NOTE: This is an archive of the show originally available from the CerebralRift website. Since the original publication of this show some of the links / references in the above notes may no longer work. Additionally, some of the reference websites may have been changed to no longer reflect the Creative Commons license of these works. The licenses and links were accurate as of the original air date of this show. No warranty or guarantee is implied as to the accuracy of this information at this time.

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I’d like to start with a correction to last week’s episode. I listed off the names of several Taped Rugs Productions ensembles. Unfortunately, I misnamed one them as “-RE”. There is no ensemble named “-RE” on the Taped Rugs roster. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused.

Last week we focused on the Herd of the Ether Space: the sheer volume of output over approximately 10 years (primarily from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s, with a final recording in 2001) made them worthy of singular focus for an episode.

As suggested by the list of ensembles in the previous show, there has been quite a bit more outside of the Herd. -ING was likely the first ensemble produced by Taped Rugs back in 1980, however after about 1984 -ING gave way to the Herd.

Since the Herd, ensembles like Disism and Turkey Makes Me Sleepy, as well as various solo and ensemble works by Charles Goff III have filled the roster of Taped Rugs Productions.

One of the more interesting series of recordings came about when Goff decided to “tour” the southern United States in 2006 visiting various home taping artists he had known throughout the years. And, another solo work of Goff’s is one of the most revealing releases produced by Taped Rugs.

This episode presents an array of the various projects Taped Rugs Productions has produced. Even if it cannot represent the complete range of ideas that have come about over the years, it hopefully represents a range of styles, textures and ideas that form a thumbnail sketch of the diversity and eclecticism of this unique underground label.

Finally, a quick reminder of Charles Goff III’s upcoming performance at the KC Regional Electro-Music festival on Friday, July 23, 2010. More information on the event will be on the CerebralRift website. (This information has been lost to time...)

And now, part two of our journey into Taped Rugs Productions.

Track list:

• -ING: Hallways Therapy Aquarium (from Banana Republic Dictatorship)
  
• Disism: Contra Mantra (from 60 seconds Left)
  
• Turkey Makes Me Sleepy: I Dropped Science on the Taped Rug (from Six With Pix)
  
• Hart / Goff / McGee: Ice And Ice (from Meshed Mixages)
  
• Charles Goff III: Improv w Variations on Rosie Notes (from Taped Rugs Uncooked Vol 9: Somnolency)
  
• Goff / McGee / Chadwick: I Feel Terrific (from Taped Rugs 06 / 06 Tour Of The Southeast USA: Florida)
  
• Charles Goff III: Ei Bod Fy Darfelydd (from Sweat On A Blacksmith’s Apron)

All tracks in this weeks episode were released under a Creative Commons Attribution / NonCommercial / No Derivatives License.

I would like to take this last opportunity to mention Charles Goff III’s upcoming performance at the KC Regional Electro-Music Festival on Friday July 23rd, 2010 @ 7pm.

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Tags: #music, #eclectic, #podcast, #Creative-Commons, #Charles-Goff, #Taped-Rugs-Productions

NOTE: This is an archive of the show originally available from the CerebralRift website. Since the original publication of this show some of the links / references in the above notes may no longer work. Additionally, some of the reference websites may have been changed to no longer reflect the Creative Commons license of these works. The licenses and links were accurate as of the original air date of this show. No warranty or guarantee is implied as to the accuracy of this information at this time.

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-ING, -RE, Disism, Herd of The Ether Space, and Turkey Makes Me Sleepy are just few of the names Charles Rice Goff III along with various other performers have recorded under for Taped Rugs Productions over the past 30 years.

Yes, I’d never heard of these groups either. Taped Rugs Productions is a true underground label that was started by Charles Goff as part of the home taping movement. Unlike the music typically found on the internet, Taped Rugs Productions produced cassette tape recordings that were sold in local music stores and by mail, eventually moving online as the Internet became popular.

Recently, Charles Goff started uploading the back catalog of Taped Rugs Productions to the Internet Archive, over 170 releases from the past 30 years including audio and video, some of which had not been previously released by Taped Rugs Productions in any form.

And now, on July 23rd, Charles will be performing at the KC Regional Electro-Music Festival, marking the 30th Anniversary of Taped Rugs Productions. The show will include the first live performances of several pieces. More information about the show can be found on the CerebralRift website, including links to Taped Rugs Productions the KC Regional Electro-Music Festival websites. (These notes / information have been lost to time...)

