TARAS BULBA: “Light Painter / Death Stalker” double a-side c45 (Scumbag Relations)

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I usually get really frustrated when a musician creates countless guises for themselves and their various stylized sounds, it gets so damned...

MAJIC EYES: s/t c20? (Eggy Records)

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Okay, first, I have to talk about this label. Where the hell did it come from? We received three tapes in the mail from them, all good, all ...

JAMISON WILLIAMS: “Onassis Project” c24 (Closet Sorcery)

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This is another one that hit me out of left field, really had no idea what I was getting into. Williams seems to generally to stick to solo ...

ROM B: “Incomplete Disco” c74 (self-released)

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ROM B is the dark techno identity of Virginian Billy Brett, here bringing together three of his albums, “My Kind of Country”, “Business As U...

CHARLIE McALISTER
"Turn of the Century Photograph"
(Unread Records) C30

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UPDATE: 3/10/10 - I am pleased to announce that a handful of songs from this cassette will be coming out on Charlie's first release for ...

AMBERGRIS "Sherlock Holmes and the Large Door" (Potlatch, I Gather) C20

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Ambergris is the solo project of comic artist Matthew Thurber , the saxophonist in the now- defunct new age jazz band, Soiled Mattress and...

COUCHIE POOCHIE
(Feeding Tube Records) C10

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The opening of this live acoustic set taped on a couch in Easthampton, MA is one of my favorite recordings in recent memory. That's not...

MED.HAMMER "Shedding Life" (Existential Cloth) C60 Ed. of 20

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Death drone. That's what this is. Simple, dark, heavy. I got my copy of this tape from Existential CEO Matt, himself on a recent trip up...

KID WIZARD "To The Stars By Hard Ways" (Hidden Fortress Tapes) C30, Ed. of 30

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Space music for the lo-fi set. If there are two things in the world that I love, its DIY synths and tapes hiss on analog synth music. Both t...

THE MENTHOLS "Stereoisomer" C58 (Amateur Depression) Ed. of 100.

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Who gave these kids the cough syrup? Garage punk that rides the line between total banality and total brilliance. Nine songs here that throb...

TINY MUSIC: s/t c37 (Nihilist Records) & “F.W.S.S.” c76 (self-released)

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This clanking collective of Chicagoans really know how to make an interesting din out of household objects. Using explicitly acoustic instru...

FLEABAG: s/t EP (ok records)

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I LOVE THIS BAND. And that’s what I told them when I saw them live...after every song. I was in rare form, fully psyched before they even st...

NATE GRACE: “Sevn Daze” c30 (Sonora Records)

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There’s a lot to be said about genre fads, both good and bad, considering the negative connotation that the word “fad” comes with. Without t...

SAM MARTIN: “Death?” c60 (Im Drinkin This Tapes)

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A whole hell of a lot of songs (nearly thirty of them) by a seemingly earnest dude from a confusing record label. Martin, also of the band C...

ULTRA BONBON: “Paradise” vols. 1 & 3 (Bonbon Bruises)

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Located in Alberta, Canada, Ultra Bonbon (Danny M.) is near-harsh noise handsomely packaged in mini manila envelopes with a theme that I hav...

NATIONAL FELT: s/t (self-released)

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Fat Worm of Error guitarist Tim Sheldon gives himself a new guise as National Felt, remixing who knows what into what, who knows? What? Prev...

GASTRIC LAVAGE "Bloody Knuckles" c31 (Yod Tapes)

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Chris Dooley! There are legends in western mass about him. Hell, there are legends all over the world about him, for real, whenever I go o...

MARK LORD "Pussy St. Tape" c27 (Nazot)

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An absolute tarantula festival. Seeing Mark Lord perform a few times over the last year he has played easily some of my favorite and most c...

CONTAINER "Container" c30 (I Just Live Here)

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At INC this year I bumped into a favorite dude/band/label guy of mine Ren from God Willing / I Just Live Here and asked him how his trip had...

ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE: "Buffalo Hump, Moon Face, Thin Skin" C20 (Grimeology)

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Crisp, clear harsh noise on a label that does great mastering to cassette. This is loud and bereft of so much hiss that would ruin the exper...

QUEEN VICTORIA: "Apocalyptic Field Recordings Vol. 1" C20 (They Live We Sleep)

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Wes Anderson should ditch his hipster-defining retro fitted mix tape style soundtracks for this. Breezy, lite summertime music. Eerily nost...

**vintage review** LADDERWOE: "Mourning The Late Jennifer" C30 (USAGOLDEXCHANGE, 2006)

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Delirious, lo-fi, lilting gothic out-folk from some New Jerseans. I picked this up from a smelly guy on tour a while back and it's shif...

TERRORS: “Inequipoise” c30 (Monorail Trespassing)

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Don’t let the fact that this is on Jon Borges’ harsh/drone-notorious Monorail Trespassing label fool you, this thing is straight-up pop musi...