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 !

Mystery Hearsay - Where the Latex Meets the Asphalt

Audiofiles
Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#103], Ivory Coast, 2017


Tracklist :

1. Face to the concrete (10:39)
2. Roll bar Fly (5:37)
3. Roll bar Flyby again (4:44)
4. Seething origins (5:30)
5. New beaten paths (7:53)
6. New beaten paths (part two) (7:58)
7. Excess shuttle (5:08)
8. Exit ramp (6:34)
9. Traveling iridescent antiques (6:34)
10. Early rotor scenery (VHS) (11:59)
11. Vintage holographic sources (ERS par two) (15:54)
12. Lubrication engines (7:08)
13. Final resting pace (6:42)
14. Bat turn overkill (2:23)

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Mystery X - Sine of the X

Audiofiles
Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#81], Ivory Coast, 2016


Mystery X is a collaboration project between Mike Honeycutt (Mystery Hearsay) and visual artist Bob X, both of Memphis, Tennessee. In the past, they had several compilation appearances and at least three cassette releases : two self-released and one C90 on Sound of Pig.


Tracklist :

1. Breaths of infinity (22:48)
2. X hailed the impaled (13:43)
3. Sine language (12:30)
4. Nothing but Xx Xx (8:28)
5. JuJu sploog sent (9:54)
6. Non tuned instruments (2:32)
7. Dark oval portal (2:44)
8. Sublime alignment (1:42)
9. Seconds left then right (1:35)
10. Nail gun attack (15:15)

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