Shell, by Phinney/McGee

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about

Shell by Phinney/McGee was originally released on cassette on the Harsh Reality Music label (HR 177) in 1990, and later in the mid 1990s re-issued on cassette by HalTapes (HR 030). The album was recorded March 21-23, 1990 at Electronic Cottage Headquarters in Apollo Beach, Florida. Original cover photo by Tawnya Phinney.

credits

released March 23, 1990

Chris Phinney: Korg Poly 800, ARP Axxe, Moog Rogue, Korg MS20, Moog Prodigy, FX
Hal McGee: ARP Axxe, Moog Rogue, Korg MS20, Moog Prodigy, FX, engineering, mix

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about

Hal McGee Gainesville, Florida

halmcgee.bandcamp.com/indexpage

discography

April Investigations

May 2019
The Ideas of March

Mar 2019
Racket Fest #2

Mar 2019
peripatetic assemblages

Mar 2019
it is HAPPENING again

Jan 2019
Apartment Music 33

Jan 2019
Apartment Music 32

Jan 2019
Home For The Hellidays

Jan 2019
Electronic Cottage Audio Exquisite Corpse

Dec 2018
the assemblage IS the story

Nov 2018
apartment music 31

Oct 2018
am 30 — things evolve in swamps

Oct 2018
Mister McGee's neighborhood

Oct 2018
HalZine11

Sep 2018
between coincidence and augury

Sep 2018
microcassettera

Aug 2018
Electronic Cottage Compilation 004

Jul 2018
microcassettology

Jun 2018
Apartment Music 29

May 2018
Apartment Music 28

Apr 2018
MAG1CK MOMENTS

Mar 2018
this is what 60 sounds like

Feb 2018
Twelvember

Dec 2017
Yesvember

Dec 2017
Six Days In October

Nov 2017
Septirmagerd

Sep 2017
59 year old kid with a tape recorder

Aug 2017
4230F

Jul 2017
Intermittent Transmission

Jun 2017
Perverted Soundtracks

May 2017
A Different Kind Of Music

Mar 2017
pocket

Jul 2016
Said the Mama, of Dada.....

Jun 2016
Frozen Lake

Jun 2016
Epic Fail

Mar 2016
Catapulting Babies

Feb 2016
Zaoum

Jan 2016
Zip!

Dec 2015
Invisible Shadows

Nov 2015
A Big Bird On Stilts

Oct 2015
Expansion And Extension

Oct 2015
October 12th

Oct 2015
The Hidden Path

Oct 2015
Tuesday and Saturday

Sep 2015
Left Devices

Aug 2015
CrustStain

Jul 2015
The Micromanipulators

Jul 2015
split

Jul 2015
We Both Lose

Jun 2015
Meshed Mixages

Jun 2015
Cryptomnesia

Jun 2015
OTOHAL

Jun 2015
Coincidence

Jun 2015
Live In Toronto

Jun 2015
Pig

Jun 2015
Unholy Trinity

Jun 2015
Journey To Light And Progress

Jun 2015
Orion The Hunter

Jun 2015
Painting

Jun 2015
Live In Memphis

Jun 2015
enviado desde mi microcassette

Jun 2015
Corroboree

May 2015
Club Sandwiches

May 2015
60 Minutes Of Laughter 2015 Update

May 2015
Sonic Rebirth

May 2015
Kapellmeister

May 2015
Escape From Earth

May 2015
possibilities

May 2015
Antenna Club

Apr 2015
Tea Ceremony

Apr 2015
Incidental Vibrations Collection

Mar 2015
Split Schema

Feb 2015
The Killer God

Feb 2015
breadwinter.3

Feb 2015
A compulsion to record

Feb 2015
Paleolithic

Jan 2015
microcassette split

Jan 2015
Joint Venture

Dec 2014
Tibetan Belles

Nov 2014
A Hamster In Your Sandwich

Nov 2014
In order to bring back to the original shapes it is necessary for you to do the process as follows

Nov 2014
The Electric Brains!

