White Hand & Brook Hinton - Cling

Cassette, C46
Label : Banned Production, US
Ripped by jx


Tracklist :

A1. The Rules Of Travel (7:19)
A2. Solitary (6:39)
A3. Architecture Of Life (8:19)
B1. State Of Existence (8:16)
B2. Filling (2:12)
B3. Artifice (10:32)

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PS Bingo / If, Bwana - Beware / Death To The Opressors

Cassette, C90
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, 1986
Ripped by Dualtrack


A remastered version of the PS Bongo side/track is available here.


Tracklist :

A. PS Bingo - Beware
B. If, Bwana - Death To The Opressors

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Bwannoy - A Minoy / If Bwana Collaboration

Cassette, C46
Label : Antebellum, USA, 1990
Ripped by Luca Fiore


This is the only known collaboration between those two legends of the US underground cassette music scene.


Tracklist :

A. Why Does Nature Hate The White Man (22:30)
B. Why Does White Man Hate The Nature (20:21)

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If, Bwana - Organ Life (Extended)

Audiofiles
Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#17], Ivory Coast, 2012


"Organ Life" is one of the earliest If, Bwana cassettes, here remastered and extended for your greatest pleasure !


Tracklist :

1. Organ Life (31:28)
2. Loop De Loop (31:30)
3. Organ Life 2007 (12:19)
4. Double Loop (14:15)

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Al Margolis & Rafael Flores & BogArt & Yutaka Tanaka - International Mail-Music Group

Cassette, C46
Label : Bog-Art, Germany, 1986
Ripped by Hubert Haverkamp


Mail collaboration between four legendary artists from the eighties' industrial cassette network : Al Margolis (If, Bwana), Rafael Flores (Comando Bruno), BogArt and Yutaka Tanaka (S·Core).

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As If² Bwana - Tu

Cassette, C60
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, circa 1988


Second collaboration cassette between Al Margolis and David Prescott, featuring Adam Bohman.

From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "Second As If² Bwana release. Side one is percussion, vocals and synth - everything processed and reprocessed in a slowly building piece. Side 2 finds Rich Clark's computer speaking to us (and with us) along with processed tapes of a mutant trumpet and mutated computer".

Side B has been rereleased on "Reefer" CDr, that is available for free download here.


Tracklist :

A. Percana
B. BCP

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If, Bwana - Organ Life

Cassette, C60
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, circa 1987


My favourite If, Bwana cassette. Very minimal.

From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "Two half hour pieces on this tape. "Loop De Loop" is 54 loops of one sampled sound progressing towards orchestral dimensions. "Organ Life" is 7 different organ sounds playing 7 different chords. Headache inducing (hopefully)".

Tracklist :

A. Organ Life
B. Loop De Loop

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If, Bwana - They Call Me "Bwana"

Cassette, C60
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, 1987

From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "Well, for the 100th SOP release it's - If, Bwana. Oh hell what can I say - this is me - a bit of a different direction - and pretty damn hot. Buy it".


Tracklist :

A1. Watery One (5:09)
A2. They Call Me 'Bwana' (3:20)
A3. The Sleepwalkers (4:48)
A4. Bleeding At Limelight (6:09)
A5. Summers Holiday (4:37)
B1. Untitled #651 (6:03)
B2. What Martin ET (2:49)
B3. Fifth At Five (2:58)
B4. Jaws Of Hell (5:16)
B5. Not Wanted (6:08)
B6. This Means You (3:15)

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If, Bwana - Beware The Sleeping Squid

Cassette, C60
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, 1987


If, Bwana is the musical project of Sound Of Pig Music owner, Al Margolis. "Beware The Sleeping Squid" is one of his first tapes.

From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "Well, after a couple of years on Cause & Effect, this tape is now on SOP. Dark, mysterious and alien (to borrow a paraphrase). For those who dig Bwana -- and beyond".


Tracklist :

A1. "The Sound Of..." (2:52)
A2. The Beyond Is Not Happy (3:52)
A3. The Great Khan's Atlas (3:50)
A4. An Acceptable Level Of Violence (6:13)
A5. Eusapia (3:52)
A6. Invisible Cities (3:56)
A7. Blood Lines Last Forever (4:20)
A8. Beware The Sleeping Squid (2:28)
B. The Depth Of Silence (30:14)

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Sound Of Pig Music

From mid-eighties to mid-nineties, there were three major cassette labels of post-industrial and experimental musics in the US : Audiofile Tapes, Harsh Reality Music and Sound Of Pig Music. During that period, Al Margolis released more than 300 cassettes of underground music and was considered "the cassette godfather", as stated on Hal McGee's Electronic Cottage #1 cover (although the two other mentioned labels have released the same - Harsh Reality Music - or nearly the same - Audiofile Tapes - amount of tapes). You can read an interview of Al Margolis about Sound Of Pig Music here.

