Two Tapes and a Bummer

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I have to tell you, I am enjoying getting tapes sent to me (this goober music blogger’s dream). I recently got three different ones sent. First being…

The Nausea: Requiem


So genius how Requiem can create a tense build that somehow keeps going. I can attest that it is good background music for writing or any damn thing really.

Requiem is out of Vancouver BC, and being a fan of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team, I am thinking this would make for some pretty epic tension music before an important puck drop. Very cinematic.

At the time of posting this, there are still tapes available.

Sansyou: Spaces In Between


Sansyou took care in creating a nice tape package, including putting it all on cobalt II tape, six page insert and PICKS! Yes I got some picks in the case. Nice atmosphere music too.

Sansyou runs out of DC. There are still cassettes of Spaces In Between available on Sansyou’s Bandcamp page.

ShangGORIL La Records


Such a bummer dude. This package from ShanGORIL La Records came open and empty. I am curious what made all the little dots on it. All the way from Hong Kong too and it cost them over $30 just to send it.

I don’t know what tape they sent me, but maybe it was Gateless Garden:

Nothing like a good cello tape to class up your day. Check out all of ShanGORIL La Records artists on their Bandcamp page.

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HUM – You’d Prefer An Astronaut (On Cassette)

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Instagram scrolling I came upon a clip of HUM playing “Stars” on Conan O’Brien and it reminded me of how much I loved that song. I then went and watched their performance of it on “120 Minutes” (they played it tighter this time):

So now I am like, well, I never had “You’d Prefer An Astronaut“, maybe it’s about time to find it on cassette. And now I discovered it’s a little bit valuable.

There is one on sale on Amazon for fifty bucks, which is pretty wild.

But hey, that is someone on Amazon, maybe it’s bullshit. Well, apparently not.

On eBay there is a factory-sealed “You’d Prefer An Astronaut” going for $115.00. So I have again wandered into a rare cassette I wasn’t aware existed.

Something to look out for next garage sale or thrift shop wander.

In The Window: “Agnosiareign” by Cementation Anxiety

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I dunno if I am renaming my Tape Pull segment here or starting a new one but today I was reminded that there was a time when I walked home from school near a record store and I would make sure to walk by the shop to see if there was anything new in the window or inside.

So I felt like starting a no-frills In The Window series. Just posting a new/new-to-me album (with a tape available) whenever I can, so you have something new to see on the blog (and later on the newsletter).

Today, I have been listening to “Agnosiareign” by Cemntation Anxiety from the experimental label, Black Artifact.

Tape Pull: Off! “Free LSD” on Cassette

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The poster pulled me in. I was unaware of the punk supergroup, OFF!, until then. Also, excited to find out they do have a cassette of Free LSD available on Bandcamp.


If you scroll down the album’s Bandcamp page, you will find the perfectly pink cassette of which (at the time of this posting) there are surprisingly still some left:


I had planned this post for a while and just now finally getting it up. Since then we have all experienced the passing of Steve Albini, making the Shellac/OFF! show in Chicago a somber one – or maybe there will be appreciatively joyful respect for still being around to see a killer live show.

Sadly there isn’t a tape of the acclaimed new Shellac album. But you can always get some blanks and make one (something I plan to do). I feel like Steve would be cool with a bootleg of a Shellac album.