Electronic & Dance Tape 603 Items

Making Records: Home Recordings C. 1890-1920

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vitesse X’s sophomore album This Infinite is about more than just escape. Vitesse X’s debut, 2022’s Us Ephemeral, was a tribute to the spiritual vibrations of the club, influenced by ‘90s rave, ambient techno, and Kraftwerk’s Tour de France. But before her time exploring the rhythms of nightlife, though, Vitesse X spent years playing in indie bands in her hometown of New York City. This Infinite weaves the slinking energy of her debut with these scrappy, livewire beginnings. The record is an exercise in anti-perfectionism, a sort of musical purging for the artist that she refers to as a “somatic release.” While writing, she pursued ideas without judging herself too harshly, leaving the songs rough around the edges and foregrounding confessional lyrics. This shift in mindset transported Vitesse X into a flow state, resulting in a powerful collection of wistful and sanguine dream-pop songs—always openhearted and forever unraveling. For Vitesse X, the album encourages the listener to free themselves from ego, as she aims to do. “It’s about trusting my gut,” says Vitesse X. “It feels like a weight was lifted. It says what it needs to say.” Pushing past injustice, the oppressiveness of a capitalist society, rage, and heartbreak, the record captures Vitesse X in the midst of release. Through the act of creation, she argues on This Infinite, we can make a change, both in ourselves and in the world.

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Death Is Not The End

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Death Is Not The End)

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Neuropa)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A collection of DIY phonographic home recordings, transferred from blank and repurposed brown and black wax cylinders, dating back to between the late 1800s and early 1900s.

"Cylinder phonographs first entered the parlor in the late 1890s and stayed until displaced by newer technologies in the 1920s. They brought professional entertainers into our homes and let us command their performances at will. They also gave us the power to record. For the first time in human history we could take sonic selfies, audio snapshots with friends, and aural portraits of loved ones. Our phonographs captured the sounds of everyday life, both silly and serious: the baby's squalling, Johnny's naughty joke, Grandma's favorite hymn as only she could sing it, our letters to loved ones in foreign lands or 100 years in the future. In our own homes we spoke unfettered by commercial concerns or ethnographers' expectations. Our phonographs observed who we were and what we valued without interference or judgement." – David Giovannoni

Cover image text excerpt taken from How to Make Records at Home with an Edison Phonograph, 1910.

Recordings courtesy of The David Giovannoni's Collection of home cylinder recordings housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara cylinder audio archive.

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Boucle Infinie

Summit

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Zeroh

Sumlyte

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Xyla

Ways

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño

Subtle Movements

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Qoa

Sauco

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Matthewdavid/Seiho

Spore Drive Split

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Jahsh Banks

Dude<3

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Francesca Heart

Bird Bath

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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William Tyler / Luke Schneider

Understand

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Music For Saxofone & Bass Guitar

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Altered Scenes And Slight Variations

N Kramer

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Matt Baldwin & Tp Dutchkiss

Show Invisibles

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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M.A. Tiesenga

Heavy Earth

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lionmilk & Club Diego

In Float

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Intergalactic Warp Terminal 222

Lionmilk

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Leaving)

Julius Smack

Serenity EP

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Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Leaving)

Glia & Matthedavid

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Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Leaving)

Futurangelics

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Leaving)

Brin & Dustin Wong

Texture Ii

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Leaving)

Antoje

Null Data

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In Science And The Human Heart

Hiroshi Ebina

Tape | 2024 | WW | Original (Kitchen Label)

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Homemade Soundsytem)

NPLGNN

Live At Human Razzmatazz

Cheb Terro Vs. DJ Die Soon

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This tape contains a recording of a live of Nplgnn recorded at Human Razzmatazz (Barcelona) on March 2023.Everything you hear it comes from two Korg Electribe Emx1 +Pioneer Djm900 NXS + Traktor.

To describe the sound it makes sense to bring back what was thepress release of “Sigma/Tau” the first record of Nplgnn releasedin 2014 on Where To Now? (rip): “Nplgnn creates a less pampered style of body music, stripping away the usual signifiers such as melodies and basslines to create something more utilitarian, brutal and pure.

This is the pre-babel language of dance music - it's cadences are rhythmic and its meaning is comprehensible to all on an innate, primal level.”Ten years later this tape makes those words still remarkable to describe the sound of the Neapolitan head. Among a bunch of unreleased sounds you can go through all the Nplgnn recent records for LavaLava, Youth, Hundebiss and its own lathe cuts series dubbed here and there with vocal cuts intersections.

