Tape 2013 Items

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Loveturl)

Big Tone

Elbowroom For Brainwork

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Algorithm Don't Like My Freek

Quaid

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Apron)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Flesh And Bone)

Trauma Ray

Transmissions

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (The Absence Of Light)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trauma Ray is a band from Fort Worth, TX that blends grunge with shoegaze.

All the songs on Transmission are written and performed by Trauma Ray Trauma Ray is Nicholas Bobotas, Darren Baun, Coleman Pruitt, Jonathan Perez, and Uriel Avila. Instrumentation recorded by Elliott Page Vocals recorded by Brandon Sanders Mixed and Mastered by Zac Montez

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Baze.DJunkiii

In Macrospace

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Meth.O.Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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C76 cassette, ltd to 120 copies. „In Macrospace“. The monolithic album debut by Hamburg-based DJ x producer x electronic music activist baze.djunkiii, the essence of 25+ years on the scene and continuous research in sonic fields reaching far beyond your regular club music. A dark and threatening journey through the realms of brooding DeathAmbient, cold, hostile sci-fi atmospheres and an innate feel of darkness, doom, desolation and industrial wastelands covered in toxic fumes and the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse. Generated solely and exclusively by a process of extensive vocal synthesis the ten tracks on „In Macrospace“ represent a sonic manifestation of vantablack dystopia and mind threatening, braincell eroding claustrophobia, an ode to both minimalist sound structures as well as a maximized psycho-acoustic impact that might overwhelm even those used to stare into and listen to their innermost void for extended periods of time. Not for the faint-hearted. Listener discretion is advised.

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Gil.Barte

R.S.F.

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Shadow World)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Meth.O.Tapes' catalogue opens up on a programmatic framework in the form of Gil.Barte's first LP. Developped as an experimental exploration rather than a narrative, this object called « R.S.F » is a recollection of intriguing sonic pictures. Tracks neither really start nor they finish, pieces of an apparently unreasolvable puzzle like pages of a fantastic bestiary long forgotten.

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Beautiful Lunches

Slumgullion

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hazy, gentle almost euphoric explorations and improvisations made in Leeds and Manchester throughout 2019 and 2020. Sam and Chris understand, lean in to, and translate those wonderful relationships and historic personal moments that smudge in to your DNA forever. Their language is of classic genre playing and hardware samplers, and they’ve made a record about low down personal shit; our deep trauma, beautiful platonic love, isolation, connection, it's all there; Blunches look and listen to the world around them and have created their own version of it. It’s like those summers watching skate videos, feeling upset all the time, getting into bed at 4am, being with your mates, just getting through it. This record doesn’t have a lyric in it, yet it speaks to me as a kid from a grey-ass town as clear as any pop song ever has. I dare you to play this and not feel it.

Riyl/ffo - 90s skate videos, jazz, hop hop, fourth world, Eno, Hassel, Sanders

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Imaginational Anthem XI - Luke Schneider Presents Chroma Universal - A Survey Of Modern Pedal Steel

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Curated by in-demand Nashville pedal steel maverick and Third Man recording artist Luke Schneider, the eleventh volume of Tompkins Square’s venerable acoustic guitar series Imaginational Anthem features exclusive tracks by legend BJ Cole, as well as leading exponents on the instrument including Susan Alcorn, Luke himself, and British expat / Nashville hotshot Spencer Cullum among others. Nashville native and Merge recording artist William Tyler has written a beautiful detailed history of the pedal steel for the package.

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Ookla The Mok

Vs. Evil

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Paralaxe)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vs. Evil is a supervillain-themed concept album centering around the Marvel and DC universes. Ookla the Mok combine their signature comedy music abilities with the emotional narratives behind these fictional characters in a way that we think works super well. While tracks like "Doctor Octopus" and "Kang the Conqueror" are among some of Ookla's most overtly silly works of music that poke fun at the comics they love, other tracks like "Suprema Lex" and "Amora Adores Thor" bring out Ookla's passion for the stories that inspire them. To top it all off, the album artwork is done by DC Comics artist Art Baltazar.

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Alloy Sea (Mor Ellian)

Xoomin

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Deathbomb Arc)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Full of dreamy textures and languid melodies, Xoomin is a soundtrack for drifting off into the abyss, but in the hands of Alloy Sea (a.k.a. Mor Elian), that journey feels downright playful. Although the Berlin-based producer is best known for her dancefloor-focused creations, 2020’s Petrichor (a 50-minute composition that officially debuted the Alloy Sea project) showcased an unexpected talent for abstract soundscapes and arrhythmic jitters, hinting at ambient techno but ultimately offering something much more adventurous.

Xoomin—an album that was specifically written for Paralaxe Editions after label founder Dania Shihab reached out to Elian about working together on a new Alloy Sea release—ventures into similarly ethereal waters as Petrichor, but it’s also brighter and more colorful than its predecessor, its gleaming FM synth improvisations flanked by scuttling rhythmic bursts and the occasional wonky bassline, not to mention celestial snippets of Elian’s own voice. It’s not pop, but it’s not quite ambient either, floating instead in a nebulous (and sneakily fun) zone that borrows from new age, IDM and the weirder corners of bass music.

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Boo Hiss

Sike Jaz

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Osàre! Editions)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The follow up with Boo Hiss' debut 'Sike Roc' doesn't simply go deeper down the rabbit hole, it finds holes side channels and hidden caverns to explore. Continuing Todd Drootin's (aka Books on Tape) methodology of fighting instinct in order to create beyond the limitations of bias, Boo Hiss sounds at once alien and familiar - a result of both chance and the subconscious - tempered by decades of skill and experience to keep everything in place. True explorers of digital realms, be ready.

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L/F/D/M

Gold Like Glass

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Kinetik)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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L/f/d/m, aka Richard Smith, makes his debut on Osàre, exploring the more delicate side of his intoxicatingly abrasive sound. Gold Like Glass is razor-sharp and elemental, with each track cast from long passages of synth dissected into heavy edits. According to Smith, this composition process is akin to printmaking, where the ink on a series of images deviates from the original stencil, becoming looser, softer and increasingly ghostly. ‘After Whitney’ is haunted by peak time rave energy; the drums are disembowelled, leaving a rolling climatic melody, utterly euphoric and disorientating. The track is followed by ‘Blood Byze Leech,’ a thunderously jagged affair, and ‘Delicate Push’ that fizzles like an electrified spinning-top, its frozen melodies accompanied by a lolloping beat. Turning over to the B-side, ‘Plute’ winds its way into dark psychedelia while ‘m-two nine’ descends into the realm of mutant de-accelerated bleep techno. Combing the ciphers of hardcore, its cruxes and suspense, with the serrated edge of minimal synth EBM, Gold Like Glass presents an
alchemical fusion of deeply danceable and cerebral noise.

