Decoherence Enters The Cassette World
5.7.15 by Mike Haley

Brooklyn-based Decoherence Records is a damn fine label. It’s a relatively new operation that has released two killer LPs (by tape contortionists Form A Log and mind-zappers Mincemeat or Tenspeed) and a 7″ from label head MP Lockwood’s Radio Shock project. All are currently available. All are awesome sounding. All are awesome looking. Yes, all is awesome, but no tapes!? Why no tapes?! You fucking tell me why no tapes right fucking n… What’s that? Ahhhhhh, TAPES! And just like that Decoherence dips their big hairy toe into the pool of cassette peddlers. Up for order at this moment, officially “out” on the 12th of May, are Deco’s first two cassette releases by the underground/in the sewers acts Some Pepper and Sunk Heaven.

Some Pepper is a Philadelphia resident listed in the label description only as Daby (sorta like Cher or Beavis). My only taste testing of Daby’s work was a crazy good tape released a couple of years back on Refulgent Sepulchre where he/her/it belched out crude, unfurling electronics aplenty. The sampling offered up from this here “Nightshades” hour long cassette is very promising indeed. Using “busted consumer electronics and neglected sound gear” Some Pepper stacks and packs crumbly sounds that over stretches of time develop into confused rhythms and mutant melodies.

Sunk Heaven is the solo effort of Austin Julian, who’s name you may or may not recognize from The Sediment Club. Going down a similar road as batch-mate Some Pepper, Sunk Heaven mixes musicality with irrationality, but with a more of a creepy-crawly, trapped in the basement without clean water vibe. Gurgling “guitars”, moldy mics amplifying the environment/a perplexed voice, and random bursts are at the forefront on “Mirrored Confines”. I can’t tell if he is breaking things down or building them up, but I like it either way.

Like I said earlier, when you should have been paying attention, you can order both of these tapes now for seven bones a pop. Both pro-dubbed and lookin’ fine. Head on over to Decoherence and do so, okay!?