Coming off like the rude son of early ‘00s breakcore heroes, quotingthe Manchester Boomy heads, Nplgnn delivers a 45 mins mutant soundsystem recording. It's acid dancehall punk, amorphed ragga riddimz, or whatever you want to call it. 100% dancefloor melting .Ask Aphex Twin for a couple of IDs.

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Cheb Terro & DJ Die Soon

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Drowned By Locals)

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Cheb Terro Vs. DJ Die Soon

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon features Cheb Terro's posthumous vocals on Die Soon's beats; a work that was finished one day before Terro's tragic passing. Starting somewhere in the last quarter of 2020, having approached Daisuke Imamura aka DJ Die Soon for a release, and just heard about Cheb Terro's work with his Toxic Club, Drowned By Locals made the hook up that would result in a match made in the Underplanet, as Terro would describe it.

Hailing from the city of Sousse in Tunisia, the site of the worst of several Jihadist attacks in recent years, Cheb Terro's writings and delivery embody the violence stemming from the frustration shared by Tunisia's new generation; and reflect sadness, rebellion and an obsession with death.

Rayen Hermassi, aka Cheb Terro, was a multifaceted artist; writer, rapper, video editor, designer and founder of Toxic Club, the first Tunisian movement to merge horrorcore, hip hop, hardcore punk, Memphis gangster rap, devil shyt, vaporware, tinged with occult elements taken from the country's mystic past.

Daisuke Imamura is a Berlin-based artist born in Japan. His releases include 'Kappa Slap' [Morphine Records], in which Die Soon collaborates with Ecko Bazz, Infinite Livez, MC Yallah, Lord Spikeheart from Duma, and MA; and his latest production for Sekelembele split with Swordman Kitala [Hakuna Kulala].

In commemoration of the too-soon departed Rayen Hermassi, Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon is planned to release on March 25th, 2022, the day of Rayen's passing, on digital and vinyl - Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Rayen Hermassi's share of proceeds will go to his family.

released March 25, 2022

Music and cover art by Daisuke Imamura
Vocals and lyrics by Rayen Hermassi
Mastered by Rashad Becker

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Patrick Clarke | The Quietus | The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2022
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Matador Recommends | Playlist by Matador Records
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Zoe Camp | Bandcamp Daily | Essential Releases
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Emna Maaref | Ma3azef |شب تيرو ودي جاي داي سون(Cheb Terro Vs DJ Die Soon) Review
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Toxic Club | Nika7 Official Video Premiere
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Gonzo (circus) — Mind The Gap 154 | Cheb Terro Vs DJ Die Soon - Pine Review
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Nyshka Chandran | Resident Advisor | Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon - Abtal AL Digital Single Review
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Ransom Note | Posthumous record from Cheb Terro alongside DJ DIE Soon set for release
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Cheb Terro & DJ Die Soon

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Drowned By Locals)

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Dome Of Doom 2024 Summer Compilation

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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V.A.

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Dome Of Doom)

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Blaq Numbers)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For years, Dome of Doom has provided artists with a platform to flourish. The man behind the brand, Wylie Cable, has his heart in all the right places, further proved through his passion for his label, artists, and the scene. One thing is for sure: Dome of Doom can always sniff out the newest and hottest fresh sounds with a deep track record of quality compilations and solo releases. Now, the label is causing a stir once again with the Dome of Doom Summer Compilation. This compilation offers an unreal amount of talent across its 18 excitingly different tracks that morph into a playlist fit for any electronic enthusiast. Artists on the roster that might make some ears perk up include Dabow, A Hundred Drums, ZOF, Neumonic, jordnmoody, and that’s just barely scratching the surface. Dome of Doom Summer Compilation works best if you press play and let it guide you from track one to the end.

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V.A.

Feels Like Home

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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With this year's fundraiser compilation, we would like to raise some money for the Bärenherz children's hospice here in Leipzig (www.baerenherz-leipzig.de) This institution receives no state aid and is therefore dependent on donations.

Once again, many old friends and new faces - local and around the globe - have come together to bridge the gap between Neo-Soul, Hiphop, Synthiepop, Dub, Modern Funk, Breaks, Electro and House.

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Ubek

III

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The Devil And The River, Volume One

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The mysterious Polish duo digs out a new collection of degraded echoes, salvaged from authority. Galvanised as if lost to the shock of formal experiments. Ubek III revises the present and takes us back to other versions of actuality.

