kölns bester rapper veedel kaztro hat es wieder getan: am 31.03.17 erscheint der dritte teil seiner büdchen-trilogie. -büdchen tape iii- zeigt einen hörbar gereiften -veezy-, was delivery und flow, aber auch themen und inhalte angeht: -coach veezy- ist ein -hund ohne leine-, der -respek- einfordert. der besorgten -almans- und ihrer -angst- den spiegel vorhält und allen rassisten, sexisten und afd-wählern ein -lms 2017- entgegen schmettert. dank abgeschlossenem -flermanistik--studium gibt es zwar jeden tag nur -falalel-, doch das tut seiner -veezyness- keinen abbruch. musikalisch baut veedel kaztro brücken. knarzige samples werden mit der 808 tiefergelegt. veezy nimmt seine boom bap-wurzeln mit in die trap, denn scheuklappen kennt er auch hier nicht. produziert haben yourz, spexo, dufsen, shawn the savage kid, kevoe west und true lyes. aufgenommen und gemischt wurde von und bei dienst&schulter, die ebenfalls mit zwei beats auf dem album vertreten sind. in sachen features hält veedel k es lokal und teilt sich das mic mit sparky, tami und simon grohé.

after turning heads with their first three releases, tape archive’s fourth release is its boldest yet: a thrilling five-track traversal across genre boundaries that finds the label occupying a sound all of its own and further identifying it as one of berlin’s most vital new imprints

having lurked in the tape scene for many moons, al-90 brings his dishevelled house sound to the dancefloor with this single for tape throb. despite the name of the label, this is in fact destined for vinyl, and leads with the fuzzy yet funky cheremushki groove, assisted in the process by monokle. there s a whiff of gerry read s dusty production values present on fluid, but al-90 seems locked into a more discernible beat. that changes on cataract with its degraded hardcore breaks drowning under a sea of unforgiving processing, while tape throb label boss the cyclist is an appropriate choice of remixer to finish the record with a crunchy yet focused version of cheremushki groove

live from concrete island is the debut album from brighton based producer stephen maskell, aka the nags head. taking material from the last four years, he s created a head-spinning tapestry of melodic techno and crushed cityscapes. like echospace, maskells destroyed visions nail the feeling of being a stranger in a strange land. for the city s lolloping, dubby percussion we reach deep into its guts, pulling out a squiggly bricolage of pistons, pool balls, window frames, jets of steam. in turns rasping and narcotic, concrete island s beatless sections are akin to the crunching menace of early clark, or murcofs cosmic space treatments. an occasional shimmer guitar pop gem emerges from the rubble.

the totality of the many in one: cologne tape, an on and off gathering band from all over the world, did not call their second album welt without reason. the collective incorporates the nucleus of the label magazine and consists of the artists ada, barnt, jens-uwe beyer, jörg burger, john harten, philipp janzen, mario katz, john stanier and axel willner. all members live scattered between berlin, cologne and hamburg. they meet rarely and abruptly, but each of them always has the feeling that something relevant needs to be done. the ensemble’s name represents a city and the musical recordings that are made in it.their -rst release, -render-, marked the start of the label magazine in 2010 and found the way into dj sets by famed artists like dixon with music, which does not necessarily have the dancefloor in mind. subsequently, little, absolutely sublime pieces of cologne tape appeared in the public.

eight dubbed out techno cuts with a futuristic twist blending the memories of nineties dub techno with contemporary sound aesthetics.

nebraska comes to razor-n-tape reserve with a 3-tracker of soul-laden sampley goodness primed for the floor. the title track drills deep to the depths of primal funk for an extended disco-house workout that stretches over the full a side. on flip we have a pair of slow-burners, with instant pressure juxtaposing modern r&b vocal flavor over a hypnotic rhythm track, and then keep on keeping on takes us back to the classic soul side with its gritty and gospel-infused groove.

music made for resonating spaces. - 50 copies only

six cosmic’n’dusty leftfield leaning productions from emotional ambient to powerful street-techno

bona sforsa was a 16th century polish queen of italian origin. so much for a little history lesson. jump a few centuries forward and you’ll find bonasforsa in the studio on the 6th floor of a block of flats in east london. it’s the new moniker of italian-polish producer duo rico casazza and krzysztof kozber.

debut album by phil struck. limited edition of 100 pro-dubbed chrome tapes with on body printed labels. download included. recorded, more or less spontaneously, between june and december 2016 at home. based on sampling from odd sound sources, random data streams and the usage of microphones and various synthesizers. for fans of lee gamble, jan jelinek, rashad becker, meakusma, hidden hawaii …

it’s a diverse and distinctive listen loaded with the kind of grubby sonics and curveball composition choices that we so love here in the cassette realm.

* this is a single cut release from akiko kiyama s fourth album, ophielia. these new works stem from two years of exploration outside of her established dance floor inclinations, boiling down her sound to its essential organic grooves, intricate harmonies and eerie atmospheres. from her peculiar sense of harmony and rhythm, and a meticulous minimalist approach to composition, rich lyrical lines emerges to form a unique musical universe that few has had the chance to hear yet.

