 dylan ethier - nightly exchange (cassette + download)The medium of 1/4" tape has been romanticized in recent years as our world tumbles further into a predominately digital interface, but sometimes it is absolutely necessary to capture an idea and...
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 aerosol constellations - within the beyond (cassette)Psychedelic drones from Vancouver duo consisting of J.V. Dub (Shearing Pinx) and Bill Batt (Stamina Mantis). 2 tracks of proper burner jamz. This is the kind of stuff we live for here at pfHQ. Only...
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 angel 1 - purple haze (cassette)Angel 1 is the new recording project of anonymous producer Boy Snacks, exploring a more mellow range of vapor-wave than is usually conjured by the sample heavy albums released under his earlier name....
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 blouse (u.s.a.) - tammy's beans (cassette)Seattle musician Blouse (u.s.a.) (Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy, drummer for Lesbian and Fungal Abyss) has a new album, Tammy"s Beans. With help from Nathan Smurthwaite, Ryan Weaver, and Jesse Ray Grover,...
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 crabskull - jovian black opera (cassette)Another major surprise. Chrys Fournier, Crabskull, Scab Smoker drummer & Dub DJ, caught me at a local record shop in the Summer and told me he had some tapes I might like. We have gave me was two 90...
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 daniel higgs - surrender to love (cassette)Wild Sages presents DANIEL HIGGS" hypno-poetry Surrender To Love and the door opts to open & blow off the hinges revealing the Milky Way. Drone riffs & banjo tide pools are the musical...
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 daniel klag - inner earth (cassette)Reality and absorption the self as many season. Illusions of stillness lift expression through sustaining. You cast yourself on your surroundings and here, with each breath and pulse imperceptibly...
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 freddy ruppert - hangs a shadow (cassette)A meditation on what appears to be the loss of his mother, "Hangs A Shadow" is a deeply personal affair. Intermittent voice overs lend some clues, but sonically Freddy Ruppert's new cassette on NNA...
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 german army - holland village (cassette)German Army are one of 20JFG"s favourite bands in the world. Their releases describe mutant strains of a virus originally engineered in the laboratories of the COUM conspiracy, and released into the...
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 harrow - wanderer (cassette)In the spring of 2012, we had the idea to begin documenting the Canadian Black Metal scene West of the Great Lakes. We immediately took to scouring our contacts and the internet looking for folks who...
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 ill professor - wire & air (cassette)Zelienople's Brian Harding, aka Ill Professor, follows up his well-received 2011 release, The Miracle of Luck, with a new collection of organic missives titled Wire & Air, on Constellation Tatsu....
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 jlk/babysitter - self titled (cassette)This cassette brings together Montreal artist Jane Kasowicz (Velvet Chrome) and Victoria's Babysitter. Culled from merely a few days of jamming, the sounds within are at once loose and spellbinding....
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 justin meyers - albuterol auteur (cassette)Head of renowned tape label Tone Filth, Justin Meyers is no stranger to the noise-induced fuzz and lo-fi techniques the format usually indicates. However, on "Albuterol Auteur," he convincingly finds...
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 phork - entertainment (cassette)Like a twisted version of Powell or the multi-layered platforms of the recent Quicksails LP on Spectrum Spools, Los Angeles-based Neal Reinalda goes for a dance-friendly approach that would certainly...
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 powder blue - dream in black (cassette)Four piece Saskatoon femme psychers Powder Blue aim to provide "the soundtrack to your dreams and nightmares" with their debut "A Dream in Black". These aren't your run of the mill 'giving a speech...
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 rash - the weight of the world (cassette box)*Packaged in a handmade and charred wooden box. Includes a coupon for a free digital download, which includes 2 bonus tracks! Limited to 40 copies.* The Weight of the World is the debut release from...
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 reuben sawyer - constricting realities (cassette)Oh, BABY we're sun and fire or so most of the night remembers. Block the sober thoughts and the places where most have already gone home. A few remain without exception.
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 secret girls - in hiding (cassette)Secret Girls is a drone-centric abstract noise project, operated by Cole Peters (Gomeisa, Museums of Sleep, Prairie Fire Tapes). The project is loosely based on themes of subversive sexual...
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 shearing pinx - storm majorities & magnetic tremors (cassette)Compiled from 7"s, splits and compilations released since the band's inception in 2007, this anthology serves as an introduction to the breadth, depth and sheer velocity of Vancouver's Shearing Pinx....
