2005 Cassette Culture Revival

This year there was a groundswell of interest in cassette culture so lots of interest has led to two nice online groups.
Cassette Culture BB
Yahoogroup for Cassette era networkers
This nostalgia also led me to search for old friends and here's a nice list of people who have turned up recently:
Chris P > Urbain Autopsy > Medicinal Tapes > France
Henk Walleys > Unovidual > Micrart > Belgium
Robert Vigneault > Katharsist > Caustic Tapes > Canada

2004 Network

Most of my contacts are now online with e-mail now.

2000 Network

This is the first time the internet and e-mail have influenced my network.

1996 Network

At the Sign of the Senile Bison things were crusing along in the mid 1990s.

1992 Network

During this period I transitioned from the Grandbrother Lounge, to Land of the Large and Settling at The Sign of The Senile Bison.

1988 Network

1988 was the height of the home taping scene's first generation of labels and contacts. After this many people faded out and a whole new generation of home recording artists checked in.
a Hypercard database from 1987 includes these contacts:
Adam Bohman [uk]
Agog/Spagyric [ca]
Bloedvlag - Peter Zincken [nl]
Boh Boh - Jun Kuramitsu [jp]
Calypso Now - Rudi Tuscher [ch]
Cassette Mythos - Robin Jame s [wa]
Catfish - Janet [wa]
Cauchy Productions [be]
Tim Clifford TV Viewer [ma]
Commando Bruno/EDCM - Raphael Flores [es]
Corrosive Tapes/Dr. Piort Aakoun - Peter Moreels [be]
Crow [uk]
Das Big City Orchestra [ca]
Dee Dee / Art Tape [ch]
Destructive Technologies Foundation / Watergate Tapes - Jeff Surak [md]
Dino Dimuro [ca]
Doh Matsuura [jp]
Edition Ammerland - Klaus Groh [de]
Epitapes - Mike Tetrault [ma]
FOT Records [il]
Fifth Column - Yoshiaki Kinno [jp]
John E. Mumbles [ks]
Jim Tapes - Jime Levine [ny]
John Doe Records [can]
Katharsis [ca]
Tuf / Carbon Monoxide - Kozi Matsuura [jp]
Axel Kretchmer [de]
Kx4 - Mark Hanley [oh]
Medicinal Tapes - Chris P [fr]
Minoy [ca]
Mouche Tapes [fr]
Mystery Hearsay - Mike Honeycut [tn]
ND - Daniel Plunket [tx]
Nick [in]
No Unauthorized - Mad Micheal [fr]
Andrew Orford [ca]
Pagen Amen - Joe Danger [il]
Al Perry [az]
Peuleschille Tapes - Van Der Veens [nl]
Pierre Perret [fr]
Pissende Kuh Cassette - Iko Schutte [de]
Dave Prescott [ma]
Raunchorama - Brad Goins [il]
Swinebolt #45 -Roger Moneymaker [tn]
Runde Sache - Josche Mosthaf [de]
Lawrence Salvitore [il]
ShiT Tapes - Robert Ommundsen [no]
Silent But Deadly - Mark Murrell [mi]
Sound of Pig - Al Margolis [ny]
Tomasz Szumski [pl]
Technological Feeling - Mauro Guazotti [it]
Tomomichi Nishyama [jp]
Trance - Luca Gennai [it]
Trial Run Tapes - Kazuhiro Ohtsuka [jp]
Uddersounds - F/i - Richard Franecki [wi]
Udo Jahnke [ch]
Valley of the Singing Saxaphones - Barry Edgar Pilcher [wales]
Virpi - Rdio Jvyaskyla [fi]
Wag [ne]
John Wiggins [ny]
X-Kurzhen Music - Mike Jackson [tn]

1984 Network

My home taping networking started in 1984, though I had been doing home recordings since the previous year. The earliest person to send me a tape in trade was Al Margolis. Equally early contacts include Ken Clinger, John Wiggins and Hal & Debbie of Cause & Effect who I drove to Indianapolis to visit that year.
Here's a contact list from '84:
Beautiful Music - Dave Beauvais [ma]
Bovine Productions - Ken Clinger [ca]
Calypso Now - Rudi Tuscher [ch]
Extrimist - Armin Hoffman [de]
Nicola Fragione [it]
Girls on Fire - Leslie Singer [ca]
Harvey & Friends [wi]
Jaffee & McGee [in]
R. Stevie Moore [nj]
Henry Palczewski [pl]
Sombrero Galexy - Al Margolis [ny]
LTD/ltd - Marc Ball [tn]
TCAB Studio - James Hill [ca]
Third Mind / Tone Deaf - Gary Levermore [uk]
VEC Audio Exchange - Rod Summers [nl]
Vergin Press - Belinda Subraman [de]
Walls of Genius [co]
Widemouth Press - Tentatvely A Conveience [md]
John Wiggins [ny]
Craig Burk [ny]

Mail Art Networking

It started at Drake University in 1982 when I was making one-of-a-kind postcard collages (ZH## Carte Postale) for friends. During this time I wandered into the international Mail Art postal networking movement.