Canti Magnetici ~ Tape Batch #2: Luca Garino, Videobasic, Absent Outfit, Danny Clay + Greg Gorlen

Serious question: Why release music on tape? The resurgence of tape labels in recent years has been met with a seemingly never-ending flood of condescending think pieces.  I’m against fetishization and nostalgia more than most, yet I think it’s important

Bugseed ~ Some Foods

Another strong release on Spring Break Tapes, this time from Japanese beat conductor Bugseed.  I’m sure I’m not the only one who somehow managed to miss out on this brilliant Tokyo-based producer, so the LA tape label is really doing

De Leon ~ De Leon

A transparent bag with a simple, barely tagged cassette inside. This is the kind of objective statement that upstart label Aught prefer to make with the music they publish: what you see is what you don’t get (an album as

AIPS Collective ~ Postcards from Italy

This essay is included in the collected edition of Gianmarco del Re’s Postcards from Italy, originally published by Fluid-Radio and available for download as a PDF here. Postcards from Italy, the album, is the inaugural release from Oak editions, an