Phinney / McGee – Pig [Cass] (1996, HalTapes)

Chris Phinney is the founder of the Harsh Reality Music cassette label and a long-time home taper from the 1980s onwards. Chris revived the label in 2011 and it has been active ever since. It produced about 350 releases during its original incarnation, including numerous compilations as well as material by the likes of Big City Orchestra, Violence And The Sacred, Viktimized Karcass and Nomuzic. 

Hal McGee is an American experimental artist and producer, active since 1981. With Debbie Jaffe, McGee operated the Cause And Effect cassette label and distributor in Indianapolis, Indiana. In the mid-1980's, McGee recorded works as a member of Viscera, solo as Dog As Master, and in collaboration with If, Bwana and JABON.  

 

McGee moved to Florida in 1988, where he operated the Electronic Cottage label out of Gainesville, simultaneously with an Electronic Cottage Magazine into the 1990's. This was restarted as an online zine and community in April 2018. In the mid to late 1990's, McGee released dozens of cassettes of homemade experimental music, solo and in collaboration with Jeph Jerman, Brian Noring (EHI), Big City Orchestra, Emil Hagstrom (Cock E.S.P.), Charles Rice Goff III and others. He also produced a series of "Tape Heads" cassette compilations on his own HalTapes label. 

 

Label: HalTapes – HT 069 

Format: Cassette, Album 

Country: US 

Released: 1996 

Style: Experimental, Ambient 

 

Tracklist:

A1 The Ouzing Of Wormy Sounds Through A Close-Meshed Wire 

A2 Searching For The Elusive Grasshole!! 

B1 Fucking Pig Fucking 

B2 Walking That Emotional Tightrope 

 

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