Label
Taped Rugs Productions
Taped Rugs Productions is an experimental music label from Kansas, known for its abstract soundscapes and lo-fi cassette releases from 1987 to 1999.
About
Taped Rugs Productions emerged from the depths of Kansas, a sonic laboratory operating under the guise of a cassette label from 1987 to 1999. A realm of abstract soundscapes and lo-fi curiosities unfurled, where Charles Rice Goff III, the principal navigator, sculpted auditory landscapes with a fractal touch. His prolific output, including tapes like "Awe" and "Desert Foxtrot," carved pathways through the liminal terrain of experimental music, each cassette an immersive experience in itself. The label was a crucible for collaboration, with projects like Herd Of The Ether Space and Turkey Makes Me Sleepy weaving interdisciplinary tapestries of sound. "Aberrations of Collaboration," a 1998 release, stands as a testament to the collaborative ethos, each tape a dialogic process-driven artifact. Not to be overshadowed, "Sings Songs for Dyling Dongs" offered a unique aesthetic, its non-traditional song structures challenging the listener to invert their expectations. Forty-six releases, all on the warm, tactile medium of cassette, form a diverse archive of lo-fi recordings and experimental inquiries. The preference for this format underscored the label's commitment to an immersive, physical listening experience, where each tape was an intimate artifact of sound and sculptural intent. Taped Rugs Productions didn't seek commercial success; it sought to explore the boundaries of sound and collaboration, leaving behind an indelible mark on the experimental scene.
Catalog
40 total
Butter Tub Of Paper Clips
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Milk Crate Madness
Awe
Whereever you are is where you are
Default
Under the Influences Volume three
Desert Foxtrot
Sings Songs for Dyling Dongs
Suggestions for inverting yourself
Qualmy
Remedies from Roots and Molds
A Goblin-Realm of fakery
Knocking At My Consciousness Door
Under the Influences Volume One
Under The Influences Volume Two
Laughing all the way
Caliginous California
Ön Töür on Rugs
Audio Endurance Test
33 and 1/3
Riot Via Satellite
People make the world go round
Noises of War
Beyond the confessions of Hiss
Startled By White Bread
Independence Daze
The Chaos Of Bobby And Chuck
Flexing The Musical Muscles
Declaration
Activism
3 Of A Mind
The Kettle Is Boiling Over
Down the Chimney
Chaos Marches On
Liberty
That Blast Of Noise
Bowed But Unbulging
60 Seconds Left
4/18/87 (with DD Downer)