Don Campau – No Pigeonholes (cassettes 1985 – 1997)

It is always a pleasure to listen to a new show by Don Campau. There’s always a hidden gem; in this show The Cheese and their cheap kisses. The tracks he chose are mostly from the 80s, and not few of them remind of the music styles that were dominant back then.

Don’s choice for this show is, well, a bit on the weird side, and a very enjoyable weirdness it is. Hear him introduce the songs, talk about the makers in this new edition of the cassette culture encyclopaedia.

artist/title/ album/ label-source
Jimmy Townes & The Trance Band/ Dear God/ Power Of The Dreamer/Fido cassette 1985 USA
Page Eight/ Son House Rising/ Well Well Well If It Isn’t/ Go Dot cassette 1989 USA
Zot Theatre/ Make Love Not War/ Tape Of The Month Club 4/ GGE cassette 1988? USA
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Violent Reign/ OCD/ Violent Reign/—cassette 1990? USA
James Richard Oliver/ Hillbilly Monster/ Psychobilly Joe Bob/ —cassette 1985 USA
The Cheese/ Cheap Kisses/ Cheap Kisses/—cassette 1986 USA
The Legendary Poptones/ untitled/ No Sound No Future/—cassette 1986 Bulgaria
The Aptosians/ untitled/ Chaos Theropy/—cassette 1996 USA
Fred Frantic/ The Cider Show/ The Cider Show/—cassette 1997 UK
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Gypsy/ Which Massacre/This Tape Is Therefore I Am/Rodent cassette 1990? UK
The Intuitive Bikers/ Life By The Sea/ Its Just Everything/ —cassette 1986 USA
WeeHuggum/ Easy/ Love Gun/Ensign cassette 1990 USA
Evidence/ From The Hearts Grave/ From The Hearts Grave/—cassette 1993 France
Robert Musso/ Kithara Mu/ Absolute Music/ Mu Records cassette 1989 USA
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The No Pigeonholes radio show is a result of Don’s direct involvement with the cassette culture, the vast network of home-produced cassette exchangers that anticipated the internet, its social networks and the whole shabam of netlabels and free downloadable musicians. An attempt to archive the movement is in his Living Archive of Underground Music.

Stations that broadcast No Pigeonholes:

KKUP Edition> 2nd and 4th Sundays 3-5 PM, on KKUP, 91.5FM if you are around.

European Edition> broadcast twice monthly by Radio Marabu throughout continental Europe ( and archived for the internet).

KWTF Edition> Streaming at KWTF> community radio for Sonoma County California.

No Pigeonholes EXP> broadcast and streamed live on KOWS-FM ( 1st, 3rd, 5th Thursdays 6-8 PM Pacific Time. KOWS> all experimental music.

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podcasts of past No Pigeonholes
podcasts of past No Pigeonholes EXP