Rubberstamp Records

Isolationauts - Improvs 8/9/2026

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Isolationauts - Improvs 8/2/2026

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Isolationauts - Improvs 7/26/2026

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Brian Andrew Marek - Thirst Trapezoid

improvised 7/20/2026
Electronic Wind Instrument
looper pedal & other effects

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Isolationauts - Improvs 7/5/2026

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Brian Andrew Marek - Cassette Salad (1987-1999)

Cassette Salad is a two volume collection of all the leftovers from this recent plunge through the cassettes I made in the '80s and '90s. Now, they are not necessarily leftovers in the sense of being lesser (though some are, admittedly), but rather because it's material I'd scattered hither and thither over a series of cassettes that also contained irrelevant or repeated material (or, in a few cases, lots of blank tape). Now they are reunited in the equivalent of a very full double CD set. Enjoy!

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Brian Andrew Marek - Repertoire, Volume One (1993)

Of the cassettes I have uploaded recently, this may be the dullest listening. As my goal was to quickly and efficiently record as much as my then-current repertoire as I could manage, I treated these sessions as an assembly line of drum machine, acoustic guitar, bass, and vocals, with only the occasional sonic diversion (2nd guitar, synthesizer, 2nd vocal, recorder, organ), and consequently there is a bit of same-ness to it. Thankfully, though, these sessions preserved some songs that were otherwise unrecorded (alongside other songs that were done to death). For bonus tracks I have included instrumental outtakes from the same sessions with enthusiastic (if not always wholly accurate) percussion overdubs.

With this, I have exhausted all of the more-or-less FULL cassettes of my solo recordings from the '80s and '90s, but I am in the process of piecing together a collection of all the orphaned material that was scattered hither and thither.

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Brian Andrew Marek - Tascam B-Day Blooze (1989-1991)

On my 21st birthday in 1991, my parents gave me a Tascam cassette 4-track. I'd previously rented one to record Rastafarian Tweed, Angus Tweed, and a couple tracks for myself (included here). Now I could do multitrack recording to my heart's content. However, this story begins in 1989, with the aforementioned pair of solo tracks on a rented 4-track and continues in 1990, where I play around with a mono cassette deck, do some sequencing on a roommate's Amiga computer, and execute some very primitive "sound on sound" experiments with a crappy compact stereo system.

Armed with my very own 4-track, the quality of the recordings improved somewhat (though I still had a long way to go), and I felt free to try all kinds of experiments at my leisure. There's a lot of instrumental material here, whether it's tracks never intended to be anything more, or songs that I never got around to putting vocals on. (I think I may have been a bit microphone-shy in those days.) Sadly, in some cases the melodies and lyrics are lost to history.* (Some of the tracks where these details WERE remembered, however, were overdubbed with vocals at later dates, just in case you think they sound familiar...)

This is, frankly, pretty primitive stuff. Be gentle.

* "Diet of Worms", "At Times", this version of "Allergic to Yourself", "Broken Prototype II", "Broken Prototype I", "That Seems Fair"

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Brian Andrew Marek - Here Comes Trouble! (1996-1997)

Approximately the first half of this cassette consists mostly of no-frills demos for my then band Popcorn. The rest is a grab bag of whatever I was working on at the time.

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