UNKNOWN ARTIST - Unknown Title C36

Scored a few copies of this incredible cassette, yet to research exactly who plays on this release or what country it comes from (any suggestions would be greatly appreciated). 10 sublime songs of warm jazz soaked, I’m guessing 60’s or 70’s Asian pop! Including one of the most romantic sounding love ballads on record! For fans of Mississippi records, Sublime Frequencies etc…

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SECOND FAMILY BAND – Dream Release C33



Another incredible offering from the SFB camp, documenting their huge collective burnouts. side A begins with a Murky laidback basement jam which quickly morphs into a psychedelic banjo romp, and ends with the incredible tropical sounding shamanic title track.

The flip sides drugged up guitar solo and loose percussion keeps the pace for another of the band’s sonic meditations, which all accumulates into the last track’s laid back Dub Vibes, perfectly suited for heaviest smokers soundtrack.

limited to 40 copies

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CAREFREE ETURNUM – Deep Cleaning with Roger Linn. C52



Carefree Eturnum is the solo project of Ian Murphy, known for being one half of Gryn Brvs and numerous other noise based projects like Hobo Sonn. Ian slides back into pure drone basics with this release, delivering two sides of drifting tape echoes, organic percussion and gentle shimmering feedback. One to keep an eye out for at this years Colour out of Space.

Limited to 20 copies

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KNITTED ABYSS – Spring Barn. C34

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Knitted Abyss are Lucy Phelan and Anna John, hailing from Sydney’s DIY music scene. with this their third cassette release ‘Spring Barn’ they start in full on cosmic jam mode, entangling droning guitars, organ and vocal chants, which buzz, hum and meld together while slowly building into the perfect Eastern Raga, long beautiful meditative rhythms slowly drift the listener back into consciousness.

40 individual full colour handmade tape covers.

www.myspace.com/knittedabyss

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PATRIOTIC WINDOW KLINGS – Double Tiger. C31

Second release from the North Carolina duo. Nine tracks of loose but incised guitar meandering and vivacious electronic clamor punctuated by the occasional vocal flourish. Hammering their stake into the same ground as Blues Control, Aaron Dilloway and even late 80s Buttholes.

Limited to 25 copies.

www.myspace.com/patrioticwindowclings

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SECRET COLORS- Infinite Wandering. C34


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Secret Colors is the solo project for Seattle’s Matt Lawson, who has conjured up an incredible album of carefully crafted blissful songs, Keys and Guitars are washed clean with effects, bubbling then overflowing with layers of slow burning grooves melting into deep reflective rhythms, all executed in full on dub mode. Cassettes are housed in hand-cut high quality paper collage covers. If you’re currently digging the sounds of Ducktails, Sun Araw et al, this one is not to be missed!

limited 30 copies

www.myspace.com/secretcolors5

bumtapes@gmail.com for orders

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TREEHOUSE PEOPLE – Crystal Limbs C30


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The second release for this new-age, keyboard driven sci-fi duo, two sides of psychedelic dream excursions, Bladerunner burnouts and synth drenched krautrock rhythms make up one of their most beautiful releases to date.
"Cooperation of Stefan Kushima & Iko Nori spending some nights with the Casio VL Tone,
Feedback loops in minimal construction, a child’s dream in bubblevariations”

limited 25 copies

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TULASI - Huomen Tuone. C34

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Bumtapes is proud to give you another chance to hear this incredible album, plus another previously
unreleased track from the same sessions, and with all new artwork.
Originally released on vinyl in an edition of 118 copies by Troglosound in 2008 (now totally sold out)
Finland’s Tulasi crafted an album drenched in Eastern drones and Finnish backroad folk meditations,
The two musicians who make up the band have also featured in bands such as Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players,
Aan, Uton, Kulkija and Kutomo. And have also previously released a cassette on Sloow tapes.
To quote the original write up for the LP...."One of the most harmonic expressions of spiritual freak-folk coming out from Finland, Tulasi spreads around warm and positive feelings, created through spontaneous junctions of flute, guitar, violin, percussions, tambura and voices. So, the perfect sound to bring our Souls peacefully inside the wintertime is coming directly from the North”.
limited 35 copies

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COMPASSING - old woes new hopes. C50

