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

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 Records 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