#1 – 5.25.15 – МИШКА NYC completed their trilogy of underground Chicago hip-hop compilations with a final installment of vibrant, soul-inflected beats. The entire series, very charmingly titled W3NDCH3LL, was ”mixed and engineered” by Chicago producer Kawaakari – whose…
I don’t know what I could rightly expect of a demo reel from an artist as varied as Bob Bucko Jr., so I’m a little surprised that “consistent” is the adjective that materializes top-o’-the-mind for his The History of Western Music CD-R on Iowa’s Nova Labs imprint….
French label Cheap Trash Tapes released a new Kit Wharton cassette earlier this month, complete with captivating artwork by Andy Hall. Comprised of two EPs (one new and one from last year), High, Nice to Meet You provides a look at the Brighton-based duo’s origins and how they’ve refined…
Eiderdown’s new Kambang Adzan cassette appears straight forward enough, a field recording with only a single track of sounds caught by a stationary recorder while Jeff Milano headed off into his then home of Bandung, in West Java. The single track is titled “Floating Call to Prayer,”…
I can hardly imagine a better way to open this week’s review than with Sean Stellfox and Tabs Out’s inspiring 17-minute Cassette Culture in Central Java documentary, produced by the former during and after a teaching fellowship in Yogyakarta. The video highlights a slew of imprints in a…
“While this is listed as #58 of the FFFoxy Podcast show, if you have been following us for over the past 4½ years and through a few different name changes, you may know that we’ve done several more shows than that. In fact, this is actually the 100th episode of the podcast series that we have…
When played loudly enough, My Mind Beats Vol. 1 is one of the most truly psychedelic cassettes I’ve heard recently. Though producer DJ Fultono makes footwork with a minimalist’s palette of loops and shifting tones, it’s the gradual cycling of rhythms that risks upending your sense…
“Last year David Loca (of Part Time) went on a journey to spend the summer with the hobbits of Berkshire. While there, he made many friends and took pleasure within the tiny village among the rolling green hills. Once some of the hobbits learned of his musical past they asked him to play with…
Karl Fousek emerged last year as a notable newcomer working in the experimental electronics field, with gorgeous tapes on Phinery and Adhesive-Sounds. The Montrealer now returns with Pattern Variation, a new tape of tone and pattern studies released in-tandem with Demonstration Synthesis’ DS17….
This week’s review is a bit light/heavy because as some of you may know, Decoder’s reviews editor Steve Dewhurst is preparing for surgery… and there’s not so much more one can say about that, except Dwight’s going to be filling in as best he can for the duration. So feel…
Russell E. L. Butler recently stepped further out of his wonderfully left-field synth-pop project Black Jeans for a new release under his own name; titled God is Change, it arrived mid-April via Opal Tapes, a little less than a year after the longer and more lo-fi Constructions cassette that he self-released…
