You can view a slide show of the catalog pages of the May 1985 Cause And Effect Catalog and listen as you read
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Cause And Effect offered a sampler cassette with every catalog that we published. The CAE May 1985 Aural Sampler cassette contained 30-second excerpts from all 152 tapes in the catalog so that prospective buyers could get a foretaste of what the cassettes in the catalog sounded like.

Here is a text list of the distributed cassette releases listed in the Cause And Effect May 1985 Catalog, with the approximate corresponding times on the sides of the sampler tape:

Side One of the Aural Sampler cassette -

CAE Exclusive -
00:07 Borbetomagus - Live At Inroads
00:45 Pacific 231/Le Syndicat - Alliance
01:22 Vox Populi! - La Cathedrale Morte
01:58 Merzbow - Ushi-Tra
02:36 Controlled Bleeding - Day Lungs
03:12 S/M Operations Live At The Harrington Ballroom

CAE label - Viscera
03:48 Viscera - Hot And Cold
04:23 Viscera - Who Is This One
05:02 Viscera - A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies
05:39 Viscera - In A Foreign Film

more CAE label - Schlaf, Therer, MSR
06:16 Schlafengarten - Strange New City/Mouse Night
06:53 Les Enfants (Terribles) - Charnel/Lust
07:30 The Concrete Etendue
08:08 Roberta Eklund - Go Tell It On The Mountain
08:45 Roberta Eklund - Piano Improvisations
09:22 Master/Slave Relationship - Fanatic/Embracing Power
10:00 Master/Slave Relationship - The Desire To Castrate Father

more CAE label - DAM, Jack, Monochrome Bleu, Robert Rich
10:38 Dog As Master - Black Body
11:17 Dog As Master - Coffee Spleen And The Barking Dog
11:53 Jack - Up
12:31 Monochrome Bleu
13:08 Monochrome Bleu/Josef K. Noyce
13:46 Occupant - No Specific Answer
14:17 Robert Rich - Drones
14:57 Robert Rich - Trances

Uddersounds
15:34 Richard Franecki - Points
16:12 Richard Franecki - Zones
16:47 Richard Franecki - Test Patterns
17:24 Richard Franecki - Two Drones
18:01 F/i - Illumanati
18:38 F/i - Lords
19:15 F/i - Zombie
19:53 F/i - Y

Ladd-Frith label
20:33 Psyclones - Between Space
21:10 Psyclones - AKA-DPL
21:46 Psyclones/Schlafengarten - Interrogation
22:27 Psyclones And Schlafengarten - Life Is Like Death With The Lights On
23:09 Objekt #2 cassettezine
23:46 Blackhouse - Hope Like A Candle
24:22 Blackhouse - Pro-Life

more cassettes
25:00 Le Syndicat - Hammerbones/Putrified Brain
25:36 Controlled Bleeding - Death In The Cameroon
26:14 Band-It Cassettezine Number 11
26:48 Band-It Number 12
27:23 Band-It Number 13
27:59 Band-It Number 14
28:37 Band-It Number 15
29:16 Band-It Number 16
29:51 Bande Berne Crematoire
30:26 Drunken Dolphins - Pictures Become Suspicious
31:00 Nisus Anal Furgler

Insane Music label
31:32 Noisy But Chic compilation
32:06 Bloody But Chic compilation
32:48 Bene Gesserit - Live In Belgium And Holland
33:23 4 In 1
33:58 Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 1 compilation
34:34 Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 2
35:16 Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 3

3RIO/Magisch
35:50 Audio Communication Compilation No. 1
36:25 Audio Communication Compilation No. 2
37:00 Audio Communication Compilation No. 3
37:35 Audio Communication Compilation No. 4
38:12 Audio Communication Compilation No. 5
38:47 Audio Communication Compilation No. 6
39:22 Audio Communication Compilation No. 7
39:58 3RIO Tapes Greatest Hits

more 3RIO/Magisch
40:27 Homo Sexpiens Project
40:59 Absolute Body Control - Live
41:34 Magthea And Mr. Minimum
42:04 Magthea - Magthea And Insanity
42:32 Magthea - Nothing Left To Believe In
42:59 Magthea And Soft Joke - A Soft Magisch Joke Theaterproduction
43:29 Magisch - The Chilliness Of These Sounds Is My Cell

Other Labels
44:00 Gerechtigkeits Liga - Live In Antwerpen
44:30 P16.D4 - Wer Nicht Arbeiten Will Soll Such Auch Nicht Essen!
45:01 P16.D4 - V.R.N.L.
45:34 Rogalli - Neue Deutsche Peinlichkeit
46:08 Fetus In Fetu

