Artist: cassettes

In a world where the expression "mixtape" is commonly used for a bunch of mp3s put together in a zip file, !K7 records tapes series gets back to the old-school way. After The Rapture and The Big Pink , it's time for math-rock band Foals to release their own two-sided compilation on July 24th featuring tracks and remixes by Nicolas Jaar , Blood Orange , Dorian Concept , Bibio and many more. Find the electro-oriented tracklist below. SIDE A Nicolas Jaar - Variations [...]

MP3: Sam Flax - Child of Glass Burger Records threw a curveball with Age Waves , the debut album from Sam Flax . It's pretty fucking insane, in the best way possible. Like a relaxed chainsaw. Stream the LP or buy the tape - it's the choice of a new generation.

• Sam Flax - Child of Glass » SamFlax-ChildofGlass.mp3

THE KOREATOWN ODDITY Buzzmixer's Revenge cassette self-released I'm too recognizable—at this year's L. A. Zine Fest, I had to fight off a Pigpen-esque cloud of bashful young people flurrying around me, all of them asking, "Hey, do you know Dan Collins from L.A. RECORD?" as they thrust their cassettes and business cards and manifestos into my hand. And so I learned a couple new things: one, I need to change my name (done), and two, there's a crazy kid named "the Koreatown Oddity" making musical collages in the name of hip-hop. No iMac [...]

Some Ember debuts a full length album entitled, Hotel of Lost Light , which is out now on Crash Symbols . The eerie vocal frustrations of Dylan Travis aka Some Ember are carefully gorged into a deep dark cave from which he sings his stories. His monumental transmissions in respect to time and space throughout his 8 track LP follows a grey-scaled color scheme that is named for a piece in Galway Kinnell's Book of Nightmares. Its on point beginning to end. 'Era of Wind' might just be one of my most favorite [...]

MP3: The Babies - My Name The songs from the new 7 inch/cassette by The Babies may be from 3 years ago, but don't panic - this band came out strong right out the gate. The "My Name" single, backed with "The War" is out now and available in limited quantities from Bad Paintings .

• The Babies - My Name

Improbable intros department: all change in LaGrange, Georgia (a key node in the US cassette underground, of course, thanks to Ho' Vision ...), where Grant Evans is retiring the great (& prolific ) Nova Scotian Arms & Rachel Evans is releasing her first Motion Sickness of Time Travel for Spectrum Spools . Thankfully, NSA's end isn't Grant's (nor hopefully that of Quiet Evenings , Mr & Mrs E's really fine joint venture). Ever-fecund, he has richly compelling [...]

More from the latest round of quality releases to emerge from L.A.'s Not Not Fun camp: here's the title track from the debut cassette from Vancouver's Crystal Dorval , aka White Poppy , out now on the label. Dorval's sweet + blurry submerged melodies occasionally recall a slightly poppier Grouper, as heard on this appropriately gauzy clip for the tape's closing lullaby, " I Had a Dream ."

DOWNLOAD: BEST OF CASSETTES #2 [52.98MB.zip] It's been another good month for cassettes, with releases from some repeat offenders (Rhinocervs, Fallen Empire) and some surprises from labels I've only recently come across. Expect a lot of ugly black metal in this batch, but don't worry, the MOONKNIGHT and Sui Caedere should break things up a bit. The coming months are looking very promising, with releases from Les Productions Hérétiques (Sorcier des Glaces) and Colloquial Sound Recordings (Aksumite, A Pregnant Light) on the calendar. A Legion Blotan update seems like a [...]

Dreampeter is the sum total of so much talent, it's hard to believe it's just two guys. Both hailing from the seemingly endless well of glory that Ann Arbor, MI is, Matt Gilles and Peter Wiley have formed and reformed their many musical projects in to what we hear now. Matt is an integral part of the amazing Zen Tapes , Peter makes space beats as Subvader , and both are a part of the experimental freaky-folk project Mellows . Now, [...]

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• Delusions - Have It (ft. fthrsn)

Some fresh jazzy beats outta West Yorkshire and it's... not HashFinger? Nope. Illuzual, fellow Sinoptic member, comes in with this DOPE beat tape. I think this is his first 'solo' release (as in, not part of any of the We Don't Do S**t Hip Hop volumes) and it's nice so hopefully we'll see more of him in the future. STREAM/DOWNLOAD 'cassette tape' FROM BANDCAMP HERE Illuzual: Bandcamp • Twitter ~lork [...]

Stumbleine – Cassette (Owsey Remix) North Ireland-based beatsmith Owsey has crafted a brilliant remix of Stumbleine's electronica tune "Cassette." Which you can download for free via Stumbleine's Facebook page . Enjoy

A couple of weeks ago it was NME's 60th birthday. Cue snarling tweets from the majority of bloggers, musos, music writers saying how fucking terrible and redundant the magazine is. Cue predictable superlatives from Brit-poppers of yore. Cue certain ambition-driven writers who work for the NME but clearly hate it, keeping quiet about the whole thing, pretending they have no affiliation with the magazine because actually being involved with the publication is actually largely fucking disingenuous and hypocritical of everything they seem to stand for and believe in. Cue a lot of people remarking on the halycon days. [...]

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Been waiting to get this composer on the site for a minute now and then he releases a new project that was pre-recorded on a cassette tape and then well you know the rest..Transferred and then uploaded.. Well then again it's not new but in a sense..Unreleased backdrops from 2009 to clarify things..New Orlean's repper' "Katrah-Quey" his craft specializes in Hip-Hop, Jazz, Electronic, Experimental Lo fi patterns in sound.. Have a listen and escape on a musical journey if you will.. ghea slap this properly and support... DOWNLOAD "A Mind With No Ceiling" ON BANDCAMP CLICK [...]

Stumbleine - Cassette I've mentioned UK's deeply emotional electronic producer Stumbleine before. And just yesterday, he/she has released another dense batch of beats thick enough to swim in. There's something about the girth of these beats, and those desperate heart-wrenching vocal samples that beg you to emote, even when you don't know how, or don't know why. Go stream and download the new Drifting Youth at bandcamp .

After coming to light in back in December , Sisterland's 'Dirty White' EP is showing now signs of disappearing from our playlists just yet. continue reading >>

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. . . DOWNLOAD : BEST OF CASSETTES #1 [44.06MB.zip] In December I put together a year-end best of cassettes list and was very happy to see a lively discussion about the relevance of tapes in 2011 spring up in the comments section. A lot of good points were made and questions asked, with, "Why the resurgence of tapes and why now?" being perhaps the most important. A recent feature on That's How Kids Die touched upon the same question with a [...]

Great dudes collaborating with great dudes, with a ton of great dudes involved. That's the only way I can describe the debut cassette release for UK clothing company, Forty Ounce Clothing . They do an amazing job of not just making some killer peicies to put on your body, but of teaming up with artists and bloggers to help integrate music into their identity. If you remember, I put together a mix for them when they released my sister Steffaloo's shirt. This time around, they are teaming up with one of our all-time favorite labels, [...]

Here they are, your playlists suited for whatever you may have planned tomorrow... Got a date? You'd better run out and buy a CD-R, because you are going to want to burn our lovely love playlist for your sweetheart. However, if you haven't got anything planned and thus feel rather rotten about the upcoming holiday, then you can probably just download the Anti-Love Playlist to your iPod, Computer, or Zune (what's that?) and prepare your darkest room for a lonely evening... Of course, you could always get some heart-shaped pizzas from Papa John's and marathon a television show with some [...]