Top 200 Tapes of 2025

2025-12-22

Thank you and welcome to our list. The list was made with the assistance of Matthew Wheelock (@tabsoutarchive), Strategic Tape Reserve, Delaware Dan, Larry Wish, Orb Tapes, Ephem Aural, Drongo Tapes, and Marsha Fischer. Please enjoy the list and let us know if we made any mistakes.

Dr. Peter J Woods - Learning by Listening Vol. 9: How To Make Noise (Strategic Tape Reserve)
C. Lavender - Convex Umbra (Old Technology)
Dreamcastle™ - Lego Castle: 1979-1998 (the Tidal Charm)
hyphyskazerbox - BPD SUPERSTAR ULTRA (Suite 309)
Thee Reps -Cryptocartography (Gold Bolus)
Kowboje - Kowboje II (Syf Records)
Christina Carter - Like A Bayou To Its Gulf (Bud Tapes)
Kouns & Weaver - The 1980s Country Songbook (H&S Ranch)
Tallulah Bankheist - Realm (Cry Like Donna)
Tam Lin - Fizzy! (Jollies)
Cosme - Demo No.3 (self released)
Gender is the Bastard - A Queer And Present Rage (Eggy)
Twoonky - Assordo (Vill∆ Recordings)
Molasses - Ring of Fire (Self Released)
Supertoque - Lemtat Unit (Public Eyesore)
G Lucas Crane - The Suddering Years (Artsy)
Stress Orphan- Perfect (Deathbed Tapes)
Hikaru Yamada and The Librarians - Blank In Our Spirits (Cudighi)
yan jun- the return of stupidity (No Rent)
Jetski - The Radiant Radish (Hausu Mountain)
Storyteller - Blood on the Fairway (ADAADAT)
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells - Tonal Vortex (Ephem-Aural)
BYSH - Please (Unifactor)
billy woods - GOLLIWOG (Backwoodz Studios)
FACS - Wish Defense (Trouble In Mind)
Suzanne Doogan & Alex Homan - s/t (Apartment 421 Tapes)
Drumloop & The Rita- EYELINES (Deathbed Tapes)
Stomachache - Presque Vu (Activated Skeleton)
Sir Tad - Generation Joint (DNT)
Francisco del Pino/Charlotte Mundy - The Sea (Notice Recordings)
Cromwell Ate A Twix Here / Yol - Fragile / Glassed Ascension (Strategic Tape Reserve)
Toxic Chicken - Buff! (Ingrown)
BJ Nilsen / John Olson / Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - Game Beuys (Radical Documents)
Model of Truth - Songs For Fuck (Onoeno)
Tiny Tongue - The Supermagical Music of… (Heimat Der Katastrophe)
Marc Merza / Ryan Beckemeyer - split (self released)
Swisher - Total Rat Fink (Unifactor)
Günter Schlienz -Zeitmaschine (Grisaille)
Larum - Jasper Dash and the flame-pits of Delaware (Puremagnetik)
Distraxi- The Colour of the Sky (Brachliegen Tapes)
Oldowon - Knight Soil (NOMASTER)
Jordan Christoff - Mystery Dimensions (Ingrown)
Elon Katz & Michael Vallera - Independence Day (Radical Documents)
Fraufraulein- Greater Honeyguide (Mappa)
Nicholas Elert- Heat Relief (Ampwall)
Mutant Disposal Unit - s/t (Terry Tapes)
Markus Oehlen- Dreampunk / Schmutzpop - NOEHISE! (Radical Documents)
Various Artists - The Beltane Tape (Third Kind Records)
Motion Sickness of Time Travel / R. Grant Evans - split (Hooker Vision)
Hypertrophy - Monster Win (Abhorrent A.D.)