Nov 2014
Aterrizaje Magnético

Nov 2014
Apartment Music 27

Nov 2014
Welcome to the Party

Oct 2014
Atmaneers

Oct 2014
Now Not Then

Oct 2014
Analog Space

Oct 2014
microcassette split

Jun 2014
what if tomorrow never comes

Jun 2014
BIG FLORIDA NOISE COMPILATION

Jun 2014
DIMDOGMENTAL

May 2014
Devices And Mechanisms

May 2014
Green

May 2014
Maneuvers

May 2014
Weed

May 2014
microcassette split

May 2014
OKY-YAMOKIE

May 2014
microcassette split

May 2014
microcassette split

Apr 2014
Implemental Music

Apr 2014
TSOLF

Apr 2014
Country Club

Mar 2014
Avoiding Our Void

Mar 2014
Graphic Violence, Nudity & Pornography

Mar 2014
Hal McGee vs. black beast of arrrghhh

Feb 2014
Acrostics Meet

Feb 2014
Black Body

Feb 2014
Trompeur Et Sournois

Feb 2014
studies in sound archaeology

Feb 2014
Automatic Confessional Tape #19

Jan 2014
Tape Heads Cassette Compilation 7

Jan 2014
Tape Heads Cassette Compilation 6

Jan 2014
Tape Heads Cassette Compilation 5

Dec 2013
Tape Heads Cassette Compilation 4

Dec 2013
Tape Heads Cassette Compilation 3

Dec 2013
Tape Heads Cassette Compilation 2

Dec 2013
Electronic Cottage Compilation 2

Nov 2013
Cause And Effect Compilation 004: Suburban Nightmare

Oct 2013
Apartment Music #19

Sep 2013
Sheets Of Cruelty

Sep 2013
Places Without Air

Sep 2013
Snot

Sep 2013
The Splendor / Live In Pittsburgh

Sep 2013
jamz

Sep 2013
parametric paramedics

Sep 2013
collaboration with myself

Jul 2013
hipnotismo correo aéreo

Jul 2013
In Loose Disorder

Jul 2013
Touch of cold

Jul 2013
Erroneous Futility

Jul 2013
Connection Cassette Compilation #7

Jun 2013
Liquid Kumquat Generator

Jun 2013
L'échappatoire

Jun 2013
Cardboard

Jun 2013
Caution: Lo-Fi

Jun 2013
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 10

Jun 2013
Synergistic Reconstruction

Jun 2013
Zenital tapes

May 2013
Homemade Alien Music Volume 1 Split

May 2013
since 1982

May 2013
For The Sake Of Sound

Apr 2013
One sneaky linguistic secret

Apr 2013
Almost But Not Quite

Apr 2013
F5 - Beagle and Dachshund - A Young Person's Guide

Apr 2013
Miami Noise

Apr 2013
Hearing the Liquid Orchestra

Apr 2013
Sticky Suit With Tape

Apr 2013
A Statistician's Intramural Crush

Apr 2013
February Sessions

Apr 2013
Hell Yeah

Apr 2013
Signal Load Patterns

Apr 2013
The Morning Crew

Apr 2013
An Organized Accident

Feb 2013
Standing As Never Before

Feb 2013
micro meanies

Feb 2013
Decisive thoughts by the intermediate flare

Jan 2013
My Intellectual Property 3: Sedimental Music

Jan 2013
Taoist Demolition Crew

Jan 2013
Moinesville

Dec 2012
Dictators of Lofi

Dec 2012
Connection Cassette Compilation #6

Dec 2012
We and Hal McGee

Dec 2012
Code Red

Dec 2012
Wormhole Field Guide

Nov 2012
Doubled

Nov 2012
Banjo Problems

Nov 2012
Automatic Confessional Tape #24

Nov 2012
Automatic Confessional Tape #23

Oct 2012
Dead Hand Decision

Oct 2012
Automatic Confessional Tape #7

Oct 2012
Automatic Confessional Tape #22

Oct 2012
A Pick-Up Truck and The Devil's Eyes

Oct 2012
The Exploitation of Jiblit Dupree

Oct 2012
No Title Comes To Mind

Oct 2012
Saturated World

Oct 2012
one of a kind tape for everybody

Sep 2012
Apartment Music #16

Sep 2012
Fun Daily Activities

Sep 2012
one week in the life of a microcassette

Sep 2012
A Fish Devoid Of Memory

Sep 2012
Hal McGee as recorded by

Sep 2012
Columbus

Aug 2012
Hal and Mark visit their friend Dan in Orlando

Aug 2012
Cheap and Plastic

Aug 2012
Falling into the Cosmic Cabinet

Aug 2012
Dictaphonia split #1

Aug 2012
A Series of Lifestyle Circumstances

Aug 2012
DictaCon

Aug 2012
Connection Cassette Compilation #5

Aug 2012
Connection Cassette Compilation #4

Jul 2012
Hal McGee's Microcassette Variety Hour (2012)

