Two hours of recent listening, including reissued classics from the cassette underground and lo-fi sounds from across time and space, running the gamut from unlistenable to transcendent. Follow the links below to hear more.
Playlist
Start Time | Artist | “Title” | Album | Label (Year)
0:00 | Frieder Butzmann | “Tonight’s Musik” | Vertrauensmann Des Volkes | Zensor (1982)
0:40 | Lovely Midget | “Paul Johns” | Lovely Midget | Discreet Music (2024, reissue)
2:22 | Válek / Merta / Tarnovski | “Metal Ni” | Metal | Flaming Pines (2023)
5:01 | Good Area | “Macduff, part 1” | Macbeth | iDEAL Recordings (2017)
7:37 | Enhet För Fri Musik | “Droppar På Din Hud” | Inom Dig, Inom Mig | Aguirre (2023, reissue)
12:56 | P16.D4 | “He’s Afraid of the Way the Glass Will Fall – Soon – It Will Be a Spectacle: The Fall of a Crystal Palace. But Coming Down in Total Blackout, Without One Glint of Light, Only Great Invisible Crashing” | Kühe in 1/2 Trauer | Sonoris (2022, reissue)
17:52 | Green Tea | “Nesting in an Altered State” | Owl Arcana | Satatuhatta (2024)
20:47 | Scherbe | “Outskirt Mello” | Accidental Journey (compilation) | Kashual Plastik (2023)
25:25 | Deep-Sleep-Inducing-Peptide | “You Must Be the One” | Abduction of Mind | Tribe Tapes (2024, reissue)
27:39 | Henning Christiansen | ”Min Døde Hest” | Op.41, Op.72 | Henning Cristiansen Archive (2020)
36:00 | Violent Shogun | part 5 | Brittle | Tordon Ljud (2022)
40:12 | Goldblum | “Vermillion Days” | Accidental Journey (compilation) | Kashual Plastik (2023)
42:30 | Al Margolis | “Yamming” | Iceless, Faceless | Tribe Tapes (2022, reissue)
48:10 | Mosquitoes | “VO” | 2014 Complete 2021 | Repressed Records (2024, reissue)
52:06 | Dai Coelacanth | Side 2, excerpt | Christmas is ruined | Staaltape (2022)
54:36 | Deaf Lions | “Visceral Introduction” | Eine Nacht | Tribe Tapes (2022)
56:57 | Meril Wubslin | “C’est faux” | Alors Quoi | Les Disques Bongo Joe (2021)
1:01:35 | Asmus Tietchens | “Ultima Terra” | Abfleischung | Hamster Records (1989)
1:03:09 | Storm Bugs | “Car Situations” / “Mesh of Wire” (Reprise) | A Safe Substitute | Klanggalerie (2020, reissue)
1:05:59 | Foetus in Your Bed | “Primordial Industry” | An Afflicted Man’s Musica Box (compilation) | United Dairies (1985)
1:11:02 | Blod & Shadow Pattern | “Uppvaknande” / “På Stigen” | Midnite Blues | Discreet Music (2024)
1:16:50 | Treasury of Puppies | “Bränna Känna” | Mitt Stora Nu | Discreet Music (2022)
1:20:41 | Nuno Canavarro | “J. Peste (Pela Ama)” | Plux Quba | Drag City (2015, reissue)
1:22:22 | J. Folke | “Askelys” | Mare | Kaos og Stjernen (2024)
1:24:45 | Nærværet | “Det Som Er Oss Gitt” | Når Man Ser Inn / En Annens Hjerte | Satatuhatta (2024)
1:28:30 | Duka Brass Band | “Schenk Mir Eine Kuckucksuhr” | Freedom in a Vacuum (compilation) | Freedom in a Vacuum (1987)
1:32:29 | Nahamwa Doumbia | “Sakory Mery” | Vol. 2 | Awesome Tapes from Africa (2024)
1:43:55 | Omit | “Lopper” | Interceptor | Helen Scarsdale Agency (2008)
1:46:45 | Troth | “Well Below the Valley” | Uncut Flowers | Fordämning Arkiv (2023)
1:52:28 | Hands To | “Bothum” | Bio Electric | New Forces (2022)
2:00:00 End