Sample This Year’s Tusco Embassy Christmas Tape
12.29.13: by Mike Haley

In 2006 Tusco Embassy released a split C40 from Emeralds and T/E house band Tusco Terror called “Christmas Tape 2006“. The following year they released “Christmas Tape 2007“, another Emeralds/Tusco Terror split, this time as a 2xC30. In 2008 the Christmas Tape was expanded into a 20-artist compilation with tracks from mostly Cleveland heads like Sam Goldberg, Skin Graft, Outer Space, Andrew Kirschner, and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. The tradition continues this year with the release of “Christmas Tape 2013”, a double cassette with 30 tracks from jammers far and wide:

Side A
Fluxmonkey
Onewayness
Ironing
Wether
Outmode
Vibrating Garbage
Telecult Powers

Side B
Moth Cock
Birds You Once Knew
Skull Katalog
Zack Kouns
Collapsed Arc
Long Distance Poison
Bonus Beast

Side C
Malocculision
Black Thread
Craow
Sun Poisoning
Chemtrails
Fslux
Watchword
Dr Quinn Medicine Woman

Side D
Mark McGuire
Bone Rotten
Ilza
Wyld Stallyns
Quicksails
Fun
Skin Graft
Grasshopper

The tapes (both C77’s) are packaged in the classic T/E style, meaning heavy stock, die cut and folded up, and silk screened with so much ink that they feel rough as an 80 year old sailors fucked up skin.

“Christmas Tape 2013” will be released on December 31st at 11:59 est, making it the final cassette to come out in 2013, or the first to come out in 2014 depending what time zone you reside in. It will be an edition of 150 copies. Here is a lil’ sampling of all the tracks.

Keep an eye on Tusco’s Big Cartel site to grab a copy. “Christmas Tape 2012” C100 with cuts from Dilloway, Telecult Powers, Quicksails, Newton, Grasshopper, and way more is still available.