Tabs Out Cassette Podcast - Bonus Episode: Going Through the Mail | 5.8.20

Episode Date: May 8, 2020

The bonus brigade catches up on the ever growing pile of mail stacking up at Tabs Out HQ. ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Does that sound like the name of a USB Microsoft sound mapper? Yeah. It does? Okay. That's like the built-in Windows sound driver. Okay, back off your microphone, Jamie. I keep telling you, back off your microphone. I get excited when I talk about sound drivers. I know. You've got to be cool about this.
Starting point is 00:00:39 Tabs Out, Cassette Podcast, bonus episode. I'm Mike. I'm Ian. And I'm Jamie. podcast bonus episode i'm mike i'm ian and i'm jamie yeah boys how are you doing it's so nice i we haven't had a um an official there's been a bonus episode or two but there hasn't been an official one where we we bring our powers together the three of us three health the i see you proudly still have your your bonus brigade tattoo that you gave yourself jamie it looks very nice oh yeah you can see my butt from here i got several cameras
Starting point is 00:01:19 set up around your place so i can see your butt from more than just here. In his butt. Welcome. Normally we play tapes and like we have a theme and like we, Ian never does a good job at it. He's really bad at it. Themes. He can never. Don't even remind me of the themes. And we play the tapes and we talk. But he's a ghost.
Starting point is 00:01:40 But we can't really do that right now. We're all in separate places. It's not really going to work that well. And another thing is I haven't really, I don't know about you guys. I haven't, have you even listened to anything on tape recently? I got a few tapes like months ago, like late January. I got a bunch, but I haven't gotten anything in a while and um i'm listening i mean i listen to some old stuff but nothing nothing new except digital i have this weird
Starting point is 00:02:14 i'm sorry no go go ahead just cut me off i thought you wanted to know what we're i'm on the contrary mike i've been listening to many, many tapes. Have you? Because I'm sitting in this room all day with all my tapes right next to me. Your hair was in the toilet water. I've been going back and checking them out. I'm talking about new stuff.
Starting point is 00:02:36 Jamie, I clearly said new stuff, and you can go back and you can listen to the tape. I did say new stuff. The answer for you actually was also no. All three of us agree that none of us have been listening to anything new. And that can be proved by this stack of unopened. I got a stack of unopened stuff, let's just say. Stuff's coming in the mail.
Starting point is 00:02:56 I'm not really listening to it. The mail doesn't stop, bud. How many things you got in that stack? I mean, I brought up what what was on top there's probably like three not much probably like 20 packages that like i know i'm gonna get to it but i just grabbed like a bunch of them i thought i thought you know what let's just go through them let's just let's catch up on the mail bag now let's talk about the milk those things did i disinfect those things i got tape head cleaner i rubbed it all over the outside.
Starting point is 00:03:26 Tape head cleaner doesn't just work for the inside of the tape. It works for not just the outside. It extends to the envelopes. You can take baths in it. You can put it in the toilet water. Your hair was in the toilet water. Taking a bubble bath with my synthesizer. You got to dip them in the disinfectant as you go.
Starting point is 00:03:42 I do all my tapes like Jack Nicholson style Joker. All my tapes go into this huge vat. You think I'm making that shit up? All right, I got the first package off the top. Catching up on the mail. Now let's talk about the mail. Because the mail, also, I want to say, official Tabs Out statement, we are for the mail. We are for the post office.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Big favor of the post office. Definitely pro-mail. Yes. The first package. It's coming from Lincoln Avenue. Should I get the whole address or should I just say Asheville, North Carolina? Asheville, North Carolina.
Starting point is 00:04:21 What a fine town. How many labels can you think of from Asheville, North Carolina or North Carolina at all any? Jamie I can't think of any labels from specifically Asheville
Starting point is 00:04:41 no one can think of any what if I said Terry Tapes sorry sorry swing and a miss Terry Tapes no one could recognize you
Starting point is 00:04:58 I'm sorry we should we just not play him then right in the trash right in the trash oh that sucks man yeah i'm sorry let's give it a shot let's give it a whirl okay okay we will we have a uh you're gonna like oh i keep forgetting i can show these to you you guys can see these this is an andy lobes open new window and the Andy Loeb's Open New Window. And the other tape. Oh, is that Arthur on there? Can you see these with the Narocos on it?
