If you’re in New York next month, you definitely gotta hit up one of these nights. Tranquility Tapes is proud to present 22 sets from some of our favorite artists from NYC and throughout North America from February 1-13, 2013 at The Stone. All sets are $5 and will start promptly according to schedule....
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After a stellar run of releases that comprised their Circa 2012 series, it appears that the consistently excellent Preservation label out of Australia has cooked up another winner of a series with Contrasts. Marking their first foray into the cassette medium, the Contrasts series will offer limited run split tapes that pairs “a veteran...
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The mighty Trensmat are kicking off 2013 with an LP from the equally mighty GNOD who unleash their psych-tech alter ego Dwellings and Druss this February. Pre-ordering is now open on the Trensmat site and as always, only pre-orders (plus a few extras for selected worldwide distros) will be pressed. Buyers also get additional...
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The good folks at Headphone Commute have assembled an absolutely wonderful compilation, …and Darkness Came, to raise much-needed funds for victims throughout the world impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The line-up is sprawling… from Max Richter to Helios to Julien Neto, Lawrence English, loscil, Johann Johannsson , and many more (there’s 87 tracks in total)....
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The third and final instalment in Mo Kolour’s excellent trilogy of EPs has been announced with an early 2013 release expected. Following EP1: Drum Talking and EP2: Banana Wine, the Anglo-Mauritian producer’s EP3: Tusk Dance is available on pre-order now from One Handed Music. Limited to just 700 12” copies, Tusk Dance is described as being a...
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Bureau B will release the new record from the Kraftwerk member on March 26th.
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On May 14, 2013 Sun Kil Moon (aka Mark Kozelek) and The Album Leaf (aka Jimmy LaValle) will release their debut collaboration, “Perils from the Sea,” on Calo Verde Records. The duo will also perform May 11 at UE Festival, Dordecht, Holland, and May 13 at Shepard’s Bush Empire, London. “Perils from the Sea”...
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Henry “Shitmat” Collins has always been one of the more absurdist plunderphonic artists out there. His first full-length consisted of songs that all used the same already-overused ragga a capella, and his album Full English Breakfest (which was released as 5 separate 12″s, each including bonus tracks not on the CD version) remains the...
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Erik De Vahl’s new album on Zeon Light Kassett (released a month ago) has been a regular choice when I go through albums to listen to each morning. Apart from its warmth and familiarity, engaging a wide variety of musical eras, its character and overall entity is something to hold on to. With an...
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SACRED PHRASES – INSCRIPTIONS VOL. 2 SP-35 | 2x 70 Minute Cassette Sacred Phrases has compiled an apogee of contributing artists’ work… again. Inscriptions Volume 2 is a compilation that emphasizes the communal nature of music. Each track, heard individually, stands alone. When played as a compilation each track is brand new and together...
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You can rub your eyes all you want, and there are only so many Q-tips in a box… but that headline is accurate. Today OSR Tapes dropped a three hour and twenty minute long album in 11 parts on YouTube. And with the world coming to an end next month, the news of all this...
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It’s apparently Transmolecular day here at Foxy D, but you’re just gonna have to deal with it (and really, ain’t a better way to roll through our last update for a momentous week than getting lost in the Compendium). So, Jolin Ras is another fantastic producer from Vancouver, operating just as far out in...
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Silber Media, the label run by Remora’s Brian John Mitchell, has announced a new series of EPs called ‘Five Songs in Five Minutes’. The first two, by MISTERSCIENCEand Mitchell himself, are available to download for $1 each and there will be a new EP added to the collection every week “for the next few months”....
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