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... happy spring everyone !!! to commemorate our favorite season (and to help get this place back to some sort of workable condition) we're having a "spring cleaning" sale !!! please visit the spring (2013) cleaning page to view a list of (recent, mostly 2012) releases that we're now offering at reduced prices (while supplies last, no rainchecks, etc) ...
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 heavy psych 
there are 6 titles on heavy tapes in stock.
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concert-recordings
harsh-noise
lo-fi
analogue-synth

 best of 2007 !!! 
heavy tapes (usa) #ht workblack cs

workbench / black quarter / cornucopialive in san juan” c30 cassette

  • workbench & black quarter - recorded live a the san juan noise fest

  • cornucopia - 30th dic. 2007 cubo 1517 santurce pr
march 2007 release ; sorted tape (wrapped in gorgeous, embossed art) covering a duo set from religious knives / double leopardsmikeworkbenchbernstein and mayablack quartermiller on one side, then a set from jorgecornucopiacastro on the flip, both recorded at the san juan noise fest in puerto rico ...
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workbench & black quarter / cornucopia "live in san juan" c30

the trip from the western part of the island to san juan is smooth and dramatic -- the trees melt away and a metropolitan bulb protrudes. right in the shadow of the bulb is santurce, where the cubo space is a jagged realm of concrete and hyper productive thought and action.

workbench and black quarter were lucky enough to be invited to play in the san juan noise fest and this is a partial document of the evening -- our live set on one side, and puerto rican noise mainstay cornucopia on the other.

a small slice of a magical evening in puerto rico.

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 best of 2007 !!! 
heavy tapes (usa) #ht withdrawal cs

withdrawal methodlive letting” c20 cassette

  • live letting (1)

  • live letting (2)
  • live letting (3)
march 2007 release ; killer tape of scraggly live electronics from drewsince 1972demeter ...
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withdrawal method "live letting" c20

we first met drew from withdrawal method / since 1972 at the first no fun festival -- he was selling tapes and hanging with the nyoukis/brighton crew, and his tapes were killer.

after finding about his music project withdrawal method by a few bootleg live shows and officially released cassettes, we asked drew for a master, and he gave us two live performances -- an optimal way to enjoy his sounds.

rough, live, purely electronic, these two pieces defy description -- just bury your head in the sand and trust us on this one.

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threads:
modern-psych
lo-fi
minimalism-drones
concert-recordings

 best of 2007 !!! 
heavy tapes (usa) #ht jazzfinger cs

jazzfingertour of the moors • volume 1” c60 cassette

  • glasgow 1-8-5

  • london 5-8-5
march 2007 release ; two gorgeous, blown-out drones from the jazzfinger duo of ben jones and hasan gaylani, recorded live in the titular locales on the encoded dates ...
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jazzfinger "tour of the moors volume 1" c60

jazzfinger have managed to span chronology and geography with their destructive path of sonic dedication and abandon.

this tape collects two live performances where the group floats recorders, voices, and electricity through the channels and pipes of a true clutch of old school heads -- a very worthwhile picture indeed.

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february 23rd, 2009


heavy tapes (usa) #ht insayngel lp

insayngelinsayngel” long playing record

  • plastic ancestor
  • dig yer heels
  • lets not forget

  • hows it handle
  • black rock way
december 2008 release ; one-off between the rhythm section of sightings (jon lockie and richard hoffman) and excepter’s caitlin cook & calder martin ...

seeing as excepter’s strong suit has always been their array of squiggly noises &, conversely, sightings’ laser-tight rhythmic structures, this thing has pure win written all over it ... blasted-on-through fidelity helps keep everything gelled, and even when i’m not 100% entirely sold on caitlin’s occasional art-damage / tunnel-void delivery, she squeezes in/out some great cosmic-mantra moves elsewhere ...

tiny edition c/o mike & maya’s heavy tapes ; the last vinyl from them disappeared before i could get in an “eagle” - just sayin’ ...
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insayngel s/t lp

edition of 500, full color printed covers

we saw insayngel play some time in 2008 or maybe the end of 2007 at glasslands. immediately we said to each other "this band needs to have a record out. let's do it." we talked to the band after the gig and they were down -- it was recorded, mastered by our friend todd cavallo, and sent off to the plant. insayngel is calder, caitlin, richard, and john. calder and caitlin are vizusa and used to jam excepter, and richard and john are the brutal rhythm unit of sightings. an intriguing combination of players to say the least, this lp brings a 30th century sound to the history of new york city. the locked, wrecked rhythms, desparate, gorgeous wails, and shredded, anxious guitars are symphonic, undulating, impossible. a serious now vision that impressed us deeply enough to be the first lp we've ever done.

art by calder, pressed in brooklyn, new york.

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threads:
sound-art
experimental-instruments
lo-fi
live-electronic
sound-installation

 best of 2007 !!! 
heavy tapes (usa) #ht grimley cs

tom grimleynever mind the abstention, here's the semi-automatic” c30 cassette

  • somewhere in the blight
  • looks like we raid it
  • i fight the songs!
  • can’t smile without poo! (for hanna h)

  • cashcade
  • transitional surplus
  • i’ll solo for ya
  • foreverless
  • unimaginativeless
march 2007 release ; glad to finally have something in stock from producer (credits include beck, tone loc, that dog, slug, the rentals, babyland, violent femmes, etc ...) / instrument-builder extraordinaire tom grimley ...

here tom shares 30 minutes of raw, boombox-recorded examples of his “automated electronic ensemble” ; a series of lucite-enclosed sound-producing electronic boxes that communicate with each other wirelessly, producing all manner of david tudor-lineage squawk & chatter ... incredible !!!
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tom grimley "never mind the abstention, here's the semi-automatic" c30

this tape is a series of recordings of an automated electronic ensemble - independent agents designed and built by tom grimley to perform his music for him.

side "a" includes studies for the full piece and the full recording of "never mind..." while side b contains "studies for a new trio." both of these recordings are remarkably new and fascinating -- new and unheard voices interact and produce something that warrants close attention -- there are layers of discussion and projection, hums, creaks, whistles, throbs, and more.

first in a planned series of projects with heavy tapes and tom.

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lo-fi
minimal-drones
sound-research
 best of 2005 !!! 
heavy tapes (usa) #ht gematria cs

black quarter / curtis / zaimph / workbenchgematria” double cassette set

  • black quarter
  • curtis
  • zaimph
  • workbench
not unlike the 4 kiss members’ solo albums (ort he melvins for that matter) the leopards four each contribute a solo side to this double-tape box... the whole thing’s dripping with ill-intent; devoid of context we can assume this is a public variant of “group therapy” made audible. fantastic...

housed in a double-bubble blister box ala the recent dronedisco rylan/yeh collab... amazing maya artwork; weird amorphous color-blobs that so perfectly fit the music it’s near-criminal...
heavy tapes press release...
the first of hopefully many cassette only full-length albums by double leopards on heavy tapes. recorded in the summer of 2005. four sides, and we each get one: curtis (chris), black quarter (maya), zaimph (marcia), and workbench (mike) recording something privately and with the band in mind. curtis and black quarter bring it for the first time solo, and workbench and zaimph are clearly channelling some new heavy shit. if you've ever wondered who in double leopards is doing what, this will only make you more confused. these sides take you through vocal worlds and guitar streams, tape hiss and choking organs, beast speak and private conversations. please join us. in double cassette vinyl album with full color artwork, custom labels, and creeped insert.

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