Jed Bindeman’s ears hurt. As a co-founder of reissue label Freedom to Spend, he acquired some 1,200 cassettes from the archive of ND, an influential Austin-based magazine from the ‘80s and ‘90s, and began systematically working through the stacks of tapes. What he found made all the effort worthwhile: a home-recorded, self-illustrated cassette by someone called Larrison, entitled Connecters [sic]. When he pressed play on this mysterious tape, Bindeman heard a warbling, lo-fi keyboard, amateur yet sophisticated, unlike anything else he had encountered.
It turns out that Bindeman’s tape was the only copy of Connecters in existence. Its creator, Larrison Seidle, had moved from Indiana to Austin and recorded the entire album on…

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