# 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

Almost comedically prolific, BCO sailed through the cassette culture movement of the 1980s and 1990s with about 130 hour-long releases on over 100 labels.
Other work has included four video collections, five 7″ singles, one 8″ single, one 10″ single, 10+ compact discs, well over 40 CD-Rs, and more than 300 compilation appearances.

### 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
* Tryst Ubiubi 1982
* 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
* Oblivion 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