Cassette releases rolling thread

[chrisdermo]

Benoît Pioulard - Slow spark, soft spoke
Don't normally go for this kind of wafty guitar ambient stuff, but the preview track on this grabbed me:
https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/slow-spark-soft-spoke

Tokiomi - Secret Stash
Again I don't normally go for this style of beats / clicks n cuts mishmash ambient synth thing and stuff. But whatever, give it a try
http://adsrmusic.ca/album/secret-stash

Various - Soviet Luxury Club 001
Acid. More old school rave style than the current 'braindance' style. Likey!
https://sovietluxuryclub.bandcamp.com/a ... y-club-001

Jamal H - Acid test
Way more contemporary UK acid style, huge similarities to Factory Floor.
https://foreignlanguagerecordings.bandc ... -acid-test

[$harkToootth]

^^^I regret not checking out the above reqs. I luv acid m8. I was into a lot of the material coming out of Berlin for like a month. Ever here of JUNE?

LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS -> One of the few tape labels that I still am on the mailing list for. I've purchased (imo) some very cool niche things from them. The releases that came in on an E-mail blast recently seem to be aligned with noisy beats and harsher synth punk, both of which I enjoy. I'll be exploring these sounds soon.
http://lightenupsounds.storenvy.com/

[chrisdermo]

^^^I regret not checking out the above reqs. I luv acid m8. I was into a lot of the material coming out of Berlin for like a month. Ever here of JUNE?

LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS -> One of the few tape labels that I still am on the mailing list for. I've purchased (imo) some very cool niche things from them. The releases that came in on an E-mail blast recently seem to be aligned with noisy beats and harsher synth punk, both of which I enjoy. I'll be exploring these sounds soon.
http://lightenupsounds.storenvy.com/

There's tons of acid in this thread! It's all me though. Kinda stopped updating for lack of effort HOWEVER at the very least it serves as a reminder of what I've bought and when so I'll do a mega update here.
Also will check out Lighten Up Sounds - always good to hear of tape labels that aren't bandcamp centric.


AMBIENT/EASY LISTENING ELECTRONIC:
Jogging House - 'From' - I mostly like this stuff but sometimes it really irks me, like being stuck on a sky tv menu screen.
https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/from

r beny - cascade symmetry / full blossom of the evening / saudade
Took a minute to get into this, but I like it in a similar way to Hainbach, has that kind of blissfully painful thing going on. Awkward/beautiful etc.
https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/album/cascade-symmetry
https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/album/full-b ... he-evening
https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/

Hainbach - Burderkrieg - classic Hainbach, more a return to the style I like (mostly Ciat lonbarde case setup I believe)
https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/bruderkrieg

Nathan Moody - Études III: Red Box - I liked this a lot better than the white box one, I became obsessed with verbos/buchla just before this came out so it's a nice release that caters to that, more droney, slow rhythmic things going on rather than the crazy fast buchla bongo school of things.
https://nathanmoody.bandcamp.com/album/ ... ii-red-box

Sean Julian - Sounds of the Birch Forest - Buchla music easel and field recordings. Very nice, a bit more of a 'journey' than I was expecting and more field recording based that I was expecting either, pleasantly surprised.
https://tiep.bandcamp.com/album/sounds- ... rch-forest

Alessandro Cortini - Avanti - He's basically very good at the incredibly repetitive slowly evolving Buchla thing right? Tape itself sounds very nice - it's a Pias factory thing (no idea who they actually use to make their tapes) but the quality is definitely a notch above the norm in terms of depth of sound.


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[chrisdermo]

ACID / TECHNO:

Special Olympic Acid - Acid Tape 01 / Acid Tape 02 - I have come to discover that this kind of brand of minimal and lo-fi acid is probably my favourite. This guys tracks are ace, simple, to the point head nodding 303 riffs with raw drum machines.
https://virtualurbanrecords.bandcamp.co ... id-tape-01
https://virtualurbanrecords.bandcamp.co ... id-tape-02

Duran Duran Duran - Bolo Trax - Frantic acid-y idm breakcore techno-y wtf-ness. Nice.
https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/dms020-bolo-trax