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William Fowler Collins

Tape | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Karl)

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (In My Room)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In his most recent solo release, “The Devil And The River: Volume One”, recorded live in his rural New Mexico studio, William Fowler Collins tremolo brushes his electric guitar using a calligraphy brush, playing a single chord with no overdubs to produce two compelling side-long pieces of music. Ever present are the minimalist widescreen reflections of the high desert environment in which he lives, with the two sides giving the impressions of a sun rising and then a sun setting over the vast and sparsely populated landscape. The music in the two pieces shifts dynamically from gentle and hypnotic to immense and resonant walls of drone, searing and overdriven. At times the music can suggest a collision between Terry Riley’s “Descending Moonshine Dervishes” and the loud, distorted, emotional abstractions of My Bloody Valentine.

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Trentemøller

Dreamweaver

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Travis Elborough & Stonecirclesampler

Memorex

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (The Tapeworm)

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (The Tapeworm)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The London-based electronic musician Luke J Murray aka Stonecirclesampler and the award-winning writer Travis Elborough have combined forces on a new collaboration to be released on The Tapeworm label under the title 'Memorex'.

Luke J Murray is a man of many musical aliases, releasing and performing variously as: Superior Grime London Blue DNB-like South Sand Dynamics Luke Marblex The In 2.5G Label White Dark Rainfall J Escape NCR London The From Cracks In Concrete 900Cold Liquid DJ Pulp Grime Murray The endorphin Old 0161 Conflicting 2 Solo Widens Damage Ambient Glow Electronics and Stonecirclesampler.

Described by The Guardian as 'one of the country's finest pop culture historians', Travis Elborough's books include 'Wish You Were Here: England on Sea', 'The Long-Player Goodbye', a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the Bbc4 documentary 'When Albums Ruled the World', in which he also appeared, 'Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles' and 'Atlas of Vanishing Places', winner of Edward Stanford Travel Book Award in 2020.

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Carla Boregas

Absência Tape

The Baze.DJunkiii / D3vi7

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Carla Boregas is a Brazilian musician, composer and sound artist. By merging synthetic and acoustic instrumentation and techniques, Boregas builds up sonic scenarios driven by an invisible force, where the sensation of presence and discovery lies between density and delicacy. Her work spans composition, improvisation, performance, sound installation and radio art, and aims to transport the listener to different subjective perspectives of time and space, to invoke memories and to reflect about the nature-human relationship.
Carla Boregas writes: "Using a Tascam Portastudio 4-track cassette recorder, I invited three musicians to improvise alone with the sound recording of the sea that I did in Massaguaçu, the place where I used to live in Brasil. The recorder that I used had a defect in one of its tracks, therefore I could only invite two musicians – Vinicius Cajado (double bass) and Réka Csiszér (cello), plus the sea in another track. While listening to the tracks together, I felt a deep sense of absence ("ausência" in Portuguese). Perhaps due to their sonorous answers surrounded by the tape hiss? Because that's one of the symbolic meanings of the ocean? Maybe "saudades do mar, de estar ao seu outro lado"? Who knows – listening can be something very mysterious. Afterwards I played with and interweaved them all: the sonorous sea, Vinicius Cajado, Réka Csiszér and the absence - "Absência Tape" is the final result." – Carla Boregas, Berlin, 8 August 2024.

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Diurnal Tides: First Wave

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Carsharing Tapes)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Scopeotaku)

Scopeotaku

System Failure

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Toucan Sounds)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ltd edition of 50 hand numbered cassettes from the magnetic north, containing Scopeotaku’s next incarnation of DIY tape manoeuvres. Sounds for the mythology of a dystopian society that is tired of being spoon fed the common denominator, where police states and clandestine government activities are the norm. This, the fourth, album from scopeotaku bridges the gap between 4040 and They Came From The Sea. Modern electronics with a experimental dub mentality.

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Friedrich Raphael

Ancient Artifacts Tape

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Berlin born & bred artist, Friedrich Raphael was inspired to create this 3 track, 20 minute, cassette of funky lo-fi house after viewing the popular "azteken" exhibition. "ancient Artifacts" explores the ways in which culture relates to, and interacts with the objects, moments, and movements of it's past. From Brooklyn.

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Kalozin

Prakatun

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Movement, Form And Expression

Neues Universum

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Dorit Chrysler

Calder Plays Theremin

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Marlais

Stream Of Forms

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Branes

Iel

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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The Fleeting Nature Of Things

Alto Bloom

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Isabassi

789.0

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Hibylo

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For Future Holographic Suns

Feldermelder

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Bliss Creek

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Dolomea

A Ghost In My Mind

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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(I'll) Waltz In And Act Like (I) Own The Place

Family Ravine

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Death Is Not The End)

Devotional Music For Invisible Cities

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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K.W. Cahill records and plays acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, karimba, melodica and an Am/fm portable radio on March 2024 time.

