Decayed Tape Music

[Otomo_Hava]

This topic is according to mangled, manipulated, looped, destroyed tape music in all genres (Post-Industrial, Musique Concrete, Abstract etc.)

Which are your favourite albums that based/created strictly upon those?
Which artists + works do you think they are essential to listen to/own?

[burdizzo]

I was just listening to Operating Theatre's 'Finestra', and it seems to fit the bill. Plenty of ascending and descending tape spooling noise on that, I'd have thought. It was on the same record as 'Rapid Eye Movements', which is itself another tape piece, but more 'spacious', I suppose. It's quite an old one - originally issued in the early '80s, but still gets played the odd time. Roger Doyle (of Operating Theatre) also had CDs reissued by Artware w/ plenty of tape work - God, probably about 25 years ago now. Yikes!
Perhaps not the sort of thing you're talking about?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I've been listening a lot of current Swedish noise stuff. Tape works compilations, Altar of Flies, Blodvite, Sewer Election etc etc. Danish works as Klaus Hansen's tape recycling works etc. Many has been commented on playlist or other topics.

Tape, in many ways, have still so many qualities that can be attempted to imitate, but hardly possible to replace best qualities of tape.

[Duncan]

Quite a lot of completely fucked tape stuff happening on this

http://exoticpylonrecords.greedbag.com/buy/the-long-rain/

[Piety and Iron]

Tape manipulation work that I love is as suggested above, Klaus H Hansen from Denmark is truly remarkable artist of recent time. I feel he has created something truly special in his sound when I listen to the recent CD on FA.

Another great sound for me is the SSHe retina stimulants and Mark Solotroff, 'excellent manipulation of distorted tape death'. Such amazing tape distortion. I love the way the sound bites at the edges and the 'wall' approach on tape always has so much depth that you wont find other places.

Finally Brian Eno and Robert Fripp have a bootleg live album where you hear some early synth drone material from eno with a good reel to reel tape saturation on the loops.

Thanks for posting this thread Otomo. It is a topic that I love. What about you own listening? Do you have some personal favorite of tape work?

[Otomo_Hava]

Thanks for posting this thread Otomo. It is a topic that I love. What about you own listening? Do you have some personal favorite of tape work?

You're welcome.

There are quite many works and artists which i appreciate and adore. Some titles i can thing right now are Aaron Dilloway's Modern Jester (LP/CD version), Sewer Election's Kassettmusik CD (Wishing also for a collection including albums + compilation tracks from Dan's tape music) + Altar Of Flies' Let New Life Rise In The Face Of Death CD and i appreciate artists who works on tape, known and unknown, like those i've mentioned + Howard Stelzer, and also into Musique Concrete composers mostly French + Japanese composers without underestimating anyone else from any other nationalities.

[Piety and Iron]

It took me a while to remember the name of this:

William Basinski. I am sure he is well known to many but here well known for some classic ambient loop work where the original master tapes of early began to decay and fall apart during the archiving process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFWme9D6LkQ

[tinnitustimulus]

Sick Llama, though I don't know what album to suggest, there isn't really duds from what I have bought, and I have at least ten things from him.

here's some good examples of his tape work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojl6F7yoR0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWuGDOQpYb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwUJd9UXfc4

[whiteheatnoise]

http://turmericmagnitudes.bandcamp.com/

Not all tape-based music, but there are several selections that are great examples of corroded tape music. The label is based out of San Francisco and has been quite prolific in its first year of operations. I carry several titles in the Skeleton Dust distribution for anyone interested.

[Piety and Iron]

Sick Llama, though I don't know what album to suggest, there isn't really duds from what I have bought, and I have at least ten things from him.

Yup! Dope junk noise. Lots of tape distortion.