Top 200 Tapes Of 2017

Okie dokie, It’s time for everyone’s favorite Top 200 Tapes of 2017 list: The OFFICIAL Tabs Out Top 200 Tapes of 2017 list! For the 5th year in a row we’ve tallied up the thousand plus cassettes that have made it over to us and arranged our fav two hundo in perfect order, each assigned a big masonic number. Our methods are scientifically proven and obtainable through a FOIA request, but just trust us. Like previous years we only included tapes that we had physical copies of. Enjoy!

#1: Rob Mazurek - Chimeric Stoned Horn (Astral Spirits)

#2: Kill Alters - No Self Helps (Hausu Mountain)

#3: Gateway - Integral Formation (Castle Bravo)

#4: Cabo Boing - Blob On A Grid (Haord)

#5: Giant Claw - Soft Channel (Orange Milk)

#6: Fletcher Pratt - Selected Works (2015-2016) (Never Anything)

#7: Jake Acosta - First Corridor (Pretty All Right)

#8: Fire-Toolz - Drip Mental (Hausu Mountain)

#9: Samantha Glass - Introducing The Confession (No Rent)

#10: Shredded Nerve - Trojan Self Image (Chondritic Sound)

#11: Fkm200 - Sounds Of Corrupted Waters (Æescape Sounds)

#12: Joe Limbus - Memotos Mori (Orb)

#13: Nature - Nootropicalia (Shadowtrash Tape Group)

#14: Unguent - Simulation Of A Bat Engulfed In Acid (Refulgent Sepulchre)

#15: J Hamilton Issacs - Dugoutcanoe #7 (Ancillary Apotheoses)

#16: Střed Světa - Rozmístění opakováním (Baba Vanga)

#17: Arvo Zylo - Sequencer Works Volume Three (Personal Archives)

#18: Lee Noble - The Hell Of You Come In (No Kings)

#19: Khaki Blazer - Didn’t Have To Cut (Hausu Mountain)

#20: Hans Appelqvist - Swimming Pool (Orange Milk)

#21: HAHA Mart - Family Denim (Noumenal Loom)

#22: Charles Barabe / Ratkiller split (Crash Symbols)

#23: Crazy Doberman - Hell Is Within Us (Castle Bravo)

#24: THÉ DÉLUGE - Forest Structures (Umor Rex)

#25: RM Francis - Hyperplastic Other (Nada)

#26: Spykes - Parashi - s/t (Oxtail Recordings)

#27: Al Lover - Interference Patterns (Crash Symbols)

#28: Dirt & Space - Ten Million Ways To Die (Dinzu Artefacts)

#29: Billingtons / Shippy / Wyche - s/t (Astral Spirits)

#30: Sun.Tv - Spells and Other (ShadowTrash Tape Group)

#31: Imbue - Ghost Stories (Already Dead)

#32: Moth Cock - 0-100 At The Speed Of The Present (Hausu Mountain)

#33: Nikmis - 10 Movements For Large Synthesizer (Third Kind)

#34: Joe Mygan - Hidden Features (Moon Villain)

#35: Toiret Status - Nyoi Plunger (Noumenal Loom)

#36: German Army - Pyura Chilensis (Luce Sia)

#37: Musa Dwarf ‎– Jäätelöö (Lal Lal Lal)

#38: Fischkopf Sinfoniker - Music For A Revolution (Orb)

#39: Don Gero - Wizarding (Crash Symbols)

#40: Sad Cambodia - First Metheoretical Bulletin (Sincope)

#41: Andreas Brandal - The Work Of The Spider (Muzan Editions)

#42: Odd Person - Star Maps From The Flower Temples (Analog Minimum)

#43: Somnoroase Păsărele - ESSEN (Tymbal)

#44: TüTH - Transgression (Umor Rex)

#45: More Eaze - Articulate Ridge #16 (Personal Archives)

#46: Maharadja Sweets - Slithering Kingdoms (Oxtail Recordings)

#47: Liz Roberts & Henry Ross - Death Knell (Unifactor)

#48: Nonhorse “Nobody, Never Yeowe” (Five)

#49: Michael Foster And Ben Bennett - In It (Astral Spirits)

#50: Sam Gas Can - Plays the OP-1 (HEC)

#51: Arian Robinson - An Eternal Sleep (Ephem Aural)

#52: Brett Naucke - Multiple Hallucinations (Hausu Mountain)

#53: LEOLYXXX - Plastic Inners: Nigerian Boogie Mixtape (Origin Peoples)

#54: Q///Q - Serene Answer (Baked)

#55: Mukqs - ダメ人間 (DAME NINGEN) (Umor Rex)

#56: Matthew Revert - Illness Seminars (No Rent)

#57: Duncan Malashock - Interiors Vol. 1 (Beer On The Rug)

#58: Emerging Industries of Wuppertal - Systems for Simulating… (Strategic Tape Reserve)