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Patrick R. Pärk

Galactic Mirage Tapes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Balance Music)

Stelios Vassiloudis

All Else Fails

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jackpot)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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All Else Fails is a stimulating odyssey to anyone listening. Harmonically dense, arcadian glistens seep throughout the ten tracks, each complementary to the next. Bask in the wistful iridescence and you won't be disappointed. Also featured remixes by John Beltran, Heathered Pearls and more.

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Wipers

Youth Of America

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ancient Nocturnal Summoning

Corroded Spiral

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Shadow World)

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Orange Milk)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Corroded Spiral is Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura, Petbrick) Dwid Hellion (Integrity, Psywarfare) and Cardopusher (boyznoise, Arca). Two legends of metal and hardcore come together with one of electronic music's most highly regarded collaborators, and the results are suitably dense, textured, brooding and gnarly. There are (good) hints in the project name and sound, to more binary industrial cues such as Coil or Nine Inch Nails, but actually, this music is more akin to thumping body music of Nitzer Ebb, acid techno, and the monolithic power electronics of Whitehouse or Merzbow. A really killer debut EP! Vital new supergroup Corroded Spiral - comprised of Sepultura co-founder Iggor Cavalera, Venezuelan electronic producer Cardopusher, and Dwid Hellion, founder of early hardcore trailblazers Integrity - announce punishing debut EP Ancient Nocturnal Summoning.

Corroded Spiral’s debut release crosses the boundaries of black metal, hardcore, new wave, industrial and EBM, a sum of decades of experience and powerful musicality from bona fide giants of their respective fields. Its three members contribute not just stylistic influence but three unique voices and a boundless ocean of abilities.

Ancient Nocturnal Summoning captures the intensity, horror and supernatural dread of its title. Its darkness is more creative and more demanding than distorted riffs or blastbeats; but instead is raw, spiritual, apocalyptic, and occasionally illuminated with sparks of melody that shimmer within a suffocating blackness. A seething tension that excavates deep, dark fissures of the soul.

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Seth Graham

Gasp

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Genetics And Windsurfing -

Recording Session Of Waveform Poems

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Orange Milk)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 1989 | US | Reissue (ORG Music)

Bad Brains

Quickness

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Past Inside The Present)

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Quickness" is the fourth full-length studio album by Bad Brains, originally released by Caroline Records in 1989. At the time of it's release, it was the band's best selling album and also landed them a featured MTV music video for the opening track, "Soul Craft." This reissue marks the fifth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains' recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.

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Color Of Time

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Color of Time is a long distance, ambient and drone project featuring Kevin Sery (From Overseas) and Nick Turner (Tyresta). Created with guitar, synthesizers, Mellotron and effects, their music focuses on themes of impermanence, loss and the impact that humans have on each other and the planet.

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Pitch 92

Intervals

Stranded In Foggy Times Orange Tape Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Pitch 92 is back with his brand new album Intervals.

Available to order on all formats now, 'Intervals' is due for release on 27/08/21.

'Intervals' is available on limited edition 12" vinyl. Very limited pressing of only 250 units.

Vinyl comes with a digital download of the album upon fulfilment of your order.

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Verb T & Illinformed

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Real Life Drama)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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High Focus Records are proud to present the latest collaboration from Verb T and Illinformed.

Stranded in Foggy Times both continues and completes the trilogy that began back in 2015, with The Man with the Foggy Eyes, before broadening the horizons with last year’s release of The Land of the Foggy Skies. This final chapter returns to the same conceptual landscape as its predecessors, but also sees Verb T and Illinformed returning to a more classic approach to album making.

In spite of its concept, the Foggy Trilogy is something of a personal outpouring for Verb T, with the original aim being to vicariously discuss the trials and tribulations that play a part in his life, including his struggles with chronic illness and the feeling of alienation from leaving his hometown, while also reflecting on the state of the world as a whole.

As with the previous albums, Stranded in Foggy Times finds Illinformed moving away from the more rugged sound that has shrouded the British scene over the last few months, thanks to his collaborations with the likes of Datkid and Wish Master, instead providing Verb T with an arguably more mellow backdrop. From the string and piano driven introduction on Legacy, to the blissful head-nod vibes of the closing track, Blind Faith, the union between beats and rhymes sits at the perfect level.

The album also boasts one of the most impressive guestlists of the year, one that is very much a product of both players’ worlds. Thanks to Illinformed’s Bristol connection, there are features from the likes of Res One, Datkid, Leaf Dog, Smellington Piff and Chillman, as well as some locally sourced cuts from DJ Rogue. While on Verb T’s side of the fence, we have features from Rye Shabby and Moreone, along with a collaboration that reignites the same creative spark he found in his early days, as King Kashmere steps into the booth on Feeling Strange.

All in all, Stranded in Foggy Times does exactly what it sets out to do, by drawing the trilogy to a close while also providing insights into Verb T’s personal world and the world at large. The fact that it also happens to be one of the strongest rap albums of the year is the icing on the cake.

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Creatures Of Habit

Parasites Paradise

Tape | 2020 | JP | Original (Rockwell Product Shop)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The new album from Creatures of Habit (Eric the Red, Sean Peng, Illinformed).

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Linn Mori

Metamorphosis

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Infidel Bodies)

Release: 2020 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Almost a year after the previous work "Digital Church", which was created as a result of confronting his own music from the beginning and re-exploring music theory, etc., composed and expressed with new sounds ... It should be said that it is a sequel that could not be drawn in the previous work. The latest short poetry collection "Metamorphosis" is completed.

The concept of "Digital Church" that expresses how people understand each other's beliefs by being saturated, colliding and mixing in a cyber space called digital, with the intersection and saturation of synths and natural sounds. As it is, this work "Metamorphosis" is a collection of interludes, which was created as a sequel from the previous work. The work is expressed as a single album, including the development of the song, rather than being expressed as an individual song, and the work is finished so that it can be heard throughout. The 15th song includes a remix of "arne", which is one of the representative songs of haruka nakamura, which was co-written with the song "Ria" derived from the project of Isetan Shinjuku store. Repeat Pattern is in charge of the jacket photo.

