"Tapegerm was formed in May 2000 from a small group of collaborators on a discussion board at homemademusic.com, creating music from loops culled from homemade cassette releases. After fourteen years of online collaboration, resulting in over 100 albums of music we decided to start fresh July 4, 2014. Tapegerm is a group of recording artists who share sounds, graphics, written work, found art, mail art, video and other items. We are a community of artists who welcome evolving ideas which explore new ways to collaborate through various media."