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Spooling through the world’s best tapes
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
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
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
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
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
This month Tristan Bath delves into the past with a review of a new cassette of undiscovered work by Daphne Oram, new music from former Medicine man Brad Laner, returning London psych group Lasers From Atlantis, footwork from DJ Fullton, strange Japanese synth project mus.hiba and electronics from Petrels
Tristan Bath returns with Spools Out, The Quietus' regular tape review column. This month he covers Shit & Shine, Broshuda, Deathcount In Silicone Valley, Silver Waves, Dikeman, Roger Tellier-Craig, Félicia Atkinson, Eartheater, Nigel Wrench, Black Spirituals and Extnddntwrk
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