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The Fifth Stigma

Deprived Of Glory

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Real Life Drama)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ib014 // THE Fifth Stigma - Deprived of Glory (Incl. remixes by Templer, Rommek, Yuji Kondo, Hyperlacrimae) Cassette/Digital Infidel Bodies is thrilled to announce the new Ep by the Paris based producer THE Fifth Stigma. Marking our 14th chapter on the label, 'Deprived of Glory' comprises nine energy-filled tracks steeped in medieval oniric nostalgia and techno-industrial influences. "Deprived of Glory' can be interpreted as a romance or an ancient drama telling about wars made to conquer new kingdoms, about sacrifices, pains, betrayals, religion, greed and power. Primordial human emotions and events in ancient history become a source of inspiration to bring to light the power of eternity of the ancient world which laid the foundation for the formation of the present world. The EP features the remixes by Templer, Rommek, Yuji Kondo and Hyperlacrimae; the well-known artists create the right mix of ancestral techno-industrial unmistakably shaped by their uncompromising sound, gliding through genres with ease and combining modern style with ancient austerity. credits Produced by Rodolphe Vidal as The Fifth Stigma Mastered by at Red Dungeon (Naples) Artworks and Paul van Trigt Design and Layout by Erminio Granata

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BVA

Lex Neville

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (The Get Down)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Lex Neville is a 16 track album produced by Leaf Dog and Illinformed with guest verses from Datkid, Jack Jetson, King Kashmere, Leaf Dog, Smellington Piff and Verb T, cuts by Jazz T

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J. Boom

Bad Vibes

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Ill Catz)

Illanoise

The Fisherman

Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Deathbomb Arc)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Rochester New York’s very own Super group Da Cloth member Illanoise delivers once again!!!

This time he is teamed up with some of Hip Hop’s Underground elites to bring you The Fisherman. This Cinematic style project is filled with lethal lyrical doses over pure Dark & Dirty Production reminiscent of the 90’s provided by New Jersey's Halo.

A sure thriller and authentic Hip Hop Head must listen!!!

Limited Cassette Edition Handnumbered to #75

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Ed Balloon

Errvrthing

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Tru Soul)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At long last, all four of Ed Balloon's eps are available on physical medium! Until now these breakthrough releases have been digital only. For this special release, Ed Balloon has changed the sequence of all the tracks to create the perfect full length listening experience. Hear his unique brand of pop soulfulness in a totally new way!

Includes the songs from 'No Smoking', 'Yellow 20-Somethings', 'Flourish', and 'I Hate it Here'.

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Pete Rock

Petestrumentals 3

Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Holodeck)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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For the third installment of his PeteStrumentals series, producer Pete Rock takes a departure from the sample-heavy style that has earned him recognition as a living Hip-Hop legend. This twelve-track project is instead a collection of beats crafted by the

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Dylan Cameron

Infinite Floor

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Coops

Crimes Against Creation

Top Secret (Instrumentals)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Seeing himself as a social commentator, Coops continuously draws inspiration from everything around him and is feeling more inspired than ever. Having signed to the label in 2018 he has already released 2 poignant albums and continues to create at rapid speed. The 8-track project - which was made in just 4 studio sessions - is unlike Coops’ usual 14+ track albums both he and his fans have become used to. Coops turned the album around in record time to ensure his music was released during this unparalleled time in history. The homegrown beats come from his close friend and long term collaborator Talos who has produced almost all his beats to date. In the opening track, ‘ Boom Biddy Bye’ Coops doesn’t waste a second in putting his fellow rappers through their paces. A block rapper with no one to please but himself, Coops professes that he barely listens to what other rappers release to ensure they don’t infiltrate and influence his own music. Highly appropriate for these times, title track ‘ Crimes Against Creation ’ is the stand out voice of this generation and his message to the world. ‘W arped perception, thwart connections, they force perfection, then claim the antidotes an injection...’ plays out and we begin to appreciate how the current situation is playing heavily on his mind. As the album progresses we get to see all sides of Coops’ personality with ‘Piss Poor’ reminding us of the raw gritty London lifestyle from which he has risen from, whilst ‘Profile’ demonstrates his softer more promiscuous side as well as touching on themes of fatherhood and online relationships. Coops’ musical entry point begun by making music with his friends, but it wasn’t until he really looked at himself and the world around him when he decided he needed to go it alone, opening his mind and his solo stream of creativity which hasn’t stopped since. A self-proclaimed hermit he embodies the essence of a true artist and only finds comfort in doing what he loves, not what he is told.

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Hidden Number

Tape | 2020 | UK | Original (The Get Down)

Irok (Ill Raps Only, Kid)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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With this project we will take you back to 2013…

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The I.M.F. & DJ M-Rok

Tape | 2019 | UK | Original (The Get Down)

Tape | 2019 | UK | Original (The Get Down)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Edition of 50.

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Bull.83 & F.F.B.

Out Of Reach EP

Tape | 2020 | CA | Original (Inner Ocean)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Bull83 is a rap artist from the Moscow, suburb of Ramenskoye, a participant and one of the founders of the group called "8 East". F.F.B is a beat maker widely known in narrow Hip Hop circles around the world, emphasising the classic sound straight from the 90's golden era. Both are representatives of the Mob of Drummers collective. Those individuals united and together recorded an EP "Out of reach", which should appeal to all fans of boom-bap with sharp lyrics and music production included in this project. Can you feel it y'all? Peace!

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David Lavoie Quartet

Juno

Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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David Lavoie quartet plays thoughtfully composed jazz tunes which showcase Lavoie’s writing while studying jazz at Capilano University in North Vancouver. Featuring Brad Turner on keys, Miles Wong on drums, and Stephen Edwards on bass, the quartet swings and grooves like a machine. Taking cues from post bop and contemporary jazz, this quartet is bound in tradition while still remaining fresh and modern.