During the last months, I've been collecting MP3s of Sound Of Pig Music cassettes, and I'm gonna share some of them.

Most Sound Of Pig Music cassettes can be purchased here, and many can be downloaded on various blogs :
SOP ? - Jim O'Rourke - Secure On The Loose Rim
SOP 6 - Various - Aural Fixation
SOP 9 - Der Akteur - Rockery
SOP 10 - Various - Beyond Step One
SOP 10 - Various - Beyond Step One
SOP 11 - Various - War Is The Health Of State
SOP 15 - Various - Scary World
SOP 15 - Various - Scary World
SOP 17 - Various - Ha! Ha! Among The Trumpets
SOP 18 - Various - The Long March
SOP 19 - Dog A Master / Dog As Master & If, Bwana - An Organised Accident
SOP 20 - Nails Øv Christ - Dark Night Of The Soul
SOP 20 - Nails Øv Christ - Dark Night Of The Soul
SOP 24 - P.S. Bingo / If, Bwana - Untitled
SOP 26 - Schlafengarten - Spring Cleaning!!
SOP 34 - The Haters - Future Cheers
SOP 39 - Big City Orchestra & Deathranch - Massacre Of The Innocents
SOP 42 - Various - The World Does Not Fit On A 21" Screen
SOP 48 - Big Red Stain / La Otra Cara De Un Jardín - Chronicle Of Consumptive Irritation / Brikollage
SOP 49 - Het Zweet - Zweepslag 1 + 2
SOP 50 - Psyclones - Son Ov Cultleader
SOP 55 - Alien Planetscapes - Children Of Slaves
SOP 58 - Nails Øv Christ - Punishment Is Correction
SOP 60 - Irritant / Ramleh - Tomorrow We Live
SOP 62 - Minoy - Pretty Young Negro Man
SOP 64 - Thick Slimy Whisper - Live At Fashion Moda 10/11/86
SOP 66 - Dog As Master - Brash Pussy
SOP 66 - Dog As Master - Brash Pussy
SOP 71 - Various - Screaming "Alas" She Died Laughing
SOP 74 - Thick Slimy Whisper & Qwa Digs Never Parish - Teenage Pop Songs
SOP 84 - Abner Malaty - Fragments From The Semi Structure
SOP 87 - Deaf Lions - Copia
SOP 90 - Various - Empty Shadows
SOP 100 - If, Bwana - They Call Me "Bwana"
SOP 100 - If, Bwana - They Call Me "Bwana"
SOP 109 - If, Bwana - Beware The Sleeping Squid
SOP 111 - La Sonorité Jaune - Ersatia
SOP 111 - La Sonorité Jaune - Ersatia
SOP 118 - Big City Orchestra - Mile After Mile
SOP 121 - Violence And The Sacred - Arkinoid
SOP 124 - John Hudak - Blackening
SOP 128 - XTSW - Bridge
SOP 129 - City Of Worms - Crumnants
SOP 133 - Fake Feelings Institute With Audio Leter - Present...
SOP 140 - Joseph Nechvatal - Sleep
SOP 142 - Domaine Poétique - Exhale Slowly
SOP 148 - X-Ray Pop - Dirty Love
SOP 152 - Various - A Very Large Array

SOP 156 - Mami - The Trauma Of Industrial Etiquette
SOP 160 - Amy Denio - No Elevators
SOP 166 - If, Bwana - Organ Life
SOP 166 - If, Bwana - Organ Life
SOP 194 - Allegory Chapel Ltd. - Trip
SOP 196 - As If² Bwana - Tu
SOP 202 - Dan Joseph - No.3
SOP 217 - Joseph Nechvatal - Reckless
SOP 223 - Illusion Of Safety - Repairs
SOP 224 - Jim O'Rourke - Some Kind Of Pagan
SOP 236 - John Hudak - Wind, Rain & Clouds To Human Beings
SOP 239 - Deathranch - A Prisoner
SOP 246 - Dave Prescott - Red Shift 5
SOP 248 - Nihilist Surfin' Group - Music For The New Yorker
SOP 272 - Merzbow & John Hudak - The Time Stream
SOP 276 - Herd Of The Ether Space - Kumquat Over Again
SOP 288 - Merz - Big Band Theory

If, Bwana / XTSW - R.ISMV.1

CD
Label : Anckarström, Sweden, 1991


Tracklist :

1. R.ISMV.1 (32:46)
2. In Deepest, Darkest... (23:29)

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XTSW - West

Cassette, C90
Label : Freedom In A Vacuum, Canada, 1987

Ripped by a.b.a.s.t.


XTSW was a band around Al Margolis - aka If, Bwana -, the owner of the famous Sound Of Pig Music cassette label.
That cassette was recorded live on KZSC, Santa Cruz, 11/26/87, and features Big City Orchestra members Cliff Neighbors and Das (the radio host).

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