Jul 2012
Monotrinity

Jul 2012
Connection Cassette Compilation #3

Jun 2012
Dog Food

Jun 2012
Jiblit Dupree and Hal McGee Love You

Jun 2012
Connection Cassette Compilation #2

Jun 2012
My Intellectual Property 2: Big Audio Scrap Heap

Jun 2012
Connection Cassette Compilation #1

Jun 2012
early 2007 solo and collaboration

May 2012
Monotronous

Apr 2012
Tape Heads Cassette Compilation 1

Apr 2012
Laboratory Music 5 Improvisation Festival

Mar 2012
Cross Contamination

Feb 2012
The Microcassette Diaries

Feb 2012
as lo-fi as i wanna be

Feb 2012
Contact Compilation 5

Dec 2011
Contact Compilation 9

Dec 2011
Contact Compilation 8

Nov 2011
30 Cent Walk In Dewey Broken Back Clinic

Nov 2011
Contact Compilation 7

Nov 2011
Contact Compilation 6

Nov 2011
Wallay

Nov 2011
Contact Compilation 4

Nov 2011
Contact Compilation 3

Nov 2011
Contact Compilation 2

Oct 2011
Contact Compilation 1

Oct 2011
Nature Guy

Oct 2011
Start From Scratch

Oct 2011
Damnation For Rent

Sep 2011
Projected Margins

Aug 2011
My New Tape

Jul 2011
Sounds From Micro Lounge

May 2011
Dictaphonia split #6

Oct 2010
Dictaphonia split #4

Aug 2010
Dictaphonia split #2

Jul 2010
Dictaphonia split #5

Jul 2010
Nimbus

May 2010
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 9

May 2010
Dictaphonia split #3

Apr 2010
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 8

Apr 2010
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 7

Mar 2010
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 6

Feb 2010
Dictaphonia Fest

Dec 2009
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 5

Nov 2009
Automatic Confessional Tape #5

Sep 2009
Automatic Confessional Tape #6

Sep 2009
Automatic Confessional Tape #4

Aug 2009
Automatic Confessional Tape #3

Aug 2009
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 4

Aug 2009
Automatic Confessional Tape #1

Aug 2009
Automatic Confessional Tape #2

Aug 2009
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 3

Jul 2009
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 2

Jul 2009
Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation 1

May 2009
Hal McGee's Ear Tampons

Nov 2007
Zen And The Art Of The Tape Recorder

Oct 2007
Magnetic Personality

Jun 2007
The Man With The Tape Recorder

May 2007
Stoned Space Jams

Mar 2007
Tapegerm Collection Vol. 5

Jan 2007
Tapegerm Collection Vol. 3

Oct 2006
Tapegerm Collection Vol. 4

Oct 2006
Tapegerm Collection Vol. 2

Feb 2006
Tapegerm Collection Vol. 1

Nov 2005
Space Exploration

Apr 2005
Collage Mania #2

Sep 2004
Collage Mania #1

Jul 2004
Excursions

Jul 2004
Moon Egg Rabbit Star

Jun 2004
Quotidian Assemblages Vol. 3

Feb 2004
Quotidian Assemblages Vol. 2

Dec 2003
Quotidian Assemblages Vol. 1

Nov 2003
Synergistic Deconstruction

Nov 2003
Professor McGee's Laboratory

Oct 2003
at home

Sep 2003
American Primitive

Aug 2003
Hoax

May 2003
My Brain

May 2003
Surveying The Wreckage

Nov 2002
Blue Planet

Aug 2002
Deep Space Search Engine

Mar 2002
Stranded On Earth

Feb 2002
Random Sound Generator

Feb 2002
mistaken IDentities

Oct 2001
Guided Tours

Oct 2001
Music For Schizo-Affective Schizophrenia

Aug 2001
Fortuitous Happenstance

Apr 2001
Shill

Mar 2001
March 28, 2001

Mar 2001
My Intellectual Property 1: Abfall Man

Mar 2001
Maps Of Nowhere

Oct 2000
Audio Trash Sculpture Exhibition Tape One

Jul 2000
Audio Trash Sculpture Exhibition Tape Two

Jul 2000
New Music For Shortwave Receiver And Tape Recorder

Jun 2000
Execution/Operation

Apr 2000
Wired For Sound

Apr 2000
Wrinkled Gray Blob

Nov 1999
Invisible In The Midwest

Nov 1999
Pollution and Decay

Nov 1999
I Am A Black Hole

Nov 1998
Pursuits

Oct 1998
1909E

Sep 1998
Alien Progeny

Aug 1998
H8

May 1998
Lobhia aur khumbi

Apr 1998
Summit

Oct 1997
Solid State Life

Oct 1997
Tofu & Tobacco

Oct 1997
When We Wake Up...

Jun 1997
Receding Hairlines in Brooklyn

May 1997
Goonz 2

May 1997
6J

Apr 1997
Sonic Holiday

Jan 1997
VA10

Dec 1996
Cry Of The Banshee

Nov 1996
The Room

Jun 1996
Caesura

Jun 1996
Preoccupations

Jun 1996
Florizona

Apr 1996
Knot

Mar 1996
Gnarl

Mar 1996
Fester

Jan 1996
B12

Sep 1995
Cobra

Jun 1991
Quake

Dec 1990
Goonz

Aug 1990
Electronic Cottage Compilation 1

Aug 1990
Peat

Aug 1990
Skull

Jun 1990
Ditch

Jun 1990
Shell

Mar 1990
Heads

Mar 1990
Usufruct

Oct 1989
Sacrifice Of Reason

Aug 1987
Cause And Effect Compilation 003: Mirage

Nov 1986
Cause And Effect Compilation 001: Best Text Of Japan

Oct 1986
Pure Torture

Sep 1986
Untranslatable / Symbolic Accidents of Ceremony

Jun 1986
Conduit

May 1986
Five Feuilletons Outlined In Red

Jan 1986
Sweat

Jan 1986
Get In The Action / Sweat

Sep 1985
Brash Pussy

Jul 1985
Hot And Cold

Jun 1985
Black Body / Trompeur Et Sournois

May 1985
Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog / Hot And Cold

Jan 1985
No Specific Answer

Jun 1984
Who Is This One

Jun 1984
A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies

Jan 1984
Swamp Patrol 84

Jul 1983
In A Foreign Film

Jan 1983
60 Minutes Of Laughter

Sep 1982

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