674.fm: FUNKT sessions – superpolar Taïps / bleed Air

Author: bleed Air
Date: 24. May 2023
Categories: Events, Radio/Mixes

Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 16:00-18:00 CEST, Dirk Specht (Therapeutische Hörgruppe, Miniklon) and Georg Dietzler (artist, curator, gerngesehen.de) welcomed bleed Air, i.e., well … me, the guy who runs the superpolar Taïps label and also produces music as bleed Air, to FUNKT Sessions on Cologne, Germany’s 674.fm for a two hour live broadcast.

As part of the programme announcement, Georg wrote:

“Experimental pop music on cassettes” – superpolar Taïps is a micro-label, non-commercial, not-for-profit, with a preference for unusual, rarely heard music on cassettes which don’t have much relevance in the mainstream but are becoming increasingly popular in independent and experimental music scenes. 

Limited edition cassettes, albums, EPs and – a special format – so-called ‘cassingles’, indeed cassette singles, within the framework of a series that will culminate in a compilation in 2024, have been and are still being released. 

WCR Dark Train C19#87 – bleed Air/superpolar Taïps Mix – 06-12-21

Author: bleed Air
Date: 11. December 2021
Categories: Radio/Mixes

With huge thanks to Dark Train host Kate Bosworth for the invite!

Kate Bosworth / Dark Train

  • f5point6 – Charting Unknown Constellations
  • Ffion – Lights That Burn Twice As Bright
  • Lisa Bella Donna – (Excerpt) Atagahi, of the Great Smoky Mountains
  • Kindly Spoken Thieves – Rheostat
  • Ordnance Survey – Connolly Station December 1962

bleed Air / superpolar Taïps

  • bleed Air – proper time – time, ferocious (superpolar Taïps 2021)
  • Ardor – Flux – Split w/ Smylex Attack (Strategic Tape Reserve, 2021)
  • Therapeutische Hörgruppe Köln – Enchanted Isle of Entanglement (Flexi postcard single, self-released)
  • Gordan – Seediq – Down In The Meadow (Morphine, 2021)
  • Adderall Canyonly – Thine Hands Rend As Well As Reap – Stand Alone And Burn (Opal Tapes)
  • Field Tape – Yellow – Ambient Journal (Yellow), self released
  • Leaaves – Another Bright Nothing – Asleep for a YearB side (Cassette single, superpolar Taips, Dec 2021)
  • The Incidental Crack – I lost it – Detail (Anticipating Nowhere Records, 2021)
  • Guybrush – Distrazione – Music for queuing at the supermarket (SØVN Records, 2021)
  • Phirnis – Gated Communities – Non Traumatic Events, split with Chorchill (Submarine Broadcasting, 2021)
  • Ergo Phizmiz featuring Depresstival – Scream If You Wanna Go Faster – Plaza Centraal (Strategic Tape Reserve, 2021)
  • The Fall – New Face in Hell – Grotesque (Rough Trade, 1980)
  • Jacques Palminger & 440Hz Trio – Die Kirschblütenrakete (Staatsakt, 2016)
  • Carsten Erobique Meyer – Schottys Traum – Tatortreiniger Soundtracks (A Sexy Records, 2018)
  • The Tuesday Night Machines – The Long Way Down – Roof Tent Rhythms (Strategic Tape Reserve, 2019)
  • Schmitz & Niebuhr – Pinky – The Very Best Of (superpolar Taïps, early 2022)
  • Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem and the Art Ensemble of Chicago – Lettre à Monsieur le Chef de gare de la Tour de Carol – Comme à la radio (Saravah, 1969)
  • Hualun – 野兽 – An Elephant Sitting still Soundtrack (?, 2018)
  • Can – Mother Upduff – Unlimited Edition (Harvest/Caroline, 1969,1976)

Kate Bosworth / Dark Train

  • JayetAL – Typewriter
  • The Loved One – Paradox Zn
  • Apta – We Tire
  • Crisp Packet Jackets – (Excerpt) Opposition Is Obsolete
  • dogs versus shadows – Futura (1972)
  • mold omen – duality of the zookeeper
  • Maxx Silver – Visionary
  • Southfacing – Muted Response
  • Zyklus – Porridge Funnel

Mix for Gated Canal Community on Reform Radio

Author: bleed Air
Date: 12. September 2021
Categories: Radio/Mixes

Justin Watson, 1/3 of The (wonderful) Incidental Crack invited me to a guest mix on his (and Spenser Tomson’s and Becca’s) Gated Canal Community show on Manchester’s (equally wonderful) Reform Radio.

Listen below and read more here.

End of Year/Label Mix For I Heart Noise

Author: bleed Air
Date: 18. January 2021
Categories: Radio/Mixes

With big thanks to Ilya for inviting me.

The following text is more or less freely stolen from ihrtn.net.

I Heart Noise is a record label, a Youtube channel and a blog based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They put out physical records and digital compilations, book/film live shows, write reviews and conduct interviews with artists/independent record labels.

They also have a sister label called Fish Prints (which I really like and regret that I haven’t included it in my mix) that puts out records by Barbara Morgenstern, After Dinner, Lida Husik and many others.

Check them out.