12.3.13: Top 200 Tapes Of 2013
There were loads of stellar cassette releases this year. And now that old lady time is putting the kibosh on 2013 we’ve compiled a list of our favorite 200. [Check It Out]
12.2.13: La Cohu
COHU027: Forming “Manipulations of the Second Presence” C47
COHU028: Chapels “Breaking in the Architecture” C22
COHU029: Calypso Borealis “Dunkwa-on-offin” C39
COHU030: Vast Glory “Scorpio” C31
COHU031: Wapstan “Arcane 667” C34
COHU032: Hobo Cubes / Charles Barabé split C30
12.2.13: Laser Focus #2
The second episode of our Tiny Mix Tapes show Tabs Out: Laser Focus is all about Hooker Vision Records. We interview Grant & Rachel Evans, play some tapes they’ve released, and talk about the label a bit. Bonus: Take the “Is It A Rachel & Grant Evans Project??” quiz!! [Check It Out]
Tabs Out Cassette Podcast | Laser Focus #2
Laser Focus #2: Hooker Vision
12.2.13 by Tabs Out
For the past five years the lawfully wedded duo of Grant & Rachel Evans have been dispensing generous amounts of drone and synth chillers on their label Hooker Vision Records. With releases by their own projects (Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Crippling, Quiet Evenings, etc) and a proficient crew of worldwide jammers, they have racked up well over 100 releases, mostly on cassette. In Episode #2 of our Tiny Mix Tapes show Laser Focus we talked with them about their home/noise lives and played tapes from the HV catalog by Coyote Image Classic, Cliffsides, Sparkling Wide Pressure, Crippling, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, and Rambutan. Specifically:
– Coyote Image Classic s/t 2xCS (HV129) from 2012
– Cliffsides “Liquid Mirros” C72 (HV091) from 2011
– Sparkling Wide Pressure “Pretending Eternal” C38 (HV127) from 2012
– Crippling / Digtal Natives split C24 (HV123) from 2012
– Motion Sickness Of Time Travel “Eclipse Studies” C41 (HV133) from 2013
– Rambutan “Partial Wires” C30 (HV101) from 2011
TAKE THE QUIZ
One of Grant & Rachel’s projects changes it’s name with each release while keeping a consistent word structure. We put together a list with some of the names that they have used, and some that we just made up. Try and figure out which are real. Get em all correct and win absolutely nothing.
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12.1.13: Preview The Upcoming La Cohu Batch
La Cohu is closing out the year with a killer batch. You’ll sample their six upcoming tapes if ya know what’s good for ya. [Check It Out]