Read some reviews: the Quietus, Vital Weekly and Further.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 #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 […]