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Tabs Out | Episode #173 / Top 200 Tapes of 2021
We close out the year with a little help from Angel Marcloid, Ryley Walker, Rachel & Grant Evans (Hooker Vision), Tim Thornton (Suite 309/Tiger Village), Headboggle, and Mike Nigro (Oxtail Recordings).
Fire-Toolz - Eternal Home (Hausu Mountain)
ΜΜΜΔ & ALEM - L’Âge De L’Absolutisme (Antifrost)
Tiger Village - In Stereo III (Suite 309)
DIDA - Ingenuous Scenes (Orange Milk)
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Pretending Eternal (Hooker Vision)
Steve Gunn and Ryley Walker - DRZWI DOORS (Husky Pants)
Bitchin Bajas - Switched on Ra (Drag City)
Headboggle - Digital Digital Analog (Ratskin Records)
Bastian Void - Topia (Oxtail Recordings)
TOP 200 TAPES OF 2021
| 1 | Fire-Toolz – Eternal Home (Hausu Mountain) |
| 2 | Bitchin Bajas – Switched on Ra (Drag City) |
| 3 | Hypertrophy – Fitness Is… (FTAM) |
| 4 | Kouns & Wagner – The 1990 Cincinnati Reds (Spare No Expanse) |
| 5 | Umbra / sZARSz – split (Crash Symbols) |
| 6 | Torben Ulrich & Lori Goldston – Oakland moments: cello, voice, reuniting (rejoicing) (Obscure & Terrible) |
| 7 | Hairbrushing – Unlisted Natural (Obsolete Staircases) |
| 8 | Terrie Ex & Jaap Blonk – OZO BONN (Public Eyesore) |
| 9 | Nina Guo – Blauch Räusch (Unknown Tapes) |
| 10 | V/A – Arc Mountain (Deathbomb Arc/Hausu Mountain) |
| 11 | Giant Claw – Mirror Guide (Orange Milk) |
| 12 | Jeanne Vomitt-Terror – The Hobbyist (Desperate Spirits) |
| 13 | Wood Organization – Drimpro (Gotta Let It Out/Love & Beauty Music) |
| 14 | Lucas Abela – Best Family (Wolves) |
| 15 | claire rousay – Live (American Dreams) |
| 16 | Suryummy – Polynators (Constellation Tatsu) |
| 17 | Awenden / Feminazgul – split (Tridroid Records) |
| 18 | Headboggle – Digital Digital Analog (Ratskin Records) |
| 19 | V/A – Eschatology (No Part of It) |
| 20 | Slack – Fractal Discharge (Refulgent Sepulchre) |
| 21 | Bastian Void – Topia (Oxtail Recordings) |
| 22 | J Soliday – Garble Box (Traced Objects) |
| 23 | Machine Listener – Headfooter (Unifactor) |
| 24 | Sharkula x Mukqs – Take Caution on the Beach (Hausu Mountain) |
| 25 | DJ VLK – Nun Darme Stu Turmiento (Strategic Tape Reserve) |
| 26 | German Army – untitled tape (L.I.E.S.) |
| 27 | Fletcher Pratt – Dub Sessions Vol. 5 (Crash Symbols) |
| 28 | Matt Lajoie – Star Maps (Eye Vybe Records) |
| 29 | GX Jupitter-Larsen, Richard Ramirez & Bosses Hang – Movement Under Construction (Orb Tapes) |
| 30 | Cassilda and Carcosa -Tubes, Transformers, Transistors, & Tape (Ingrown) |
| 31 | John Carlini – Fartmare (Bad Cake Records) |
| 32 | Peter J. Woods – Collages (Oxen) |
| 33 | Angry Blackmen – Reality! (Deathbomb Arc) |
| 34 | Melissa – s/t (Flesh Prison) |
| 35 | BBJr / ARU – Europe 2172 (Personal Archives) |
| 36 | Bulbils – blue forty (Blue Tapes) |
| 37 | —__–___ – The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (Orange Milk) |
