Art's original punk, says the Guardian, of Hannah Höch - edge-of-Dada photomontagist.
But actually Höch is Art's original hypnagogic cassette designer
These are all from the EXBX Tapes label out of Michigan which ran from 2004 to 2011. Presumably designed by owner Daniel Dlugosielski? Loads more at the link. And the aesthetic continued with new label Moon Myst Music.
Used to love this stuff - something about the combination of amateurism and genuinely trippy / unsettling results.
Collage is much harder to do than you think - I've tried a few times:
My attempts to pastiche the hypnagogic montage style
Here I actually tried to create some non-existent hypnagogic cassettes (on the Freon label) to fool da readership:
Not a collage but a doctored found image
Below a found image whose graphic properties are so intensely of its period that I repurposed it wholesale and unchanged (taken from an America private school yearbook of the early '70s, as were the source images for the Freon cassettes and some of the other collages)
Back to the better stuff, the unreal deal
More hypnagogic artwork from other labels, all from about 15 years ago
Very much in the Pop Art meets Psychedelia zone, as I tagged the music back then
But in fact the artwork's possibly more Pop Art meets Surrealism
Some cool stuff but nothing I like as much as the EXBX cassette inlays
I feel one of my Eye Candy series coming on...
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