s/d: cassette-only label the tapeworm

picked up the stefan goldmann release (haven't i seen you before) on a whim & really liked it. however the eclecticism & general weirdness of their releases so far makes it hard to just order shit w/no prior knowledge... so: anything in particular that's essential? i'm really interested in the zachary james watkins and leslie winer releases but a bunch of them look really good imo

I bought the Pita and Fennesz ones but seeing as I don't have a tape player I can't really comment.

haha those are the two im probably least interested in aside from the spoken word releases.

(one) of the things that i think is really admirable about their releases is that they are trying to use the cassette format in interesting ways. the goldmann release has slight variations of each piece on sides A and B so that it looks like:

A1: The Eyes of Jesus Christ (Left Eye)
A2: 2005
A3: Spouse
A4: Wastelands (Version A)
A5: Enclosures (Part 1)
B1: Enclosures (Part 2)
B2: Wastelands (Version B)
B3: Lover
B4: 7513
B5: The Eyes of Jesus Christ (Right Eye)

and played with on a machine with an automatic reverse function the tape will seem to loop in on itself echoing the many loops that provide most of the structure to each of the compositions. its really thoughtful, i think, and the entire tape was this both woozy and rigorous structure. idk i really like it.

that sounds really cool

i've got the fennesz one, which is pretty much how it's described, samples from his old ensoniq samplers sewn into a kinda grungy tapestry. it serves as a curio for fans i suppose, at times you can hear sped up samples of stuff from hotel paral.lel and endless summer, but i enjoy it as a kinda testament to those specific samplers he used. the ensoniq samplers are notoriously fucked up and weird samplers basically, with these strange digital quirks and what not. it's cool in a kinda stratrekman way if you catch my gist

anyway the best thing about the fennesz tape is the sample of dolphin brothers "catch the fall"

i think i'm gonna get the derek jarman one, and the stefan goldmann one now you've described (btw you realise he makes shit like this in his spare time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DQ2WA1AX0U)

when i read the description of the leslie winer release i thought of you, actually! apparently she was a supermodel turned downtown weirdo in the 90s and this is a collection of tracks recorded around the same time as her one album. its supposed to be "proto-trip hop" (also gets recc'd as "pdubstep foreshadowing"!?) & fits somewhat into some of the minimal synth/darkwave stuff...

when i read the description of the leslie winer release i thought of you, actually! apparently she was a supermodel turned downtown weirdo in the 90s and this is a collection of tracks recorded around the same time as her one album. its supposed to be "proto-trip hop" (also gets recc'd as "pdubstep foreshadowing"!?) & fits somewhat into some of the minimal synth/darkwave stuff...

oh lol double post hmmmm

side B of daniel menche's 'raw falls' cassette is so dense and lovely and abstract. its probably terrible to call it 'hypnotic' but theres a uniformity to its chaos that really is... um, 'hypnotic'. the textures and the range are really superb too.

so did anybody cop that Stefan Goldmann remix thing?

oh man the casse/tête is so, so, good

also got concert for 300 magnetic tapes but havent really given it much of a listen

ordered two tapes from the worm last night

Lamp, u wanna get mods to make this rolling Tapeworm/NNA/Root Strata?

Well speaking as a mod... Is there a general tape-label thread already? Or is there a particular association between those three that I've missed?

i feel like all the cassette/tape label threads mostly consist of 'tapes? really? really?' posts

did you get the burning tree tape whiney? supposed to have some insane drumming on it

I did!

I went on a tape binge last night

I got the Burning Tree and the Francisco Lopez from Tapeworm; the Driphouse from Root Strata; the Golden Retriever from NNA; and the Jana Winderen tape of clicking shrimps

Bout to put out my first tape too!

haha i thought about buying that golden retriever tape cuz i heard good things abt the lp they did for root strata

'noisiest guys on the planet' is really good imo if not up to the standards of the cd she released last year on touch

i ordered four tapes from nna last week including the driphouse one and: synaptic foliage, mike shiftlet and dylan ettinger

Yeah, a lot off the NNA stuff is like total Altered Zone chillax nostalgiator jams that I can't fuck with, but the serious improv/noise end of it is phenomenal. NNA alumni Hubble and Nonhorse are both on the Hipster Puppies tape, Lamp. Send me an address and I'll mail you a copy.

i sent you one by ilxmail

serious improv/noise

ooohhhhhh man this stephan mathieu tape!!!! maybe the most noize thing ive heard all year...

also lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8r2kZnGjA

NNA alumni Hubble and Nonhorse are both on the Hipster Puppies tape, Lamp. Send me an address and I'll mail you a copy.

haha this never happened :/

got a package from the wurm in the mail: the philip corner thing (piece?) is sortof amazing on the surface of it, like its just exciting to listen to and think about it although im not sure of the framework i should use, the context it should be placed in? idk but its v pleasurable

Wait, is Hubble, the solo project from whats-his-name who isn't Sam from Zs?

Never got yr address dogg

yeah, ben

i sent you one by ilxmail

(xp)

My ILX mail goes to a dead account. :(

Can i send you my real addy to your ilxmail?

not tryna be a dick about btw wanted to revive the thread to talk about the new tape and saw that and thought it was funnie

xp - oh haha so does mine no worries

honestly whiney what i really want is for you to run a big review of the three latest tapeworm cassettes because they are really rad

gonna listen to the old apparatus one riiiiight noooow

xxp - lol i ilxmailed you about something a long time ago, Lamp

did i respond???

no!

but i had thought it was because you hated me

no way!

but realistically if i didnt respond to the people i hated id practically have no correspondence at all...

do you like any of the release on the tapeworm s.l.?

that philip corner tape is still really good

also the kfw/eli keszler split on nna tapes btw yeah