Tabs Out | Episode #173 / Top 200 Tapes of 2021

We close out the year with a little help from Angel Marcloid, Ryley Walker, Rachel & Grant Evans (Hooker Vision), Tim Thornton (Suite 309/Tiger Village), Headboggle, and Mike Nigro (Oxtail Recordings).

Fire-Toolz – Eternal Home (Hausu Mountain)
ΜΜΜΔ & ALEM – L’Âge De L’Absolutisme (Antifrost)
Tiger Village – In Stereo III (Suite 309)
DIDA – Ingenuous Scenes (Orange Milk)
Sparkling Wide Pressure – Pretending Eternal (Hooker Vision)
Steve Gunn and Ryley Walker – DRZWI DOORS (Husky Pants)
Bitchin Bajas – Switched on Ra (Drag City)
Headboggle – Digital Digital Analog (Ratskin Records)
Bastian Void – Topia (Oxtail Recordings)

TOP 200 TAPES OF 2021

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1 Fire-Toolz – Eternal Home (Hausu Mountain)
2 Bitchin Bajas – Switched on Ra (Drag City)
3 Hypertrophy – Fitness Is… (FTAM)
4 Kouns & Wagner – The 1990 Cincinnati Reds (Spare No Expanse)
5 Umbra / sZARSz – split (Crash Symbols)
6 Torben Ulrich & Lori Goldston ‎- Oakland moments: cello, voice, reuniting (rejoicing) (Obscure & Terrible)
7 Hairbrushing – Unlisted Natural (Obsolete Staircases)
8 Terrie Ex & Jaap Blonk – OZO BONN (Public Eyesore)
9 Nina Guo – Blauch Räusch (Unknown Tapes)
10 V/A – Arc Mountain (Deathbomb Arc/Hausu Mountain)
11 Giant Claw – Mirror Guide (Orange Milk)
12 Jeanne Vomitt-Terror – The Hobbyist (Desperate Spirits)
13 Wood Organization – Drimpro (Gotta Let It Out/Love & Beauty Music)
14 Lucas Abela – Best Family (Wolves)
15 claire rousay – Live (American Dreams)
