… or buy directly for 10€ + shipping 2.35€ (Germany), 4.50€ (Europe) or 5:00 (worldwide). “The music is both atmospheric and aggressive, although the bleeping strikes me as more ambient than kosmische. Either way, a cool tape.”Byron Coley in The Wire 475, September 2023 GhostEP / Dead Man (split) by bleed Air / Hualun（花伦） — […]
Perkins & Federwisch …something known as music
…something known as music by Perkins & Federwisch Perkins and Federwisch are an electronic pop duo inspired by other electronic pop duos, such as Modern Talking and Captain & Tennille. After a brief foray into educational audio systems, on their third studio album the pair return to entertainment music, specifically sentimental ballads and pop standards. […]
Hotline / Weltempfanger [Cassingle #34] by Ball Geographie]
Hotline / Weltempfanger (Cassingle #34) by Ball Geographie (Translated from the German original, see below) For the Cassingle Series, Ball Geographie contributes two tracks from an abandoned 90ies project which were rearranged and recorded especially for the superpolar Taïps label. Originally, they were part of a two-hour prog-rock musical dealing with the cultural history of […]
Kaput Magazine Premieres Video Clip ‘Chayyam’ from Guido Möbius’s forthcoming cassette album on superpolar Taïps
Watch below (and read a short interview with Guido at kaput-mag.com (in German)):
Orca, Attack! – You Won’t Remember This [Cassingle #29]
Read some reviews: the Quietus, Vital Weekly and Further.
Hualun（花伦）- Dawn [Cassingle #27]
superpolar Taïps is very happy to welcome Hualun to the cassingle series. While they modestly call themselves ‘a rock band from China since 2004’, their oeuvre offers so much more. Multiple influences from Krautrock, Minimal and Experimental form the mesmerising soundscapes you can listen to on this cassette single, but also on their other releases. […]
bleed Air – time, ferocious
Concepts of time, in (tape) music. Time as physical quantity, the nature of time as defined by general relativity, the resulting model of spacetime (German: Raumzeit) and ripples therein caused by gravitational waves. Time dilation, time offset, time measurement. Present, future, past. An attempt to approach the complex subject of time and spacetime sonically, using […]
Stichflamme Dormagen – Ihre Meinung ist uns wichtig
‘Ihre Meinung ist uns wichtig‘ is the artist’s debut under his Stichflamme Dormagen moniker and, in Vital Weekly’s words, “a most curious piece of voices, chanting exotically, along with wooden drum percussion and line hum for electronic component (…)” as well as “urgency and weirdness at work.” (www.vitalweekly.net/1294.html) Stichflamme Dormagen is the mischievous incarnation of […]
Carnedd Aur – Beetles
Following the long sold-out ‘Blessing of the Hand-Sanitizer’ cassingle, superpolar Taïps is very happy to present the first full-length release by prolific and versatile artist Simon Proffitt, here under his Carnedd Aur moniker. Here’s Simon’s take on ‘Beetles’: “After a few years of exploring drones / tones / field recordings (as Cahn Ingold Prelog), fictional […]
Modelbau – Aether Aleatorica (C60)
Released 4 June on Tape and digital. An eerie radiophonic trip.
a long awakening [Cassingle #18]
Guitarist extraordinaire Cinchel from Chicago joins the cassingle series! Read more …
Zigra – Enif [Cassingle #19]
Fantastic Electronics, knob twiddling and meticulous glitching by Jamie Orlando (Delaware – USA).
Emerging Industries Of Wuppertal – The Future Is Under Control [Cassingle #17]
Emerging Industries Of Wuppertal’s Cassingle debut. Recorded by a sales intern of fellow Cologne Strategic Tape Reserve, who occasionally produces music for a nearby industrial association to use during meetings and celebrations.
The Tuesday Night Machines – Chondrite [Cassingle #16]
To quote the artist “Dip your toes into the sparkling pixel pond and listen to more synthetic octopus noise …” and add, from my side, “by the visiting the release page embedded below or TTNM’s lovely Youtube channel.”
Phirnis – Culinary Delights [Cassingle #15]
Oops. A maxi cassingle. Phirnis aka Kai Ginkel’s super dark, noisy and haunty tracks are awesome, but impossible to squeeze into two minutes and thirty seconds. So for once I break the otherwise strict rule. Further info on the BC release page …
Sinusoidal Frequency Modulations by Robin Barnick
A minimal synth EP, garnished with harsh noise, composed entirely on a Yamaha DX7. Despite the minimal setup, it creates an intense, sometimes uplifting, sometimes eerie atmosphere.. We believe that you’ve rarely heard the DX7 like that before. Artist Robin Barnick sold his DX7 a long time ago – it was a rocking DX7IIFD in […]
Cassingle #6: moduS ponY [SPT08]
I first came across modus pony’s music on a split tape released by Cologne’s Strategic Tape Reserve. His genre-spanning, intricate guitar/bass/synth arrangements immediately stood out (of course next to the artist behind VLK, whom we’ll welcome soon as part of this cassingle series too). Because of its complexity, “Systemmetry/2Systemmetry” could be perceived as a concept […]
Cassingle #3 – Harald Sack Ziegler [SPT05]
25 Artists. 25 C-5 (that’s 2:30 per side) cassettes with two tracks (exclusive B-side). Strictly limited to 10 hand-dubbed copies each. Custom design. superpolar Taïps proudly presents the third release of its Cassette Single series. superpolar.org/2020/10/20/the-spt-cassingle-series/ The number of his entries on discogs is 49 – in reality there are innumerable and probably half of them […]