--- Side Two of the Aural Sampler cassette ---
^ Other Labels page continued on Side Two of the sampler tape
00:07 Der Akteur - Accident In The Year Dada X
00:42 Empty Wien - Vereinigte Wohnzimmer
01:17 Voidkampf - New Positions

other labels, more
01:52 Swallowing Scrap Metal compilation
02:29 FaLX cerebRi - Rite 64
03:01 Gut Level One - A Compilation
03:32 The Way Of The Sacred compilation
04:03 Controlled Bleeding - s/t
04:39 Taste Of Tongues compilation
05:13 Sleep Chamber - Music For Mannequins
05:46 Test Department - Live At The Ritz New York City July 1984

06:21 New 7th Music - New Humanity Switchboard
06:58 New 7th Music - Modella
07:29 Paul Kelday - Microcosmos
08:02 Paul Kelday - Worlds Apart
08:37 Cleaners From Venus - Under Wartime Conditions
09:15 Rig Veeda - Callous Friends
09:50 Stark - Fond Adieu
10:21 The Starkman - I'm A Natural Candidate For The Tortured Artiste

10:56 Schlafengarten - Torque
11:32 Schlafengarten - Memorandum
12:10 Maybe Mental - Animism II
12:44 Black Iron Prison - Nothing Exists
13:20 L.A. Mantra compilation
13:54 L.A. Mantra II compilation
14:29 Randall Kennedy - Scenes Of Redemption

15:04 Mans Hate - Suffer In Silence
15:39 Years On Earth - Worlds Apart
16:15 Thehorsehessick - Pulp
16:51 Pacific 231 - Nuit Et Brouillard / Berlinerluft - Nacht Und Nebel
17:25 Nox - Acte I
18:01 Costes - Bande De Salauds
18:36 Bocal 5 - Live And Studio
19:12 Polar Praxis - Werk Een

19:51 Alternative Funk compilation
20:24 Un Departement
20:55 DDAA - La Famille Des Saltimbanques
21:31 DDAA - Prehistoric Rejet
22:03 Ptose - Poisson Soluble
22:36 Pascal Comelade - Milano Enarmonisto
23:12 Hashimoto - Makuraga
23:43 Takahashi-Numazawa-Hashimoto - Koutei

24:17 Merzbow - Age Of 369
24:54 O'Nancy In French - s/t
25:31 Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem
26:07 Stephen Scott - New Music For Bowed Piano
26:39 John Adams - Light Over Water
27:14 The Sound Of Papua New Guinea
27:49 Port Said - Traveller's Companion
28:23 Convulsive Trance - Reprogrammation

28:56 Otto J.E. Grunbauer - s/t
29:30 Mr. Herz - Herziaanse Golven
30:04 Gertie - Overdoses Of Roses
30:38 Necronomicon 2 compilation
31:12 Avant-Dernieres Pensees - Nachtmusik/Total Distorsion
31:46 Avant-Dernieres Pensees - Arte Deshecho
32:21 Diseno Corbusier - Stadia
32:54 Neo Zelanda - Extenso Mundo Brillante

33:28 Walls Of Genius - The Mysterious Case Of Pussy Lust
34:04 Walls Of Genius - Before ... And After
34:38 Jeff Greinke - Before The Storm
35:10 If, Bwana - Sex, Insanity And Death
35:51 If, Bwana - Freudian Slip
36:24 Aural Fixation compilation
36:57 Sue Ann Harkey - I Tell You Everything, Just Not Out Loud
37:33 The Dave - Lois

38:07 John Wiggins - Particle Music
38:41 John Wiggins - Anagenic
39:17 Boy Dirt Car - Catalyst
39:53 Pliny The Elder / Tim Zukowski
40:26 Anatomy Of Coincidence
41:00 Data Bank A - The Citadel
41:30 Smersh - Make Way For The Rumbler
42:05 The Last Supper compilation (Bourbonese Qualk)

42:39 Audio Another Room Magazine #1
43:16 Artless Time - Inarticulate Volition
43:50 Artless Time - Shells From The Italian (A)isle
44:23 Onslaught No. 6 cassettezine

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Bear in mind that you are hearing samples that were on a master tape prepared by Debbie Jaffe with extractions from the tape copies that we distributed, so the sounds here are likely third or fourth generation. These aural sampler cassettes are offered as historical documents and are not intended as faithful representations of the original music on the cassette releases themselves. Having said that, these samples sound damn good!