| 38 | hyphyskazerbox – Headache Bait (Suite 309) |
| 39 | Various Artists – Gentle Bells (Personal Archives) |
| 40 | ΜΜΜΔ & ALEM – L’âge de l’absolutisme (Antifrost) |
| 41 | Vijay Masharani & Flashlight O – I might have to use this on my landlord (Orb Tapes) |
| 42 | Flanger Magazine – Forgotten Fields (Unifactor) |
| 43 | Soshi Takeda – Floating Mountains (100% Silk) |
| 44 | Dok-S Project – Under a Cloudy Sky (Crash Symbols) |
| 45 | Dida – Ingenuous Scenes (Orange Milk Records) |
| 46 | Orca, Attack! – Learning by Listening Vol. 1: C.M.S.O. (Strategic Tape Reserve) |
| 47 | V/A – Doom Mix Vol. V (Doom Trip) |
| 48 | PAQ – Hyphae (Crash Symbols) |
| 49 | Takahiro Kawaguchi – Recorded Xenoglossy (Pilgrim Talk) |
| 50 | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – Notes Above Land (self released) |
| 51 | Ka Baird – Vivification Exercises I (RVNG Intl/Commend) |
| 52 | Music En Berlin – The Lost Dreams of Em (Black Horizons) |
| 53 | Geomag – Below the River Above the Air (Jollies) |
| 54 | Mazzo – Soft Breeze of Silence (Cudighi) |
| 55 | Carmen Villain – Sketches for Winter IX: Perlita (Geographic North) |
| 56 | Lucy Liyou – Practice (Full Spectrum) |
| 57 | Bill Nace – A-1238 (Dove Cove) |
| 58 | Michael Foster & Ben Bennett – Contractions (Astral Spirits) |
| 59 | Jon Collin – The Fiddler Now Steps to the Road (Unifactor) |
| 60 | Matt Collins – blue one plus (Blue Tapes) |
| 61 | Cloning – Splattertronics (Refulgent Sepulchre) |
| 62 | Baggie – Sour (Haord) |
| 63 | Asian Glow – Cull Ficle (Longinus Recordings) |
| 64 | Terbijn – Eco (Never Anything) |
| 65 | Sophiaaaahjkl;8901 – Silicon Soul (Suite 309) |
| 66 | Matthew Crowe / Marsha Fisher – split (Orb Tapes) |
| 67 | Wendy Eisenberg – Cellini’s Halo (Garden Portal) |
| 68 | Zack Dolin – Dawn of Claymation (Ingrown Records) |
| 69 | Delaware Dan – Marketing Jingles Vol. 2 (KSP Tapes) |
| 70 | Tremorkikimor – Yarugi (Dub Cthonic) |
| 71 | Arushi Jain – Uner the Lilac Sky (Leaving) |
| 72 | Matthew Ryals – Voltage Scores (Oxtail Recordings) |
| 73 | Amulets – Blooming (Flenser) |
| 74 | Rachika Nayar – Our Hands Against the Dusk (NNA Tapes) |
| 75 | V/A – Amethyst (Moon Glyph) |
| 76 | Madam Data – The Gospel of the Devourer (Purple Tape Pedigree) |
| 77 | Q///Q – Cooper Do-Nuts and the City of Night (OTA) |
| 78 | Obsidian Shard – blue thirty-eight (Blue Tapes) |
| 79 | Bran(…)Pos / DJ Head Boggle – split (Rubber City Noise) |
| 80 | XUXWXUX – s/t (Already Dead) |
| 81 | Dear Laika – Pluperfect Mind (Materials Of Distinction) |
| 82 | claire rousay – 17 roles (all mapped out) (Shelter Press) |
| 83 | Wilted Woman – Keychain (Unifactor) |
| 84 | German Army – A Dream Favors Incompleteness (Strategic Tape Reserve) |
| 85 | Landon Caldwell & Nick Yeck-Stauffer – Unity in Isolation (Astral Editions) |
| 86 | MOS-Man – Datasette 1530 (xsec) |
| 87 | piss(dot)com – selfcest (Bodymilk) |
