Tabs Out | New Batch: White Reeves Productions

New Batch: White Reeves Productions
4.17.15 by Mike Haley

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Human fog machines and ex-Hunted Creatures / Dynamo Sound Collective personnel Micah Pacileo and Ryan Emmett just broke a bottle of champagne over the bow of White Reeves Productions with the release of three damn fine cassettes. The label is named after the duo’s project, who just happen to have the inaugural release, a C25 called “Who Is Guitarman?” The first batch also includes Mike Tamburo’s “Emperor and Penguin” C30 and “Lifehater” by Supervolcano.  Harmonious jammers for sure. And they’re lookers as well. The tapes, not the people playing on them. Well, maybe the people too…

Judging by the initial offerings packaged up by these Pittsburgh gentlemen, WRP is gonna be a tasty treat. White Reeves provides some mega-hazy, dynamically chill vibes on WRP001 by way of meaty synths and top shelf murkiness. Tamburo’s goes on a inspirative journey of Caribbean electronics guaranteed to leave you feeling 42.0% more positive about life. And Micah Pacieo’s solo action as Supervolcano jabs through a variety of electronic music that sounds like it was made by stick figures who keep falling over.

Collect em all by visiting White Reeves Productions on Bandcamp. Listen to all of them below. Complain that their name has two plural words in a row quietly to yourself.

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Get trapped in the loops of this Tether slammer from late last year. [Check It Out]

Tabs Out | Tether – Some Shape

Tether – Some Shape
4.16.15 by Ian Franklin

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Though it came out last year, this only showed up on my radar after a recent random search, and through that strange sense of destiny that defiantly creeps up now and again. I stumbled onto this beauty from Tether (Lauren Pakradooni) called “Some Shape” (C30) self released on her Normal Position label. A bouncing, repeating pattern of bass stabs stumbles forward punctuated by squiggly synth lines flying just overhead. Flickerings of stutter dance around within the growing structure. Higher pitched shimmers are slowly poured in. Soon, enough elements emerge that the structure takes actual shape, a bass drum stepping in to cement the backbone, tender vocals binding the muscles together.

Side B kicks off with “Infinite Joy”, a bouncing ball of a beat splattered with heavy shades of synth wash staggering around the edges. She capitalizes on the projected momentum letting loose with some Grace Slick-like vocals, swooping from above with ferocity. Tether works best in this loose frame of counterpointed percussive tape loop electronics, allowing herself to float in and out of whichever space may be available, casting distorted synths through the stained glass window and down onto the dancing tiles of ever drifting rhythms; their ultimate shapes remaining unclear. Supremely excellent mix of abstract synth pop, droning repetitions, and inwardly reflected synth iridescence.

Some Shape comes in an edition of 100 with risograph j cards and can still be gripped from Normal Position.

4.13.15: Sweet Sounds Records
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SSR003: Callado “Light Out EP” C30
SSR007: droneroom “Piss Poor” C45
SSR012: Momohaus/Andrew Jellison split C45
SSR013: Oceanray “Worship/Eavesdropping” C45