Artists such as PBK, Big City Orchestra, Alien Planetscapes, Don Campau, Ken Clinger, Dino DiMuro, Tom Furgas, The Haters, Zan Hoffman, If, Bwana, Hal McGee, Minóy, Dave Prescott, Dan Fioretti, dk, Jim Shelley, Suburban Campers,The Silly Pillows, and hundreds of others recorded numerous albums available only on cassette throughout the late '80s and well into the '90s.
•
But there also existed many small 'tape labels' such as Snatch Tapes, Falling A Records, Datenverarbeitung (in Germany), Deleted Records, Cemental Health Records, Fuck Off Records, Music for midgets, Man's Hate (which distributed the International Sound Communication compilation series), New Crimes Tapes, Rasquap Products, Sterile Records and Third Mind Records that operated in opposition to the capitalistic aim of maximizing profit.
Their first two cassette albums, Musical Destruction (1980) and Crime Pays (1981) were only ever released in very small quantities, and it was only when they finally got the money together to release an EP in April 1982 (There's No Government Like No Government) did they make the jump to a wider audience, the EP completely selling out within three weeks.
They released one cassette album entitled Sex Object on Millennium tapes (1983).
culture | Compact Cassette | Culture | popular culture | Culture of Japan | Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Western culture | Polynesian culture | Culture Club | European Capital of Culture | Chinese culture | Department for Culture, Media and Sport | Asian culture | The Culture Show | Palace of Culture and Science | La Tène culture | Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology | Latin culture | compact cassette | Chinese Culture University | Castro culture | Beijing Language and Culture University | Tiki culture | Tibetan culture | Russian culture | Popular culture | Ministry of Culture | Ethical Culture Fieldston School | Culture of Asia |
That summer, Olympia, Washington, students Wolfe and Molly Neuman, editors of Girl Germs zine, to which Smith had contributed, moved to Washington, D.C. Having already formed their band Bratmobile, they asked Smith and Christina Billotte (of Autoclave and Slant 6) to join, and the band released one cassette tape, called Bratmobile DC, with this line-up.
Snatch Tapes was part of the then burgeoning cassette culture scene and also released tapes by David Jackman (later of Organum), and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey as well as tracks by the Lemon Kittens, Alien Brains, Cultural Amnesia and the Beach Surgeons (led by a young Graham Massey, later of 808 State).