16 Suryummy – Polynators (Constellation Tatsu)
17 Awenden​ /​ Feminazgul – split (Tridroid Records)
18 Headboggle – Digital Digital Analog (Ratskin Records)
19 V/A – Eschatology (No Part of It)
20 Slack – Fractal Discharge (Refulgent Sepulchre)
21 Bastian Void – Topia (Oxtail Recordings)
22 J Soliday – Garble Box (Traced Objects)
23 Machine Listener – Headfooter (Unifactor)
24 Sharkula x Mukqs – Take Caution on the Beach (Hausu Mountain)
25 DJ VLK – Nun Darme Stu Turmiento (Strategic Tape Reserve)
26 German Army – untitled tape (L.I.E.S.)
27 Fletcher Pratt – Dub Sessions Vol. 5 (Crash Symbols)
28 Matt Lajoie – Star Maps (Eye Vybe Records)
29 GX Jupitter-Larsen, Richard Ramirez & Bosses Hang – Movement Under Construction (Orb Tapes)
30 Cassilda and Carcosa -Tubes, Transformers, Transistors, & Tape (Ingrown)
31 John Carlini – Fartmare (Bad Cake Records)
32 Peter J. Woods – Collages (Oxen)
33 Angry Blackmen – Reality! (Deathbomb Arc)
34 Melissa – s/t (Flesh Prison)
35 BBJr / ARU – Europe 2172 (Personal Archives)
36 Bulbils – blue forty (Blue Tapes)
37 -__-___ – The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (Orange Milk)
38 hyphyskazerbox – Headache Bait (Suite 309)
39 Various Artists – Gentle Bells (Personal Archives)
40 ΜΜΜΔ & ALEM – L’âge de l’absolutisme (Antifrost)
41 Vijay Masharani & Flashlight O – I might have to use this on my landlord (Orb Tapes)
42 Flanger Magazine – Forgotten Fields (Unifactor)
43 Soshi Takeda – Floating Mountains (100% Silk)
44 Dok-S Project – Under a Cloudy Sky (Crash Symbols)
45 Dida – Ingenuous Scenes (Orange Milk Records)
46 Orca, Attack! – Learning by Listening Vol. 1: C.M.S.O. (Strategic Tape Reserve)
47 V/A – Doom Mix Vol. V (Doom Trip)
48 PAQ – Hyphae (Crash Symbols)
49 Takahiro Kawaguchi – Recorded Xenoglossy (Pilgrim Talk)
50 Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – Notes Above Land (self released)
51 Ka Baird – Vivification Exercises I (RVNG Intl/Commend)
52 Music En Berlin – The Lost Dreams of Em (Black Horizons)
53 Geomag – Below the River Above the Air (Jollies)
54 Mazzo – Soft Breeze of Silence (Cudighi)
55 Carmen Villain – Sketches for Winter IX: Perlita (Geographic North)
56 Lucy Liyou – Practice (Full Spectrum)
57 Bill Nace – A-1238 (Dove Cove)
58 Michael Foster & Ben Bennett – Contractions (Astral Spirits)
59 Jon Collin – The Fiddler Now Steps to the Road (Unifactor)
60 Matt Collins – blue one plus (Blue Tapes)
61 Cloning – Splattertronics (Refulgent Sepulchre)
62 Baggie – Sour (Haord)
63 Asian Glow – Cull Ficle (Longinus Recordings)
64 Terbijn – Eco (Never Anything)
65 Sophiaaaahjkl;8901 – Silicon Soul (Suite 309)
66 Matthew Crowe / Marsha Fisher – split (Orb Tapes)
67 Wendy Eisenberg – Cellini’s Halo (Garden Portal)
68 Zack Dolin – Dawn of Claymation (Ingrown Records)
69 Delaware Dan – Marketing Jingles Vol. 2 (KSP Tapes)
70 Tremorkikimor – Yarugi (Dub Cthonic)
71 Arushi Jain – Uner the Lilac Sky (Leaving)
72 Matthew Ryals – Voltage Scores (Oxtail Recordings)
73 Amulets – Blooming (Flenser)
74 Rachika Nayar – Our Hands Against the Dusk (NNA Tapes)
75 V/A – Amethyst (Moon Glyph)
76 Madam Data – The Gospel of the Devourer (Purple Tape Pedigree)
77 Q///Q – Cooper Do​-​Nuts and the City of Night (OTA)
78 Obsidian Shard – blue thirty​-​eight (Blue Tapes)
79 Bran(…)Pos / DJ Head Boggle – split (Rubber City Noise)
80 XUXWXUX – s/t (Already Dead)