#59: MSHR - Emergent Knot Traces (self released)

#60: Dominic Republic - Hello Island (auralgami SOUNDS)

#61: Shingles - Guantanamo Patch Bay Vol 5: At Home With Machines (self released)

#62: Macula Dog - Natural Dog (Haord)

#63: buta nite - os charnecos (OTA)

#64: Max Eilbacher - Music For Piano #7 (Unifactor)

#65: Jadapod - Fate 1 (Nextage) (Nextage)

#66: Olson & Billington “Compound Sessions Vol.1” (Robert & Leopold)

#67: Nikmis - Widdendream (Third Kind)

#68: Tick Gick - Soleil Noir (Castle Bravo)

#69: Aviary s/t (self released)

#70: J Butler - Real And Surreal (self released)

#71: Pulse Emitter / Brett Naucke - Mugen Vol. 6 split (Hausu Mountain)

#72: Raising Holy Sparks - Search For The Vanished Heaven (Eiderdown)

#73: Piss Kills Mold - Sentient Fungus (Ultraviolet Light)

#74: Matthew Greasley - Railwave (Uncle Bob’s)

#75: Gerrit Hatcher - Good Weight (Amalgam)

#76: American Cream Band - Embrace You Millions (Medium Sound)

#77: Takahiro Mukai / Shoeb Ahmad - split (Tandem)

#78: Dee Grinksi - Subspace (Tape Lamour)

#79: Pulse Emitter - Chilling In The Eye Of The Storm (Expansive)

#80: Okha - Power Cannot Conquer Heaven (No Rent)

#81: Body Shame - Open Sores (SadoDaMascus)

#82: German Army - Pacific Plastic (Seagrave)

#83: Howard Stelzer - Sun Pass (Moss Archive)

#84: Machine Listener “Nocturnal People” (Hidden Eyes)

#85: Ivy Meadows - Zodiac (Moon Glyph)

#86: C. Reider - Chew Cinders (Midnight Circles)

#87: System Scattering Period - Oblique Motion (Personal Affair)

#88: Gunther Valentine - Music For The Anthropocene (No Rent)

#89: Convivial Cannibal - Have Youth Will Play (Dysgeusia)

#90: Oil Thief - Stratagem (Chondritic Sound)

#91: Hainbach - On Endless Beach (Gohan)

#92: Christian Mirande - Museum Piece (No Rent)

#93: Venderstrooik “Smetvrees & Kruisbesmetting” (Raketenbasis Haberlandstrasse)

#94: moduS ponY - Phonogetic Ouch (Strategic Tape Reserve)

#95: DJ DJ Tanner / Ross Wallace Chait - split (5CM Recordings)

#96: Michealcushion - Life Escaper Trial Edition (Melty)

#97: Max Eilbacher - Dual Monologues In Parallel (Mondoj)

#98: Nakatani​/​Nanna​/​Schoofs​/​Woods - s/t (Full Spectrum)

#99: Monotrail - Selected Jams (Oggy)

#100: Ropal Jagnu / Stephen’s Lorikeet / Rigel Magellan / DDM - 4way split (OJC)

#101: V/A - Lives Through Magic, Volume 1 (Lives Through Magic)

#102: KFM - \\fail (self released)

#103: Form A Log - At A Festival (Hausu Mountain)

#104: Former Airline - The Discreet Charm Of The Ghostmodern World (Ephem Aural)

#105: Floian Von Emeln - Interbellum (Muzan Editions)

#106: Eaton Flowers - Epəkə (SadoDeMascus)

#107: Peter J. Woods & Andrew Weathers - A Whole New Alphabet (Flag Day)

#108: Juice Machine - Sparkling Water (Steady Hand)

#109: Inner Travels - Sea Of Leaves (Inner Islands)

#110: Tölva - Manudaga (Blight)

#111: Ant’lrd - Cherubian (Moss Archive)

#112: Axebreaker - Virtue Signaling (Jouissance Du Rien)

#113: Brode/Luczak/Spellman/Spreaders - Blanket Statements (Orb Tapes)

#114: Sug - Only Hidden Once (Baked)

#115: MUMIT - NE T​​SSÄ (Lal Lal Lal)

#116: OMNIVM - Madmen Playground (Never Anything)

#117: Birchall / Smal / Webster - Drop Out (Astral Spirits)

#118: Cop Funeral - Part-Time Pay (1980 Records)

#119: C. Reider - Listening After The End (Reno Park Press)

#120: Caldwell/Tester - Two Reels (Medium Sound)

#121: Corsica Annex - Fluid Electric (Ingrown)

#122: Spore Spawn - Ochitsuitara (Oxen)

#123: WAZOO - NONZOO (Already Dead)

#124: More Eaze / A.F. Jones & Steve Flato split (Astral Spirits)

#125: Llarks - Reflections (Tape Lamour)

#126: DJ Voilà - Dumbledogs (Noumenal Loom)

