During the 1990’s, Herd Of The Ether Space expanded into several different dimensions by increasing its group membership, by experimenting with new compositional styles, by exploring new locations for creating recordings, and by trying out new instrumentation and recording technologies.

The decade kicked off on January 30th, 1990, with core members Charles Rice Goff III, Killr “Mark” Kaswan, and Robert Silverman joining radio show producer John Gullak on KPFA’s “No Other Radio Network,” broadcast from Berkeley, California. HOTES performed some live improvisations during the program, incorporating a variety of instruments, tapes, phonograph records, and voices. The banter between Gullak and the space trio centered around the history of Taped Rugs Productions and the Herd’s various ongoing projects. Older pieces from the Taped Rugs catalog as well as HOTES and Disism recordings that had yet to be released to the public were showcased as well.

The radio station also experienced some unusual technical problems during the HOTES visit, which interrupted conversations and created some unexpected topics of discussion.

The live performances from the program were recorded on a cassette four track recorder, and some of the audio bits were later mixed down and released on a HOTES tape entitled: “Alternative Transportation.” These mixes, which sound quite different than what came out over the radio airwaves, will be presented in the next excerpt of this podcast series.

Goff, Kaswan, and Silverman’s rehearsal session for the show took place on January 28th, 1990, and was also later released on a HOTES tape – this one entitled, “President Nixon Fights The Dope Scourge.” Some of the material from that session will be featured in the third excerpt of this podcast series.

And this covers just the first month of the 1990s...

Taped Rugs presents here the entire HOTES No Other Radio encounter from January 30th/31st , 1990.