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Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For April With Tristan Bath
The space between sound worlds dominates the month’s best cassette releases as reviewed by Tristan Bath. Includes musical tributes to Dundee’s architecture, Burrougshian jungle mixtape collage, sound art from Calcutta and just intonation explorations from Hungary. Live photograph of Iku by Jiří Šeda
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Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For February
Tristan Bath is back with another round of the best recent cassette tape releases - including the epitaph for recently defunct rockers Bad Guys, schizoid electronics from Edinburgh and the soundtrack for an imaginary 70s French thriller
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Spools Out: The Best Of November’s Tapes Reviewed
It’s the penultimate Spool’s Out of a tumultuous year, and the cassette tape underground shows no signs of slowing down. Belgian Stoner Rock, imaginary SNES and Czech TV soundtracks, techno noise from Poland, and droney modular synths from none other than Surgeon himself keep our master of tapes Tristan Bath in a good mood. Anthony Child photographed by Cathrin Queins
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Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For October By Tristan Bath
Featuring improvised analogue techno from France, abstract sounds from Hungary, scarred giallo noise from Italy plus some Canadian jaw harp and Russian free-punk, Tristan Bath goes against the grain of Brexit Britain with another month reviewing the best international tape releases
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For July With Tristan Bath
A collage of field recordings before an empty dancefloor, minimal song structures from Glasgow, tape squished swarmandal improvisations, and heavy acid techno. It can only be Tristan Bath with this month’s roundup of cassette releases. Graham Dunning portrait by Daniel Kordik
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Jungle Clearing: Musicians Who Dream Of Excising Their Google Traces
Beige-yet-hip troupe Jungle have made an astounding effort to hide their identities. Is this to create an enigmatic non-presence, asks Robert Barry, or for the privately-educated duo to hide bracingly American Pyscho-esque comments about their grasping desire for fame?
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The Greatness Beyond: How Chaos Rising Are Breaking Metal’s Boundaries
Formed in 2019, the "international all-female metal collective" Chaos Rising have been slowly building up an impressive catalogue of unique collaborative works. Keith Kahn-Harris meets some of the people behind the project and argues that the model it provides has the potential to overturn some of metal’s most enduring institutions
