Don Campau showcases songs from his vast collection of tapes that arrived to him by post. Highlighting the era of the cassette culture, he plays tracks from tapes released in the 80s and 90s of last century. Have a special ear for Paul & Laura or Palo Alto or Areknuteknyterne or Reportaz or Horsefall. You might want to hear more.

The Playlist is just an indication of the variety of genre’s and styles that Don brings together in this show

Vortice Cremisi/ Today/ Vortice Cremisi/ Vacation House cassette 1994 Italy
La Limace/ Love Me/ Le Breuvage Macrobiotique/ —cassette 1992 France
Introit/ Le Jour Dit/ Le Breuvage Macrobiotique/ —cassette 1992 France

Paul & Laura/ Fiskur/ Mobius Shrimp/—cassette 1991 Iceland
Kazma Kazma/ 2 songs/ Troubador Dances/ Novaya Scena/ — cassette 1992 Russia
Martin Hall/ Mind/ The Hall Of Mirrors/ cassette 1990s Denmark

Dawson/ Surface Tension/ Radio Mondain Den Haag/—cassette 1992 Netherlands
Palo Alto/ La Perte Un Ruaba/ Le Clos/—Old Europa Cafe 1990 France
Areknuteknyterne/ Lille Ragnhild/ Hos Fotografen/Hypertonia cassette 1990 Norway

Hiroshima Mon Amour/ Ingenuita/ Hiroshima Mon Amour/—1992 Italy
Reportaz/ Gwint/ Muzycka/—cassette 1987 Poland
Messy/ Reinca/ A Gift Taken/ EE Tapes cassette late 1995 Belgium

David Zax/ Civil Service Zorro/ Left/—cassette 1993 Taiwan
Horsefall/ The Shelter Is The Storm/ Shadows In Dead Beds/—cassette 1988? country?

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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.

How to submit your music

podcasts of past No Pigeonholes
podcasts of past No Pigeonholes EXP