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Wino Lodge Wireless Hour

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I am very happy to have contributed audio gunk and detritus to the first episode of Wino Lodge Wireless Hour! Here's the description from Resonance Extra: The Wino Lodge Wireless Hour https://chocolatemonk.co.uk/Index.html Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and friends beam out an hour of audio collage discombobulation direct from Chocolate Monk HQ. A sonic salve for overstimulated ears. In this first episode, they are joined by WA Davison, Carl Krueger, Andy Heck Boyd, Seymour Glass, Pratap Singh, Dylan Burchett, Michael Barthel, Terry Townsend, Fletcher Wright, AN EEL, Kasper Melted, Adam Buffington, Hari Hardman, Julian Bradley, Brandstifter, Ypsmael, Cristano Carosi, Slow Listener, Chik White, Eric Demastes, Joe Davin & Hardworking Families Check out the show at Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/the-wino-lodge-wireless-hour-1-15-january-2026/ - W.A.Davison

Untitled 11

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My second article on cassette culture, this time focused on the Xcreteria label, has been published in Untitled 11 and is available from the buried in slag and debris shop! https://buriedinslaganddebris.bigcartel.com/product/copy-of-untitled-zine-issue-11-fall-2025 - W.A.Davison

The Flies

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Here's a blast from the past (for me, at least). Back in 1988, I recorded my friends The Flies (Gerry Petrash, Stephen Maher, Jim Davis, Rodger McKinley) running through some originals and cover tunes in a makeshift recording studio (i.e. bedroom with blankets and egg crates on the walls) on Oxford St., Halifax. The sessions were recorded on my Tascam Porta-One four-track cassette recorder - one of the few times I took on the role of recording engineer for someone else's music. I don't know how useful I was as an engineer but we had fun and the recordings turned out okay (for bedroom demos recorded to cassette). Flash forward almost four decades and Gerry Petrash has embarked on an archival project digitizing and publishing recordings by some of his old bands, including  The Flies  and his 1990s Sapporo, Japan-based group  Cactus Blanket ( https://www.cactusblanket.ca/home ). Yesterday, Gerry posted a video featuring one of the songs from that 1988 Halifax recording se...

Vox Populi

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Thanks to David Fenech for posting about this recently. I remember seeing tracks by French industrial/experimental band Vox Populi on numerous underground music/cassette culture compilations back in the day but I never thought to explore their music more thoroughly. Glad to see the band's 1986 album "Sucre De Pastèque" reissued on the Dark Entries label. Excellent work! https://vox-populi.bandcamp.com/album/sucre-de-past-que - W.A.Davison

The Long Play 4

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It's Bandcamp Friday today so I have made available (free or PWYW) the fourth episode of my 2018 radio art series "The Long Play" . https://w-a-davison.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-play-4 Dec. 5th is also the anniversary of the founding of Recordism . Today marks 41 years! Happy Birthday Recordism! - W.A.Davison

Campau/Davison

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Don Campau and I just released a brand-new collaborative album of synth duets called "Nitrous" ! It's available for free or PWYW on Bandcamp. Check it out at the link below: https://doncampau.bandcamp.com/album/nitrous-by-william-davison-don-campau - W.A.Davison

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

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Digging this new album from Finnish composer, writer, and visual artist Jukka-Pekka Kervinen -  https://jpkguitar.bandcamp.com/album/relation-r - W.A.Davison