Tweet These are some gems that I've picked up "tapin" around, and have always been fond of... dubbed straight from the tapes themselves... as well as alittle audio info about the Taper of Ceremonies.. I've included some of my favorite "international" songs, as well as a few local ones to boot... Somewhat disparate in their sound, style and even execution, I think they're all great. Tony Banks "By You" Fantastic Something "If She Doesn't Smile [...]
Tweet German Army is an Los Angeles based post-punk duo whose members apparently go by the names Chin Genie and Meatball Maker (seriously). While the duo has released music on Kanye West's favorite Danish noise label SKROT UP and Shawn Reed's excellent Night-People, for its new tape Burushaski – named after a dialect spoken in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan – the band has turned to Swedish label Beläten , whose focus on "post avantgarde pop for a pre-apocalyptic world" seems [...]
Tweet Here’s what lead vocalist for Halasan Bazar, Fredrik Rollum Eckhoff had to say about the mix: "I built this hazy mix of organ instrumentals & twangy guitar around the soundtrack for Valeries Week of Wonders, an old weird eastern European psychedelic film. It´s pretty much a homage to Broadcast and their vision, but merged with my own twisted Nordic take on psychedelia, with swedish cosmic organ kings Bo Hannson & Eric Malmberg & the new twang pop of White Fence, Woods & MGMT. Strangely it all blends [...]
Tweet São Paulo's Babe, Terror has created a fresh enigma with College Clash , a complex array of downtempo beats that approach from all directions, stop in mid-air, and fold back into tape hiss without so much as a wave of a wink. The elusive loops of "Tokyo Famicom MVPs" hint at a larger structure that, as with all good conspiracies, might only be there, and if it is, could be completely different from the narrative that seems the most essential. Is it the lizard people or the mole people pulling [...]
Tweet It's rarer than you'd think that a split EP contains two artists who truly complement each other, but Noah x SELA. , a collaboration between Nogaya-based singer/producer Noah and nineteen-year-old California beatmaker SELA. does a great job uniting two like-minded voices from disparate corners of the globe. And hey, at International Tapes, that's basically our bread and butter. Noah's contribution to the EP, including standout track "You'll Come," shows off the talented Japanese artist's range as both a producer and vocalist. Using her own voice as a key element to [...]
Tweet The music comes from the middle of America but it aims for the middle of space. Cosmic Fidelity (Lillerne Tapes) is the latest album from Chicago's Potions and his "one man and a synth" approach to composition is at a peak on this release. The chord clusters and warm fluttering tone whirls make us plain feel good. The final cut is titled "Optimistic Goodbye" and while that could be taken as one spaceman's death note, we think of it as a big smiley face staring into the clouds before [...]
Tweet Over his lengthy career, guitar experimentalist Mike Cooper has made elevating "folk" music to the levels of creativity and freewheeling expressionism that originally propelled the the genre beyond its out of the way roots and the heady cellar cafe circle echo chambers his trademark. It definitely helps that he was around and making that magic happen, in situ. When Cooper applies a similar creative tact to the very embodiment of classic exotica, the Hawaiian guitar, the result is "White Shadows Of The South Seas," a beautifully shambolic melange that more effectively [...]
Tweet Begins and ends with duets. Everyone needs somebody, everybody needs someone. I recently moved from Texas to New York City. Traveling songs and field recordings from tour and other in-betweens. Songs I have been arrested to. Some for years, some for months and some for weeks. Sounds that for a moment make me free. photo of hayden dunham by leuh meltzer j.cash and a.carter - another man done gone [...]
Tweet Rarely has a wild audio ride been so full of twists and turns as the one we undertake with the latest music by Femminielli. Shanghai, C'est Beau is a beautiful, spooky, and lysergic trip of a record. Evoking Serge Gainsbourg with his French-Canadian whisper vocal style, while putting that influence through instrumental passages of noir-disco and new age synth tone colors, Femminielli's created a work of real depth and something that can be listened to on repeat for hours. Throughout the experience of time spent deciphering his compositions, we [...]
Tweet ' If two people dream the same dream it ceases to be an illusion.' -PKD This video and song might be a good case of that statement. Utilizing the chroma neon t.v. frequencies of the fantastic vid art duo of Vidkidz with their VCR drowning along the beach and analog video mixer driving down the roads of the NES videogame world of Rad Racer; base this high up in a mountain of Colorado and ear churned by the static electricity dripping dub pop of Austin [...]
