episode 2021-12-19

Episode #173 | 12.19.21

1:43:26

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

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 (CrashSymbols)

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 (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)