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Orville Peck

Pony

Tape | 2017 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Combining the lulling ambience of shoegaze with the iconic melodies and vocal prowess of classic American country music, enigmatic outlaw cowboy Orville Peck, croons love and loss from the badlands of North America. The resulting sound is one completely his own, taking the listener down dusty rose-colored desert highways, through a world where worn out gamblers, aloof road-dogs and lovesick hustlers drift in and out of his masked gaze. Orville's upcoming debut album, Pony, delivers a diverse collection of stories that sing of heartbreak, revenge and the unrelenting tug of the cowboy ethos. Warm lap steel guitars and echoing drums move through dreamy ballads, campfire lullabies and sometimes frantic buzzsaw tunes, all the while paying homage to his country music roots. Orville's music has been featured by Nylon magazine, ID mag, Vice, The Needle Drop, as well as numerous Apple Music and Spotify playlists. He has also had magazine features in New York's Hello Mr. and the UK's Notion. ''The masked man our 'Yee-Haw' moment deserves.'' - The New Yorker ''Utterly seductive.'' - MOJO ''4/5 - One of the best and most fascinating debuts from an alt-country-adjacent artist in a very long time.'' - AllMusic

TRACKS

Tape Casette 1

01 Dead of Night 01 Old River
02 Winds Change 02 Big Sky
03 Turn to Hate 03 Roses Are Falling
04 Buffalo Run 04 Take You Back (The Iron Hoof Cattle Call)
05 Queen of the Rodeo 05 Hope to Die
06 Kansas (Remembers Me Now) 06 Nothing Fades Like the Light

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The Afghan Whigs

Congregation

Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Afghan Whigs' third album, Congregation, was released in 1992, and has sold over 46,000 copies. This cassette version is the first time Congregation has been available on cassette since its original release in the 1990s.

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Alex Cameron

Miami Memory

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Alex Cameron's newest and most musically expansive LP, the glistening Miami Memory, takes a surprising turn. Cameron's flair for narrative and character are still on full display; yet Miami Memory's most frequent narrator is, for the first time, Cameron himself - singing with stunning candor of his three-year relationship with visual artist and actor Jemima Kirke. ''When you listen to these songs, and you're waiting for the twist, or the joke, or any kind of discomfort, I can assure you none of those things were there when I wrote them,'' says Cameron. ''These are true stories, of actual events. Specific but never esoteric. And graphic but never offensive. Miami Memory is the story of a couple balancing sex positivity with contemporary family values...It's my gift to Jemima, a symbol to hoist on the totem of love.'' Though remnants of his synth-driven earlier work sneak in to unsettle the tone, the bulk of Miami Memory, produced by Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, Father John Misty) and recorded and mixed by Marta Salogni (Bjork, Kelela), revels in the emotional overdrive of classic dad rock, its warm, anthemic songs driven by bass, guitar, sax, and layers of Vegas wedding chapel-ish organ. Cameron's dad rock funhouse of an album ultimately twists and subverts the genre: it recalls classics the white male ego has historically visited for its regular adrenaline injection, and morphs them into a singular ''stepdad'' rock that largely turns its lens away from the dads, celebrating the demise of old norms of gender and power. In his depiction of his relationship with Kirke, Cameron reveals a striking honesty about love and sex in a time where a palpable fleetingness hangs over everything from relationships to human life on this planet - but also where constricting mores have deteriorated enough to let ''family life,'' in all its morphing forms, exist outside of social obligation. With arresting straightforwardness, Cameron now sings as himself, paying tribute to sex positivity, female empowerment, family and responsibility, and, to his love, Jemima.
1. Stepdad 2. Miami Memory 3. Far From Born Again 4. Gaslight 5. Bad For The Boys 6. End is Nigh 7. PC With Me 8. Divorce 9. Other Ladies 10. Too Far

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OST Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Volume 1 Soundtrack

Tape | 2015 | US | Original (Hollywood)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Atlantic)

Death Cab For Cutie

Thank You For Today

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

AG & Cuns

Bronck's Kill

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Over the last couple of years, legendary Bronx lyricist and DITC Immortal A.G. and Roman producer Cuns have been working on the low, creating and shaping the 5 tracks featured on their brand new EP entitled "Bronck's Kill". On this new body of work, Cuns has managed to create the perfect soundscape for A.G. unique style, intricate rhymes and seamless storytelling.

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The Get Down Volume 1 - Style Wars

Tape | 2017 | UK | Original (The Get Down)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Sounds, pads, beats and rhymes... Peace to all MCs, DJs, producers, graffiti writers, BBoys, BGirls, beatboxers and to those who are representing Hip Hop Culture to the fullest! I want to big up everyone who has shown me support during the whole process of putting this initiative together! The Get Down Records international family got your back and this is just the beginning because we are expanding everyday!

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Fela Kuti Vs. De La Soul

Fela Soul

Tape | 2016 | US

Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Voltaire)

Release: 2016 / US

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 150 cassette tape for CSD2016. An amazing musical tapestry created by AMERIGO GAZAWAY, an 8 song journey into the world of afrobeat rhythms, funky horn riffs, and classic hip hop gems. More than a mash up, it's new and original. Side A vocals, Side B instrumentals.

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The Pendletons

Gotta Get Out

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Pendletons is a long-standing boogie-funk and modern soul project of E da Boss and Trailer Limon. The "Gotta Get Out" EP highlights the hardships of life and love in modern society, via the smooth and bass heavy grooves of The Pendletons production squad.

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Ebf)

Acicalao - Volume One

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Siluh)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Mix Tape of extremely rare and hard to find Salsa music. Mainly from the mid-late 70s with a few from the early 70s and 80s. Solidly in the Salsa Dura / Guaguanco style.

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Ischia

Leave Me To The Future

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Soundsystems At Notting Hill Carnival, 1984-1988

Death Is Not The End

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Death Is Not The End's mixtape-style selection of clips from tapes recorded live at soundsystems playing during London's Notting Hill Carnival between 1984 and 1988, originally broadcast on NTS Radio in August 2018, is the latest to be committed to cassette as part of their 10th anniversary series. Featuring sounds from the likes of Jamdown Rockers, Saxon, Java Nuclear Power, Killerwatt Turbotronic, Stereograph, Sir Coxsone, Volcano Express and more.

Audio sourced with the indefatigable efforts of the Who Cork The Dance crew - big thanks going out to Jayman, Ruff House, Keimo, Omar, Gee Wizz and the one Jah Humble.

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Studio One Singles - Volume 1

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Ebf)

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Mord)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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A mixtape of Studio One 12" singles, including some very rare stuff. All recorded from vinyl.