Phirnis- The Gateway Tape (Strategic Tape Reserve)
Liz Meredith - Forth (sPLeeNcoFFiN)
Electrogong - Unstruck Resonance (Skunt Productions)
Lool 2 Luul - Two Tier Justice (Jollies)
Hiram - Solarium Songs (Permaculture Media)
Sulo Johannes- The Cochlear Meadows (Nibble Records)
Nate Powell - Aggregates of Subjective Desire (No Rent)
Odd Person- There Is No Place (Ingrown Records)
Saudara Tua - s/t (Public Eyesore)
Abbie From Mars - You Always Wanted To Be A Part… (We Be Friends)
BBJr - The Antiquated Heart (No Part Of It)
Blood Snake 2 - Smokin’ Mold (Coin Dolphin Arrangements)
Magnus Lassila - Optimus De LXXIX Lunae (Fluere)
Bitching Bajas - Inland See (Drag City)
Horses 4k - Nina (self released)
Outer Daphnes - Ring of Nothing (Bummer Punk)
Lars McCoy - Endless Waltz (Activated Skeleton)
Cocojoey - Stars (Hausu Mountain)
Dr Slimer - Frozen Empire (self released)
Cinchel - A Marble Sentiment (Ingrown)
Dave Ruder - Lil Ol Davy Ru Ru (Gold Bolus)
Mold Omen - Decomponents (Eustress)
Primitive Isolation Tactics- All Pressures Past (New Forces)
SUMAC and Moor Mother - The Film (Thrill Jockey)
Ben Richter - blue fifty-four (Blue Tapes)
Big Pal - High Energy News Music (Dead Definition)
The Gate - Almost Live (Imploding Sounds)
Orches Limita - MAXIMALIMISERABLISM (Primordial Void)
Eloine - Impractical Furniture (Personal Archives)
Larry Wish’s faulty ELO mixtape
Giant Claw - Decadent Stress Chamber (Orange Milk)
Meadow Argus - Somewhere Near Medina (Tynan Tapes Temporal)
Adam Void & Chris Fischer - Force Majeure/Forced Manure (Unread)
R. Grant Evans - Asymmetric Foxhound (Hooker Vision)
Mareado - Scorpion Bowl (VOSO)
Lather - 2024 Lives: solo/duo/\trio (self released)
Rhucle - No Wind (Constellation Tatsu)
Static Wound - Her Flesh (TSHN Productions) *technically released in 2024
SH!TOMATO - s/t (Already Dead)
Nonlinear Field - The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves (Personal Archives)
galen tipton & Shmu - dewCLAWS (Orange Milk)
Imaginary Softwoods - Exhibit of Quiet Aspect (self released)
Vierzig Skizzen - Screening (Lily Tapes & Discs)
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - HausLive 4 (Hausu Mountain)
MAANSKILD - Old Moon (Heimat Der Katastrophe)
DAO - The Divine Inversion (Ephem-Aural)
Final Heaven - Black Sun Over Frozen Land (Nightblade)
Trium Circulorum - Wire Tripping (Third Kind)
Clang Quartet / Crank Sturgeon - split (Orb Tapes)
Robert Turman - A Day In The Life (Hanson)
Huron - Nothing Is Real (self released)
Hjartans - Oneiric Quest (Les Cassettes Magiques)
Sky Stadium - Private Courtyard (Hooker Vision)
Julek Ploski - Give Up Channel (Mappa)
Brewmaster - Mead Dew (Fantasy Audio Magazine)
Circuit Wound - Data Mining (Aborrent A.D.)
Territorial Gobbing & Odie Ji Ghast- The Fashion Show (Steep Gloss)
Austyn Wohlers - Bodymelt in the Garden of Death (Geographic North) *technically 2024
LOTTO - they are gutting a body of water (self release)
Mark Vernon- Unforced Errors (Vice de Form)
Night Sky Body - King of Perfect Motions (Hooker Vision)
Schnecken im Hochbeet - Radula (Höllenfrau Records)
Knifedoutofexistence- Objects That Once Breathed (Outsider Art)
Tomestoner - III (self released)
Himukalt- katoptronophilia, part one (self released)
Various Artists - Crass Lips Comp VIII (Crass Lips)
Anura’s Mire - Sage of Murk (Woodland Crown)
Hakobune / Nobuhiro Okahashi / Menou / Ascalypso - split III (Muzan Editions)
Being Awone - Embued (Drongo)
Territorial Gobbing- Recording Habit (Liquid Library)
Jeremy Young - Masses (We Here & Now)
K/S/R / The Tulsa Ball Room Singers - split (Physical)
Cia Himiân Lí - Vual/Sin Thé (tsss tapes)
Star House - Versions From Our Future (Unifactor)
Al Karpenter - Greatest Heads (Night Shool)
Pen 16 - Magic Touch (self released)
Kitchen Typists - Hymns for Phones (Hooker Vision)
Suburbanabuse - Phuch (sPLeeNcoFFiN)
