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Season 1

March 27, 2025

Unboxing: Erotic Art, CDr's and a Mystery Device from Hybryds

Amazing artworks, CDr's and a mystery device. The full unboxing experience of the package sent to us from Belgium by Sandy from the Hybryds. This is the Bonus version of the recordings which opened Episode 8 "Universe Of The ...

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March 18, 2025

Universe Of The Wyrd: The Cold Spring Story

At the forefront of industrial and dark electronic music since the 1980s, Cold Spring Records emerged from the cassette underground to become a significant independent record label. We unpack the story of label founder Justin...

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March 4, 2025

Contact-Exchange-Document: The Story of ND

DIY passion, artistic discovery, and the power of community. This is a story of the kind friendly networking that typified the cassette scene and it shines through in this episode. We dive into the fascinating history of the ...

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Feb. 18, 2025

Evolution of Noise: The 40 Year Journey of Satori

With pile of scrap metal and a disused railway tunnel nearby, unemployed youths Dave Kirby and Rob Maycock began recording sounds that they’d use as material for their Throbbing Gristle-inspired noise project, Psychopath. For...

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Feb. 9, 2025

The British Library Sound Archive Calls

We share the news of the preservation of the Cassette Culture podcast by the British Library Sound Archive and talk about some upcoming interviews. Coming Next: Psychedelia in the Home Counties with Richard Allen of Delerium ...

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Jan. 9, 2025

Underground 'Zines And The Hunt For Lost Music

The Vital fanzine evolved from hand typed, xeroxed pages to pioneering online distribution, and connected artists from the USA and Europe. We dive into an interview with Frans de Waard, creator of the Dutch fanzine Vital and ...

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Dec. 28, 2024

The Package From Steve Arrives

Unboxing a Cassette Time Capsule sent to us from Steve Gears in the UK. We find a treasure trove of rare cassette culture artifacts from the 1980s and 90s. From handmade fanzines and photocopied flyers to quirky cassette rele...

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Dec. 23, 2024

Cassettes On The Radio: Underground Broadcasting

1980’s cassette networking branched out into independent radio shows, physical meet ups and gigs. For 14 years Sandy Nys ran his radio show on Antwerp's Radio Centraal, amplifying and connecting the scene. Through these conne...

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Dec. 9, 2024

Chance Connections - He Got Talking To This Guy In The Record Store

Steve Gears (Pharoah Chromium Sound/The Happy Citizen), Richard Talbot (Marconi Union) and Tom Gibbs , (Infinite Expanse) take us further down the rabbit hole in this episode. We even got hold of some archive radio recording ...

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Nov. 25, 2024

Find The Others

A decade before the widespread adoption of the internet, a group of artists and musicians established an underground network to share their work with kindred spirits via the mail system. Starting our story from a dark, isolat...

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Nov. 16, 2024

Analog Connections - Join The Cassette Network

Taking the DIY message of Punk as a jumping off point, our travel through the underground cassette network departs from the bleak 1980's Thatcher-era UK, community radio and fanzines, and all points in a journey to a thriving...

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