TAPE PISS ARCHIVE PART 1

The cassette as a fetish object. The cassette as a cult ritual.

Reverse Evolution is writing and broadcasting from life of dilettante: passion, obsession, conflict and leisure. The supremacy of music. Plus: WWIII. The Age of Quarrel. Modern Horror. Psychotic Sci-Fi. Television OD. Laughing at The System. Kvlt HC. True Romantic. Kvlt HC. Noir Future. Tekno Acid Beat. Plus a history of Distort mag and other print publications. - DX, Sydney, Australia

I started the Tape Piss blog in 2009 with Brendon Annesley (Negative Guest List), Cooper Bowman (Altered States) and Thomas Miller (Magic Crowbar). Most of the writing was published in 2010 and 2011. I had deep prejudices against the internet, but self-destruction was the flavour of the time, inspired by websites and blogs functioning to connect disparate factions of the international underground.

Tape Piss was a collection of our writing on new music on tapes. There were some exceptions to this, exercises in fetishism as in T.M.’s Holocausto diatribe or my drooling on Suicide. The cassette as totem. But…