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COMPASSING – old woes new hopes. C50
Theres a hell of a lot going on in this new 10 track cassette by the two guys who make up the band Compassing.
A microcosm of sounds, tiny little experimentations click into view then whirl away, an orchestra of warped instruments throb and groove against each other only to be joined together by the occasional chugging krautrock pulse and scattered free form drumming, kind of like Faust jamming with Taj Mahal Travellers and being produced by Louis & Bebe Barron.
Limited to 20.
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JOSHOOA AND THE (7th/13th) MOON - The Hundred Monkey Effect C32

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Joshooa and the (7/13th) Moon – ‘the Hundred Monkey Effect’ C32
Murky underwater tape collages, haunted siren feedback, ghostly vocals, ancient lumbering figures sifting through the rubble. Joshua McAbee creates the most incredible experimental soundscapes, sounding like the perfect field recording beamed back from a crumbling futuristic Babylon.
Limited 20 copies
www.myspace.com/713thmoons
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RAHDUNES - Drink and Drive or Smoke and Fly. C30

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Totally blown away with this new release by the mighty Rahdunes,
Two full sides of thick smoke driven grooves and swirling, zoned out synths that grow, collapse and fold in on each other, only to be washed clean by waves of some of the most earth shattering drums I’ve heard on tape for a long time!
Edition of 40
www.myspace.com/mindzoo666
http://aldebaranrecordfarm.blogspot.com/
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RATFACE - enough Ratface. cdr

Bristols Ratface returns again to Bumtapes, this time with the amazing mini album 'Enough Ratface' clocking in at just over 30 mins, its packed full of his own personal style of beats n' lyrics that just keep getting better with each new release..
www.myspace.com/ratfacemuzak

Z+ - songs from the earlyhouse. cdr

First proper full length album from Bristol's Z+
A misty and melancholic voice hovers over plaintive and melodic strumming guitar and gentle dissonance. All is eerie, all is heartfelt, all is touched by meaning. Qu Junctions

A VIBRANT STRUGGLE/FOSSIL FROM THE SUN split C60


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"a vibrant struggle" is a collaboration between Norwegians Sindre Bjerga and Jan M. Iversen (aka Bjerga/Iversen) and Dutchman Steffan de Turck (aka staplerfahrer). At the end of September 2007, they spent a long weekend in a wooden cabin up high in the Norwegian mountains, to fill up a pile of tapes with some blissful drones, crackling/clanging electro-acoustics, wood thumping and the occasional guitar picking.
"Fossils From the Sun" is sound recorded in Albany, NY by Ray Hare who also plays in Burnt Hills, Century Plants and with other artists in the Albany experimental community. To date its mostly been created using VW and Mercury guitars, microphones, feedback, fx loops and vocals.
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Zack Kouns - Network and Circuitry of Nettles C34




Kouns’ lyrical vignettes are full of disturbing yet precisely rendered detail. His poetry is sharp; his thoughts have impact. As if scared of the vision he has aired, he allows the song’s structure to dissolve in a barrage of retro computer game chirps and thundering distorted drone. This is like nothing else.The vocals stretch and change shape throughout; operatic warbles giving way to staccato beat poet utterances - all managing to convey emotion successfully, if unconventionally. The love songs here hammer at your conscience, dent your cynicism and bruise your contempt. Drenched in an omnipresent inventiveness, Kouns’ textured room tones and iambic electronica prolapse in delightful circus pop and modem riffage. Like a modern, less inflated and self-consciously ‘far-out’ Trout Mask Replica, Kouns has created a subtle, chaotic masterpiece.
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Maths Balance Volumes - tried to make a call C11


Fractured vocal vignettes, broken organ melodies, squelchy stunted phrases and echoey grunted rhythms.an entropic and mathsy meltdown.
limited to 50
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Drunjus - master tree finder C52



Two new side long pieces from Wisconsin's Drunjus, Master Tree Finder drones, chimes and resonates with two long Earthy Meditations..
Tangible and guttural, this narrative of basslines, brown notes, and whispered instructions sees Drunjus rumble through bleak drone-plains. You hear the thud of fingers working layers of feedback and mechanical hum into solid strata, building a soundscape barren and unforgiving yet organic, touched by foggy realism. It flickers, then flares, then dies out only to fizzle and brood in murky depths. Then slowly, purposefully it gains momentum, sucking in the weight through repetition until once more it chunders, bursting blackness and light. Fragile keyboard melodies grow up between grey paving slabs of interstellar, cellar rock; dank dungeon drone; cave-like catacomb of charred chord progressions that disappear into the sharp, needles and screech of illumination.
limited to 40 copies
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RATFACE - Down with Ratface cdr



Bristols Finest Bedsit MC returns with his first Full length LP for bumtapes. Raw Energetic vocals laced over rough-cut keys, beats and Guitars, Joining the dots between DIY British Punk and Alternative Hip Hop..

