“The cassette tape Requested Music) is actually extremely rare. I realized that I probably originally had, at most, 100 made. I did that tape during a break in Ultramarine when the band was down to Andy (Andrew Lissett - Guitar and Backing Vocals) and I and we were looking for new members.
I had also formed another project with Andy called Pig Doctor which was my idea of uniting Nitzer Ebb with Accept. We actually wrote about six songs and started recording them when Ultramarine restarted. If we had stayed with that project I would now be credited with starting the industrial music genre instead of Al Jorgensen. He didn’t cotton on to the idea until 1988. Oh well, story of my life. And, as David Bowie once wisely said “Its not who does it first that matters, it’s who does it second.”
Stefan (Tischler) and I also wrote and recorded our project (Gorgons and Gargolyes) during this time, essentially, the summer of 1986.
Anyway, getting back to the tape; I’ve found about fifty but I also remembered that I used a bunch of them for working on various musical ideas over the next few years as a sort of scratch tape for bits of music. I guess (can’t remember) Alex (Douglas of The Contact List of Electronic Music) tried to distribute some but not many, if any at all. I would have sent out a few freebies. All this to say that, at most, there are about thirty out there. ”