#127: Patrick Shiroishi - Tulean Dispatch (Mondoj)

#128: Mahjoop - Ravel (((Cave)) Recordings)

#129: Colin Andrew Sheffield & James Eck Rippie - Essential Anatomies (Elevator Bath)

#130: Moltar - Eclypse Inside (Unifactor)

#131: Long Distance Poison - Rheomodes (Oxtail Recordings)

#132: Korean Jade - Exotics (Plush Organics)

#133: Huron - The Red Tape (self released)

#134: Cops - s/t (Field Hymns)

#135: Aaron Diko - DDCT (Medium Sound)

#136: Luminous “Diamond Ben” Kudler - Thymme Jones (Unifactor)

#137: WUMISI - s/t (OJC)

#138: Andrew Weathers “Under The Tree” (Full Spectrum)

#139: German Army - Kurgan Hearth (OTA)

#140: Witches Of Malibu - The Grand Crucifier (Dead Media Recordings)

#141: Clinical Trials - Empty Infinities (Second Skin)

#142: List Of Moths - s/t (Turlin)

#143: Ben Zimmerman “PSYMULCASTER” (Bedlam)

#144: Staticnosis - s/t (Shadow Trash Tape Group)

#145: Nmemosyne - Bucket Brigade (Love All Day)

#146: Evan Zierk - Drifting / Bending (Atlantic Rhythms)

#147: Finlii “Skyscrapers” (Bedlam)

#148: Aylu - Groove 4 (Outlines)

#149: Endurance - s/t (SR)

#150: Ctrl-Z - s/t (Full Spectrum)

#151: The Moon Rises In - Maevis (OTA)

#152: Complainer - Floodplain (Already Dead)

#153: Atariame - Fear Is The Wrold (Constellation Tatsu)

#154: Gmackrr - La Dépendance Électrique (Spring Break Tapes)

#155: Noise Altar - Memory Decornstruction (self released)

#156: Alex Crispin - Idle Worship (Sounds of the Dawn)

#157: Monas - Freedom (Astral Spirits)

#158: Skin Graft - Peripheral (Unifactor)

#159: Ugliest Man / Eazykill - split (Tandem)

#160: Ant’lrd / Bastian Void - split (Muzan Editions)

#161: Himukalt - Vulgar (No Rent)

#162: Macho Blush - Moodshow (Heavy Mess)

#163: Mt Accord - In Reverie (Colour8)

#164: TMRPOE - Keep Sleeping (ACR)

#165: Nagual - Scraps: Southern Tour (Pidgon)

#166: Halfbird - Loomings (SadoDaMascus)

#167: Levels - s/t (Umor Rex)

#168: Jason E. Anderson - Truth (Draft)

#169: Gidouille - Eedipal Wrecks (Cruel Nature)

#170: Crushtrash - Reclamation Yard (Third Kind)

#171: Charles Barabé - Cicatrices II (Never Anything)

#172: Curved Light - Vast And Infinite (Field Hymns)

#173: David Kanaga - Operaism (Orange Milk)

#174: Haseful - Lord Of Carrion (self released)

#175: Hainbach - The Evening Hopefuls (Spring Break Tapes)

#176: FIN - Ice Pix (Hausu Mountain)

#177: Friesen/Waters Duo - No.3 (Shaking Box Music)

#178: Heaven Copy - Final Country (Summer Isle)

#179: Tinmixer - Wayfarer (House of the Leg)

#180: Noah Anthony - Home Demos Vol.1 (Vogue Professional)

#181: Marvisser - Xiakihu (Irrational Tennent)

#182: Me, Claudius - Reasons For Balloons (Dinzu Artefacts)

#183: Julia Bloop - Roland Throop (Crash Symbols)

#184: Scant - Old Dominion (Chondritic Sound)

#185: Qualchan. - Vera’s Dream (Æescape Sounds)

#186: Valle de Galgos - El Domo Spitzerwelt (Tymbal)

#187: SCC - MFAR (Refulgent Sepulchre)

#188: Power Mystery - Nest Broom (Spring Break Tapes)

#189: Preyocupado - Characters Of A Calander (Lighten Up Sounds)

#190: C CC V L T S SS - T R A U M A T A (Castle Bravo)

#191: Banal Anml - Misantropics (Lake Paradise)

#192: Eric Pitra - Casette: Film Score (Landscape Tapes)

#193: 2ndSun - Blue Twenty-Five (Blue)

#194: Map Collection - Jao Dub (Midori)

#195: Old Maybe - Piggity Pink (Ramp Local)

#196: $3.33 - Drill (Noumenal Loom)

#197: The Ether Staircase - Aether 6 (((Cave)) Recordings)

#198: Amulets - PlannedObsolescence (Dinzu Artefacts)

#199: Sarcastalites - Spaces For Strangers (Bullshit Night)

#200: Splice Girls - Spliceworld (Suite 309)