Lo-Fi experimental bedroom pop from New York. Only 50 tapes exist, and I am lucky enough to have #33.
Favorite Tracks:
Let go, have some fun, let Bonce comfort you.
Bonus: I love that he has a neocites site.
The album “a veil, a prism” by alone-a
One line review:
Music that is shaped into care for something deep inside you.
Good tape to have on:
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Currently, the cassette is available for only $5.
This tape was put out by Bumpy Records.
Great lines. Accessible but still edgy. A perfect mix of old and current hip-hop. I listened through, non-stop, twice.
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Get your mind right and check out The Honey Bear Saga from Mickey O’Brien.
This is off the label, Hand’Solo Records.
And I love the playing card-style box it comes in:
Dammit, it’s about time someone did an experimental, spoken word, jazz, art rock, pushing of bounds, album for birds and related animals! It’s finally here. Feed freely, birds.
This tape is from the band Musicians for Birds and Related Animals. They are out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are on Bumpy Records, also located in Minneapolis
The kind folks over at Minneapolis label, Bumpy Records, were kind enough to send over another tape. This one from Purity Olympics “impossible feburary in d minor” is an experimental escape of lucious echo-y proportions.
It is everything its soundscape, intimate self, wants so badly be. I am happy to add it to my collection.
At the moment of writing this, there is one tape left at $5 if you want to grab it.
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I went to a recent club show here in Fresno that had mostly local acts, except for the band Pancho And The Wizards (they are from the Central Coast of California – almost local). So I had not heard of them before, but I really enjoyed their set.
Somehow I didn’t catch that they had any tapes (even though I checked the merch table, I thought). One of the band members hit me up on TikTok and said they do, in fact, have tapes, and he was nice enough to send me one.
While the tape was released back in 2021, the music shows no signs of age. Psychedelic garage rock with accessible punk. Listening to the cassette made me think of things like:
Favorite side: B
Find more Pancho And The Wizards on Bandcamp.
“I Have to Be Part of It” by Camo Meal
This album, it’s like a good bowl of chili or menudo. You’re not exactly sure what everything in it is or where it comes from, but it still manages to be good.
There are hooks and soulful softness that Camo seems to purposely take a hammer and crowbar to, in a good way.
He knows how to write songs, got bored with that, and made this. And I like it.
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Only 50 of the cassettes exist. I am happy to have one.