Palace Lido - Concrete - distorted techno drums and occasional acid. Nice for a zone out, or to listen to on the bus and be reminded that you live in a consumerist hellish nightmare of a city.
https://czaszka.bandcamp.com/album/concrete

UTA Trax - Rally 626 - Old school acid / rave style. Again, lo-fi, simple, effective. I love it! They want it to be your driving soundtrack, I can attest that it works very well for that.
https://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/rally-626

Ceephax Acid Crew - Ceeland - Got a notification from discogs that I set up ages ago that one of these had come on sale in mint condition, so I bought it. The A-side of this tape is Ceephax's early recordings interspersed with interview snippets of proto-chavs from Chelmsford, Essex which is my hometown, so this feels kind of special to me as a strong link to my upbringing and reminder of where I've come from to where I am now. The B-side is some noise/drone thing which is quite odd from Ceephax, but I enjoyed it. Totaly contrast to the A side. Needless to the say the A side acid is impeccable.
https://ceephax.bandcamp.com/album/ceeland


MISCELLANEOUS
Hailu Mergia - Tche Belew - Ran across this by chance, I love ethio jazz (those ethiopiques comps from a while back were killer), and saw someone mention this had Mulatu Astatke on a few tracks. Read the blurb, had a brief listen and was sold. Waiting for tape to arrive.
https://hailumergia.bandcamp.com/album/tche-belew

Langham Research Centre - Tape Works Vol. 1 - I can't remember how I came across this but this is a group dedicated to performing classical electronic works via the original technqiues (tape machines, sine wave oscillators etc). The music sounds ace! The label also sells a book about the current 'alt-classic' (yucky name) scene in London. Might grab that too as it looks quite interesting, the sort of off-classical stuff I've caught in the city over the past decade has been really excellent, so would be good to learn more of it's roots etc.
https://nonclassical.bandcamp.com/album ... orks-vol-1
https://nonclassical.bandcamp.com/merch ... -in-london

[chrisdermo]

LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS -> One of the few tape labels that I still am on the mailing list for. I've purchased (imo) some very cool niche things from them. The releases that came in on an E-mail blast recently seem to be aligned with noisy beats and harsher synth punk, both of which I enjoy. I'll be exploring these sounds soon.
http://lightenupsounds.storenvy.com/

This is a goldmine!!

[$harkToootth]

I'm glad you like it! I've bought some reissues and some psych noise from them in the past. I like the direction they seem to be taking.

Have we talked about CEEPHAX before? I was (am?) a huge fan for a while. Haven't kept up with his recent output (post 2014).

This is JUNE btw. You may recognize this track if you're a DJ SPRINKLES fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOB_8rOnD9w

[chrisdermo]

Have we talked about CEEPHAX before? I was (am?) a huge fan for a while. Haven't kept up with his recent output (post 2014).

Nope! I haven't either - I'm not so massively keen on the fairground-esque cartoony elements, more the lo-fi acid and hardcore (hardcore esplanade!!).

This is JUNE btw. You may recognize this track if you're a DJ SPRINKLES fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOB_8rOnD9w

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OOOOOOOOH this is nice. No idea who June or DJ Sprinkles is, though i've definitely heard of the latter.

[dingdongfootball]

Just finished my own album for my label. It’s a mish-mash of psychedelic pop, drones, ambient, and sound collage run through a handful of pedals and tapes. You can grab a tape now that ships out of the States!

https://cudighirecords.bandcamp.com/album/cudighi

[chrisdermo]

Just finished my own album for my label. It’s a mish-mash of psychedelic pop, drones, ambient, and sound collage run through a handful of pedals and tapes. You can grab a tape now that ships out of the States!

https://cudighirecords.bandcamp.com/album/cudighi

(Chris from the lines forum here!) ILFers should check this tape out it's awesome.

[ummohyeah]

Strange but cool to see UTA Trax on here, they're from my hometown (Salt Lake City). Magazine I write for did a feature on them a few months back.

[chrisdermo]

Strange but cool to see UTA Trax on here, they're from my hometown (Salt Lake City). Magazine I write for did a feature on them a few months back.

They're awesome!

[Ruiner]

Hey guys, just released my album and put it out on cassette as well so thought I’d share in case anyone was interested.




Available at:
geraldfjord.bandcamp.com