Mastered by James A. Toth in Toronto.

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Invisible Cities

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Swims)

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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An anonymous collection of imagined Devotional Musics commissioned by Dramatic over the last two years. Listeners are briefed just as the original artists apparently were: 13 'Invisible Cities' and an accompanying 'belief statement' of appropriate enigma.

"Their City Tessellates Infinitely" "Their God Is Ugly" "No Two Chants Can Repeat" (repeat until unimaginably portentous…)

These 'songs' play out like the products of a delirious ethnography. Their palette, all deranged chorales and Globalisch instrumentation, calls to mind everything from Michael Nyman to Demdike Stare, Ghostbox to Angelo Badalamenti… perhaps even Broadcast on a particularly awkward day (rip).

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Tegu

Ol Island

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The second outing by Hunter Thompson’s tribalist dub alias Tegu skews more spectral and simmering, a canopy of cascading keys, hand percussion, and swells of everglades bass: Owl Island. Recorded in early 2024 on the banks of a Floridian canal, the album’s 11 tracks roll in like shifting fog over an ancient marsh, swaying with low end and loops of humid synths.

Across 53 minutes, the music moves between séance and visitation, alternately transient and expectant, bathed in a sheen of starlight and streetlights. Fellow voyagers Wave Temples and X.Y.R. join for a pair of smoky, cosmic cameos, but otherwise this is a solitary affair – locked in, looking up, mapping new constellations in the expanding void.

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Severed+Said

End Time Loop

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Phase Group)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Floridian synthesist John Touchton aka Severed+Said returns with his most cinematic suite yet of witching hour electronics, spidery rhythm, and macabre clockwork: End Time Loop. A 10-track panorama of “paradise and devastation,” the music moves between sinkholes of low-end, darkened room drones, and strobing percussion, tracing shadows of swamps and derelict blocks. Inspired by the possibilities of a newly acquired hardware sequencer, and composing on headphones, Touchton atomized and re-assembled each song until an “absolute form” revealed itself.

His tunnel focus recording method gives the pieces a hermetic precision, mutating and rippling across grid-mapped webs of smoke, mirror, and mirage. Touchton’s youth in a Pentecostal church informs the album’s conflicted themes, a crossroads of “atrocities and kindness,” reckonings and rapture, vestigial dread born of crosses covered in dust. What lurks is what lasts, looping beneath the surface, as unseen as an ill wind. All End Times have their beginning.

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Love-Songs

Passive Progressive

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Sound Signature)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Phase Group are thrilled to present our next release by newcomers to the label, the excellent Hamburg band, Love-Songs. Their new album 'Passive Progressive' will be out on cassette and digital on October 18th. Love-Songs are the trio consisting of Thomas Korf (electronics + vocals) Sebastian Kokus (Bass) and Manuel Chittka (Percussion) who make cosmic, kraut-inspired electro-acoustic music. Many will be familiar with their previous output on wonderful labels like Kame House and Bureau B. 'Passive Progressive' lands in the form of 8 enthralling tracks that take us through dreamlike and psychedelic echoing territories, where Korf’s modulating electronics and effected vocals ripple over the grooving rhythm section of percussion and bass supplied by Kokus and Chitka. Across the album, the band are joined by a host of guest musicians and friends from Berlin and Hamburg’s underground and experimental music scenes, supplying Trombone, Mbira, Clarinet, Flute and extra synthesisers and vocals to enhance the mind-expanding and unique sound palette of these incredible tracks. As with most of the material we’ve released on Phase Group, this is music that’s hard to pin down, that lends itself equally well to creating transcending atmospheres in the early moments of a special kind of club set as to soundtracking a mind-bending and deep personal listening experience. We’ve no doubt that the sound that Love-Songs have crafted with Passive Progressive will be enthusiastically received by all sonic voyagers and fans of the label, and we’re over the moon to welcome them to the Phase Group family. Passive Progressive is available on limited cassette, with double-sided risograph print artwork by Andrija Čugurović.

