Big City Orchestra

Big City Orchestra is a long running art/anti-art group based generally in California. They have an ever rotating cast of musician and nonmusician members. They were formed in 1979 as the house band for a network of artist residences in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.

Releases

Almost comedically^{[citation needed]} prolific, BCO sailed through the cassette culture movement of the 80's & 90's with about 130 hour long releases on over 100 labels.

Other work has included; four video collections, five 7" singles, one 8" single, 8+ compact discs, well over 40 CD-Rs. and more than 300 compilation appearances.

A partial list of releases

Baobab (Cass) Biotope Art Organization
Bretagne (Cass, C60) Nihilistic Recordings
Fresh Prezzies - Exclusive Tracks For Radio And Friends (CDr) ubuibi
Gaiement (Cass) Le Réseau
Mind Bent And Fancy Free (Cass) - Industrial Therapy Unit
My Life In The Bush Of Kate (Cass) - UBUIBI Ralph
Pandora Flutter Tongue (Cass) - Ecto Tapes
Planet Of Giants (Cass) - Peuleschille Tapes
Progressive Composition (Cass) - ZNS Tapes
Rites Of Wrong (Cass) - UBUIBI
Seeds Of Doom (Cass) - BloedvlagProdukt
Sound Choice Cassette Culture Selection (Cass) Sound Choice
Telegraphe (Cass) - New Flesh Tapes
Untitled (Cass) - Kadef
Verstimmt (Cass) - Ecto Tapes
We Like Noize Too (Cass) - UBUIBI
Massacre Of The Innocents (Cass, C90) - Sound Of Pig 1985
Bob Hope's Fruit Loop Special (Cass, C60) - Audiofile Tapes 1986
Edge Of Destruction (Cass) - Swinging Axe Productions 1986
Gateway Of Fruit Loops (Cass) - The Subelectrick Institute 1986
Massacre Again (Cass) - Tonspur Tapes 1986
Parade Of Idiots (Cass) - Bog-Art 1986
Arc Of Infinity (Cass) - Harsh Reality Music 1987
Fury From The Deep (Cass) - Markus Schwill 1987
Hand Of Fear (Cass) - Calypso Now ! 1987
Mile After Mile (Cass, C60) - Sound Of Pig 1987
Mind Of Evil (Cass) - The Subelectrick Institute 1987
Myth Makers (Cass) - Nihilistic Recordings 1987
Trail Of Destruction (Cass, C60) - S.J. Organisation 1987
A Good Time To Start Something New (Cass) - Epitapes 1988
Absence Sharpens, Presents Strengthens (Cass) - GGE Records 1988
Animal Religion (Cass) - Ralph Records 1988
Everyman Is A Volume (Cass, C60) - Korm Plastics 1988
In The Near Future (Cass) - Freedom In A Vacuum 1988
Long Term Stimulation (Cass, Ltd) - SSS Productions 1988
Magnetic Personality (Cass) - IEP 1988
Web Of Fear (Cass, C60) - S.J. Organisation 1988
Aime-Morot (Cass) - Harsh Reality Music 1989
Annual 1988 (Cass) - UBUIBI 1989
Childhood Remembrances (Cass) - Seiten Sprung Aufnahmen 1989
Headache Remedy (Cass) - Ecto Tapes 1989
Obivion Realized (Cass) - Minus Habens 1989
Painfull Audio Enema (Cass) - Lowlife Audio 1989
The Man Of Steal (Cass, C60) - Audiofile Tapes 1989
Bell, Book And Candle (Cass) - Tears Compilations 1990
Prattling Box (Cass) - Tragic Figures 1990
Resurrection Men (Cass) - Seiten Sprung Aufnahmen 1990
Sounders ; A Herd Of (Cass) - Industrial Therapy Unit 1990
Tallywags (Cass) - Exo Product 1990
Annual 1990 (Cass) - UBUIBI 1991
The Four Cassettes Of The Apocalypse (CD) - Subelectrick Institute 1991
Beatlerape (CD) - Realization Recordings 1993
Greatest Hits And Test Tones (CD) - Pogus Productions 1993
Schall & Rauch (Cass) - Tonspur Tapes 1993
So Much Dancing Then Nothing (Cass) - Old Europa Cafe 1993
A Child's Garden Of Noise (7", Ltd) - Drone Records 1994
So Much Nearer Than Ubiquitous (Cass) - UBUIBI 1994
Tryst 7 (Cass) - UBUIBI 1994 With the Legendary Pink Dots
Grass B/W Grass (7") - Sick Muse Records 1995
The Consumer (CD) - Commercial Failure 1995
Tryst 8 (2xCass, Ltd) - UBUIBI 1995
Anguilliform (Cass, Ltd, C60) - EE Tapes 1996
Instructions For Use (CD) - Pure (US) 1996
Aime-Morot (Cass) - HalTapes 1997
And When We Get Homme, We Find Someone Else's Male (Cass)- FDR Tapes 1997
And When We Wake Up, There Is Sheep In Our Eyes (Cass) - Doomsday Transmissions 1997
Arc Of Infinity (Cass) - HalTapes 1997
Eek! (Cass, C60) - EE Tapes 1997
Split Single (7") - Aquese Recordings 1997
Untitled (Cass, Single, Ltd) - Doomsday Transmissions 1997
When We Wake Up... (CDr) - HalTapes 1997
Virus Radio Vol. I (Cass) - Mutant Cactus Recordings 1998
Don't Let Him Touch You (Cass, Album, C60) - BLACK ORCHID Productions 1999
Everyman Is A Volume (CDr) - Korm Plastics 1999
Arc Of Infinity (CDr) - Harsh Reality Music 2000
Block Cedar Oakandstraw: Would (CDr) - Blade Records 2001
Eurotour 2001 (CDr) - UBUIBI 2001
New Beat For Baby (CD, Album) - Negative Foundation 2002
Scarab (CDr) - EE Tapes 2002
Can't We Just Have Sex Instead? (File, MP3) - Brokenwave 2003
In A Persian Market (CDr) - Verato Project 2003
Moisture (CDr) - Reduktive Musiken 2003
Trixxy Pixxy (File, MP3) - Comfort Stand Recordings 2004
Airre (CDr) - Entr'acte 2005
Big City Orchestra (File, MP3) - Beta:Sound 2005
Boom Crash Crash (File, MP3) - Comfort Stand Recordings 2005
Kismet (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2005
Progressive Composition (File, MP3) - ZNS Tapes 2005
Things Fall Down (File, MP3) - Lostfrog 2005
Azimuth (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2006
Dada Is Dead, Long Live Dada (CDr, Album) - UBUIBI 2006
Does Art For... (CDr) - Roil Noise Offensive 2006
DoUBle The TroUBle (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2006
Love Film Greats (CDr) - Roil Noise Offensive 2006
Red Dog 9 (CDr, Album, Ltd) - UBUIBI 2006
Signals And Code (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2006
Drone Gnomes (10", Ltd, Mar) - Substantia Innominata 2007