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Perfo

Grand Final

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Om Unit)

Om Unit & Marta Pang

Acid Dub: Redux

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In Late 2023, Om Unit and Marta Pang were invited to perform a special performance at the Caixaforum in Barcelona. The invitees being ‘Lapsus’ who brought the pair together for a performance of 'Acid Dub : Redux’ as part of their Dnit series of events.

This cassette is a complete recording of the 45 minute session which consists largely of ‘ambient takes’ on some of tracks currently released from Om Units ‘Acid Dub Studies’ series, as well as some new material specially prepared for the show which featured live visuals by Marta Pang. Some clips of the visuals can be found in the 6-Panel full-colour J-Card booklet which accompanies the cassette.

‘Acid Dub : Redux’ is an unexpected tangent of Om Unit’s ongoing exploration of the 303-in-dub and features a more minimalist approach to the concept, using more of a sense of space to accompany the visual elements.

We hope you enjoy the recording as much we enjoyed performing it!

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Tape | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Darkness Shall Rise Production)

Unholy Death

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Darkness Shall Rise Production)

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2007 | EU | Reissue (Darkness Shall Rise Production)

Envoy Of Lucifer

Release: 2007 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Darkness Shall Rise Production)

Devil's Force

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Archival Recordings Of Constantin Brãiloiu, 1913-1953

Death Is Not The End

Tape | 2024 | Original (Flatspot)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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An assorted mixtape-style collection of recordings from Constantin Brăiloiu's World Collection of Folk Music archive, originally broadcast on NTS Radio in July 2017, issued as part of DINTE's 10th anniversary series.

Comprising field recordings made by the pioneering Romanian ethnomusicologist of English, Irish, Gaelic, Norwegian, Breton, Japanese, Italian, Swiss, Basque, Fulah, Sardinian, Estonian, Georgian, Greek, Turkish, Judaeo-Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Russian, Hausa, Tuareg, Indian, Corsican, Ethiopian, Romanian, Walloon, Flemish, German, Kabyle, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian and Caribou Eskimo folk songs & dances.

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Speed

Only One Mode

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Skateland Soundtapes, 1980-1986

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Agonia)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Death Is Not The End turns 10 years old in May, and as part of the celebrations are committing a selection of Dinte NTS Radio shows from over the years to cassette. Kicking off with the recent special Skateland Soundtapes, 1980-1986 - comprising a selection of clips from sessions held at Halfway Tree, Kingston's most storied roller skating rink during the dancehall era's golden period of the early to mid/late 1980s.

Audio sourced with the indefatigable efforts of the Who Cork The Dance crew - big thanks going out to Jayman, Ruff House, Keimo, Omar, Gee Wizz and the one Jah Humble.

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Pestilence

Levels Of Perception

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wish 30th Anniversay Edition Limited Lost Wishes Cassette

The Cure

Tape | 1992 | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1992 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | Original (Greyhaze)

Sarcofago

The Laws Of Scourge

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sarcofago’s third album is somewhat of a departure from the band’s previous two outings. A more technical musical approach takes hold as the band builds upon the madness created by INRI and ROTTING. "The Laws of Scourge" offers some classic Sarcofago songs such as "Midnight Queen", and "Screeches from the Silence". This Greyhaze reissue features pristine dynamic mastering. For fans of Mayhem, Beherit, Black Witchery and all Metal. Side A1. THE LAWS OF SCOURGE2. PIERCINGS3. MIDNIGHT QUEENSide B1. THE BLACK VOMIT2. PRELUDE TO A SUICIDE3. SCREECHES FROM THE SILENCE4. SECRETS OF A WINDOW

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Your Kisses Are Like Roses: Fado Recordings, 1914-1936

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The definition of the word 'fado' is technically 'fate', though the Portuguese meaning bound up with this term is more complex. The music itself can be fairly closely compared with that of Greek rebetika - also the American blues or the original working-class tango music of Argentina and Uruguay - and similarly takes it's common subject matter from the various cruel realities of the world. Though perhaps what distinguishes fado in character is it's often poised acceptance of the pains of life rather than protestation or resistance - as writer Paul Vernon says "It speaks with a quiet dignity born of the realisation that any mortal desire or plan is at risk of destruction by powers beyond individual control"
Death Is Not The End compile here a spine-tingling collection of fado recordings, taken from records issued in the mid 1910s through to the 1930s. The fado's Lisbon and Coimbra variants are presented here by some of the music's earliest recorded stars - prior to the rise of the music's all-conquering figurehead, Amália Rodrigues - and all of them "fadistas" imbued with a keen dose of saudade.

Maria do Carmo - Beijos São Como as Rosas (1929)
Jose Paradela D'Oliveira - Fado de se Velha (1927)
Edmundo de Bettencourt - Crucificado (1929)
Madalena De Melo - Cantares (1930)
Luiza Baharem - Fado Mondego (1931)
Alberto Xavier Pinto - Fado Do Paraizo (1929)
Maria Victória - Fado Maria Victória Nº 1 (1914)
Maria Silva - Fado Alice (1929)
Adelina Fernandes - Misérias (1928)
Estêvão Amarante - Fado do Cauteleiro (1929)
Alfredo Marceneiro - Olhos Fatais (1936)
Ermelinda Vitória - Fado da Minha Aldeia (1930)
Dr. Lucas Junot - Triste (Fado) (1929)
Maria Alice - Quando o Meu Filho Adormece (1929)
Laura Santos - A Magia do Fado (1929)
Joao Rocha Jor - Fado Rocha (Unknown)

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Nonagon Infinity Live

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Felt)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This live compilation attempts to replicate the seamless, infinite loop of the original Nonagon Infinity album.

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Mother

Live 23

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Side A was recorded live at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow on 22nd April 2023. Side B was recorded live by Murray Collier at La Chunky in Glasgow on 2nd June 2023. Mastered by MHM at RAD.

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Feeling Everything, All At Once

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Redstone Press)

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Celebrating our tenth release, we proudly present "Feeling Everything, All At Once" - a compelling VA compilation featuring music from our current label family and introducing some talented debutants from Scotland.

Red010 marks a powerful statement of intent as we look to the next five years and beyond whilst reflecting on our achievements so far, what we aspire to accomplish and how we can continue to push the sounds that resonate with us. Although it has taken time to reach this milestone, our commitment to quality over quantity remains unwavering.

