campfires - camphires - ace of tapes - cass - 6$
many zones covered over the last year since the first campfire release. recorded both at home and at four different shows, this collection weaves together a lot of different vibes. this is a fade town. the sun is always going over the mountain and coming back around the other side. it's slow-going and short and yet a lot of ground is covered. zones come in and out. you get lost and find yourself miles from where you were just laying... light just broke into the cave you were cautiously exploring... and now you're floating... above the ocean. where is the ground? i don't know.
edition of 100. artwork by campfire.
ethereal doom cosmonaut / bleak tails - mr. and ms. erotic america - split - ace of tapes - cass - 5$
our first release in a long time. dang. 18 minutes each from two east bay area kiddos. bleak tails is stephen, whose side is like watching 100 years pass in one day from inside of someone's mouth. ethereal doom cosmonaut is sebastian, whose side is like the sweatdrops off the back of whatever holds up the sky. edition of 50.
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2010 - live - ace of tapes - cass - 4$
2010 is a band made up of some friends in the santa cruz music universe; there's lucas from san narciso, luis gutee, scott schaus, and izaak from starcircleanatomy. talented friends doing new and unfamiliar things, re/unlearning instruments and bringing their unrelated skills to the hallowed world of the "rock band". this tape isn't any of that though, rather an improv drifter cut down from sesh on a local radio station played the day before valentine's. mind games oscillating between nightmare and nostalgia, swelling out and pooling in the corners of the room. some weird radio samples and re-recording and hella electronic trix. coherent mind elevation for those in trouble. edition of 35.
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red coyote - barn swallows - ace of tapes - cass - 4$
red coyote is mose from campfire, busting out some solo stuff for the first time ever on tape. these tracks are discreet vignettes clipped from a large archive of meditation jams he did while spending a summer in iowa. most of these are short and sweet but easy to extrapolate all the way out to infinity. melancholy and curious, it's a show of hands, endless fields and a posthuman summer. comes with a foldout tracklist + zine.
edition of 50. artwork by mose.
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starcircleanatomy - graces - ace of tapes - cass - 4$
this tape is kind of like boiling down the endless house & trance records of my adolescence to their most basic forms and seeding fractals from them. hell's moons, light through glass. i don't know what else to tell you. three tracks recorded live to cassette in 2∞9, held in sewn slips with xeroxed booklet.
edition of 80. artwork by izaak.
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gkfoes vjgoaf - magic days- ace of tapes - cass - 4$
dang. gkfoes is back with another song set. they're heavier on the percussion and rhythm but he's still using all his mysterious pretty samples and weaving that lofi magic across an even larger sound palate this time around. spaced out psych-swag music you can blush to. edition of 100.
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starcircleanatomy - scared sacred - ace of tapes - cass - 4$
scared sacred is kind of an exercise in self-antagonism, an intentional destruction of hours of recordings by way of severe digital and analog transformations as well as layering multiple recordings together. the result is a cracked kaleidoscope techno journey through years of a diverse musical sketchbook.
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luis gutee and his friends + starcircleanatomy - ttmpl - ace of tapes - cdr - 4$
this is a cd that got made for the lg & hf/sca west coast tour that just went down a couple of weeks ago but there's a bunch of these floating around. 8 tracks on each "side". luis' has lots of blurry loops that he's drumming over, spooky lowerfi sounds and short tracks. starcircleanatomy's side is a bunch of straight up zoned out computer sound crystals rotating in a windowsill. comes in vinyl slipcase with a color printout of the gnarly collage up there. edition of 100.
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