This week, the CerebralMix presents several pieces by Herd of the Ether Space in the first of a two part series looking at Taped Rugs Productions.

Track Credits:

All pieces this week were performed by the Herd of The Ether Space from the Tape Loop Improvisation series, and used with the permission of Charles Goff:

• 3 Fourthing (from Volume One, July 4th, 1984)
  
• Level Four (from Volume Sixteen, February 19th, 1989)
  
• Praise The Lord (from Volume Fifteen, February 5th, 1989)
  
• That’s All (from Volume Fifteen, February 5th, 1989)

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Tags: #podcast, #music, #eclectic, #Creative-Commons, #Taped-Rugs-Productions, #Herd-Of-The-Ether-Space, #Charles-Goff

NOTE: This is an archive of the show originally available from the CerebralRift website. Since the original publication of this show some of the links / references in the above notes may no longer work. Additionally, some of the reference websites may have been changed to no longer reflect the Creative Commons license of these works. The licenses and links were accurate as of the original air date of this show. No warranty or guarantee is implied as to the accuracy of this information at this time.

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Internet time doesn’t function like time in the real world. On the Internet anything that has been around for more than a few years is considered old. Back in what could be considered the “early days” of Internet music, one netlabel managed to make a remarkable mark on Internet music by releasing just about anything they could find: found sounds, cheesy lounge music, highly experimental and avant-garde music, remixes and mash ups and even a high school swing choir / glee club’s un-copyrighted recordings.

The label was called Comfort Stand Recordings – a kind of “outsider music” netlabel. Even though the Comfort Stand only existed for 2.5 years (from 2003-2006), they had 80 releases, 8 compilations and 16 singles, all of which are still available from their website (comfortstand.com).

This remains a remarkable feat by nearly any standard. Today, most netlabels are lucky to issue a release a month. 80 releases in 30 months is astonishing. To have as varied and wide ranging releases takes a very special group of people to put together. Not only the artists, but the staff of the label understanding the whole range of music, and not pigeon-holing the label into a single style. More amazing is the comfort stand audience. And, they did have an audience. Many of their releases are top downloads on the Internet Archive, and one releases remains one of the top-downloaded netlabel releases of all time.

Here’s the thing about the Comfort Stand: While these recordings are unusual, quirky, and more divergent than many of the releases you will find on the big websites today, many of the creators are still working with sound or music in some manner. Many of them are still releasing works on other netlabels, as either Creative Commons licensed works, or as commercial releases. Many of these artists have grown and changed over the last four years, growing either quirkier or more mainstream, but still maintaining their love for the music.

So, we pay tribute to The Comfort Stand this week. So sit back and enjoy these 24 tracks from the Comfort Stand Vaults.

Track Credits

Part One

• Lee Rosevere “Ascent” from Interplanetary Materials
  
• Jan Turkenburg “In My Spaceship” from Interplanetary Materials
  
• Astroslut “Love Theme From Astroslut” from Two Zombies Later
  
• Dale “Part 1” from Meet You At The 7-Eleven
  
• Eddie The Rat “Lip-Synching At Zero-Gravity” from Lip-Synching At Zero-Gravity
  
• Edith Frost “On Hold” from Demos
  
• Martinibomb “The Love God” from Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka
  
• Flavia & The Motonets “El Tren” from Comfort Cake

Part Two

• Karen “Hello Everybody” from Party Fun With Recorders
  
• Beef Humper “Sweater Girl (Top Billin’ Rmx)” from the Glorious Future of Mankind 2
  
• DJ Freshmoney “Whammo” from Two Zombies Later
  
• David “Pick The Goobers Out” from Party Fun With Recorders
  
• Lanark “Pacto de silencio” from Ovnis a Mogollon
  
• Bleep “S.I.F” from Datenbergbau
  
• Big City Orchestra “heart track” from boom crash crash
  
• Full Load of King “Ride A Wave To Uranus” Comfort Cake
  
• The Apartment “Electromusetic Sound” from People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too
  
• Nick Chapman “Take Me Now” from Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka

Part Three

• fortyone “hello, it’s time for music” from Music That’s Bettter Than It Sounds
  
• Chenard Walcker & Roy “Chicky” Arad “monster” from Monster
  
• Mar-Tie “Side B, Track 2 (Tribute to Betoven)” from The Avant-Garde Grandpa
  
• Cell1110 “Cell 1” from St. Meringue
  
• Brion Kinne “Where Did All These Dust Bunnies Come From” from People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too
  
