Artist
Funeral Danceparty
Early 1980s experimental cassette project exploring noise and industrial soundscapes through DIY self-releases.
About
Funeral Danceparty was an experimental music project active during the early 1980s, operating within the underground cassette culture that defined the era's independent music scene. The project's output consists of four documented releases from 1980, all self-released on cassette tape, including The Attractions Of Fixed Interest, Quirtyiop, and The Curiosity Shop, alongside involvement with This is This Magazine. Working primarily through DIY cassette distribution, Funeral Danceparty exemplified the aesthetic and production methods of the post-punk experimental underground, a scene characterized by accessible yet uncompromising approaches to noise, industrial, and avant-garde composition. The project's prolific output within a single year suggests an exploratory approach to sound-making and tape manipulation typical of the era's most adventurous practitioners. Limited documentation of the project reflects both its obscurity within mainstream music history and its existence primarily within underground networks and tape-trading communities that sustained experimental music outside conventional industry structures.