| 88 | FiFac X Dino Crisis – Barcodes (Daft Alliance) |
| 89 | Abby Lee Tee – Hausberg IV-V (Never Anything) |
| 90 | Multiform Palace – s/t (Specious) |
| 91 | Brian Case – Practice Tape (Trouble in Mind) |
| 92 | Camila Nebbia & Patrick Shiroishi – The Human Being As A Fragile Article (Trouble In Mind) |
| 93 | MJ Guider – Temporary Requim (Modemain) |
| 94 | Log Across The Washer – It’s Funny How The Colors (Crash Symbols) |
| 95 | Mad Dog – Swiss Hiss (5CM Recordings) |
| 96 | QNDFK – Central Gray Matter (self released) |
| 97 | Hedra Rowan – Nothing’s Wrong, Now You’re Beside Me Again (Bodymilk) |
| 98 | Eternity Hotline – Super Glue (Outer Grid) |
| 99 | J Hamilton Isaacs – CITYCRAZE//DWEEBCITY (Orb Tapes) |
| 100 | V/A – The Blood of Ancient Gods compilation (Humanhood) |
| 101 | Nick Zanca – Cacerolazo (Full Spectrum) |
| 102 | Arian Shafiee – Pastorale (Constellation Tatsu) |
| 103 | Petteril – CYRE (Puremagnetik) |
| 104 | Night Foundation – Let There Be Light (Flophouse) |
| 105 | Recombinants Feat. Ironing – s/t (Mang-Disc) |
| 106 | Personal Bandana – This Time It’s… (Woodford Halse) |
| 107 | Good Willsmith – HausLive 2: Good Willsmith at Sleeping Village, 4/25/2019 (Hausu Mountain) |
| 108 | Yes Selma – Bliss of Rumik (2020 Records) |
| 109 | Hakobune – Above the Northern Skies Shown (Constellation Tatsu) |
| 110 | Stefano Leonardi & Antonio Bertoni – Viandes (Astral Spirits) |
| 111 | Weather – X-tra Physical (Haord) |
| 112 | Orvang Halmer – World Carousel (Ingrown Records) |
| 113 | Lexagon – Feminie Care (Ratskin Records) |
| 114 | Eyerolls – Burial Mound (self released) |
| 115 | Black Dresses – Forever in Your Heart (self released) |
| 116 | Spednar – Coniunctio (Unifactor) |
| 117 | Anne Laplantine – chéri chance inouïe (Cudighi) |
| 118 | Wobbly – Popular Monitress (Hausu Mountain) |
| 119 | Cactólogo – Vol. II (OTA) |
| 120 | V/A – Warble and Fuzz (Drongo) |
| 121 | Body Image CEO – In these difficult times.... now more than ever... at the end of the day..... Pepsi (Discrepant) |
| 122 | Asemix – s/t (Warm Winter Ltd) |
| 123 | Jeremiah Cymerman / Charlie Looker – A Horizon Made of Canvas (Astral Spirits) |
| 124 | Parannoul / Asian Glow / sonhos tomam conta – Downfall of the Neon Youth (Longinus Recordings) |
| 125 | Hypertrophy – Sarcoplasmic/Myofibrillar (self released) |
| 126 | Lester Grovington – Holding Lines (flophouse) |
| 127 | W.Ravenveer – Fuzzy Hair Electronics Volume 4 (Radical Documents) |
| 128 | Moth Bucket / Women of the Pore – split (FTAM) |
| 129 | Prolaps – Ultra Cycle Series (Hausu Mountain) |
| 130 | V/A – Undercurrents (Oxtail Recordings) |
| 131 | Jordan Reyes – What Is A Ghost? Is It Really Me? (Unifactor) |
| 132 | Filthy Huns – Cursed at Birth (Not Not Fun) |
| 133 | Tara Jane O’Neil – Dispatches from the Drift (Ordinal Recordings) |
| 134 | Alex Cunningham – pas de deux (Working Man Lay Down) |
| 135 | Peter Kris – No Language for the Feeling (Garden Portal) |