• lady Bombon vs Gigaboy “Hiak Toyaz” from Stereo-Sonico

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Tags: #podcast #music #eclectic #Creative-Commons #Comfort-Stand

NOTE: This is an archive of the show originally available from the CerebralRift website. Since the original publication of this show some of the links / references in the above notes may no longer work. Additionally, some of the reference websites may have been changed to no longer reflect the Creative Commons license of these works. The licenses and links were accurate as of the original air date of this show. No warranty or guarantee is implied as to the accuracy of this information at this time.

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The fusion of Asian and Middle-Eastern flavors and styles into western music is not new. It can be traced back to the classical music of Mozart, and definitely the operas of Puccini.

In the 1950s, however the fascination with international sounds found a whole new home in lounge music. Most of this music was cheesy sounding and frequently misinterpreted or misused international sounds. In the 1960s the fusion of Jazz with Indian tabla and sitar informed the music of groups like Oregon and The Paul Winter Consort.

All of this leads up to today where artists often take main-stream styles and fuse them with international sounds and styles from around the world. This week we take a journey through the fusion of international sounds and styles of yesterday, to today's mainstream: A Virtual World Fusion, on this week's CerebralMix.

Track credits for this episode:

• Br. Cleve and His Lush Orch: Shaken, Not Stirred (from Two Zombies Later, Vol 1)
• Emil Klotsch: sctl13 (From Tiefe Berge)
• Izmar: Funky Sitar (From Secular EP)
• Misterciapica DJ: Temptation (from Trip #4)
• Petr Venkrbec: Tek5 (from Alone)
• Eternal Jazz Project: Aspo (from Seasons)
• Spheriot: Mindless (from Livingroom Orbits)
• Petr Venkrbec: Raw8ths (from Alone)
• Bumpenstein: Fuad Motel (from Two Zombies Later, Vol 2)
• Misterciapica DJ: Grace Marenco (from Trip #1)
• Beak: I Saw Two of Me (from Amoral Mayor Earwig)
• Tapeworm Collective: Jezz Groo (from Tapeworm Compilation 1)
• Transient: The Path With Heart (from Flying Saucer EP)
• Eternal Jazz Project: Loemma (from Seasons)

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Tags: #Creative-Commons, #eclectic, #fusion, #mix, #music, #world

NOTE: This is an archive of the show originally available from the CerebralRift website. Since the original publication of this show some of the links / references in the above notes may no longer work. Additionally, some of the reference websites may have been changed to no longer reflect the Creative Commons license of these works. The licenses and links were accurate as of the original air date of this show. No warranty or guarantee is implied as to the accuracy of this information at this time.

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Sunday is possibly the best day of the week: you aren’t expected to go anywhere, or do anything. You can sit back, chill with a book or newspaper, maybe do some cleaning or chores around the house. The pressures and expectations of the rest of the week are gone.

This weeks show is a mix of chillin’ and groovin’ tunes just right for a Sunday. From abstract ambient, to slow-techno, to funk-groove this set will give you the space and time to recharge your batteries to be ready for the rest of the week.

Sit back and enjoy the Sunday Chill and Groove Mix, this week on The CerebralMix.

Notes Episode 4 Track Credits:

• Acrilic Colors: Music for No Audience (from The Garden)
  
• Rumored High Speed Rail Hub (aka Andrew Cauthen): Go Within or Go Without (from Do What You Love Do Nothing Else)
  
• Aaron Jasinski: Staring At Someone Else’s Sun (From Electronic Feeling Machine)
  
• Acidrain: Morning Hours (from Mostly Covered In Clouds)
  
• Ben Crea: Funkatronic (from Warped Dimensions)
  
• Krill.Minima: Marienkaefer (from Borkenkaefer)
  
• Coax: Polaris (from Aeons)
  
• Roj: Evolution (from Evolution)
  
• Sleepy Town Manufacture: noil (from For You / For Me)
  
• Dreamlab: Chemical Karmasutra (from Cryogenic EP)
  
• Kevin M. Krebs: A Large and Shining Gate (From The Light Will Fill The Darkness)
  
• General Fuzz: Second Thoughts (from Soulful Filling)

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Tags: #ambient, #chill, #Creative-Commons, #eclectic, #mix, #music