This compilation serves not only as a collection of club-ready tracks but also as a longform piece suitable to more passive listening. With a total of 14 tracks, it stands as our most extensive release yet, expanding our label family to well over 20 artists. The digital release will be complemented by a physical cassette, perfect for playing in the dusty tape deck of your mate's Vauxhall Corsa as you head to that mad rave in the countryside everyone is talking about.

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with the Scottish Action for Mental Health (samh) on this project with all the profits being donated to this cause. Both Lewis & Ethan have their own personal experiences with mental health difficulties and strongly believe that Samh is absolutely vital in facilitating the provision and promotion of mental health care, support & information.

A massive thank you to all those involved in making this happen and their generosity in donating their time and talent to the project.

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Renelle 893

Art Thief

Tape | 2022 | US | Reissue (Needlejuice)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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“Talk about a misfit, living in his own world…”

High Focus Records is delighted to announce ‘Art Thief’, the debut album from Renelle 893.

Citing Steve Jobs’ famous use of Picasso’s "Good artists copy, great artists steal” quote as central to the concept, ‘Art Thief’ is the culmination of Renelle’s wide-eyed appreciation of the river of influences that feed into the music he makes. From the trials and tribulations of life in the big smoke, to the grandiose cultural references that contribute to his style, the album is a triple distilled example of taking cues from the world and making them your own.

‘Art Thief’ is also a transformative listen, Renelle embarking on a profoundly personal journey across 14-tracks; addressing love, family, addiction, loyalty, pleasure and pain, each chapter expertly soundtracked by long-time collaborator Bay29. His expert production serving as the glue that binds the deeply personal with the wider narratives amidst a flurry of samples and signature breaks.

With guest appearances from Clbrks, Illiterate and HF’s own Nelson Dialect, ‘Art Thief’ is Renelle’s best attempt (to date) of transcending the rap game; this notion best represented in the album artwork which pays homage to Caravaggio's 'St. Jerome Writing', casting Renelle as both creator and masterpiece.

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Tally Hall

Good & Evil

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Psychic Sounds)

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Good & Evil finds Tally Hall entering a stripped-back, grittier sonic universe. Transcendental melodies guide them through a mind-bending journey of duality. Available for the first time since 2011, this cult classic is now on vinyl containing an all-new poster, CD & tape, along with a companion 7'' single.

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Universal Cell Unlock

Innocence Of Logic

Tape | 2023 | Original (Cleopatra)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As children we are disturbed from inner grace and mused, bored or threatened into awareness of the outside world in these recordings patterns emerge and are interrupted like a conversation in a garden, logic gates, and my directives mingle in importance. Responsibility or force is avoided. Primitive homemade analog computers were used to make electronic sounds and manipulate acoustic instruments in free running chaotically generative programs that are written by patching logic gate clusters with wires. Theres is no machine "memory" aside from the patches themselves, and the equations the circuits reliable math but audio-rate accidents spilling out of hashed streams of data. The same primal state of polarized data pulses build into the complex horrors of culture, finance, and communication we think we recognize on our devices. Yet electricity itself retains it's mystique, animated not by our will but by still poorly understood natural laws that transcend human concerns.

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Soil

Restoration

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (The Flenser)

Have A Nice Life

Voids

The Poss Tapes - 1981-1984

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With the broader adoption of the internet around the turn of the century, how people would engage with and discover underground music would change forever. As a result of the new digital era, DIY was now worldwide, and no band embraced this new frontier better than Have A Nice Life. Formed in 2000 by duo Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga, the Middletown, CT-based pair would, throughout the 00s, self-release and share a number of demos and home recordings via early social media channels as well as establish its in-house label Enemies List Home Recordings. These first steps set in motion Have A Nice Life’s rise to renown as an icon of underground music in the internet age, culminating with the release of its pivotal 2008 debut album, Deathconsciousness. Through word of mouth and online discussion, Deathconsciousness became subject to viral praise thanks to its synthesis of bleak post-punk, lo-fi shoegaze, and carpets of hypnotic drone music. Eventually, this humble self-released project would attain the status of a post-internet cult classic, amassing Have A Nice Life a fervent online following that the band would interact with in kind.

In an effort to thank and continue to engage with Have A Nice Life’s internet cult following, Barrett and Macuga would regularly share links to old demos, works in progress, and outtakes from the recording of Deathconsciousness. Over time, a group of fans would compile these demos into an unofficial release. Dubbed Voids, this fan-made compilation several alternate takes of tracks from Deathconsciousness, as well as a handful of early versions of songs that would appear on Have A Nice Life’s two following albums, The Unnatural World and Sea Of Worry. Fans swarmed around this compilation, accompanied by loud calls for it to receive a physical release. A tape pressing of Voids would be released via Music Ruins Lives, a DIY label run by Have A Nice Life superfan Thom Wasluck, also known for his band Planning for Burial. Between both instances of the tape swiftly selling out and the compilation’s long absence from streaming services, Voids has historically been an elusive release to track down, only available in the obscurest corners of the internet or physically on the secondary market at eye-wateringly high prices.

Over a decade since its initial, unofficial release in 2011, The Flenser is proud to reissue Have A Nice Life’s Voids for the first time ever in an official capacity in physical form.

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Reagan Youth

Tape | 2024 | Original (New Red Archives)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2017 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Forever

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2007 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Here We Stand

Release: 2007 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1997 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Two Monkeys

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1994 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Guilty As Charged

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1984 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Running Riot '84

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1983 | US | Reissue (Pirates Press)

Shock Troops

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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If You Want To Make A Lover: Palm Wine, Akan Blues & Early Guitar Highlife, Pt. II

Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Funk House Blues)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The second part in a collection encompassing Akan blues, palm wine and early guitar-based highlife music, with recordings dating from the late 1920s through to the end of the 1950s.

The music included here can probably all be said to have all stemmed from a style that initially took root in the Fanti region of coastal southern Ghana. Fusing local percussion instruments with the introduction of western (most notably Portuguese) guitars that had made their way to the Fanti region of southern Ghana via the Kru seamen of Liberia, who are said to have pioneered the distinctive two-fingered style of playing while sailing the high seas.