Starting point is 00:05:29 Should I take them out? It's a little bit of a glare. Yeah, you need me to take them out? I can take them out of the Narocos. The other tape is by Space Heater. Sales event of a lifetime. And there's the cover there. What's he doing there i don't know it
Starting point is 00:05:47 looks like he doesn't belong there it's like a big old slice of swiss cheese there's a big old jamie i'm glad you i'm glad you said something about it's a big old wedge of swiss cheese yeah and there's a monster truck on there there's a lot going on i'm not sure who space heater is i'm not sure who space heater is i i we here are some clues i'll give you some clues from the tape some clues let's see so they got the outside there space heater sales event of the lifetime okay there's people on the inside i see some some jazz instruments. And I see some, like, there's... I don't know if you guys can see the mustaches in the band. Can you see that?
Starting point is 00:06:32 Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a big old caterpillar underneath that nose. Okay. Yeah. And I think there's some guitars. These people got guitars. I see something that says...
Starting point is 00:06:43 Oh, yeah, there's a lot of people on here. Guitar, synth, percussion, bass. It's a a band it's a full-fledged it's a full-fledged band what do you think this is like it'll be some uh some wacky jazz you think it's gonna be jazz but it's gonna take it to a level of wackiness yeah yeah it's gonna be kind of wacky i think the guitar is going to be rather skronky that's a medical term the Swiss cheese by the way is also on the cassette shell along with a matching crock a yellow shell
Starting point is 00:07:15 it's beautiful so you're thinking we're going to hear some skronky guitar some wacky jazz and on the other tape from Terry Tap, Andy Loeb's open new window. I don't know who that is, but I would say this is more of a, this looks more of like the kids into maybe some of the vapor wave. I can't tell, but it seems like he might be into it.
Starting point is 00:07:38 He might be getting into it. Yeah. If he's not already in, if he's not already in the vapor wave, I think he's getting into it. Yeah, I think there's going to be some knob manipulation. He wouldn't dare. No. Andy, you wouldn't dare.
Starting point is 00:07:58 There's an oscillator. There's a filter. Well, I think somebody's calling. Oh, no. Oh, did you guys know we can take phone calls now? Hello, you're on Tabs Out. Well, hi there. Who's this?
Starting point is 00:08:14 This is Mike. Who's this calling? Hi, Mike. It's Ryan. How are you? Oh, Ryan. Ryan Mestella, correct? Yeah, how's it going?
Starting point is 00:08:25 It's going very, very well. I'm here with Jamie and Ian, the Bonus Boys, the Bonus Brigade. Can he hear us? Can you hear them? No, I cannot. Yeah, I don't know what I did. I didn't set it up right this time. Well, Ryan, here's what we're doing here right now. We're going through the mailbag.
Starting point is 00:08:51 Nice. Is that the mailbag that you just dump in an envelope and send my way? A lot of times I just dump this shit into a potato sack. I write Ryan Mestella on it, and I give it to the first person I see. Anyone who remotely looks like they could work for the post office. A bus driver. They've often shown up on the back of geese. Oh yeah, if you get the right bird to deliver
Starting point is 00:09:12 tape, yeah. You can use that same bird over and over again. 100%. But since I'm not sending them to you, I'm stuck with these goddamn things and now I'm figuring out what to do with them. So I'm thinking, what the hell, let's just play some. So we have two tapes here by Terry Tapes.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Are you familiar with the label? I love Terry Tapes. Finally, some asshole knows what's going on. Finally. Jesus Christ. You didn't say Space Theater. Ryan, I wish I could... Can you speak a little louder? We need to turn you up and us down. Oh, I wish I could... Can you speak a little louder?
Starting point is 00:09:45 We need to turn you up and us down. Oh, yeah. I can scream if you like. No, I'm not going to scream. My kid's in bed. So we got Andy Loves and Space Heater. Can you tell us anything about those projects? Because right now, we have no clue.
Starting point is 00:09:59 Oh, yeah. Oh, the label is all about synth prog. They're from Asheville, North Carolina. I can picture all these guys. This guy. Oh, I'm the best. Listen up. It's like Matt Penfield of tapes.
Starting point is 00:10:14 What a freak. What an absolute freak. Dude, Andy Loebs is... I think Andy Loebs does have a keytar on the cover of his tape. Anyway, either one is great. You're not going to go wrong with either one. Play Andy. Play Andy's stuff.
Starting point is 00:10:31 We're going to play both of them. Let me ask you a question before we go into them. Does Andy have... Is this guy... I'm going to just say doing the vaporwave with synthesizer. I don't know. There's a little bit more synth prog in there. A little bit more jazz. Is he doing
Starting point is 00:10:48 the vaporwave and does he have the synthesizer? I'm going to say no on the vaporwave, but yes on the synthesizer. Okay, so we're one for two there. I call that a win. With Space Heater, is it skronky and is it jazz and is it what did you call it, Ian? Is it wacky? Is it like a wack it skronky and is it jazz and is it... What did you call it, Ian?