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Howard Thomas

Skin Breaker

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Oryx)

Les Halles

Invisible Cities

Lightness And Irresponsibility

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The 2014 debut solo collection by French wind-walker Baptiste Martin aka Les Halles remains a masterpiece of soft light and subdued yearning, woven from grainy panpipe samples, tape hiss, and spectral delay. Recorded late at night in a tiny room in Montpellier, Invisible Cities quivers like a candle by the sea, its fragile illumination flickering against an expanse of sky, silence, and sorrow. The pieces feel both ancient and immediate, glimpsing currents behind the veil, at the threshold of presence and absence. The track titles evoke similarly transient states of echo, memory, and negative mirrors. This is music of solitude and devotion, of empty streets and unremembered dreams, fleetingly captured via the eternal alchemy of FX pedals and a 4-track. (Britt Brown)

All tracks recorded by Baptiste Martin, in Montpellier (France), in late 2013. This collection of tracks is named after Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

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Celer

Tape | 2012 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Angel 1

Purple Haze

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Bataille Solaire

Documentaires

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Panabrite

Cortex Meridian

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Celer + Forest Management

Landmarks

Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Chihei Hatakeyama

Scene

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Oca

Preset Music

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Sofie Birch

Island Alchemy

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Loris S. Sarid

Music For Tomato Plants

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Paperbark

What Was Left Behind

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Soshi Takeda

Same Place, Another Time

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Alex Albrecht

Resolve

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Andy Aquarius

La Force Aquarienne

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Monokle

Ultraflowers

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Glo Phase

Blink

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Randal Fisher & Dexter Story

Wenge

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Iksre

Abundance

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (100% Silk)

Charles A.D.

West Pontoon Bridge

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (TAX FREE)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Farmer and deep house producer Hiroyuki Tanaka aka Charles A.D. has been quietly cultivating his crop of live hardware dub techno and devotional acid since debuting with the 熱い海 (‘Hot Sea’) EP on Austria’s Dream Raw Recordings in 2017, followed by two long-form classics for Tokyo’s Umé label in 2019 (Inception) and 2021 (Dry Flower). His latest, West Pontoon Bridge, further refines Tanaka's composite of rhythm, repetition, and vanishing point electronics, shaded in what he calls “characteristic sadness.”

Schemed and tracked across a half decade of studio explorations, the album moves through gradient landscapes of twilit trees, mossy waterfalls, and hidden temples shrouded in ocean mist. Named for a nearby Japanese landmark of boards laid across boats at the river mouth in place of a permanent bridge, the collection unfolds in a similarly improvised and panoramic sweep. Lean percussive systems crosshatched with bass, haze, liquid loops, and spatial FX, the album subtly accelerates as it advances, spiraling softly towards a strobing mythic dance floor in a sacred grove.

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Peter Graf York

Short Stories

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Newretrowave)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Comes with download code. Short stories in form of micro-compositions by international legend PGY. Limited tape with interactive cover design by DJ Shlucht. Mastered by Maximilian Schweizer at Sms™.

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Syst3m Glitch

The Brave Ones

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Deathbomb Arc)

Blevin Blectum

Multitudes Of Venom

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Blevin Blectum returns for her second release on Deathbomb Arc with 'multitudes OF Venom'. Evolving directly out of 2023's 'omnii', and in particular Blectum's approach to touring in support of that album, this latest offering finds her swerving into the wilder side of this sonic universe. Broadcast live and raw in an early morning slot at KZSU's tried-and-true annual DAY OF Noise marathon, 'mov' is one instance of an infinite deck of sonic card shuffles. Submerge into the deep sea/time/space zone where hyperdolphins frolic alongside medusae with funky red stomachs and transparent zootaxian toxins. Blevin Blectum is half of the beloved group Blectum from Blechdom. In 2023 she toured through the EU and The Wire magazine published a four-page feature on her work. A complete list of her collaborations, projects, and accolades would give the impression she is omnipresent.

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Unbuilt

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Debut release, glitchy, broken, with a lickle bit of squelch.

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Aught Point

The Purity

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The beats end of the catalogue, still wild, unfettered and experimental.

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Unbuilt

Fire

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The occasional sample thrown into the blender, milled with clattering beats.

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Unbuilt

For Air

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lost memory distant drones and ethereal choruses.

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Sensational And Unbuilt

Poiesis

23,99 €*

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Accidental Meetings)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Spirit of the age ethereal rusty drones, backward tapes psych-out provide the background for Sensational's spodagraphics.

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Madteo

Amx007 Mixtape

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Past Inside The Present)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Madteo is next for Accidental Meeting’s mixtape series, recorded live at an AM party at Spanners, London. NY drenched house oddities and disco curveballs, all served up raw, rough & ready in Madteo’s trademark style. Full on body printing & custom sticker by Ciaran Birch, on a light pink clear cassette with white hubs.

