From 1983 to 1993, Jean-Louis Costes released his tapes under his own name. The first 18 issues of the Costes Cassettes were never proposed to the public, but only given to people in the underground network. On some of the tapes of that first period, Costes was sometimes accompanied by other musicians. The classic Costes style emerged in 1986.
Now, all his new discs and CDr reissues are distributed through Eretic.