Spooling through the world’s best tapes
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
Tristan Bath returns to tape reviewing duties with coverage of new cassettes from Tashi Dorji, Weightausend, Faux Fur, AyGeeTe, Solvognen, Siavash Amini and Laplante/Dunn/Smith. Internet friendly image of cat and synth from the Weightausend Tumblr
As Dizzee Rascal releases his first album since 2017, he guides Aaron Bishop through the songs that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from being the only black kid playing Nirvana on the estate to smoking with Snoop Dogg.
With a head-spinning new composition due out this month, following up on last year's startlingly brilliant Pipes, Katie Gately talks to Tristan Bath about moving into music from film sound design, utilising technology and how the voice can be a means of personal reinvention