Budokan Boys- The Ooze (Strategic Tape Reserve)
Midnight Minds - Echo Poems (Radical Documents)
Astrid Hubbard Flynn & Aros e-v - All Aflutter (Bumpy)
NNN Cook & Wiggpaw - Simpatico Springs (H&S Ranch)
African Ghost Valley - Ferrari-Pharoah (Ephem-Aural)
Matthew Pepitone - MP4 (Jollies)
Mid-Air! - POPULAR/phlat erf* (self released)
Cerca - Cross Through (self released)
Jo Christman & Anthony J. Stillabower- tilt. (self released)
Schmitz & Niebuhr - Porz 1975 (super Polar taïps)
Astral Syndicate - A Kind of Magic (Tocco Magico)
Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - The Deep Sleep of Evil Men (Crash Symbols)
Nothing Phase - Gain Two (Unifactor)
Second Location / Leviathans of Black Hollering - split (Forever Escaping Boredom)
Clang Quartet - SILENCE MY WORDS INCREASE MY ACTIONS (James 1:19) (Deathbed Tapes)
Skryer - s/t (self released)
Nicholas Langely - One Square Centimetre of Light (Cruel Nature Records)
The Dirty Sample - Love Always Wins If You Let It (Hand’Solo)
Målgrupp - Sorl (sPLeeNcoFFiN)
Hello Spiral & Bryan Killingsworth - Not As Good As Evening Cowards (Steep Gloss)
Miserable Bastard - Sodden Hell (self released)
Doc No - Quimby Variations, Vol.1 (Noble Circuit)
Francesa Marongiu - Still Forms in Air (Umor Rex)
Harold Whit Williams - The Sad Folk Stylings Of… Blind Whit Waltman (Strange Mono)
Stalfos - Awaiting Nothingness (Menschenfeind Propaganda)
Free Water Shrew Ensemble - Bounty of the Floe Edge (Drongo)
Favorite Haunts - Lavender (Bud Tapes)
DJ Tobzy Imole Giwa - Lagos City Unloaded (Nyege Nyege)
Crow Wall - S/T (Dismantle)
Soundoferror - Live @Patchwerks Seattle 7-27-24 (Complacency Productions)
Mantarochen - Cut My Brainhair (It’s Eleven)
Rob Michalchuk - Product Lifecycle Managment (Poor Little Music)
Paco Moreno - Under The Areca Palms (Mall Talk Collective)
Crawl of Time - The Heartache of Martyers (de/tainment)
Distraxi- Attis (Venalism)
Ian MacPhee - Cycles (Already Dead)
- a map has always been an attempt (Strategic Tape Reserve)
Unholy Grail - The Journey Continues (Nocturnal Curse)
Leaking - In The Bag (Unifactor)
Pale World- Abstractions of Dead Dreamers (Brachliegen Tapes)
Merzbow – Hatonal (Industrial Complexx/Blod)
Gumby’s Junk- Buusiness & Pleasure (Self-released)
Tomestoner II: The Athenaeum Sepulchre (self released)
DJ Haram - Beside Myself (Hyperdub) *technically NOT released on cassette
claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo- Quilted Lament (mappa)
Cherries - Cherries of Fire (Radical Documents)
Anthony Vine - Reliquary Grammar (Celestial Excursions)
Billy Malm - SPÄTZLE (Strategic Tape Reserve)
Chad M. Clark - Furs Surf (Personal Archives)
Jay Howard - We Have Evidence to Believe (Already Dead)
Cringe Fantasy - Pop Music (Decoherence)
Actual Pearls - Circle Dance (Strange Mono)
Turmeric Acid y Bardo Todol - Sonopædia (Strategic Tape Reserve)
Vedic Dread - Synthetic Garb of The False God (Unifactor)
Hit With The Joke Hammer - s/t (Crooked Branch Collections)
Trick Tips - For Self-Soothing Lullabies (Dreamers Lane)
Opera Benezet - s/t (Postal Swing)
QUAGGA / Kenny Basil Sound System - split (Strange Mono)
Daniel James Burke - Twilight Furniture -just a moment (Complacency Productions)
Adam Void - Poverty in the USA (Cult Love Sound Tapes)
Mononatur - s/t (na·omi material)
Ryan Ebaugh - 619-99 (Daft Alliance)
Table - Table Gristle (Rotten Princess Records)
Alta Vista - Wont Believe In Dust (self released)
Dan Melchior UND DAS MENACE - NATURAL ANXIETY (Radical Documents)
Various Artists - Now That’s What I Call Already Dead (Already Dead)
Être Ensemble - Sans Toi (Katuktu Collective)
Swingsets - Fixin’ (Drongo)
Alan Graves - A Possible Wind (Bathysphere)
Anteater - Endangered (Unifactor)
Grey Tissue - Neural Machine Transmission (Special Powers)
1 900 DIARRHEA - 1 900 Demo (Empty Casket Audio)