KEIJO - What all whom Slowly... cdr



Finland's Keijo offers up another collection of Fractured Guitar explorations and Droning Forest Jams…. Bumtapes is proud to present a Limited to 50 CDR with Twelve Tracks of beautiful music with full colour pasted photo covers....

New Keijo albums are quite difficult to find these days even though he seems to be quite prolific again after a few years of scattered releases. I fell upon this one by surprise while perusing Eclipse Records catalog. I usually find them on one of the millions of mailing lists I'm on, but this one went right by me, unannounced. These recent records come out on all sorts of obscure labels, yet they sound as if they were taken from one single, weekend jam with friends. They are often quite similar, but this one seems to be an exception. What All Whom Slowly Where Saying Simply Why Still Bright? feels like a breath of fresh air when compared to it's companion's often bland jam sessions. Whom Do You Know for example feels like a hippy folk tune gone wrong while Simply This sounds like an out take from 2005's incredible By The Mountains & The Sea. If you're not too sure which of his latest albums to get, don't hesitate about this one! It won't disappoint!

Mathieu Duval

PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT magic flowers dubbed C22

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Psychedelic Horseshit. 'magic flowers dubbed' C22
Dirt driven overturned casio mangled, gravel mulched pop songs.
Broken down folk house incinerators, sun bleached unearthed oceanic murmurs….
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edition of 50. 
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I wouldn’t guess most would consider this a must-own release, but it certainly presents an interesting piece of the Psychedelic Horseshit puzzle. Fittingly for the format, there’s plenty of experimentation going on as the band plays around with their sound. “Catch a Wave” could’ve been on the album and is their typically awesome noise-pop. Next up is “Rather Dub,” where the tape takes on a life of its own. Devoid of any melodies, the song is a droning soundscape—a completely atmospheric track. This style is expanded upon on the flipside in “Bob Dylan’s 42nd Annual Report,” which is a track full of feedback, Casio play, effects, and stray noises that runs the entire length of the side. About halfway through the song, the band joins in with a short track of acoustic guitar and vocals played directly over the noise track. When it ends, the song plays out as it began, with a hypnotizing array of noise. It’s a cool and unusual tape that I’d recommend spending some time with.(DH)
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BURNT HILLS Blunt Greeper C60


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Minotaur surf party firing nitrous arrows into a flaming headswim universe,
a wealth of decomposing monster saturated jams, dripping n' melting in a heavy golden like syrup…..
edition of 50. 
review at......
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TIMBERWOLF / WE WAIT FOR THE SNOW split C30



first cassette in the international split series...UK's 'Timberwolf' teams up with Italy's 'We wait for the snow'c30 cassette.
(limited 30 copies)  email bumtapes@gmail.com for orders/info etc...
two full sides of beautiful improv guitar pickings/soundscapes
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FOSSILS Nightmare Scene C20


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new release from Fossils...Nightmare scene c20 (20 copies)
reduced postage when ordering more than one tape!!..
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OFFENSIVE ORANGE Brown Future C20



brand new release from David Payne and Matthew Boughner's Offensive Orange twoo full sides of beautiful tape destruction, burned guitar and dirty electronics totally blown away by this one, sounds like the sci-fi soundtrack to oblivion, hiding in some bunker as the world crackles and burns overhead…..edition of 40…
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JOEY CHAINSAW Gaynesanus C90


new c90 noise from Joey chainsaw GAYNESANUS
twoo full sides
see myspace.com/joeeychainsaw for more info
limited to 30 copies wrapped in unfolding grow pattern... each tape cover includes individual retro percy filth...
www.myspace.com/joeeychainsaw
contact bumtapes@gmail.com for orders..
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