lobby, shopping for canned pumpkin at Publix is a pleasure, other people's conversations, shrimp & grits, La Fiesta chips & salsa, cockroaches running across the table at Japanese steak house, my dog, a little bit gaudy, electric toothbrush, ATM, Pink Floyd road crew and crack ho's, dolphins are awesome, sportsman's double, Florida is still a jungle.

THIS MICROCASSETTE RECORDER KILLS FASCISTS!
I HOPE THAT YOU WILL HAVE FUN LISTENING TO THIS TAPE!

Hal McGee - collaboration with myself - 1 minute sample

"I Hate Love Songs" by Viscera is a previously unreleased song that comes from a recently digitized cassette of original recordings made by Debbie Jaffe and Hal McGee in late 1982. "I Hate Love Songs" by Viscera is a previously unreleased song that comes from a recently digitized cassette of original recordings made by Debbie Jaffe and Hal McGee in late 1982. Like many songs of that era "I Hate Love Songs" was improvised, with Hal McGee declaiming a poem while Debbie Jaffe created a sound setting on two Casio VL-Tone keyboards. The song was one of many recorded with a Panasonic shoebox style mono cassette recorder onto a cheap 90-minute Intermagnetics brand cassette, and was recorded in Apartment #22 of the Chalet apartments building at 821 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.

I Hate Love Songs by Viscera (1982)

This is an extract from Early Jaffe & McGee Tape #15, which comes from a collection of early recordings by Debbie Jaffe and Hal McGee, some of which were selected for their early cassette releases of experimental music. This recording was made on November 10, 1981. http://www.haltapes.com/early-jaffe-and-mcgee-tapes.html

The Genitals That Ate Indianapolis by Jaffe & McGee - 1981

Hal McGee, under the dadaist pseudonym Jolifanto Karawane, declaiming his poem "Thesaurus (in a bag with 2 boiled eggs and an apple)", recorded on cassette in 1983. This poem is from the NOTES FROM THE UNDERWEAR collection - http://www.haltapes.com/notes-from-the-underwear.html

Jolifanto Karawane - Thesaurus (1983)

62 second sample from Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation #3
http://www.haltapes.com/dictaphonia-microcassette-compilation-3.html
Excerpt is from "So Pissed Off" by Big Sugar Victorious.
59 minutes of sound recordings made on microcassette, originally released on microcassette. 
Dictaphonia was a 10-volume compilation series produced by Hal McGee
in 2009-2010 on his HalTapes label.

Side A
1. Neonworm - Panic Attack
2. Mannequin Hollowcaust - Shrapnel Bath
3. Karl J. Paloucek - Phonorail
4. Justin Robert - Nylon/Mylar
5. Carl Holmes (UK) - Impulse Response
6. Ooy (Japan) - Subway
7. Fludd (Italy) - Reso-nuances
8. JLIAT (UK) - Beethoven's 9th - Bonus track (Movement 5)
9. Bisexual Swinger - The Exercist
10. Alan George Ledergerber - I Like To Scare Myself
11. Stirner (The Netherlands) - Digita4dictaphonia
12. auvikogue (Germany) - heima

Side B
13. mortuus auris & the black hand (UK) - Ena Ari Nea
14. Johnny Brewton - Frequency Oblique No. 001
15. Master/Slave Relationship - Give
16. Big Sugar Victorious - So Pissed Off
17. EGG - Transmutations In Juarez
18. Vultures (UK) - Attacked By Plastic Spiders
19. Ecoute La Merde (France) - Le Grand Guignol
20. Lindsey Leepe - Skyward Celebration
21. Retarded Children (Russia) - Support Service
22. Raw Mummy (Japan) - A Straw And Water
23. William Wesley And The Tiny Sockets - Wisdom Teeth

Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation #3 - 1 minute sample - Big Sugar Victorious

One minute sample from Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation #4
http://www.haltapes.com/dictaphonia-microcassette-compilation-4.html
extract is from "Mother Teresa Of Calcutta" by Projexorcism.

60 minutes of sound recordings
made on microcassette,
originally released on microcassette. 
Dictaphonia was a 10-volume
compilation series produced by Hal McGee
in 2009-2010 on his HalTapes label.

Side A
01. Sparkle Girl - A Series Of Tubes
02. Mark Sonnenfeld - Nagging Haunt
03. Igloo Martian - The Pocket-Sized Beat
04. Enstruction - Agglomeration
05. The Lexington Steele - Untitled No. 1 (for Shirley)
06. Cellular Terror - Electronic Fingerprints
07. Witch With Flying Head - They Call Him Neato Bombeleato
08. Dave X - Wire/Recorder
09. Kathy Burkett - Japanese Dachshund
10. minimum of none - more talk

Side B
11. Front Gauche de l'art/Hermann Kleid (France) - Étude pathétique pour violoncelle un jour d'orage
12. The Saint Petersburg Institute Of Noise - I Never Road A Skateboard
13. H.G. Wells - Jesus Razor Blade
14. The Montreal Nintendo Orkestar (Canada) - The Great Origami Lobster (Dictaphone Version)
15. The Silent Committee (UK) - Long Way Down
16. Bryce Beverlin II - Mounded Cramphole
17. Frog - Cryptically Titled
18. Projexorcism - Mother Teresa Of Calcutta
19. Hal McGee - Download This!
20. Gerechtigkeits Liga (UK/Germany) - Kill-Burn
21. S.O.S. aka Astral Fields Farmer - Synchro-Expansion Microphone
22. Dave Fuglewicz - D-Enabled Tripton Zone 

Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation #4 - 1 minute sample - Projexorcism

I have been making my own homemade recordings of experimental, electronic, noise, tape collage, space music, improvisation, lo-fi and lo-tech audio art and music since October 1981. I have recorded and produced more than 200 albums and compilations. I was heavily involved in the early days of the homemade music Cassette Culture movement of the 1980s, and was one of the movement's original and prime motivators, organizers, and promoters.

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