81 Dear Laika – Pluperfect Mind (Materials Of Distinction)
82 claire rousay – 17 roles (all mapped out) (Shelter Press)
83 Wilted Woman – Keychain (Unifactor)
84 German Army – A Dream Favors Incompleteness (Strategic Tape Reserve)
85 Landon Caldwell & Nick Yeck-Stauffer – Unity in Isolation (Astral Editions)
86 MOS-Man – Datasette 1530 (xsec)
87 piss(dot)com – selfcest (Bodymilk)
88 FiFac X Dino Crisis – Barcodes (Daft Alliance)
89 Abby Lee Tee – Hausberg IV-V (Never Anything)
90 Multiform Palace – s/t (Specious)
91 Brian Case – Practice Tape (Trouble in Mind)
92 Camila Nebbia & Patrick Shiroishi – The Human Being As A Fragile Article (Trouble In Mind)
93 MJ Guider – Temporary Requim (Modemain)
94 Log Across The Washer – It’s Funny How The Colors (Crash Symbols)
95 Mad Dog – Swiss Hiss (5CM Recordings)
96 QNDFK – Central Gray Matter (self released)
97 Hedra Rowan – Nothing’s Wrong, Now You’re Beside Me Again (Bodymilk)
98 Eternity Hotline – Super Glue (Outer Grid)
99 J Hamilton Isaacs – CITYCRAZE​/​/​DWEEBCITY (Orb Tapes)
100 V/A – The Blood of Ancient Gods compilation (Humanhood)
101 Nick Zanca – Cacerolazo (Full Spectrum)
102 Arian Shafiee – Pastorale (Constellation Tatsu)
103 Petteril – CYRE (Puremagnetik)
104 Night Foundation – Let There Be Light (Flophouse)
105 Recombinants Feat. Ironing – s/t (Mang-Disc)
106 Personal Bandana – This Time It’s… (Woodford Halse)
107 Good Willsmith – HausLive 2: Good Willsmith at Sleeping Village, 4/25/2019 (Hausu Mountain)
108 Yes Selma – Bliss of Rumik (2020 Records)
109 Hakobune – Above the Northern Skies Shown (Constellation Tatsu)
110 Stefano Leonardi & Antonio Bertoni – Viandes (Astral Spirits)
111 Weather – X-tra Physical (Haord)
112 Orvang Halmer – World Carousel (Ingrown Records)
113 Lexagon – Feminie Care (Ratskin Records)
114 Eyerolls – Burial Mound (self released)
115 Black Dresses – Forever in Your Heart (self released)
116 Spednar – Coniunctio (Unifactor)
117 Anne Laplantine – chéri chance inouïe (Cudighi)
118 Wobbly – Popular Monitress (Hausu Mountain)
119 Cactólogo – Vol. II (OTA)
120 V/A – Warble and Fuzz (Drongo)
121 Body Image CEO – In these difficult times​.​.​.​. now more than ever​.​.​. at the end of the day​.​.​.​.​. Pepsi (Discrepant)
122 Asemix – s/t (Warm Winter Ltd)
123 Jeremiah Cymerman / Charlie Looker – A Horizon Made of Canvas (Astral Spirits)
124 Parannoul / Asian Glow / sonhos tomam conta – Downfall of the Neon Youth (Longinus Recordings)
125 Hypertrophy – Sarcoplasmic​/​Myofibrillar (self released)
126 Lester Grovington – Holding Lines (flophouse)
127 W.Ravenveer – Fuzzy Hair Electronics Volume 4 (Radical Documents)
128 Moth Bucket / Women of the Pore – split (FTAM)
129 Prolaps – Ultra Cycle Series (Hausu Mountain)
130 V/A – Undercurrents (Oxtail Recordings)
131 Jordan Reyes – What Is A Ghost? Is It Really Me? (Unifactor)
132 Filthy Huns – Cursed at Birth (Not Not Fun)
133 Tara Jane O’Neil – Dispatches from the Drift (Ordinal Recordings)
134 Alex Cunningham – pas de deux (Working Man Lay Down)
135 Peter Kris – No Language for the Feeling (Garden Portal)
136 Ntski – Orca (Orange Milk)
137 Lighght – Holy Endings (Doom Trip Records)
138 Mid-Air! – M.G.M.S. (100% Bootleg Cassette Tape Company)
139 Marsha Fisher – New Ruins (Full Spectrum)
140 Deuce Avenue – Perennial Fire and Life (Unifactor)
141 Blank Thomas – Reimagining Micro Acid (Third Kind Records)