* this is akiko kiyama s 4th full-length album, stemming from two years of exploration outside her established dance floor inclinations, boiling down her sound to its essential organic grooves, intricate harmonies and eery atmospheres. the nature of her organic grooves lies within inter-sound gaps, carefully crafted to lead the listener through time distortions and into an hypnotic solitary world where music is breathed, not played. a sound imprinted of a definitely human character and vigor, yet sometimes ambiguous, fleeting, and capricious. from her peculiar sense of harmony and rhythm, and a meticulous minimal approach to composition, emerges rich lyrical lines forming a unique musical universe that few has had the chance to hear yet.

after seven years legowelt s smackos alias returns with a vampire goes west ....an all out amateur spacejazz spiritual ambient eruption on smudgey cassettetape. in library grey jewel case, comes with multifunctional self adhesive dome refrigerator magnet

electronic // ambient // house // techno

180 gr , ron bacardi joins rnt with a 4-track inferno of disco edit heat! the a-side races out of the gate with the galloping back for more, followed by the soulful bounce of circles, which loops a gritty guitar-driven hook to perfection. the b side kicks off with music play, an easy-breezy synth-string, electric piano, and horn-laden affair. swirling percussion and soaring falsettos take us home on never dance, but don t get it twisted: with señor bacardi at the controls, dance you will!

hardworking families drop a super limited cassette edition of their first release. two tracks “journey” and “unlabelled”. comes in extra bright pink with hand fisnish and sticker.

10 years ilian tape

bld tape recordings is a new vinyl and casette tape only label from barcelona. its run by the highly up and coming techno artist bld. each release is limited to 200 hand stamped copies and this is the first in a series of 10 releases. it features 3 heavy analog sounding techno/acid bombs, don t miss out!

somewhere between a dadaistic mixtape, a surreal audio collage sourced from his record collection, and sporadic interjections from his own storehouse of outlandish and intriguing productions, this 79-minute journey reveals madteo’s freewheeling rigor in the studio.
confessions of a permanent alien opium beater is another crucial piece of a discography from one of music’s most fascinating enigmas, a celestial lysergic jukebox that conjures new pleasures and deeper mysteries with each listen.

sometimes you can tell from the first listen of a recording that its creator has a totalizing vision that transcends time and genre. you will experience this rare sensation when you play panoram’s “a doom with a view”. the italian producer has tapped into a vein of surrealist sonic collage that s at once allusive and elusive. the album parades baffling micro-movements past your ears like a secret history of misunderstood musical remnants heard on damaged media formats, 50 years after a catastrophic disaster. it exposes continuity and logic as specious myths, jettisoning these vestigial elements in order to make space for a higher form of aural alchemy.

under the moniker shed, pawlowitz published three highly ambitious albums in which he defined his work more and more as his own way of musical narration. the final experiment? is definitely the temporary highlight of this evolution. as musical work it does establish shed conclusively as one of the most interesting and substantial electronic music artists of our time. it carries a vibe, that links shed to other boundary breaking artists such as ryuichi nakamoto, brian eno and carsten nicolai. however, shed found a way to develop a highly individual way of communicating electronic music, that is self-sufficient. the last experiment is a mostly homogeneous piece of work, a meditation, where the stylistic confusion seems less important than then musical statement that it represents.

limited tape release.

geruis uit somberdorp (rustlings from somberville) is a concert for harmonium, mixtur trautonium & synthesizer, originally commissioned for the dutch classical concertzender broadcast coorporation in early 2016. zandvoort & uilenbal are danny wolfers and jimi hellinga. includes multifunctional refrigerator dome sticker -magnet- with the cover art. comes on lightblue cassettape in library grey jewel case with foldout booklet with info.

for our first release of 2017 rnt welcomes hade! best known for his work on local talk and basic fingers, the cologne native delivers a symmetrical 2 sides of disco edit barnstormers and downtempo head-nodders. from the beefy kick drum thump of say what you wanna say and my thang, to the obscure yet memorable sample sources of jeep cherokee xj and range rover hse, this is one to get the party shaking!

a 60 min trip into the realms of holograms and hypnosis from london s own black void smith. profesionally dubbed 60-minute chrome plus cassette.

weird, loud and doomy tracks by (sb)51. some of the best and darkest stuff we have heard all year so we are proud to drop that in your lap on the verge of the new year. this is the digital version. there is also a tape available from clone.nl - either way you are getting some hard hitting analogue sounding slabs of experimental techno with kicks as deep as the ocean.

nine compositions by italian modular master sebastiano carghini, recorded live & direct to 2 track. bubbeling and fizzing old school synths that bend their way into riffs that easily keep you on the edge of your seat. deep modular on cassette tape, cant get any more analogue than that!

local nyc boy eli escobar makes better than good on his debut release for rnt with a 4-tracker of secret heat from his personal arsenal! the ep bursts out of the gate with bullfight of love, blazes through the percussion heavy everybody, hits full stride with the reworked paradise garage staple the music, then lets us down nice and easy with seven eleven. pay your fare and take a ride on the nyc underground!