Mingling amongst the Kru as well as with other sailors and local working-class people during the 1920s & 30s, the guitars infused with the traditional Akan seprewa harp-playing technique, creating a style known as 'odonson' or 'Akan blues' - a rootsy highlife style also commonly referred to as palm wine music, so named after the palm wine bars where the music was commonly performed. Western record companies such as Zonophone, Columbia, Odeon, HMV, and later Decca/EMI's West Africa imprint, released much of the recordings included here - with the earliest inclusions appearing courtesy of George William Aingo, Nicholas De Heer, Edmund Tagoe & Frank Essien, and Jacob Sam's Kumasi Trio (all recorded in London during the late 1920s). The form would become a key element in the popular development of both Ghanaian & Nigerian highlife, as well as the maringa of Sierra Leone, the juju of western Nigeria, and the Congolese "dry" guitar music of central Africa.

With thanks to John Collins and the Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation.

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Philipp Fankhauser

I'll Be Around

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Frankie And The Witch Fingers

Data Doom

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ras / Greenway)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Momentary Presence Remixes

Gift

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Dedstrange)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alecs Delarge

Alecs In Wonderland

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Written during a year of hedonistic isolation whilst exiled to a forgotten mining village, Alecs in Wonderland’ is the debut self-produced rap album by rap enigma and ‘one man band’ Alecs DeLarge.

Alecs navigates ‘Wonderland’ with a bulging backpack of references to 90’s Toonami imports, king skins and rap nerdology, multi-syllable boxing through beats in a smoked out stream-of-consciousness drawl. From the cartoonish braggadocio on ‘Scooby Snax’ and ‘AM To AM’, to proclaiming his love for his anthropomorphic MPC 2000 on ‘Girl Joint’, Alecs emphatically proving that he’s much more than just the man behind the boards. Merging classic New York rap sensibilities with sarcastic British humour, 110’s and Berghaus coats taking the place of Timb boots and Lo sweaters.

Musically Alecs draws inspiration from Quasimoto’s anything goes approach, feeding his sampler a range of ingredients from 80’s pop to private-press French prog. Grainy samples of VHS TV recordings warble atop rumbling 808s, diced up jazz and funk fragments punch their way through stuttering MPC drums, whilst guitar loops rock back and forth, all glued together by a loose narrative made up of cut up cartoon dialogue, movie trailers and adlibs.

Wonderland is Alecs’ custom built version of The Matrix, a perfect world created to escape the one outside his council flat window, idyllic living in Lynchian reality. A therapeutic outpouring of the lonely man’s psyche, or maybe just a slow descent into madness, polished and delivered to your ears

in Long Play form.

For the majority of ‘in Wonderland’, Alecs is the sole cast member. The first of the two guest spots going to the ever brilliant King Kashmere, reuniting with Alecs to ruminate the two sides of fame on ‘Megabus Dreams’, whilst Hpblk swoops in to drop a “stack on your conscious” on ‘Empty Pocket Posse’.

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Granuja & Jam Baxter

De Las Sombras

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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While most spend their days wading through the treacly undercurrents of a decaying hometown, Jam Baxter spends his days carving out on a new existence in the heart of Mexico City.

With a forest of rare succulents of house plants on his eighth floor balcony, a notepad in his back pocket (for lizard spotting) and a flea market typewriter primed in his writing room, Baxter affords himself the time and grace for his new surroundings to seep into him, watching his writing take on new life in the exchange; days and nights spent in quiet contemplation as he sharpens his skills in unpacking the universe.

Granuja has eschewed the at-times chaotic metropolis of Medellín for a quiet life in the hills of La Ceja, where he produces and writes (followed around by his pack of loyal dogs). Six years since his debut solo LP ‘Círculo Vicioso’ dropped back in 2017, Granuja has been steadily carving a name for himself in Latin America and beyond with a series of critically acclaimed rap releases.

Baxter & Granuja first met in 2020; the former taking an impromptu 2-hour taxi cab in thickest night to Granuja’s studio way up in the winding hills of Antióquia. As with all great creative endeavours, plans to record ‘a couple of tracks’ snowballed; a single became an EP became an album, the momentum fuelled by a new Jack Danz’ instrumental landing in Baxter’s inbox every fortnight.

Before sunrise the bones of ’De las Sombras’ were born.

There is no question that Granuja and Baxter bring out a different side of one another. The two artists hopping borders, barriers and time zones; switching languages as often as they switch flows across an album unified by an all-encompassing sense of doom.

At its core, ‘De las Sombras’ is a gothic listen. A haunting, swooning downward spiral. Blacks, whites, purples and greens bubbling a thick concoction. Life and death at loggerheads in the back-and-forth; expertly soundtracked by Jack Danz most haunting works to date and complemented by a series of curated vocal samples furthering the gloom.

We like to think of ’De las Sombras’ as an OST for the album artwork. The castle a picture perfect symbol of an album persistently flirting with the supernatural.

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My Greatest Revenge: Flamenco Recordings, 1904-1938

Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Death Is Not The End)

The Tower Where The Phantom Lives

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Death Is Not The End presents a collection of haunted, brooding flamenco recordings taken from the early 1900s through to the late 1930s.

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Verb T & Vic Grimes

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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UK rap legend Verb T returns with ‘The Tower Where The Phantom Lives’, a mesmerising new LP that sits alongside the most enlightened and adventurous in his glittering discography.

Bound by a set of contrasting emotions and energies; fiction and fantasy wrestling with everyday curveballs, ‘The Tower Where The Phantom Lives’ showcases Verb T at his razor sharp best. It is the wisest version of Verb T to date; complemented by the wonderfully melodic production of Vic Grimes, the Canadian producer proving to be the perfect ally for Verbs to deconstruct the world at large, his magnifying glass growing more-and-more forensic as each track unfolds.

Mental exploration, self deprecating humour, didactic story telling woven together by haunting movie samples, ‘The Tower Where The Phantom Lives’ listens like an OST; each track / scene propping up a wonderful narrative arc; Verb T the lead role and Vic Grimes the composer of their very own psychological thriller, extreme highs and lows eventually settling into a contemplative groove on final track (and lead single) ‘Your Heart Deserves’.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Spinster)

Measure, Pour & Mixtape

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Total Leatherette)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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If you made music the way you cook, what would it sound like? For this tape compilation, we invited artists to consider the connection between food and sound, music and cooking. We envisioned an assorted mixtape—an auditory cookbook, of sorts—of songs, poems, field recordings, and aural experiments, inspired by recipes, food preparation processes, dishes, and the experience of eating. We asked: How does attention to sound—the sputtering of the oil, the popping of the kernels, the hum of a rolling boil, the repetitive thump of a mixer—help you to be a better cook? Consider how these rhythmic, arhythmic, polyrhythmic, and droning sounds might inspire your recording. What would an audio recipe sound like? Can you set a rhyming recipe to music? How is a recipe like a musical score? Where do you find space for improvisation between the notes and instructions? What is “jazz baking”? Could the multivocality of a community cookbook be translated by a choir?What food or dish or process is deserving of an ode? What do you like to listen to when you’re in the kitchen? Write a benediction song that can be sung by a group before a meal. After over a year in which dining together en masse was not possible, what is it about the experience of collective eating that you want to express gratitude for? What is your food hymn?Together the compiled tracks–or ingredients, if you will–deepened and expanded our original vision, mixing, cooking, and baking together in a hearty, warm, and inventive aural menu for the most nourishing of communal meals.

