… 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） — […]
674.fm: FUNKT sessions – superpolar Taïps / bleed Air
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 […]
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 […]
O.H.E. [action] b/w R.I.FF. [minox] (Cassingle #33)
Multidisciplinary artist Andreas Gogol first caught our attention with his stunning vocal performances on Guido Möbius‘s album ‘Gebirge’ (Karaoke Kalk, 2009), even if he had been present in the experimental music scene way longer, for example with his album ‘Gorymaaz’, released on A-Musik in 2005. On this cassette single, Gogol appears under the YOCKO O.NE […]
Soundtrack and Marine (Cassingle #31) by Goodparley x Shreddies
Goodparley (Oli Richards) is a formerly Cardiff now London (UK) based musician. His sounds are largely based around improvised ambient guitar loops and textures, manipulated in real-time using various modulating effects to create inherently experimental soundscapes. Shreddies is the alias and solo project of Welsh musician, Josh Dickins. He also runs the cassette label New […]
Wholely Moley (Cassingle #32) by Von Heuser
While A side Wholely Molely has a rather friendly, almost Stereolab-esque key, the B-side shows the abysses of a Covid Lockdown with its dark, rumbling facets. Two very diverse sides of Ambient. Wholely Moley (Cassingle #32) by Von Heuser View this post on Instagram A post shared by superpolar Taïps (@superpolar_taips) More Von Heuser: vonheuser.bandcamp.com
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)):
LLWCHほこり – AURՈսկի
LLWCHほこり says: 15 slushwave interpretations of Carnedd Aur’s greatest hits, to further examine a long-held belief that everything sounds better when it’s slowed down. Original material recorded between 2019 and 2022 and released via superpolar Taïps, Wormhole World and Exotic Spresm. These versions created June 2022, after everyone else had gone to bed. This compilation […]
Orca, Attack! – You Won’t Remember This [Cassingle #29]
Read some reviews: the Quietus, Vital Weekly and Further.
Now available: Therapeutische Hörgruppe – Dance Tilt / Trance Tilt [Cassingle #28]
“the saturation, the saturation is short at the bottom and crooked at the top.”
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. […]
WCR Dark Train C19#87 – bleed Air/superpolar Taïps Mix – 06-12-21
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 […]
Ffion – Lights That Burn Twice As Bright [Cassingle #26]
“Two pieces of music inspired by the many cloud formations and skylines I’ve seen from my home in West Yorkshire. Everything I see here is almost in slow motion and the birds seem to be carrying a great weight as they fly.” Yorkshire, UK based composer Thomas Ragsdale produces under his own name, but also […]
Learning by Listening Vol. 4: Abstruse Theories in Occult Christian Science – presented by bleed Air (C-16, Strategic Tape Reserve)
Abstruse Theories in Occult Christian Science (Learning by Listening Vol. 4) by bleed Air From the liner notes: “On the 4th volume of Learning by Listening, Köln-based bleed Air guides us on a strange, sinister survey of primary source audio documents detailing abstruse scientific postulations emerging from contemporary occult branches of Christianity. Suitable for everyone […]
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 […]
QST cassingle & new bleed Air album
Friday 1 October sees the release of a new Cassette Single by QST, Frans de Waard’s – as he says – ‘failed attempt’ on producing ambient house music. I must say I’m glad he failed since what he produces as QST (with beats) and Quest (w/o beats) is way better than what the genre name […]
Carlos Perea Milla – tactile / distante [Cassingle #22]
CARLOS PEREA MILLA has been creating improvised ambient experiments under the moniker MELQUÍADES since 2016, using tapes, electronics, guitars, harps, field recordings and other sounds. His first two solo albums, ‘Keep A Seed’ and ‘Imaginary Soundscapes / A Map’ were released on CANIGOU RECORDS, the cassette label he has been running from London, Buenos Aires […]
Mix for Gated Canal Community on Reform Radio
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.
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 […]