Bad Cake Records is a tape label that appeared in early 2018 and boasts 10 releases so far. Run by Tony Lien, the Minnesota label fashions itself a “misfit, non-elitist cassette label with no set aesthetic.” The real link I hear between their releases is that each artist does their cooking in a home studio and keeps it on the raw lo-fi side…
Tag: cassette culture
CRASH SYMBOLS: Dancing To Their Own Beat
Started in 2010 and run by Dwight and Liz Pavlovic, Crash Symbols is a psychedelic tape label, though it branches out to include many other genres. They were kind enough to send me a batch of their 5 newest tapes and here they are in order of catalogue number.
Touched by an Angle Vol. 2
More than a compilation, this cassette is equal p…
MASSIMO MAGEE – STUDIES IN SOUND
Massimo Magee – Hunting Horn and Rotation Studies (Lurker Bias)
Massimo Magee has been making all sorts of visual and audio artworks for a while. In his latest listening project, Hunting Horn and Rotation Studies, Magee mines the minimalistic. The album is presented in five “studies,” each being a variation on a main theme of what appe…
NO LIMITS FOR ADDERALL CANYONLY
Adderall Canyonly - Limits of All Known Ice (Lighten Up Sounds)
I don’t know Adderall Canyonly personally but I’m well aware of his work via past tapes, and his excellent curation of the mind bending Field Hymns label. Yet, I’m trying to come in on this one as free of bias as possible (difficult these days)! Alas, music reviews is a …
Get the f**k out of here! (aka the Fuck Lungs album review)
Fuck Lungs - Honeysuckle (Already Dead Tapes & Records)
Fuck Lungs' first tape came out in 2016, but both its members have kept quite busy before and since. Drummer Joe Hess continues to play in Complainer - who released one of my favorite tapes last year - as well as in numerous improvised ensembles, and Curt Oren has toured relentlessly and …
I HEARD YOU MISSED US, WE’RE BACK!
Ruix comes and goes, but here we are, so let’s go. We’ll be posting a mix of new and archival content in the coming weeks. I know it’s March, and most of us are doing our best to distance ourselves from 2017, but I’m going to revisit some of the albums that offered comfort over a tempestuous year.
Having checked out a lot of ye…