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 t. fuller - storm majorities & magnetic tremors (cassette)T. Fuller is Terrence Fuller (Repulsive Bile & KkrakK!!). For his third Prairie Fire appearance we asked him to put together some tracks based upon a 2009 dub noise percussive performance. The A-Side...
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 walden - metchosin (cassette)Walden is the second edition in our ongoing documentation of the Western Canadian BM scene. Like Harrow, Walden revolves around one person (Jacob Moyer) and is also from Vancouver Island. Metchosin...
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 machinefabriek & minus pilots - signals (cd)Minus Pilots' used several electric basses together with an array of memory man delay/looping pedals to create the initial building blocks for ‘Signals'. Leaving these bare sketches intact, subtly...
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 51717 - 0vul (cassette)Voice samples, keyboard drift, and effect pedal chaos: the mysteriously named 51717 are like synth-pop for the noise crowd.
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 basic house - i'm not a heaven man (cassette)Basic House with a lengthy cassette of spaced-out ambience and abstract rhythms. Like dance music if it was slow and woozy.
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 carlos villena - somni causat pel planeig de un aliga (cassette)Barcelona's Carlos Villena has made a name for himself with collaborations and splits alongside such names such as Francisco Lopez and Z'ev, both apt starting points for his brand of billowing and...
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 coin - stilled (cassette)Most experimental music cassette releases revel in the medium's proclivity for lo-fi, washed out zones, but Coin's "Stilled" is positively crisp and clear, illuminating each textured distortion and...
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 expo 70 - corridors to infinity (cassettes)*Includes download. Edition of 50.* Recorded in one day, side a features McKinley Jones of Breathing Flowers on Moog and Justin Wright on electric guitar and analog drum machine. A 29+ minute...
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 expo 70 - virtually from the unknown (12inch vinyl lp)No strangers to the experimental community, Expo 70 show a different side with this full-length on Sonic Meditaitons. "Virtually From the Unknown" is the result of a newly configured live three piece...
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 holovr - lunar lake (cassette)Equal parts tape hiss and techno patterns, Holovr uses the cassette medium his/her desired effect. The smooth keyboard drifts only add to the disintegrating sci-fi feel.
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 huerco s. - untitled (cassette)Real friction is created between Huerco S.'s skewed techno beats and non-linear samples. "Untitled" feels like something you might find buried in an '80s laboratory.
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 ivvvo - all shades of white (cassette)"All Shades of White" is anything but – the majority of the jittery, beat-driven material recalls sleek black and flourescent "Blade Runner"-esque hues. A kindred spirit is found in the grainy bits...
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 lumigraph - nautically inclined (cassette)Taking the pulse and drive of Shackleton and Laurel Halo and coating the surface with crackling tape manipulation, Lumigraph epitomizes the Opal Tapes sound.
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 russell.m.harmon - we are failed (cassette)Sparse, contemplative piano drifts over a bed of machine music; harsh sine waves pierce the frail atmospherics, whilst intense, slow burning white noise fills the sonic space, punctured only by...
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 star turbine - altitude (cassette)A long distance collaboration between people who have never met, Star Turbine focuses on the edge of electronic ambience. Almost no acoustic sound seeps into "Altitude" as the duo are content to let...
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 uio loi - cane (cassette)Crooked house styles that use repetition and hypnotism to maximum effect. "Cane" is up tempo and psychedelic all at once.
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 wanda group - piss fell out like sunlight (cassette)Originally a tape release in late 2012, Louis Johnstone's album as Wanda Group gets a proper vinyl treatment that amplifies his discarded sonic rubble and analog debris appropriately. The murky...
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 colin potter - the fights of the sound cable (cassette)So, things have gone full circle. Colin Potter's first cassette was released in 1980 and here we are around 33 1/3 years later, observing the release of another cassette. The intervening period has...
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 millimetre - sex dreams of the i ching (cassette)Millimetre is Terence J. McGaughey, who has made critically-praised radical pop music with this moniker since 2004. Millimetre has released four albums -- Love Won Out (2005), Obsidian (2007),...
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 ray gallon - nam june paik: a work for radio (cassette)This hour-long compositional documentary was produced for the CBC Radio Series "Signature," and was originally broadcast on April 28, 1979. It was nominated for an ACTRA award for best radio...
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 the norman conquest - myriad (cassette)Myriad is a post-apocalyptic love story comprised of 10,000 tracks of recorded audio, yielding a great wall of sound. Unfolding over 31 minutes, the piece features over 150 performers on 200+...