Tweet NYC producer Lamin Fofana creates electronic music using a wide array of synths and analog samples, assembling his inspirations into a often unnerving take on traditional dance music. His newest production – the colorfully titled "Like White Lightning Up A Black Snake's Ass" – is the latest release from his newly formed SCI-FI & FANTASY imprint following two singles from NYC's Max McFerren and the Berlin-based Lotic. From the track's beginning, Fofana ratchets up its brooding intensity with every passing measure, combining tremulous percussion with bleakly atmospheric synth arrangements. [...]
Tweet Can electronic pulse-beats be organic? Well no, not really, but they ARE on Moon Wheel's "The Weather." The track is from his new eponymous cassette released by Not Not Fun and, easy grooves notwithstanding, it asks a lot of questions. His synth lines approximate clouds, rain, wind, sunlight, people, dirt, phones, earbuds, birds, bugs, etc., etc, but they also stop us (in the midst of good hip wiggling) and ask us to open our eyes to life spinning around our human forms. The "weather" can imply more than nature too, [...]
Tweet My name's Aidan. I run a small bedroom label called Long Lost Records, and make music as Soil Creep and with my band Celibacy Club . Here's my International Tapes mix. I wanted to make something fun and interesting that was a reflection of stuff I've been listening to lately. Suggested listening situations: dancing to a funeral, watching X-files on mute, waiting for a Counter Strike match to start, having just opened a window 20 degrees open. Enjoy. http://longlostrecords.com/ [...]
Tweet Is it third generation peace, love, and fuzz already? Hippie punk collisions and home bedroom madness are all over the new Free Weed tape. As the name implies, this is good time, we repeat, GOOD TIME music. You could call On the Moon/Get it 2Nite, released on Portugal's Exo Tapes, a compilation of sorts. Free Weed's frenzied recording life manifests itself in spools upon spools of tape containing more songs than any bong cowboy knows what to do with. Side A claims production assistance by Unkle Funkle, [...]
Tweet Zeon Light Kassett is this cassette label from the woods in Sweden. We´re happy to this mixtape for International Tapes cause they´ve supported the Zeon Light since day uno. This mix includes plenty of Swedish music. New and not that very new. Hope you´ll enjoy it! Please visit us at zeonlight.wordpress.com Yours truly, Jocke/ZLK The 17 tunes of love: Blago Bung – I en tysk [...]
Tweet Here's what's going on. Worlds Beside Worlds is a non-traditional split tape from Denmark's Stefan Blomeier & Clair e , a new project from Featureless Ghost 's Elise Tippens. Rather than opting for separate sides, the artists alternate tracks, creating an unsteady, appealing flow between the geometric architecture of Blomier's sequencer work and Claire's additive flurries of drum machine and synth sweeps. The title track itself is a product of the pair's direct/transcontinental collaboration via the Internet [...]
Tweet Russian youngsters are used to ignore the cruelty and poverty of the place they live, especially when it comes to the music. They rarely describe the reality and prefer to think like they are from Brooklyn, Berlin, London or, maybe, Paris. What to say, for many reasons protest songs are nearly extinct as a genre and that’s surely not because the times are getting better. Thankfully, with every month new electronic scene here becomes more connected with “poor Russia” reality. Not that I am starving [...]
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Tweet Man made versus nature's bounty... memory and unknown futures... sometimes music can stop a listener in their tracks, focusing them on the world they exist in for that moment, other times we drift so far back in our skull boxes we don't know where we're going. Be Honest's new album Tea, Sugar, Soda, Soap accomplishes this seemingly at odds past vs. present vs. future for nearly fifty minutes, over two side-long compositions. The expert soundscaping of Ireland's Be Honest (Ian Maleney) captures both the [...]
Tweet Fans of Edinburgh-based dream-pop act Magic Eye should have another reason to celebrate, with Alex from said outfit's new project NAKED . While the name may be stark (pun intended) and its origins mysterious (the three members claim to have met in Fårö, Sweden and lived above a secret radar station), NAKED's new single "Lie Follows Lie" is all about diaphanous texture and circuitous, often breathtaking washes of sound. The band's own description of of using "a mix of sculptured guitar dissonance, R&B beats and traditional Gotlander vocals" sums [...]
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