| 136 | Ntski – Orca (Orange Milk) |
| 137 | Lighght – Holy Endings (Doom Trip Records) |
| 138 | Mid-Air! – M.G.M.S. (100% Bootleg Cassette Tape Company) |
| 139 | Marsha Fisher – New Ruins (Full Spectrum) |
| 140 | Deuce Avenue – Perennial Fire and Life (Unifactor) |
| 141 | Blank Thomas – Reimagining Micro Acid (Third Kind Records) |
| 142 | Julie Hill – s/t (Galtta) |
| 143 | Instituto Bangara-Rossa Internacional – An Introduction to Bangara-Rossa, Learning by Listening Vol. 2 (Strategic Tape Reserve) |
| 144 | Nancy Bigfoot – Polyester Honey (Already Dead) |
| 145 | Compactor – Hold Music (Waste Management) |
| 146 | Pulse Emitter – Voids (Expansive) |
| 147 | Tiger Village – In Stereo III (Suite 309) |
| 148 | Dennis Young – Grey Umbrella (Gertrude Tapes) |
| 149 | Black Tempel Pyrämid – Ancient Hymns & Incantations (Ethereal Mother Tapes) |
| 150 | Meadow Argus – III (Purple Akronym) |
| 151 | LAMIEE. – Oltra Lament (Never Anything) |
| 152 | Dax Pierson – Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Ratskin Records) |
| 153 | Perkins & Federwisch – One Dazzling Moment (Strategic Tape Reserve) |
| 154 | Phicus – Liquid (Tripticks Tapes) |
| 155 | Seth Kasselman – UV Catamaran (self released) |
| 156 | Skunk Ape – Ground Hums (Drongo) |
| 157 | German Army – Endless Suburb (BFE/Illuminated Paths/Faith Disciplines/Subsist/Soil) |
| 158 | Body Meπa – The Work is Slow (Hausu Mountain) |
| 159 | Pasquarosa/Gerycz – II (Unifactor) |
| 160 | Andrew Weathers – Catalogs: Sound Pieces with Text and 10 Unrealized Scores (Full Spectrum Records) |
| 161 | SSS – s/t (Decoherence Records) |
| 162 | Vernacular – The Little Bird (Astral Spirts) |
| 163 | Mike Nigro – In Communion (Alien Garage) |
| 164 | Rhucle – Royal Blue (Oxtail Recordings) |
| 165 | Unsustainable Social Condition – Limited Targert Set (Absurd Exposition) |
| 166 | Wiggly – If I give you a cherry, the least you could do is spit the pit back into my bowl so’s I can suck on it later, and you don’t have to poke me in the eye with the stem (Cavern Brew Records) |
| 167 | Ŭkcheănsălăwit – Alaskan Escape (Les Productions Hérétiques) |
| 168 | Kim’s Spirit – Blossom Everywhere (Vague Intl) |
| 169 | Új Bála – Hideg Sors (Jollies) |
| 170 | Jacob Winans and Andrea Pensado – Handle With Care (Refulgent Sepulchre) |
| 171 | Nathan McLaughlin – Stoner Lake in G (Full Spectrum) |
| 172 | Bad Trips – Ridgewood Ayahuasca (Already Dead) |
| 173 | Mold Omen – Milk Can’t Die (Steep Gloss) |
| 174 | An Moku – Less (Puremagnetik) |
| 175 | Death Hags – The Alice Tape (self released) |
| 176 | Senyawa – Alkisah (Katuktu Collective) |
| 177 | Raymond Cummings – Modulate Yourself (No Rent Records) |
| 178 | Smolyyaan Dripp – Derty Islo (Sara Laughs) |
| 179 | Marsha Fisher – Cloquet Sketches (self released) |
| 180 | Max Julian Eastman – Pygmalion Styled & Out of Vogue (Tribe Tapes) |
| 181 | V/A – somnoroase păsărele – auto [r] (OTA) |