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ASC

Loss

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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James Clements (asc) has been one of the most highly regarded artists in ambient, ambient techno and IDM scene since his evolution into the sound about 15 years ago. His ability to create deep soundscapes over lush beats and atmospheres come from his liquid drum n bass background prior to working with more cinematic tracks. ASC is back with a new release and it finds a home at the Past Inside the Present stable where he had put out a few EPs on the last couple years. This haunting and beautiful release Loss, explores various moods and atmospheres to great success. Tracks like the amazing and spacious 'Sensory Disintegration' to the poignant 'What More Can Be Said' which adds a lush airspace to a stunning piano piece. Some soundscapes are majestic and triumphant while others are minimal and then foreboding. New age and ambient fans will rejoice after hearing this magical album. Available in limited quantities so act quickly! Comes with download code inside.

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Frunk29

Drifting Horses

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (First Light)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Marat Shainsky aka Frunk29’s third album of cyclical six-string fugues for NNF further threads his needle of treated guitar, metronomic rhythm, and slipstream electronics into a 12-track suite inspired by “the free energy of nature:” Drifting Horses. Recorded across 2023 at home, the songs conjure moods of open plains, big skies, and endless journeys, plucked and strummed through webs of kaleidoscopic FX. Patterns ripple and reverberate, lifting into liberated wind swells of melody, gold dust, and drift.

There’s an unhurried ease to Shainsky’s style, born of discovery and daily playing, limber navigations with familiar tools, echoing in his head on long forest walks with his dog. Music of vignettes and vistas, glimpses and memories, spilling from the source to somewhere beyond tomorrow.

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Mara Macdonald

August And June

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Hausu Mountain)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mara MacDonald is a musician and performer from Melbourne, Australia. She released her debut album 'I'm just One Person' as Marara on Jpeg Artefacts in January 2023. She has also self-released two EP's, has received the Signal Sound Commission grant for young artists, and is known for her chaotic, confessional live performances. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitales said of her debut: "it feels like I've uncovered some kind of hidden treasure… each word, each sound echoes into forever."

August and June will be available on streaming platforms and limited-edition cassette tape on 27/09/24. Guests include pillar of the Australian noise scene, Uboa, and prolific Portland producer, Kaho Matsui. For fans of: Claire Rousay, More Eaze, Katie Dey, Felicia Atkinson, Elaine Radigue.

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RXM Reality

No. 1 In The World

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Fine Grains)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Chicago-based producer/composer Mike Meegan makes music under the moniker RXM Reality. Over the course of four albums on Hausu Mountain since 2018, Meegan refined a strain of electronic production that unites facets of breakcore, techno, grime, noise, and countless other styles into detailed composites that attest to his omnivorous tastes and bottomless technical acumen as a producer. While his live performances over the past few years and 2022’s Sick For You found him experimenting with his own lead vocals for the first time, pushing the dial somewhere closer to mutated-pop-music injected with distorted roars in the digital hardcore tradition, his new album No. 1 in the World (his fifth on HausMo) dives into the song-oriented branch of his work more than ever before. The album’s hour-long program spans twenty-four shorter tracks that highlight Meegan as the frontman and singer/songwriter of his own morphing one-person ensemble, without sacrificing any of the complex and unpredictable production decisions that animate his music. Acknowledging the influence of rock, punk, and pop music on his work, and embracing his desire to shine as a more legible human presence within his cybernetic-spreads of electronics, RXM Reality treats us to a vision of his music equally focused on concise songcraft and ballistic rave energy, all the while pushing his sound into a state of mind-bending total overload.

As RXM Reality cherrypicks and recombines signifiers from a deep history of experimental electronic vocabularies, one might worry that Meegan’s production runs the risk of collapsing under its own weight, yet it speaks to his experience as a producer that every juxtaposed element hits the mix with a stunning degree of clarity and separation. No. 1 isegues through far-flung genres and styles without ever losing a sense of cohesion, rooted in Meegan’s palpable presence at the center of each track.

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Moroka

Junction Tape

10,99 €*

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Newretrowave)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Eight no-nonsense tracks, straight to the point. Moroka delivers the goods in this raw, unpolished gem of a release. Constructed in a week at home in Loughborough Junction after a conversation with FG boss Alex - these cuts are all about the energy, no time wasted on refinement. The drums rumble and shuffle, crashing into each other with an unpredictable rhythm that keeps you on your toes. The narrative here is simple: Mo, his neighbourhood, and his gear. Early support and plays from Shy One, Scratcha DVA, D Bridge & Mr Beatnick. Photography by Charlie Birch, design by Alex Horne, tape covers riso printed at Terry Bleu, Amsterdam.

