My tape collecting of 2018 continued along the same path as 2017. This meant all sorts of sounds made with synthesizers, although the guitar popped up often in a few different sonic shapes and forms. There's also tape loops, drones, noise, techno, and even rock bands such as Complainer and Empath. A bunch of this probably falls under the modern version of new age and I'm fine with that.
I capped any label at two tapes, which made it tough when selecting from Constellation Tatsu, Hausu Mountain, Not Not Fun, No Rent, and Unifactor. I was happy to see that Obsolete Units was back with new cassettes after a couple of years off.
As always any tape had to be released in the calendar year and I had to listen to it a lot. And if you are one of those types who needs a definitive cassette of the year, then that honor goes to Big Bingo by Terlu on Not Not Fun.
The list goes band/album/label for those with questions of that nature.
01. Cinchel - A Sad Study In Temporal Dissonance - Patient Sounds
02. Clear Winds - Music Of The Spheres - Lighten Up Sounds
03. Complainer - Pure Vanilla - Already Dead Tapes
04. Control Point - Another Fool's Paradise - Sprawl
05. Tashi Dorji - Live At The New Vintage - Ultra Violet Light
06. Dravier - Spirit Channels - Not Not Fun
07. Empath - Liberating Guilt & Fear - Get Better Records
08. Housefire - Electrode To Joy - Hot Releases
09. Amanda R. Howland - Spider, Milk, Batshit, Silence - No Rent
10. Lady Shame - Problem Child II - No Rent Records
11. LogarDecay - FRGL - Umor Rex
12. Long Distance Poison - Knock Magh - Hausu Mountain
13. MSHR - Phased Trance Constructions - Unifactor
14. Num - Memory Machine - Dinzu Artefacts
15. OCA - Preset Music - Constellation Tatsu
16. Pleasure Model - The Executive - 100% Silk
17. Poemme - Moments In Golden Light - Constellation Tatsu
18. Potions - Ostinato - Hausu Mountain
19. Quiet Evenings - Espions - Adversary
20. Rogue Squares - s/t - Obsolete Units
21. Matthew Ryals - Machine Memory - Oxtail Recordings
22. Shells - Another Time - Unifactor
23. Slack - Crystal Spirit - Sprawl
24. Terlu - Big Bingo - Not Not Fun
25. Wilted Woman - Trapezoid Tappers - Plastic Bags
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