| 182 | Gardener – I Am Here For A Moment (Trouble In Mind) |
| 183 | Rat Punch – It’s A Drink (Already Dead) |
| 184 | Alex Cunningham – Armor (Storm Cellar) |
| 185 | Greg Hatem – Ghost of Spatula (Bumpy) |
| 186 | Samuel Goff & Mariam Rezaei – The End of the World … Finally (Cacophonous Revival) |
| 187 | Cool Person – Grown Person (Ingrown) |
| 188 | Bardo Todol y sus Aves sin Nido & Anne-F Jacques – Land of Rituals (Presses Précaires) |
| 189 | V/A – Forest Bath (Cudighi) |
| 190 | Casual Observer – Flux (OTA) |
| 191 | Dura – Mercury (Atlantic Rhythms) |
| 192 | Cool Hans Luetke – Dianetic Diabetic! (Personal Archives) |
| 193 | Max Hamel – Sounds of Summer: Field Recordings of Solar Electronics (Refulgent Sepulchre) |
| 194 | Andrew Kirschner – Mirror Thru Haze (Orb Tapes) |
| 195 | Boe J. x Don Certi – Rolling Hill (Bonding) |
| 196 | Shrimp Olympics – It Can Be (Bumpy) |
| 197 | ? Band – Museum Quality Works (Radical Documents) |
| 198 | Dave Phillips – Humanity is the Virus (Tribe Tapes) |
| 199 | Final Cop / Cop Funeral – split (Already Dead) |
| 200 | Titanic II (Suite 309) |
Tabs Out | Episode #172
Feminazgul - split w/ Awenden (Tridroid)
PAQ - Hyphae (Crash Symbols)
Raymond Cummings - Modulate Yourself (No Rent Records)
Zack Dolin - Dawn of Claymation (Ingrown Records)
John Carlini - Fartmare (Bad Cake)
Low - Hey What (Sub Pop)
Jeanne Vomit-Terror - The Hobbyist (Desperate Spirits)
Suryummy - Polynators (Constellation Tatsu)
Ray Monde & J. Novick - s/t (Flophouse)
Dok-S Project - Under a Cloudy Sky (Crash Symbols)
Mistletoe - Syzygy (Mistletoe Productions)
Fire-Toolz - Doom Mix Vol. V (Doom Trip)
Omni Gardens - Amethyst comp (Moon Glyph)
SiP - Amethyst comp (Moon Glyph)
Tabs Out | Episode #171
? Band - Museum Quality Works (Radical Documents)
Hey String - split w/ Anna Homler and Elizabeth Falconer (Blue Tapes)
Tremorkikimor - Yarugi (Dub Cthonic)
Gort - Your Time Will Come (SDM)
Melissa - s/t (Flesh Prison)
Straight Panic - The Blood of Ancient Gods Vol 1 comp (Humanhood Recordings)
Filthy Huns - Cursed At Birth (Not Not Fun)
Baingan Bharta - Bëblex α (Rubber City Noise)
Bob Bucko Jr - You Deserve A Name (Personal Archives)
Sour Spirit - Aluminum Rainbow (Unknown Tapes)
Terrie Ex & Jaap Blonk - OZO BONN (Public Eyesore)
Tabs Out | Bonus Episode: Solving Mysteries with Peter J Woods
Peter J Woods (FTAM Productions) stops by to help identify mystery tapes and play Garfield soundclips
Tabs Out | Episode #170
Flanger Magazine - Forgotten Fields (Unifactor)
Coral Club - Nowhere Island (Not Not Fun)
Id M Theft Able – Folk Or Stereo Separation In Thrift Stores (Mang-Disc)
Satin Spar - Grey Fox Dreamwalk (Shadowtrash Tape Group)
Multiform Palace - s/t (Specious)
XUXWXUX - s/t (Already Dead)
Mamman Sani - Taaritt (Sahel Sounds)
Kim's Spirit - Blossom Everywhere (Vague Intl)
Friemd - s/t (Vague Audio Tapes)
Military Industrial Complex - Victory Garden (Crippled Sound)
