Big City Orchestra (BCO) is a long-running art/anti-art group and musical project based in California. They have a rotating cast of musician and non-musician members. They were formed in 1979 as the house band for a network of artist residencies in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.

Releases BCO sailed through the cassette culture movement of the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 130 hour-long releases on over 100 labels.

Other work has included four video collections, five 7″ singles, one 8″ single, one 10″ single, 10+ compact discs, well over 40 CD-Rs, and more than 300 compilation appearances.

A partial list of releases

Baobab (Cass) Biotope Art Organization Bretagne (Cass, C60) Nihilistic Recordings Fresh Prezzies - Exclusive Tracks for Radio and Friends (CDr) ubuibi Gaiement (Cass) Le Réseau Mind Bent and Fancy Free (Cass) - Industrial Therapy Unit My Life in the Bush of Kate (Cass) - UBUIBI Ralph Pandora Flutter Tongue (Cass) - Ecto Tapes Planet of Giants (Cass) - Peuleschille Tapes Progressive Composition (Cass) - ZNS Tapes Rites of Wrong (Cass) - UBUIBI Seeds of Doom (Cass) - BloedvlagProdukt Sound Choice Cassette Culture Selection (Cass) Sound Choice Telegraphe (Cass) - New Flesh Tapes Untitled (Cass) - Kadef Verstimmt (Cass) - Ecto Tapes We Like Noize Too (Cass) - UBUIBI Tryst Ubiubi 1982 Massacre of The Innocents (Cass, C90) - Sound Of Pig 1985 Bob Hope's Fruit Loop Special (Cass, C60) - Audiofile Tapes 1986 Edge of Destruction (Cass) - Swinging Axe Productions 1986 Gateway of Fruit Loops (Cass) - The Subelectrick Institute 1986 Massacre Again (Cass) - Tonspur Tapes 1986 Parade of Idiots (Cass) - Bog-Art 1986 Arc of Infinity (Cass) - Harsh Reality Music 1987 Fury from the Deep (Cass) - Markus Schwill 1987 Hand of Fear (Cass) - Calypso Now 1987 Mile After Mile (Cass, C60) - Sound Of Pig 1987 Mind of Evil (Cass) - The Subelectrick Institute 1987 Myth Makers (Cass) - Nihilistic Recordings 1987 Trail of Destruction (Cass, C60) - S.J. Organisation 1987 A Good Time to Start Something New (Cass) - Epitapes 1988 Absence Sharpens, Presents Strengthens (Cass) - GGE Records 1988 Animal Religion (Cass) - Ralph Records 1988 Everyman Is a Volume (Cass, C60) - Korm Plastics 1988 In the Near Future (Cass) - Freedom In A Vacuum 1988 Long Term Stimulation (Cass, Ltd) - SSS Productions 1988 Magnetic Personality (Cass) - IEP 1988 Web of Fear (Cass, C60) - S.J. Organisation 1988 Aime-Morot (Cass) - Harsh Reality Music 1989 Annual 1988 (Cass) - UBUIBI 1989 Childhood Remembrances (Cass) - Seiten Sprung Aufnahmen 1989 Headache Remedy (Cass) - Ecto Tapes 1989 Oblivion Realized (Cass) - Minus Habens Records 1989 Painfull Audio Enema (Cass) - Lowlife Audio 1989 The Man of Steal (Cass, C60) - Audiofile Tapes 1989 Bell, Book and Candle (Cass) - Tears Compilations 1990 Prattling Box (Cass) - Tragic Figures 1990 Resurrection Men (Cass) - Seiten Sprung Aufnahmen 1990 Sounders; A Herd Of (Cass) - Industrial Therapy Unit 1990 Tallywags (Cass) - Exo Product 1990 Annual 1990 (Cass) - UBUIBI 1991 The Four Cassettes of the Apocalypse (CD) - Subelectrick Institute 1991 Beatlerape (CD) - Realization Recordings 1993 Greatest Hits and Test Tones (CD) - Pogus Productions 1993 Schall & Rauch (Cass) - Tonspur Tapes 1993 So Much Dancing Then Nothing (Cass) - Old Europa Cafe 1993 A Child's Garden of Noise (7", Ltd) - Drone Records 1994 So Much Nearer Than Ubiquitous (Cass) - UBUIBI 1994 Tryst 7 (Cass) - UBUIBI 1994 With the Legendary Pink Dots Grass b/w Grass (7") - Sick Muse Records 1995 The Consumer (CD) - Commercial Failure 1995 Tryst 8 (2xCass, Ltd) - UBUIBI 1995 Anguilliform (Cass, Ltd, C60) - EE Tapes 1996 Instructions for Use (CD) - Pure (US) 1996 Aime-Morot (Cass) - HalTapes 1997 And When We Get Homme, We Find Someone Else's Male (Cass)- FDR Tapes 1997 And When We Wake Up, There Is Sheep in Our Eyes (Cass) - Doomsday Transmissions 1997 Arc of Infinity (Cass) - HalTapes 1997 Eek! (Cass, C60) - EE Tapes 1997 Split Single (7") - Aquese Recordings 1997 Untitled (Cass, Single, Ltd) - Doomsday Transmissions 1997 When We Wake Up... (CDr) - HalTapes 1997 Virus Radio Vol. I (Cass) - Mutant Cactus Recordings 1998 Don't Let Him Touch You (Cass, Album, C60) - BLACK ORCHID Productions 1999 Everyman Is a Volume (CDr) - Korm Plastics 1999 Arc of Infinity (CDr) - Harsh Reality Music 2000 Block Cedar Oakandstraw: Would (CDr) - Blade Records 2001 Eurotour 2001 (CDr) - UBUIBI 2001 New Beat for Baby (CD, Album) - Negative Foundation 2002 Scarab (CDr) - EE Tapes 2002 Can't We Just Have Sex Instead? (File, MP3) - Brokenwave 2003 In a Persian Market (CDr) - Verato Project 2003 Moisture (CDr) - Reduktive Musiken 2003 Trixxy Pixxy (File, MP3) - Comfort Stand Recordings 2004 Airre (CDr) - Entr'acte 2005 Big City Orchestra (File, MP3) - Beta:Sound 2005 Boom Crash Crash (File, MP3) - Comfort Stand Recordings 2005 Kismet (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2005 Progressive Composition (File, MP3) - ZNS Tapes 2005 Things Fall Down (File, MP3) - Lostfrog 2005 Azimuth (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2006 Dada Is Dead, Long Live Dada (CDr, Album) - UBUIBI 2006 Does Art For... (CDr) - Roil Noise Offensive 2006 DoUBle the TroUBle (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2006 Love Film Greats (CDr) - Roil Noise Offensive 2006 Red Dog 9 (CDr, Album, Ltd) - UBUIBI 2006 Signals and Code (File, MP3) - Umbrella Noize Collective 2006 Drone Gnomes (10", Ltd, Mar) - Substantia Innominata 2007

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