Exclusive Releases - 2024:
We are thrilled to welcome the following incredibly diverse roster of artists, bands and labels for this year's relaunch of Cassette Week UK, with these exclusive tapes that will all launch only at selected indie stores & retailer between 14th - 20th Oct 2024...
If you are an indie store or stockist who would like to carry any of these titles, get in touch.
Various: tape51.
A state51 Conspiracy Compilation (CON989C)
The first label compilation of global and homegrown sounds by the state51 Conspiracy. The state51 Conspiracy is a completely independent, one-stop music company and this is the first compilation of tracks released on our label. Recent highlights include the earliest electronic music ever made in India, aka the NID TAPES, Pitchfork favourites BLUE BENDY, Indonesian doom courtesy of SENYAWA and even 60s legend, DONOVAN,
Artists contributing to tape51:
MEMORIALS, Blue Bendy, Trim & Starkey, Abstract Concrete, nijuu, Legss, Bingo Fury, Donovan, shishi, Senyawa, Atul Desa,
Better Corners, Vanishing, Wacław Zimpel, Santaka, Manfredas, Marijus Aleksa,
Shit and Shine, UKAEA feat. Dali de Saint Paul, AGAAMA, Anushka Chkheidze,
Follow: @state51
Bod Liqbt: Eat Dirdt (Tremolo Projects - TREM19)
Eat Dirdt is a new EP of 4 (with bonus tracks for the tape release) sci-fi wave / post rock songs on coca-brown cassette with an 0-card cover. Bod Liqbt are a London based 2-piece that create cinematic, epic but dirty songs that poke around the edges of several genres, including ambient, rock, synth wave, sci-fi wave and spoken word. Eat Dirdt is their 2nd EP. Recorded across a two year period, Eat Dirdt mixes field recordings, synthesised soundscapes, drum loops and guitar with lyrics developed from a collaborative process, asking artists and writers to respond to the concept of ‘microbial writing’. The resulting words were edited across the EP with a range of processes: spoken, sung, processed by synthesisers and submitted to random and chance-based processing.
Follow: @marktremolo
Broken Candles: Falling Asleep In The Sky (Cruel Nature Records - CN333)
New 10 track album of poetic and emotive slowcore indie-rock, on exclusive blue cassette tape with full shell coverage digital print. Broken Candles is the slow burning solo project of Luca Corda, which first took shape whilst traveling and working in Canada around 2018, later escaping to a central Portuguese countryside village for a season of recording in a friend's barn. This new album sees Broken Candles taking a more expansive approach to the recording process. In contrast to the mostly acoustic debut, on this album we find ourselves immersed in soft electric guitar tones, piano, violins, played out instrumental sections and soundscapes, underpinned by driving drum kit and bass for most of the ten tracks.
Follow: @brokencandlesmusic
Follow: @cruelnaturerecs
Coppé: *(Un-) / tweaked. (compiled) (Mango + Sweetrice - MSR022C)
Coppé (”The legendary Godmother of Japanese Electronica”) releases an exclusive & unique compiled edition of her most recent two full-length albums:(Un-)tweaked. - A full-lounge live band album of classic Jazz standards, originally released in 2022, and ( -)tweaked. - it’s 2024 full Electronic remix album sister, featuring such iconic names as PLAID, LUKE VIBERT, ATOM™, FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER, MICHAEL FAKESCH (Funkstörung) and more. *(Un-)/tweaked. (Compiled) is issued as a dual-colour cassette (one album per side), in a deluxe outer sleeve, with artwork originally by The Designers Republic™, and features two bonus remixes.
Follow: @coppeski
Visit: sweetrice.com
DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ: Destextrinum
(Spells On The Telly - SPELLS58)
DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ, now on her tenth major album release (not including EPs and remixes), her ninth album being Destiny released in 2023, followed by alternate versions, one of them being Destextrinum, a reimagining of sorts. This exclusive release captures the full 23½ minute Destextrinum album experience on cassette tape for the first time. Destextrinum is in example of DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ’s ability to eclectically upcycle ideas to make for an alternate soundscape. This 22 track reinvention of Destiny absolutely stands as a brand new album and listening experience in its own right. A journey crossing different borders of music, sound and genre, released here on exclusive purple cassette
Follow: @djsabrinatheteenagedj
Funkstörung: Mischmasch
(Musik Aus Strom™ - MAS25.25C)
Legendary German Electronic Glitch-hop duo, Funkstörung (famed for their acclaimed remix work for the likes of Björk, Wu-Tang Clan and Jean-Michel Jarre) release their first original title in nine years, following the relaunch of their iconic 90s-00s label, Musik Aus Strom™ in 2022. For Cassette Week UK 2024, the duo present Mischmasch - a mysterious ‘Mixtape album’ composed from 14 lost & unreleased Funkstörung originals, demos and unnamed remixes of uncredited guests, originally produced between 1999 - 2004, Here fully remastered with all new artwork and deluxe packaging by The Designers Republic™
Follow: @funkstorung_officiaL
Follow: @musik_aus_strom
Hidden Fort: Dreams From The Roller Palace (Pleasant Place - PP001)
A fantasy tour of an early 20th-century palace of leisure told in glistening ambient. The debut album from Hidden Fort, Dreams from the Roller Palace, is a fantasy journey into a realm of richly textured ambient music. Recorded at Maida Vale Studios — once London’s premier roller skating venue — the duo reacted to the space and its history, summoned ghosts, raised dust, and let it settle. Dreams from the Roller Palace additionally marks the launch of the all new Pleasant Place label for 2024, with further cassette projects due soon.
