Ohio Taste Test
10.15.14 by Mike Haley

Ohio! The 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated, of the 50 United States. State fruit: Tomatoes. State reptile: The Black Racer. And now we welcome the unofficial state double cassette, “Ohio Volume One”, released this month by native sons Polar Envy and SKSK.

16 artists either currently living in, or native to, The Buckeye State contributed tracks to this beast of a compilation that spans a C42 and C36. Top shelf ambassadors from Cleveland (Collapsed Arc, Witchbeam, Plague Mother, Blackfire), Dayton (Developer, Shredded Nerve, Being, Inbreeder), Columbus (Imvixor, John Also Bennett, Mark Van Fleet, Ryan Jewell), and various zones like Oberlin and Kent (C. Kirkendall, The Nevari Butchers, interstates (etc.), and Moth Cock) all stepping up to do their hometown good with a heavy focus on desolate sounds.

Another fantastic documentation of the Ohio noise scene to go along with past offerings like the Clevo documentary “City/Ruins: Art in the Face of Industrial Decay” (Live Bait Recordings), “1913 Flood Collective” 6xCS box set (Community College), and the “Ohio Feathers” split cassettes from Pizza Night to name a few. “Ohio Volume One” is limited to 200 copies and available for $15 to Americans, $18 to Canadians, and $23 to everyone else. Ordering info is available here, full stream below.