wyz - wyz - bum tapes - cass - 7$
This epic Jam comes from some of the major key players in Europe’s Free-Folk/Improv units, touching on the collective hoedowns of Sunburned Hand of the Man, NNCK and Fuzzed out 70’s Psych Rock communes, this jam session from Finland a few years ago is a one time project called WYZ consisting of Jani (Uton), Jari (Kulkija,Vapaa), Jukka (Rambling Boys), Erno (Garden of Worm) and Veli (Tulasi,Kutomo).These guys channel out a deep, slow building flow of percussion, that grows in size, speed and instruments, steering all member into tranced out submission…
the goat / youth chanpionship - wax hearts melt on / super dreamer infinite being - bum tapes - cass - 7$
A new cassette from the bumtapes international split series, joining together Youth Championships (UK) (Theo from ‘Lasers from Atlantis’ new solo project) and The Goat (US). Theo’s dreamtime organ chords float through both tracks, accompanied by hushed drones, singing symbols and small pockets of freeform drumming his skillful compositions make for a blissful musical journey. On the split side The Goat takes things to a more up-tempo level, creative beats and breaks drive a series of new-age synth work-outs, short otherworldly voice samples and field recordings drop into the mix at times creating a collage of up-lifting transmissions..
archers by the sea - paper light - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Sun faded guitar loops, chiming electronic pulses, synths and vocal echoes drift around each other, building and dropping over distant bass drum rhythms, filling both sides of this tape with beautifully constructed and imaginative songs.
dreamcatcher - thoracic empires - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Opening band for this years Godspeed ATP Festival, Canadian duo Dreamcatcher offer mumbled echoes of subdued glitching and suffocated swirling rotations, vocals burst through with static annihilation, dot matrix printers vomit lost crawling roaches, that climb over the side, up the walls, across ceilings and back down again as their waves repeat faster and faster! As if it were the new euphoria, the world would be even more twisted in a terminator house party kinda way! These guys lay between fire alarm cool and holocaust escape!! Aquatic sci-fi pulses eat at the heart while it pounds to the disintegrating beat…includes Full Fold-out Thoracic Empire! 50 copies
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tempel lunaire - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Tempel Lunaire consists of Stefan Kushima (Cruise Family / Tempel Solaire) Artem Bezukladnikov (Kema / Himroshima Bird Market) Eric Arn (Tempel Solaire / Jandeks european tour bassist) and his wife Vanessa Arn. This alliance transmits some radical omissions of cosmic ritualistic drones and mantra's, buried spirit's groaning from beneath this cakey sweet goo with whisking percussion palpitating in a slowed down grey area rhythm, kinda like a SPK spliced with old skool Skaters. Some sweet subtle breakdowns, with bows and further ascending groans breaking down furthermore into bare room snare pounding before the ecstasy of the Bside. It strays into luscious pulsations that break into your intoxicated state of mind! This sweet sweet 30 minute cassette exudes an other! 40 copies
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innercity / sofie sea & billy a,b - split - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Sofie Cooper (whose music has appeared in many guises throughout the uk underground) & London based artist Billy A,B create an incredibly colourful palette of dreamscape drones, all woven together with battered late night guitars, keyboards, synths and sepia snapshots of memories. The flip side of the tape is Antwerp’s Innercity, the solo project of Hans Dens whose futuristic experimental beats hit you like a wave of pulsating neon colours, the whole side is one long synth journey which flows with a Kosmiche current in a New Age Ocean.. 40 copies
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men diamler live - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Bumtapes is more than pleased to present the first ever record of the incredible men diamler live experience. the permatouring south west tornado has electrified audiences up and down the country with a mix of hushed spirituals and blood flecked blues stomp holler, With lyrics that mix quiet wisdom with surreal black humour delivered by a unique and vibrant voice you owe it to yourself to see him in the flesh. This is the next best thing. two full sides of the cream of his recent tour... highly recommended .
limited 65 copies
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offensive orange - brown future - bum tapes - cass - 7$
brand new release from David Payne and Matthew Boughner's Offensive Orange twoo full sides of beautiful tape destruction, burned guitar and dirty electronics totally blown away by this one, sounds like the sci-fi soundtrack to oblivion, hiding in some bunker as the world crackles and burns overhead…..edition of 40…
www.myspace.com/offensiveorange
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chicaloyoh – thorns - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Alice Dourlen’s phantom vocals and otherworldly guitar comes echoing straight from the heart. Her spiritual offerings manifest themselves into a series beautiful psychedelic songs accompanied by pounding drums and spiralling outer space keyboards they create a very haunting personal album. Limited to 25 copies
skullbong / zodiac toys – split - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Canada’s Skullbong lay down a long side of live claustrophobic electronic compositions including a live radio transmission. Zodiac toys are from Bristol, proof that high-grade and low-fi do mix. Limited to 25 copies
fossil from the sun / a vibrant struggle - bum tapes - cass - 6$
"a vibrant struggle" is a collaboration between Norwegians Sindre Bjerga and Jan M. Iversen (aka Bjerga/Iversen) and Dutchman Steffan de Turck (aka staplerfahrer). At the end of September 2007, they spent a long weekend in a wooden cabin up high in the Norwegian mountains, to fill up a pile of tapes with some blissful drones, crackling/clanging electro-acoustics, wood thumping and the occasional guitar picking.
"Fossils From the Sun" is sound recorded in Albany, NY by Ray Hare who also plays in Burnt Hills, Century Plants and with other artists in the Albany experimental community. To date its mostly been created using VW and Mercury guitars, microphones, feedback, fx loops and vocals.
C60 edition of 28
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keijo - what all whom slowly - bum tapes - cdr - 8$
Finland's Keijo offers up another collection of Fractured Guitar explorations and Droning Forest Jams…. Bumtapes is proud to present a Limited to 50 CDR with Twelve Tracks of beautiful music with full colour pasted photo covers....
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carefree eturnum – deep cleaning with roger linn - bum tapes - cass - 8$
Carefree Eturnum is the solo project of Ian Murphy, known for being one half of Gryn Brvs and numerous other noise based projects like Hobo Sonn. Ian slides back into pure drone basics with this release, delivering two sides of drifting tape echoes, organic percussion and gentle shimmering feedback. One to keep an eye out for at this years Colour out of Space.
Limited to 20 copies
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patriotic window klings – double tiger - bum tapes - cass - 7$
Second release from the North Carolina duo. Nine tracks of loose but incised guitar meandering and vivacious electronic clamor punctuated by the occasional vocal flourish. Hammering their stake into the same ground as Blues Control, Aaron Dilloway and even late 80s Buttholes.
Limited to 25 copies.
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Murky underwater tape collages, haunted siren feedback, ghostly vocals, ancient lumbering figures sifting through the rubble. Joshua McAbee creates the most incredible experimental soundscapes, sounding like the perfect field recording beamed back from a crumbling futuristic Babylon.
Limited 20 copies
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