(oTo)

(oTo) / (ordnance, Tape only)

A series of 50 untitled cassettes limited to 50 hand-numbered copies each packaged with minimal information (artist catalogue/number only) and a piece of ordnance survey map as artwork.

The series ran from 2001-2003.

From an (oTo) flyer in circulation whilst the series was still in progress :

"Run by Rob of FFR, oTo provides fine drone, noise, experimental, improv, electronics, field recordings and other musics on the democratic medium of magnetic tape. Ordnance, tape only was conceived as a document of what is happening at the moment in the incredibly diverse no-audience underground.

All tapes are numbered, limited to 50 copies and packaged almost anonymously in sections of map. No titles or information are included, just the artist's name and a catalogue number : the music has to stand up to scrutiny on it's own. This is a deliberate move to dodge the diverting but meaningless packaging and theory that props up many boring releases.

The oTo catalogue will eventually run to 50 titles and then will stop - there will be no further releases. Tapes are one-sided and as such have running times of between roughly 20 minutes and 45 minutes long depending on the wishes of the artist."

Most are untitled, these are only descriptions of the style of music, not the titles:

"oTo T01 is geological loops by Julian Bradley (of Vibracathedral)
oTo T02 is space-folk from Formula Ghost Is Here Pregnant Off Toilet
Seats Each And Every Year On Spell Books, Voodoo Dolls and Dried Toads
(an alias for someone who likes long titles)
oTo T03 is tape hiss to growl by Azimuth Error (of Klunk)
oTo T04 is 'Duel' filtered by Weaver (of tungsten grasshopper)
oTo T05 is a dance mix by DJ Gormless Kid
oTo T06 is rock and roll by Ceramic Hobs
oTo T07 is dark, quiet ambience by Killy Dog Box
oTo T08 is thought distortion from Wagstaff
oTo T09 is summer atmospheres of Wave 7, Wave 8, Wave 9, Under
oTo T10 is the lectro-menagerie collage Freshwater Angling in Britain
oTo T11 is 'The Third Man' scrambled into Der Dritte Mann
oTo T12 is skull scraping from the US by Robert Warner
oTo T13 is glitch industry satire by Cuckie & Randy (random number)
oTo T14 is enveloping shifting noise by Manherringbone
oTo T15 is noise blow out and hidden textures from Don Bosco
oTo T16 is steel-press beats and paranoia by Harrison/Hayler (expose
your eyes/midwich)oTo T17 is world-ending drone beauty by CulveroTo T18 is buttholian gubbins by Leo SlayeroTo T19 is minimal four/floor techno from blaoTo T20 is ghost chains rattling from Thurston Moore's DapperoTo T21 is a noise/collage/improv invite to BackDrumMower's worldoTo T22 is gorgeous swarms from Michael GillhamoTo T23 is guitar meditation from Joe+N of Carbon RecordsoTo T24 is bizarre incantation from Basquadeck Shelf, a Neil Campbellproject from 1985oTo T25 is very lo-fi hissing emanating from The Dead BodyoTo T26 is end-of-pier gorgonzola filtered by James LostoTo T27 is electro-acoustic (un)music from PossetoTo T28 is unimaginable covers by Howl in the Typewriter (Stan Ceramic Hobs)oTo T29 is overclocked organic electriks from no energyoTo T32 is rock/noise collage from far away stars by Paradise Camp 23oTo T33 is 'The Birds' chlorinated and mangled by HedrenoTo T34 is brutal/fantastic jazz-noise aggro from The PrestidigitatorsoTo T35 is free-rock improv from La Mer Du Nord (feat. Phil Todd)oTo T36 is techno presets damaged by Candi NookoTo T37 is Return of the Living Dead reanimated by the embalmer O'DeaoTo T38 is US kraut/space/jams from ViaticumoTo T39 is music for parcel tape, marker pen, glitch from bin.audio [box]oTo T40 is fuzz-beauty from far away orchestrated by Brian LavelleoTo T41 is jack-hammer dub from TK94oTo T42 is a brooding electronic landscape from Anomali vs FornaxoTo T43 is cut and paste beauty from post-rock improv crew AsteoTo T44 is mancunian noise-beauty-troniks by Disco Operating SystemoTo T45 window-installers in San Francisco captured by Ernesto Diaz-InfanteoTo T46 deliberately unnerving cut-off/volume wrenching by TapeNoiseoTo T47 is a live set from the first oTo gig by Formula Ghost 2001(feat. Simon Morris of Ceramic Hobs)oTo T48 is billowing psychedelic noise by The Zen Nuns (Phil Todd/Lasse Marhaug)oTo T49 voodoo-caveman rock live in leeds grunted out by BongoleerooTo T50 is suitably minimal/glacial/climactic by Midwich"