Follow: @pleasant___place
Visit: pleasant.place
Kicked In The Teeth: The Best Of... (2019-2023) (Rare Vitamin - VITAMIN50)
The first ever band to release via Rare Vitamin Records celebrate the label's 50th release with an exclusive ‘Best Of...’ compilation! This exclusive 12 track collection contains various tracks from each recording session since the label started in 2019. Released on 'Neon Green' cassette with double sided J card in black-back case. This Cheshire based 'Punky Hardcore' four-piece have supported the likes of 'The Queers', 'The Attack', "SNUFF' and 'UK Subs' amongst others, throughout their five+ year existence. Featuring ex members of 'The Business' & 'Incisions', they already have two Rebellion festival appearances to their name.
Follow: @kickedintheteeth_band
Follow: @rare_vitamin_records
The Kidney Flowers: Then Kidney Flowers / Burn Your Furniture (Rare Vitamin - VITAMIN49)
Previously only available on vinyl via 'Never
Found Records', this is the 1st time Glasgow's 3 piece Garage Punkers, The Kidney Flowers have released a cassette version of their eponymous debut album and follow-up, Burn Your Furniture. Both albums available on the same cassette. Comes in split RED/YELLOW shell with fully printed O-Card.
Follow: @thekidneyflowers
Follow: @rare_vitamin_records
Lucifer Sky: नरगिस | Narcissus (Self released)
An 11 track album of multi-instrumental, experimental drone, harsh noise and trauma electronics, from the ghost town itself - Coventry based multimedia artist, producer, performer and musician, Lucifer Sky, aka: Indira Lakshmi Prasad. Each tape comes complete with uniquely personalised, artwork by Lucifer Sky.
Follow: @indira_lucifer_sky
Martin Phone: reXXims (Bit-Phalanx Remixes: 2008-2020) For: HK119 / Coppé / Barbara Morgenstern / Kelli Ali
(Bit-Phalanx Music - BITP029C)
A founding artist of Bit-Phalanx Music, Martin Phone (aka: Electronic Music producer & pianist, Stefan Inglis) has always been one of the first to participate in the many external remix projects the label have contributed to their various friends and collaborators since 2007. With his signature glitch & breaks, and waves beautifully melodic, neo-classical piano, Martin Phone releases reXXims - A compilation of said remixes for our dear female friends.... Björk-endorsed. Finnish DIY-electro multimedia artist, HK119, Coppé (“The legendary godmother of Japanese Electronica”), acclaimed, German electro-folk producer & pianist, Barbara Morgenstern, and beloved former Sneaker Pimps frontwoman, Kelli Ali.
Follow: @martin.phone / @bitphalanx / @coppeski @heidi_kilpelainen119 / @barbarellamorgenstern / @kellialiofficial
OKRAA: Fathom
(Shadow Puppet - SHWP001)
Limited edition reissue (previously only available in South America) and praised by BBC, NTS, and Spotify's Best of Experimental 2020. This UK exclusive tape of OKRAA's Fathom is a 5-track EP featuring sonic landscapes and electronica that delve into personal reflection. The EP saw Radio support through the globe, spanning from Tom Ravenscroft on BBC 6 Music to Siglo 21 RTVE in Spain and Busy P on NTS Radio. The EP’s hypnotic rhythms also garnered praise from Dave Clarke on White Noise and placement on Spotify's 'Best of Experimental' 2020 playlist. Crafted without computers, Fathom is a raw exploration of emotional depth, mirrored in the name, which refers to both measuring depths and understanding mental complexity.
Follow: @okraa_
Raw Umber: Goodbye Runner
(Tremolo Projects - TREM20)
Limited edition, 4 track guitar and synth, dark ambient cassette EP release. Raw Umber are a two piece (that have recently recruited drummer, but that’s a story for the future) from Clapton, London. MTG wields guitar and programs beats while MS plays modular synths and programs even more beats. This is the pair’s third group together, this time keeping it simple with a 2up approach. The group have a gentle sound on this release - quiet humming Lofi guitar is juxtaposed by pointed and sometimes distorted synth lines, or by a quiet field recording played back from a cassette dictaphone with drum machines occasionally calling through
to punctuate the rhythms. It’s all a slow haze that swirls in the head late on a hot summer night.
Follow: @marktremolo
Saaaz: lov4ver
(Echo World)
Saaaz’s latest album, lov4ver, serves as a masterful culmination of their previous works, blending Lo-Fi Hip Hop, Bedroom Pop and Downtempo stylings with profound emotional and spiritual themes. lov4ver is not merely a follow-up, but a grand finale to the thematic trilogy, established by the previous releases Aqua, Mood, and Break My <3. Where Aqua explored the fluidity of emotions, Mood delved into mental states, and Break my <3 focused on the complexities of love, lov4ver unites these threads; presenting a holistic view of love and attachment. lov4ver is released on limited edition sage and rose coloured shells, made from predominantly recycled materials.
Follow: @saaazuk
Follow: @echoworld.co
Coppé - Fever (Tweaked Remix by Atom™)
Taken from the Cassette Week UK 2024 exclusive double-album,
*(Un-) / tweaked (Compiled)
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ
- Taken With Being On My Own At The End
Taken from the Cassette Week UK 2024 exclusive cassette album,
Destextrinum
The Kidney Flowers - Legs Running
Taken from the Cassette Week UK 2024 double-album split tape release,
The Kidney Flowers/Burn Your Furniture
OKRAA - Psique
Taken from the Cassette Week UK exclusive EP reissue,
Fathom
Saaaz - For A Reason
Taken from the Cassette Week UK exclusive tape EP,
lov4er
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