cassette includes a free downloadcode – redeem via bandcamp.
after their latest release on kitball records hanne & lore are now back on their own imprint heulsuse. the catchy maintrack hushle is kept in total hanne & lore style and drives its way euphorically into the head, rolling drums, hypnotic lead sounds, funky vocal snippets and an almost cheeky groove make hushle to a true peaktime track.
bebetta is throwing a dazzling remix of hushle onto the dancefloor, full of atmospheric frequency and warmth between the fx sounds and soft chicago claps.
hanne & lore are turning down the speed by slipping lost in rimini, a crispy 80s house track, into our little italo disco.

munich duo coeo joins the rnt family with a pack of reworks destined for dance floor greatness! heretofore known for deep house goodness on lets play house and toy tonics, the boys flex their edit muscles on these 4 tracks which range from the soulfully sublime like it is, to the disco house fury of long night ahead, to the best damn fela edit we ve ever heard

gliding tango ganja ritual

only 1 per customer!
rico puestel’s debut single on his brand-new label ahrt! limited to 50 cassettes. each copy contains a download-code and a label guitar pick!

new years deal - the next chapter in the creme organization ecplise series comes from cosmic garden with three original tracks and one remix from orgue electronique. little is known about cosmic garden other than he is from southern italy and has had two eps out in 2016, one on hotmix and one on cosmic rhythm. he heads out the blocks here with reptilian treant , six minutes of lo-fi deep house that is roomy and atmospheric. lazy synths bring soul and a gentle chatter of claps and hits helps drive it along. rare centaur is also way below the surface but is darker and more celestial, with turbulent bass, frantic claps and angelic chords glowing like a white light at the end of a tunnel. dutch house and electro don orgue electronique then remixes reptilian treant into something that is slick and serene, with metallic lines dancing above rubbery drums as big piano chords boucle up top. it is joyous and colourful and truly majestic before final track apocalyptic moose takes us back down into a mournful house vibe that echoes chicago with its roughhewn analogue textures and lovestruck chords.

carousel and brenda records veteran mike davis comes correct with some of his best tracks to date. heavy, yet elusive and original jams that fall somewhere between berghain peak hour and your weird uncle s birthday bash at the bowling alley with his stoner proto techno friends.

san fran-based artist, tape_hiss releases his second ep on love notes and you can clearly hear both his sound and the label s maturing in tandem. moving on from the depth of his first record, love is a dog from hell, tape_hiss takes things into headier waters, going heavy on the acid and the rugged basslines on this 4 track ep. angelian war storm begins in exactly that fashion, with 303s squelching and bassbins rattling. this continues through the clear standout trackout, the vivian girls. the gears shift a bit on the b1 where sistrum boss, patrice scott is allowed to rework the vivian girls and does so in a warbly, dirty jazz fashion. tape_hiss then closes things out with the title track, realms of the unreal, which uses an appropriate sample annoucing, “this is me, yo. right here”, and it does very much sound to us like this budding artist is annoucing himself to the world in a most proper fashion. we can’t wait to hear what comes next from both artist and label.

two long sides of doomed out distorted techno. full improv on the machines with vocals and a shitload of attitude. fallbeil have been making serious waves lately and we are happy they are back at nyh with some of their heaviest jams to date.

rnt is going back to the roots of their reserve series with rose cutz 2, a pack of burners and heaters from rose records honchos luvless and m.ono. each producer takes a side, delivering a little something for any time of night, from the up tempo stomp of eins a legge to the slow analogue pulse of file save as. a rose by any other name is still a banging record!

the secretive mfr collective delivers the party goods on this one, with a magical release that has both the perfect opening and closing tracks of the night! feeling about as familiar as a well-worn pair of bell-bottoms, gettin down builds on instrumental loops towards an uplifting vocal climax, while your love is saved takes us straight to disco church! throw in a beats dj tool for good measure, and we re going straight from the sewer to the skies!

stumbling zoned out yoga celebration

the latest from ways inner pass is a mood-focused ambient debut from llloyd, one half of the duo dreampeter. a collection of slow-burning mantras, myth of intents is meant for the wandering mind, pushing the listener to engage in conversation with less pressing thoughts. physical orders of the cassette are paired with handmade incense cones to burn upon first listen.

copy 2 follows up waitress’ first release on tape archive, offering three tracks of pure energy, blending modern tribal percussive journeys and epic acid twists. a record built for the early dark hours wandering in techno warehouses.

ltd vinyl only

second tape from upcoming french label ville nouvelle. this one s packed with sunny melancholic vibes straight from the spanish coastline. untitled on the a side and muy mola on the b side. comes in super lush pink cassette with blissed out artwork.

blithe antinationalist wrestling maneuver

debut ep by this russian based newcomer under the alias low tape.

the debut full ep from the diamond sublimating duo might catch you off guard. a record that is earthy and dark yet somewhat ethereal, this 002 for the new label comes in steaming. recorded by the hungarian duo on csepel island of budapest, -the heat is on- grinds and swirls through expertly crafted blends of house, techno and breakbeat to deliver a body of work that will suit dancefloors at the same time as solo introspection. remixes from london’s altered natives and budapest native mate tollner slot in perfectly, each providing their respective take on the homegrown soundscaping that is diamond sublimating. the heat is on!