142 Julie Hill – s/t (Galtta)
143 Instituto Bangara-Rossa Internacional – An Introduction to Bangara​-​Rossa, Learning by Listening Vol. 2 (Strategic Tape Reserve)
144 Nancy Bigfoot – Polyester Honey (Already Dead)
145 Compactor – Hold Music (Waste Management)
146 Pulse Emitter – Voids (Expansive)
147 Tiger Village – In Stereo III (Suite 309)
148 Dennis Young – Grey Umbrella (Gertrude Tapes)
149 Black Tempel Pyrämid – Ancient Hymns & Incantations (Ethereal Mother Tapes)
150 Meadow Argus – III (Purple Akronym)
151 LAMIEE. – Oltra Lament (Never Anything)
152 Dax Pierson – Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Ratskin Records)
153 Perkins & Federwisch – One Dazzling Moment (Strategic Tape Reserve)
154 Phicus – Liquid (Tripticks Tapes)
155 Seth Kasselman – UV Catamaran (self released)
156 Skunk Ape – Ground Hums (Drongo)
157 German Army – Endless Suburb (BFE/Illuminated Paths/Faith Disciplines/Subsist/Soil)
158 Body Meπa – The Work is Slow (Hausu Mountain)
159 Pasquarosa/Gerycz – II (Unifactor)
160 Andrew Weathers – Catalogs: Sound Pieces with Text and 10 Unrealized Scores (Full Spectrum Records)
161 SSS – s/t (Decoherence Records)
162 Vernacular – The Little Bird (Astral Spirts)
163 Mike Nigro – In Communion (Alien Garage)
164 Rhucle – Royal Blue (Oxtail Recordings)
165 Unsustainable Social Condition – Limited Targert Set (Absurd Exposition)
166 Wiggly – If I give you a cherry, the least you could do is spit the pit back into my bowl so’s I can suck on it later, and you don’t have to poke me in the eye with the stem (Cavern Brew Records)
167 Ŭkcheănsălăwit – Alaskan Escape (Les Productions Hérétiques)
168 Kim’s Spirit – Blossom Everywhere (Vague Intl)
169 Új Bála – Hideg Sors (Jollies)
170 Jacob Winans and Andrea Pensado – Handle With Care (Refulgent Sepulchre)
171 Nathan McLaughlin – Stoner Lake in G (Full Spectrum)
172 Bad Trips – Ridgewood Ayahuasca (Already Dead)
173 Mold Omen – Milk Can’t Die (Steep Gloss)
174 An Moku – Less (Puremagnetik)
175 Death Hags – The Alice Tape (self released)
176 Senyawa – Alkisah (Katuktu Collective)
177 Raymond Cummings – Modulate Yourself (No Rent Records)
178 Smolyyaan Dripp – Derty Islo (Sara Laughs)
179 Marsha Fisher – Cloquet Sketches (self released)
180 Max Julian Eastman – Pygmalion Styled & Out of Vogue (Tribe Tapes)
181 V/A – somnoroase păsărele – auto [r] (OTA)
182 Gardener – I Am Here For A Moment (Trouble In Mind)
183 Rat Punch – It’s A Drink (Already Dead)
184 Alex Cunningham – Armor (Storm Cellar)
185 Greg Hatem – Ghost of Spatula (Bumpy)
186 Samuel Goff & Mariam Rezaei – The End of the World … Finally (Cacophonous Revival)
187 Cool Person – Grown Person (Ingrown)
188 Bardo Todol y sus Aves sin Nido & Anne-F Jacques – Land of Rituals (Presses Précaires)
189 V/A – Forest Bath (Cudighi)
190 Casual Observer – Flux (OTA)
191 Dura – Mercury (Atlantic Rhythms)
192 Cool Hans Luetke – Dianetic Diabetic! (Personal Archives)
193 Max Hamel – Sounds of Summer: Field Recordings of Solar Electronics (Refulgent Sepulchre)
194 Andrew Kirschner – Mirror Thru Haze (Orb Tapes)
195 Boe J. x Don Certi – Rolling Hill (Bonding)
196 Shrimp Olympics – It Can Be (Bumpy)
197 ? Band – Museum Quality Works (Radical Documents)
198 Dave Phillips – Humanity is the Virus (Tribe Tapes)
199 Final Cop / Cop Funeral – split (Already Dead)
200 Titanic II (Suite 309)