R.I.P. Mike Honeycutt (Mystery Hearsay)

From the outset, this blog has been a tribute to the underground cassette culture of the 1980-90s. One of its emblematic US figures left us suddenly at the end of the year.

We'll keep you in our hearts and headphones Mike Honeycutt !

Long Live Minóy !

" The Minóy archival project is completed. The intensity of finishing it in 2023, after ten years working on it, has made it very difficult to speak with perspective about it. (I'll need to work through that after some time off) His works have been in my head, and headphones, for the last decade... and even longer, I suppose. On Friday I will make available the final eleven Minóy releases. It will be done then, and there will be 160 finished albums from the archive. Yet and still, the archive is not a complete accounting of his tapeography, there were many, many tapes missing from it. On the flip, there were so many tapes in the archive that were previously unknown, never before heard, and it's been extremely gratifying to present these albums to his fans and whatever new ears will find him in the future. What tremendous personal energy Minóy exerted! Between 1984-1994, the ten years he was actively making sounds, he created music compulsively, manically, more than 200 finished tapes! It took me an equal amount of time to finish the digitization and remastering of the archive. The project is complete. Long live Minóy! "

- Phillip B. Klingler aka PBK, November 29th 2023

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Mud - Men In Black

Cassette, C60

Label : > U Productions, US, 1996

Ripped by Luca Forest-Fiore

Tracklist :

A1. Exeter Incident

A2. Tepoztian

A3. Photo 19

A4. Reich

A5. Hillsdale

A6. Anunnaki

B1. Kecksburg Incident

B2. Project Hessdalen

B3. Akkadian Seal

B4. Rael

B5. The Pleiades

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MUD - MUD

Cassette, C60

Label : > U Productions, US, 1994

Ripped by Luca Forest-Fiore

Tracklist :

A1. Damp

A2. Slave

A3. Environ

A4. Shame

A5. Kabbazah

B1. March

B2. Harhar

B3. Naked

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Various Artists - Multum In Parvo

Cassette, C90

Label : Musiques Nouvelles, UK, 1983

Ripped by Luca Forest-Fiore

Tracklist :

A1. Region Five - Kara Ki (3:20)

A2. Region Five - Fata Morgana (1:55)

A3. Region Five - Erhöhung (3:00)

A4. Region Five - Gliding (3:30)

A5. A.C.F. - Wrench (10:35)

A6. (Q.S.O.) - Quasar Stellar Objects (8:55)

A7. SF.1b - Mechanical Bent (10:20)

B1. Holy Atheist - Minimal (5:40)

B2. Holy Atheist - Minimal Too (7:15)

B3. Vrije - Blow Up (10:30)

B4. Zircon & The Burning Brains - Övalture (18:30)

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Khodumodumo - What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side?

Audiofiles

Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#189], Ivory Coast, 2023

Khodumodumo is an exciting new artist from South Africa and this debut album is a co-release.

Tracklist :

1. Are You Unravelling From Some Sort of Cage? (2:36)

2. Trapped in Deluded and Helpless Loops (3:08)

3. What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side? (3:24)

4. Dirge for the Ever-Watching Beings (3:12)

5. Their Whistles Have Noticed You (1:36)

6. Save Your Breath, My Mimic Child (2:24)

7. You Can Have Johannesburg With Love (3:03)

8. I Don't Want to be Here (3:54)

9. I Know You’re There. Even Though I’m Lapidified (4:44)

10. KhumbulaKhumbulaKhumbulaKhumbulaKhumbula (3:19)

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Goodiepal / Alejandra Salinas & Aeron Bergman / Jörg Piringer - Three Ideophones

3x10"

Label : Onomatopee, Netherlands, 2008

Ripped by Luca Forest-Fiore

Tracklist :

A1. Goodiepal - Untitled

A2. Goodiepal - Untitled

B1. Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman - Rendeiras

B2. Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman - Hasselblad, Bell And Howell

C1. Jörg Piringer - Alles, Was Der Fall Ist

C2. Jörg Piringer - Everything That Is The Case

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