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Broken Videos

Memories Of Tomorrow

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The start of something remarkable... Broken Videos is here to make his mark. A must listen to all classic synth lovers. :)

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Raydar

Evil Squad III

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Moon Glyph)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Trilogy comes to an Epic end! Raydar delivers the final chapter to Evil Squad. Enjoy!

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Turn On The Sunlight

Canoga To Ha'iku

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Moon Glyph)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We live in places and they live in us. Sometimes we’re in the same place, linked together by the elements and our immediate surroundings. Other times, we push off into farther flung spaces, but stay connected as though telepathically, treasuring the closeness that once was and will someday be again. Most of the humble music that comprises ‘Canoga to Haʻikū’ was recorded in a single sitting by Carlos and Jesse in Carlos’ studio in California. A little later, Jesse departed for Maui, where an acquaintance named Russ kindly lent him a Casio Cz-1000 for the summer. With that instrument and the surrounding sounds of children, birds, insects, lizards, frogs, goats, wind and rain, the finishing touches were added to these songs. The ocean a glimmer in the distance through the palms, a portal was opened across the Pacific to Carlos’ studio, where friendship dances in all its forms. A rainbow beckoned and invited everyone to dive into the water and share in its universal embrace.

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Leaving

Hidden View

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (E2-E8)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Leaving is the left-of-centre, electronics project of Rupert Thomas (Erasers), based in Perth, Western Australia. With a focus on hardware electronics, Thomas conjures immersive worlds of mood-driven synthesizer compositions that range from deep, slow moving ambience, to dense rhythms and hypnotic melodies. Forming over a decade ago as a home recording project on Whadjuk boodja (Perth, Western Australia), Thomas documented his early sound through a steady flow of CD-R’s and tapes before releasing his debut self-titled LP in 2020 via Good Company Records, a culmination of songs recorded between 2013-2017. In 2021 he contributed slow burner ‘Detached Lines’ to Deep Water Greenhouse ‘Greenhouse Vol. 1’ LP. In the live realm, Leaving has shared the stage with the likes of Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never and Outer Space (Emeralds), sculpting a mesmeric sonic experience through deep drones, atmospheric synth and echoed drum machine interplay. 2024 sees Leaving return with his second full length ‘Hidden View’ via Moon Glyph and Pouring Dream. Recorded and mixed at home throughout 2023 using a limited palette of synths, ‘Hidden View’ creates a sound world that is simultaneously moody, emotive and meditative, offering both careful focus and a dreamy escape for the mind. Through this collection of sounds, Thomas seeks to evoke the surrounding landscape in which it was made, with its wide-open spaces, dense bushland and expansive coastline.

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Szl0

Water Locks

Feeling Everything, All At Once

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following two successful dancefloor-orientated releases with remixes by Marco Shuttle and S.O.N.S., London-based label E2-E8 takes an ambient turn while remaining faithful to its ethos of putting new artists on the map. Water Locks is the debut release from Szl0, a sound artist who’s been living and breathing East London’s inspiring atmosphere and contradictions for the last 10 years.

Water Locks is a tale of boats, canals, twists and turns of a quietly ever-changing life. A misty, smoky dive into a soul in constant search for itself. For his debut album, Szl0 peeked into instincts and fantasies and crafted a series of deep live improvisations.

The beauty is in the tension: Szl0’s music is for pause and reflection, yet it’s the moment that matters. A series of intense movements firmly grounded in the here and now which, taken together, becomes bigger than the sum of its parts. A late night listening at sea.

Limited run of 50 tapes. Includes a download code with a bonus remix from E2-E8’s own Miro Sundaymusiq (“First Light” – Pacifist Techno Soul Edit) who reinvents one of Szl0’s movements and gives it an unexpected dancefloor appeal.

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V.A.

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Redstone Press)

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Yellow Swans Archive)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Celebrating our tenth release, we proudly present "Feeling Everything, All At Once" - a compelling VA compilation featuring music from our current label family and introducing some talented debutants from Scotland.

Red010 marks a powerful statement of intent as we look to the next five years and beyond whilst reflecting on our achievements so far, what we aspire to accomplish and how we can continue to push the sounds that resonate with us. Although it has taken time to reach this milestone, our commitment to quality over quantity remains unwavering.