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 5 little elephants - i (cassette)A new project from Charles-Eric Charrier and Neil Carlill, 5 Little Elephants is a varied abstraction of folk styles that is long on imagination and short on predictable pop styles. The album feels...
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 celer & hakobune - vain shapes and intricate parapets (cassette)Some pairings, collaborations are more natural than others; there are times you see two artists together and it instantly clicks. Celer and Hakobune is one such collaboration, the kind of thing I...
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 rainbow valley / wind in willows - split (cassette)The two musicians on the latest split cassette from Chemical Tapes may live in different parts of the world (Rainbow Valley resides in the United Kingdom, Wind In Willows in Russia), but both artists...
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 terminator 2 - terminator 2 (cassette)We know what you're thinking: 1) This is the greatest band name of all time. and 2) They must have Schwartzenegger motifs throughout the album. The first assumption is undoubtedly true. The second is...
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 osskull - to noisetherion (2x cassette box)Obscure artist from Italy, harsh noise with not so dynamic structures, junk abuse, no space for field recordings or concrete parts. A brutal assault, perfect mix between early Bastard Noise era and...
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 adderall canyonly - excelsius minor (cassette + download)*Includes immediate download.* Excelsius Minor is a haunted house of an album, full of looming mysteries, told in hushed words around a campfire somewhere outside eternity. Portland, Oregon's...
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 kdb(uo) - loss/gain (cassette + download)*Includes immediate download.* Two longform electro-acoustic compositions from Toledo's KBD(uo). Percussion and abstract synthesizer elements fit side by side in a new aural cosmology, behold a...
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 prostitutes/basic house - mirror & gate vol. 1 (cassette)Fresh off his "Crushed Interior" LP on Digitalis, James Donadio's project as Prostitutes issues another punishing set of industrial rhythm designs that pound and shutter in thrilling ways. Here on...
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 rolling acres/hobo cubes - mirror & gate vol. 2 (cassette)The second "Mirror & Gate" volume between collaborating labels Blowing Up the Workshop and Opal tapes pairs two like-minded synthesizer converts that both feature ample amounts of button-mashing and...
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 c. yantis - american surfaces (cassette)There's something about American Surfaces that feels nostalgic, like I'm looking back on the past 10 years of the label and, using Cody Yantis as a medium, finding meaning within the echoes and...
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 hurricanes of love - night tyme vybes (cassette)I hope I can be forgiven if an album called "Night Tyme Vybes" instantly conjures for me a bit of dread and/or skepticism, projecting a nightmarish soundscape of '90s pop culture pastiche and...
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 je suis le petit chevalier - dark morse (cassette)Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier's Dark Morse is an exclusive lost tape inspired by the short story The Angel Esmeralda written by Don Delillo. Following two LPs and bunch of tapes dropped last year, this...
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 josh mason - timecode beach (cassette)Sometimes music is a memory of a place. Each note chosen with purpose and released into the world at the exact right time as an elegy for past lives and bad decisions. The smell of the beach in an...
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 matchess - seraphastra (cassette)Matchess came out of nowhere to blew the doors off my skull late last year and I still can't get enough. This is the solo work of Whitney Johnson (she also plays in the excellent Verma and...
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 paco sala - the fog (cassette)My love of Paco Sala has become a thing. There's something almost visceral about it. That being said, this new tape, a sort of intermediary between last year's debut LP, Ro-Me-Ro, and their next...
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 sagas - the eremites dream (cassette)Matt McDowell is a conjurer. Wielding his guitar, he can make cobras dance and spirits rise toward the smoke-filled heavens. On The Eremite's Dream, his latest manifesto, there's an overwhelming...
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 warning - the master wave (cassette)The Master Wave came into being because of a late night, beer-heavy conversation that I had with Joe Houpert (Loud & Sad, Prayer, etc) in May of last year. Loud & Sad had stopped in Tulsa for a few...
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 wzrdryav - pacific greyscale (cassette)With the release of wzrdryAV's Pacific Greyscale, another piece of the Transmolecular Compendium takes shape and is revealed. Vancouver's Kelly Nairn is another integral player in this collection of...
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 yousei suzuki - the scene from a frame (cassette)Scissor Tail Records first made a name for itself last year with Bruce Langhorne's "The Hired Hand" which was originally a soundtrack for Peter Fonda's directorial debut of the same name. It...
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 head boggle - recycled (cassette)recordings include a 2005 4t rack recording w/overdubs of a shredded 4 track recording being fed through modular synth, material from 2008, and the first headboggle practice for first live show, 2006...
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