Hollow Box Jockey Club

Get in the loop to hear more music

What it is and how to join

HBJC started in October 2003 by me, Hannah Godfrey. I was broke, bored of my music collection and had just my tape decks to rely on. Add to this a deep love of receiving mail and lo!- a loop was formed in the shape of a perfect lasso. Here's what I thought up.

• You make a 90 minute tape (CDs are accepted but not preferred) of music/noise/sounds/words/most anything.
• Send it to me with a 46p stamped addressed envelope.
• I send you a jockey's tape in the envelope you provided. I also enclose a 46p SAE.
• After a couple of weeks of listening pleasure/horror you send the tape back to me in the envelope provided, with another one of your own 46p SAEs.
• I send you another cassette with 46p SAE etc.

and we just keep going for as long as you want or until I run out of tapes (which ain't gonna happen soon, cowboy).

I hear sounds I wouldn't know how to find for myself as do many of the other jockeys. The time it takes to make a tape you want to send out creates a bond between you and the other jockeys. You are making something for a stranger, you are giving that mixtape part of yourself that is usually reserved for those you love or want to love. The process involved with tape making - the clicks and clunks of the tape deck, the obsessive track listing, creating a cover- is a beautiful testament to the thoughtful application of mind and body to pre-digital machinery; to being at one with your tape deck.

For your delight and delictation, we have some sample track listings available

if you want to join us Jockeys get in touch, greenhorn

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