Tabs Out | Episode #169
Credo in Deum - Eschatology comp (No Part Of It)
Sharkula x Mukqs - Take Caution on the Beach (Hausu Mountain)
Angry Blackmen & Khaki Blazer - Arc Mountain comp (Deathbomb Arc/Hausu Mountain)
Tunnel Speeches - s/t (Specious)
Night Foundation - Let There Be Light (Flophouse)
Julie Hill - s/t (Galtta Media)
Linda Smith - Untitled (Almost Halloween Time)
DJ Headboggle - split w/ Bran(...)Pos (Rubber City Noise)
Newagehillbilly - Last Call (Tarnished Tapes)
Marsha Fisher - split w/ Matthew Crowe (Orb Tapes)
Supreme Joy - Joy (self released)
Powl Dune - Pattern from Town Beach (self released)
Moth Bucket - split w/ Women of the Pore (FTAM Productions)
Delaware Dan - Marketing Jingles, Vol. II (KSP Tapes)
Tabs Out | Episode #168
Keith Rankin pops in to discuss the undeniable sexual tension of his new Giant Claw recording.
Giant Claw - Mirror Guide (Orange Milk)
Portal - Seepia (Darkness Attacks)
Repulsar - Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off (Stucco)
Duro Double Life - Psyched for the Yin-Yang (Haord)
Cacero Lazo - love in the time of lowercase (Strategic Tape Reserve)
Zac Davis - The Land Of The Sinking Sand (The Gift Of Music)
Torben Ulrich & Lori Goldston - Oakland Moments (Obscure & Terrible)
Jonathan Snipes - Mope (Deathbomb Arc)
Umbra & sZARSz - split (Crash Symbols)
Les Filles de Illighadad - s/t (Sahel Sounds)
Compactor – Hold Music (Waste Management)
Tabs Out | Episode #167
Anthony Saunders and J Soliday stop by to play our (fan favorite) Tape Label or Weed Strain quiz.
Shingles - I Want To Get High / Because I Got High (Baked Tapes)
Fuck Lungs - 2th (Already Dead)
Turner Williams Jr - Seasonal Séance: Vernal Equinox comp (Sweet Wreath)
Skunk Ape - Ground Hums (Drongo Tapes)
Hypertrophy - Sarcoplasmic / Myofibrillar (self released)
Nite Lite - Marlene (Stunned Records)
Personal Bandana - This Time It's... (Woodford Halse)
Knox Mitchell - split w/ Interstates (Etc.) (Green Records and Tapes)
J Soliday - Garble Blox (Traced Objects)
João Orecchia & Sicker Man - Pluton/Neptune (Other Electricities)
Nate Trier + Encym – New Anight (self released)
Tabs Out | Episode #166
Larry Wish - Comb Hair (Bumpy)
Jeff Gregory - Advanced MIDI Projects Vol.1 (Intensive Purposes)
Ancient Boreal Forest - A Relic From The Sands of Time (Out of Season)
Pedestrian Deposit - Debilitant • Erase • Stitching (Monorail Trespassing)
Ûkcheânsâlâwit - Alaskan Escape (Les Productions Hérétiques)
ZekeUltra - From Time (Utica Records)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Notes Above Land (self released)
SR388 - Where No Clouds Go (Bonding)
Ben Varian - Cudighi Sampler Platter III comp
Equimanthorn - Nindinugga Nimshimshargal Enlillara (Les Fleurs du Mal Productions)
Chunyin - A Thousand Tones compilation (Elestial Sound)
Tabs Out | Bonus Episode: Easy Money with More Eaze
With some help from More Eaze we tried to turn cassette tapes into cold hard cash.