This compilation serves not only as a collection of club-ready tracks but also as a longform piece suitable to more passive listening. With a total of 14 tracks, it stands as our most extensive release yet, expanding our label family to well over 20 artists. The digital release will be complemented by a physical cassette, perfect for playing in the dusty tape deck of your mate's Vauxhall Corsa as you head to that mad rave in the countryside everyone is talking about.

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with the Scottish Action for Mental Health (samh) on this project with all the profits being donated to this cause. Both Lewis & Ethan have their own personal experiences with mental health difficulties and strongly believe that Samh is absolutely vital in facilitating the provision and promotion of mental health care, support & information.

A massive thank you to all those involved in making this happen and their generosity in donating their time and talent to the project.

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Yellow Swans

Out Of Practice 2

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Yellow Swans Archive)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After marking their return following 15 years on ice, Out of Practice Volume 2 is an unflinching exposition of the duo’s omnivorous tastes and mettle for white hot psychedelia. In a typical style they assume versions of their early selves, circa roles in Portland’s burgeoning noise scene, around the turn of the millennium, when they would collapse myriad influences - noise, industrial, drone, hardcore, dub, free improv and modern composition - into a blistering maelstrom, and record an almost innumerable slew of releases until disbanding in 2008. Since their cheerio, Pete Swanson has issued occasional solo works and helped Jed Bindeman build the Freedom to Spend label into a notable showcase of their sprawling tastes, whilst Gabe has carved a solid path of drone works under his own name for the likes of Shelter Press and Miasmah. Reunited, they now remind us to the thrill of USA’s noise nexus in the ‘00s, when everyone from Wolf Eyes to Bill Kouligas and 0PN would emerge with wildly differing styles that could still be placed on the same page, and which felt like a big fuck off to preceding eras. That formative buzz fuels the YS cuts here, which both started out with playback samples of their respective influences, mutated and masticated by their overdriven onslaught. In ‘Oblivion Access 6-16-23’, recorded live in Austin on their first show in 15 years, they chew the hell out of 13th Floor Elevators - the psychedelic rock analog to their psych noise - murking a tape loop for nearly 10 minutes of pounding bass and wall-of-noise distortion, before the original sample is revealed in the vinegar strokes. Better yet, the B-side sees them rinse out Suicide into coruscating clouds of greyscale noise bliss that short circuits distinctions of late stage The Caretaker and Alberich, and almost feels like it could have come out via V/Vm Test Records’ in its heyday.

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Yellow Swans

Out Of Practice I

Tape | 2021 | US | Reissue (100% Silk)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Billed as the first in a series of releases documenting the duo’s reunion last year, ‘Out of Practice I’ finds Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindel Saloman raiding their archive to excavate a bunch of fragments now arranged into “verrrry loose” songs. The first side was recorded at Denver’s Glob in November last year, and leads in remarkably slowly, spluttering through a haze of garbled noise and close-miked madness before Saloman’s unmistakable sustained wails just about emerge thru the static. Their saturated gusts curl around choral fragments as their guitar slowly mutates into a shoegaze gloop of strangled harmonics. And still, they’re not quite done: when the smoke clears, acoustic twangs shuttle us into a different landscape entirely, flipping the piece on its head. Dubbed at Austin’s Oblivion Access in June, ‘Side B’ is a different rendering of the same basic principles. The duo sail into cacophony quicker, offsetting their pebble-dashed concrète with visceral squeals, and when the harmonic relief finally arrives, it’s blown into foghorn trails of blistered feedback. It’s YS at their most ferocious, spangling through a good few minutes of harsh noise before the feedback wilts into melancholy, leading us out with a slow hum as electrical sparks shimmer into the aether.

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Shoshi Takeda

Floating Mountains

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (100% Silk)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tokyo visionist Soshi Takeda’s second album took shape across eight months of the winter and spring, inspired by an iconic mid-80’s photography book of Chinese landscapes. Scenes of lantern-lit fishing boats on misty mountain lakes seeded a mood of hidden paradise, ancient waterways snaking secret paths into the past.

Recorded at his home studio using exclusively hardware synths and samplers from the 1990’s, the six songs of Floating Mountains (plus digital-only bonus cut, “Deep Breath,” from the recent 2nd Life Silk compilation) evoke shrouded cinematic vistas of liquid skies and shining lakes, like some Li River twist on Balearic half-light house. Shades of cosmic drift and crystalline electronica ebb and flow within the nocturnal pulse, pagodas and pearls reflecting the waning moon: “I hope you can feel the cool and exotic atmosphere.”

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Jupiter Jax

Summer Grey