To wrap up the Herd Of The Ether Space In The 1980’s podcast series, Taped Rugs Presents the last 1980’s HOTES recording to reach the public’s ears: “Verging On The Non Mellow” was recorded by Goff, Kaswan, Sands, and Silverman on the Taped Rugs Frippertronics-style tape loop system in 1986 (unfortunately, the specific day of the recording is not available). This piece remained hidden in the Taped Rugs archives until 1997, when Belgium’s Red Neon Tapes included it on its “New Hippies Volume 14” international cassette compilation.

Appropriately enough, this spacey bit of recording history recalls the early tape loop days of HOTES and wraps a nice historical circle around this podcast series. In the near future, Taped Rugs will begin the presentation of a “Herd Of The Ether Space In The 1990’s” podcast series. As one might expect, the Herd continued to evolve in its membership and methodology as the new decade brought forward a new society fueled by quickly advancing technologies. Stay tuned.

Oh yeah, and that mysterious man in the photo who's looking down upon this podcast--it's HOTES member Robert Silverman in a classic turn-of-the-decade pose.