… 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） — […]
Out now: moduS ponY – Fleeced of their Wares
Fleeced of their Wares by moduS ponY “Cologne/LA cassette label superpolar Taïps released the wonderful ‘Fleeced of their Wares’ by moduS ponY who sounds like a wibbly, very minimal Lambchop… with no singing.” — Neil Mason, Moonbuilding Mag, Issue Four, 2023 “There’s this shed out in the desert. They keep breaking in and taking stuff. […]
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. […]
Xqui feat. Mat Smith – All The T-Shirts I Wore In Lockdown in cooperation with Mortality Tables
A unique cooperation with Mat Smith’s Mortality Tables imprint and outsider electronic artist Xqui in context of the now ending cassingle series. All The T-Shirts I Wore In Lockdown [Cassingle #35] by Xqui Concept Notes by Mat Smith: “On March 19th 2020, the company I worked for asked me to work from home with immediate […]
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 […]
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)):
Now available: Therapeutische Hörgruppe – Dance Tilt / Trance Tilt [Cassingle #28]
“the saturation, the saturation is short at the bottom and crooked at the top.”
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 […]
Modelbau – Aether Aleatorica (C60)
Released 4 June on Tape and digital. An eerie radiophonic trip.
Cruel Diagonals – Carapace [Cassingle #14]
“‘Carapace’ and ‘Oneiric Amplitude’ (Side B, bonus track) are tracks composed entirely from my voice. Here, I’m exploring themes of the subconscious, namely the dream state and its ability to communicate vital shifts within our healing before our conscious mind becomes aware of them”, says Megan Mitchell. She composes unsettling, ethereal music under the alias […]
Aros E-V – Rift [Cassingle #12]
Aros E-V is the ambient music project of sound artist Ryan Evans. Using tape loops, field recordings, and digital processing, he creates slow sound pieces that underline the passing of time. ‘In Time’ and ‘In Space’ are edges and breaks. Assembled with guitar, four-track, and digital processing, They trace the negative space between miniscule sonic […]
Cassingle #2 – The Master Musicians of Dyffryn Moor [SPT04]
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 second release of its Cassette Single series. The Master Musicians of Dyffryn Moor are a ragtag band of percussionists from a parallel Wales where rituals and folklore […]
The Cassingle Series
Updated 11 September 2023 35 Artists. 35 cassette singles. Exclusive B-sides. Individual artwork. A limited number of hand-dubbed copies per tape and artist. Eventually, all tracks will be released on a compilation (digital/cassette), planned for sometime in 2024. That’s the SPT Cassingle series in a nutshell. The first two batches of three were released on […]
bleed Air (SPT02)
bleed Air’s debut full-length is a mix tape blending dark ambient, playful electronica as well as experimental beat and drone. A journey into warm, analogue noise, echo and soundscapes, sometimes resembling a soundtrack for a yet to be filmed low budget sci-fi movie. When Robot choirs start singing or broken analogue circuits and filters start […]
Ball Geographie – Live at Budokan (SPT01)
Many references and elements come to mind when trying to describe Ball Geographie’s music: From Chamber Pop to Disco. From Lo-fi to High-End. Found sound referencing the likes of Studio Braun. Fully conscious use of presets, but only when they make full sense. Beats. No improvisation, everything is always structured to the maximum. 80ies vibes, […]