To judge the 2003 BEIGE World Cassette Jockey Championships, we scoured the world over for open-minded and knowledgeable people who could cast a fair ballot on the topic of audio casssette performance. Here's who we got:
Randall Roberts Randall Roberts, aka Lil' Edit, is a founding member of the Rotund Sound System, who play records, and Big Pink Brains, who throw fun parties. He also hosts Sovereign Glory, a radio show heard in all 78 St. Louis regional municipalities, and gains his sense of authority from his job as an editorial hack at a St. Louis weekly paper. |
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Sheila Cronin Sheila is a beautiful and familiar face to many in Chicago. Currently employed at the Spertus Museum, Sheila once worked long hours as a live sound engineer at the Empty Bottle and is a known collaborator with the Lonesome Organist. |
Jeremy Jacobsen Jeremy is probably best known for his alter-ego the Lonesome Organist and the records put out under Lonesome's moniker on Chicago's Thrill Jockey label. Currently Jeremy is studying organ performance at Roosevelt University and will hopefully have a thing or two to say about cassettes. |
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Dragan Espenschied Founded Home Computer Folk Duo "Bodenstandig 2000" in 1995 together with Bernhard Kirsch. Released debut album on Rephlex Records London 1999, shows around the globe. Worked from 1998-2000 in Fraunhofer VR Lab Stuttgart. Together with Alvar Freude finished art school 2001 with internationally awarded experiment on internet censorship. Today home computer musician, teacher at Merz Akademie and modestly engaged in information freedom activism with odem.org. DRX enjoys dj'ing German folk music and Top euro-dance hits in his spare time, along with making online friends at www.micromusic.net. |
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Bernhard Kirsch Bernhard founded the group "Bodenstandig 2000" with Dragan in 1995 after doing something in the 80's. Currently he is developing the Plankalkul and keeping track of his Marble Madness homepage. |
Edwin Tumlos Edwin is a Community Events reporter for the Chicago Philippine Reports TV, a columnist for Via Times Newsmagazine, and fondly remembers cassette tapes. |
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James Marlon Magas James Marlon Magas is best known for his solo work as MAGAS [his new album "Friends Forever" was just released on Detroit's Ersatz Audio label] and previous work in bands such as Couch and Lake of Dracula. Currently he owns and operates Weekend Records and Soap in Chicago with his wife Bridgette Wilson. |
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Bridgette Wilson Bridgette is the other partner of Weekend Records and Soap along with her husband Mr. Magas and is solely responsible for the "and soap" portion of the store name through her hand-made skin care line Sparx. Before embarking on the path of entrepreneurship, Bridgette co-founded noise bands such as Carnival de Carnitas and Metalux. |
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Edgar Barrigga Edgar performed so admirably as an emergency stand-in at last year's cassette battle in place of Version Festival kingpin Ed Marszewski that we had to have him back. Currently working part-time at the body shop across the street while repeating 8th grade, 12-year old Edgar is a great kid who calls em like he sees em. |
CJ Freakface The 3rd place winner of the 2002 BEIGE Cassette Jockey World Championships, Freakface is back to hold it down on the judging side of things. |