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First Response Festival starts label with INZANE tape
1.8.18 by Mike Haley

Danger! Danger! Inzane Levels reaching maximum capacity. Reboot! Meltdown imminent! No Response Festival [link] has released a cassette tape! All profits go to benefit the 2018 No Response Festival!

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As driving forces of the American underground experimental music scene for over a decade with their involvement in Wolf Eyes, American Tapes, Nautical Almanac, Vampire Belt, ETC. ETC. these guys really need no individual introduction and this collaboration is as amazing and indescribable as you’d think.
Three deep players with psychic connections, skilled ears, all the meatest chops and everything gathered, earned and delivered from jamming in improvised settings with Chris Corsano, Anthony Braxton, C. Spencer Yeh, Thurston Moore, (the list goes on and on and on). These guys explore the outest-of-everywhere and unforgivably give all the squeal, drone, honk and warble you’ve ever craved.
This tape is two heady brain smoke sessions from when the trio came to Cincinnati last year to play the 2017 No Response Festival.

Side A is a board recording of the their set at the 2017 No Response Festival.
Side B is a board recording of their live radio session on “Trash Flow Radio” and an interview with show host Ken Katkin.

Art by Bill Nace / limited edition of 100 copies
Pro-dubbed c60 chrome tapes / professionally printed and shrink-wrapped / snazzy

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Lost Desert’s “Heterogen Infiltration” to be reissued by Beer On The Rug
1.8.18 by Mike Haley

Beer On The Rug will be picking the first reissue out of their soggy shag with Lost Desert‘s 1989 album “Heterogen Infiltration.” Slightly overshadowed at the time by the likes of Nine Inch Nails “Pretty Hate Machine” and an entire Batman soundtrack by Prince, Lost Desert’s austere, crackling new wave campaign will finally get its due in the form of 75 pro-dubbed cassettes. In my opinion, they should be home dubbed and all look exactly like this one, but a pro-dub is cool, too.

Remastered for a post-Lethal Weapon 2 age.

Stream below, and please don’t skip the fucking drum solo during the live track. Or the g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s piano at the end! Oh, or the — Just listen to the entire thing!  Then preorder through BotR.

The Tape Loop Labyrinths of Justin Lakes
1.5.18 by Mike Haley

Making tape loops is fun. It can be frustrating at times, especially when you have lil’ sausage fingers like I do, but still fun. Think of them like ships in a bottle, but for weirdos. And in the end, you have a tape loop instead of a useless ship in a bottle. Justin Lakes, who records under the name Shredded Nerve and operates the NYC based store Thousands of Dead Gods, has taken the hobby of making tape loops and upgraded that shit to a fine art (for weirdos). Using extra (sometimes WAY extra) pinch rollers and spools, Lakes transforms cassettes from machines to contraptions with meandering paths of analog tape. They are fucking gorgeous and available for purchase [email justinmlakes@gmail.com].

Listen to some of Lakes’ loops in action on “Failing to Maintain” while perusing some images of these juicy zig-zaggers.

Pulse Emitter & Christophe Bailleau release collab on Sacred Phrases
1.5.18 by Mike Haley

Roughly 316,800,000 inches separated Pulse Emitter (Daryl Groetsch) and Christophe Bailleau as they sat/stood/levitated behind their synthesizers and various celestial toys recording the splashy starbursts and romantic voids that what would eventually be blended as “Gaz Giant.” The collab tape is now available from Sacred Phrases, who has previously released solo material from both gentlemen, in an edition of one hundo.

So just to be clear, you are to do the following…
1) Listen in full
2) Order a copy
3) Edit the Belgium – United States relations Wiki page to include this heady partnership.

Godspeed you Gaz Giant!

New Batch – Polar Envy
1.3.18 by Mike Haley

I’m sure you’ve chosen some incredible personal goals for the new year – learn another language, get rid of that extra arm, stop sniffing glue, etc… – but put all of that mess on the back burner for the moment because Polar Envy (née A Soundesign Recording) has gots some goodies you should check out first!

Two David Russell related shindigs, Collapsed Arc and The David Russell Snake, have tapes out marking the label’s 101st and 102nd releases. the PE/ASR/DR tribe is very near and dear to our hearts here at Tabs Out, our very first episode kicked off with a track from the Robert Turman / Neon Depth (David Russell & John Elliot) tape on ASR, though things have been quiet on their front for some time (not EXTREMELY quiet considering that monster Ohio compilation from 2014).

Collapsed Arc’s style of exploiting damaged repetitiveness plagues “In Tension.” It’s a cruel scene, a dose expected from a Willy Wonka type, but not someone you trust. To say Collapsed Arc is “difficult” to listen to would be like saying that recovering a misplaced toothpick out of your eyeball isn’t going to be very minty. The loops are silty, mean-spirited, a bunch of bruisers with switchblade combs. The loops are carnival, cotton-like, a bunch of files being converted from PC to Coleco. The loops are whatever the h*ck they wanna be and they spin in circles like that kid in your doctor’s waiting room with the lingering eye contact. A bath is recommended between sides.

After a half hour of Collapsed Arc, I suppose one could call “Takes The Cake” by The David Russell Snake “relief,” but that would be like what André the Giant does before a match: A huge stretch. “The Cake” isn’t hysterical like “In Tension,” but it’s still a dude working through some shit. As Collapsed Arc, Russell ties his tension in knots. Snake unfurls it to reveal a fleshy, industrial wastezone. One with toxic no-go areas where the echoes of echoes of raw pounding shaw the situation. Empty your Collapse Arc tub, fill it back up, get back in.

Editions of 50 available from Polar Envy.