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Total Leatherette

Dappled Shade

Princess Diana Of Wales / Thomas Bush

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Written during a month-long residency with Intonal Festival in Malmo in 2019 and later recorded at The Glue Factory in Glasgow, Dappled Shade is Total Leatherette’s fourth album.
The tape comes in a limited edition of 50 Smokey Grey Hub Tapes with a Risographed paper sleeve. Recorded by Richard McMaster and mastered by Sam Smith.
If your favourite word is ‘harder’ then this one is for you

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Live At Cafe Oto / Live at Ideal Bar

Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Felt)

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Allchival)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Laila’s side was recorded live at A Colourful Storm and Jolly Discs presents Thomas Bush, Princess Diana of Wales and Enchante at Cafe Oto, London on 10th July 2022. Thomas’s side was recorded live at Felt presents Laila Sakini and Thomas Bush at Ideal Bar, Copenhagen on 2nd March 2023.

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The Threat

Live In Limerick 1981

Tape | 1992 | US | Reissue (Bikini Kill)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Legendary Dublin punk band formed in November 1978 by Maurice Foley (guitar/vocals), which had a number of iterations before disbanding in 1981. The Threat built up a following in Dublin and maintained a heavy reputation through the 1979 and 1980. Playing the legendary Dandelion on a couple of occasions towards the end of 1979 and became friendly with members of the Virgin Prunes and U2. Stano, another friend of the band, bought a synthesizer, purely as a sound generator, and joined them. As a nonmusician, his synth added noise and texture to the band's sound and brought out their experimental side.

This tape of the band's April 1981 gig in Limerick came to us a few years ago from one of the band members drummer Stephen O' Brien and it's been remastered for the perfect cassette experience.

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Bikini Kill

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Mètron / Small Measures)

Gonubie

Signals At Both Ears

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Deathbomb Arc)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Born and based in Cape Town, South Africa, Gonubie is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in fine art, landscape architecture and urban design. A classically trained musician and flautist, her debut album, Signals at Both Ears, acts as a personal sonic exploration of the notion of space and ideas surrounding the making of home. On Signals at Both Ears, sonic elements are combined organically through a process akin to painting. Incorporating the movement of synthesisers and percussive drumming with expansive chords, the compositions aim to immerse the listener in a world where sound is the primary tool for navigation and finding refuge. Profits from physical album sales will be donated to Bridges for Music, South Africa, a non profit organisation focused on empowering young talent from under-served communities. Recently highlighted in DJ magazine (djmag.com)

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Shin God / Oh Sawagi

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Prosthetic)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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As close to the sound of being electrocuted as possible, Bbbbbbb from Okazaki, Japan recklessly shred all genres into pure energy turning them into some of the noisiest hyper-hardcore to scorch the planet. This trio will be releasing their 2nd album, 'Positive Violence', on Deathbomb Arc in August and to celebrate we're launching things with the release of a double single including two tracks from the album (including 'shin God' with a music video directed by Botsu of Dos Monos), three non-album tracks and one cassette exclusive!

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Undeath

Live From The Grave

King Kashmere & Alecs Delarge

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The leaders of the New School of American Death Metal, Undeath, set to release their live,Sirius XM stream, "Live...From the Grave", recorded in concert on May 27th, 2022 from Pop'sin Sauget, IL. Featuring tracks from their 2022 Album of the Year LP, "It's Time To Rise...FromThe Grave", the live album was recorded by John Wallace and Mixed/Mastered by ArthurRizk (Power Trip, Code Orange, Sacred Reich)

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The Album To End All Alien Abductions

Echo Of The Hidden Spruce

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The adequately titled ‘The Album To End All Alien Abductions’ sees UK stalwart King Kashmere and producer/rapper extraordinaire Alecs DeLarge unite for a 24- track ride through an epic space age boom bap odyssey. “F**k with your boy Judas Ascariot, who came back swinging - whipping the super chariot” declares a triumphant King Kashmere on the album opener ‘Angel Strike’, proving he hasn’t lost a step since his last full length rap project, #lp4080 dropped back in 2017. Thematically Kash’s lyrics are routed in sci-fi and Jack Kirby era comic lore, but on cuts such as ‘Old Earth’ (an ode to his Mother and coming of age on a North London council estate and ‘House of Cards’ (an exploration of mental health) the Iguana Man shows a rare glimpse into the man behind the freshly pressed super suit. Several cuts also see Alecs stepping from behind the boards to join Kashmere on mic duties, a pairing best displayed on the dusty bubbler ‘Most Blunted’ in which the duo trade verses in a puff puff pass of lyrical spliff boxing.

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Forest Dlg

Two Form A Click Vs Horacio Pollard

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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High Focus Records is proud to announce the First Official instalment in our brand new ‘Producer Spotlight’ series across digital and a Super Limited run of 50 cassette tapes. Following swiftly in the footsteps of lead single ‘I Been Surfing On A Marshmallow’, ‘Echo Of The Hidden Spruce’ is a collection of exquisite instrumental works, taking in a spectrum of styles ranging from soulful lo-fi beats, Ethereal head-nod hiphop to minimalist piano epics from the one-andonly Forest DLG. Sourcing inspiration from the likes of Portishead, DJ Shadow, J Dilla and Mobb Deep, ‘Echo of the Hidden Spruce’ offers an exquisite blend of exclusive instrumental works by Forest DLG, paired with a carefully curated collection of classic instrumentals from the High Focus highlight reel that include collaborations with Jam Baxter, Onoe Caponoe, Fliptrix and Truemendous.

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Backpfeifenphaseshift

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Futura Resistenza)