Last year I had the pleasure to discover Sleep Unit, a small tape label for dark ambient/drone from Dundee/Scotland. After…
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NYC’s OSR-Tapes have quietly been pushing the most alluring, ecstatic, quirky pop tapes you could ever dream of since 2007.…
Oxtail Records, a private press focusing on experimental music and modular synthesis, has been a favorite of mine since I…
Have you ever asked yourself (or has someone ever asked you): Why cassette tapes exist nowadays? What’s the sense of…
Reference points in the sparsely populated realm of experimental composition are even more urgently required than in popular music, as…
When talking about psych music it may happen to be a bit confused about what can and about what can…
Bicikl is a serbian collective from Belgrade led by two Lithuanian immigrants, Harbor Tévas and Vyrash Karunos, who started this…
Yes, right, I´m talking about Still Heat Recordings from Newcastle, UK. “Blistered VHS sountracks , tech-noise, dark ambience, industrial dub,…
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10 very short reviews of 10 cassette releases curated by z tapes and reviewed very small album review 1 High Sunn – Bliss A…
Name changes can mean a lot of things for a band. Reshuffled lineups, abrupt stylistic shifts, religious conversions, cease and…
I have been trying to write this review for too long and I haven’t gotten anywhere because every time I…
Much like the cassette tape itself, shoegaze music has the distinction of surviving its own obsolescence. Though it’s recent re-emergence…
10 very short reviews of 10 cassette releases curated by z tapes and reviewed very small album review 1 Young Scum – Zona A flip…
Black and white aside from a pink lead, Rhucle’s latest offering, “Colourless,” certainly reflects its title in its design. Yet to describe…
I follow the works of Indian Redhead since I discovered the music of accou, one of the guys behind this…
Foodman finally did it. After years of watching Youtube videos of the club, listening to mixes from the club, smoking…