Starting point is 00:11:05 It's wacky. Is it like a wacky skronky jazz? Oh, are you asking me or Ian? What do you think? We're gonna know? Yeah, we're asking you. We don't know. It's a wacky skronky jazz, but it's got a lot of prog in there. Damn. We are nailing this shit, man. Touchdown. See, for a moment, I didn't think we were good at jazz, but it's got a lot of prog in there. Damn, we are nailing this shit, man.
Starting point is 00:11:25 Touchdown. See, for a moment, I didn't think we were good at this, but we are. We are. We're really good at this. It's going pretty good. Alright, we're going to play these two tapes recommended very heavily by Ryan Mostella. Ryan, do you have anything else to say?
Starting point is 00:11:42 No. Listen to these. They're awesome. Terry Tapes. Ryan's going to be the first person I don't rudely hang up with. Thanks for calling, Ryan. Bye, Mike. Thanks, Ryan. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. so now so Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. space heater sales event of the life of a lifetime and andy Loeb's open new window. Terry Tapes. That was funky.
Starting point is 00:21:09 I gotta say, I think we were dead on with that. Andy Loeb's is definitely having a synthesizer. He definitely has one. And we said that was gonna happen. And Space Heater. I don't think we were as on with Space Heater. No. It wasn't really wacky.
Starting point is 00:21:25 No, it wasn't really wacky. No, it wasn't really wacky. Andy Lopes was a bit more wacky for me. Be wacky. Jamie Orlando, you're obviously the Discogs man. Are you researching right now? Are you getting a solid hard fax? Well, I do have Discogs on half of my screen and you guys on the other half. You know, Terry Tapes, there's only five releases on Discogs.
Starting point is 00:21:44 Okay. Ryan comes on here. He acts like he knows all about this label. There's only five releases on discogs. Okay. Um, Ryan comes on here. He acts like he knows all about this label. They've got five releases and maybe there's more that aren't on here, but it doesn't seem like a bit like, like I felt stupid at first for not knowing who they were. And then I saw this list and it's not a very big list. How old is the label?
Starting point is 00:22:04 When did they start? 2018. Hmm. We should, uh label? When did they start? 2018. We should have known them by now. Yeah, we should have known them by now. We should have known them by now. You're in the tape biz. You have no excuse. We shouldn't be getting shown up by our callers.
Starting point is 00:22:17 No. It's a really bad time for a podcast. When you're just waiting for, hopefully someone will call you up so you can have some sort of information on the subject you're covering. Anybody know who you are? You want to do the next envelope? Yeah. This one's from overseas.
Starting point is 00:22:41 All right, what is this? What do we got here, boys? We got a label, it looks like, that's sending us three releases. And it looks like they got a little bit of an aesthetic here. It looks like they're one of these people. Here's what they're doing with their labels. All the spines look the same. All the covers look the same.
Starting point is 00:23:02 Yes, exactly. They're calling it templates. They're calling it templates. They're calling these templates. And they're just changing just the text. I don't think this has been... Have this been done before? Gather round all, and I shall
Starting point is 00:23:16 explain to you cassette culture. Yeah, this is a label called... It looks like Utility Tapes. And these are... They're what? They're second... Oh!
Starting point is 00:23:29 I guess they're first, they're second, and they're fifth release. Jamie, are you already... Are you getting... Where's number three and four? I'm dialing the discards in. This label started this year. Okay, so what was... What's the third and fourth release? Why didn't we get those?
Starting point is 00:23:50 Third and fourth releases, San Martino and Lost Film. Those are the artists. Are they tapes or are they another format? No, they're all tapes. So why the fuck didn't we get those? I don't know. Don't ask me.
Starting point is 00:24:06 To me. So where don't ask me. To me. So, where's this label from? It's from the, uh, United Kingdom. Hmm. So,
Starting point is 00:24:18 here's what we have on this, on this, well, Jamie, you're so smart, you got Discogs open, we got releases
Starting point is 00:24:22 one, two, and five. Yeah. Why don't you,. We got releases 1, 2, and 5. Yeah. Why don't you say... Hold on. Jamie, you got to do something about your microphone situation.
Starting point is 00:24:33 You got to do something about this palette. Yeah, I know. I know this isn't the best podcast. I know not many people listen. But at some point, you got to have a floor that the quality doesn't drop below. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:24:47 Sorry, sorry. We can't, it literally can't just be Ryan the Stellar Calling, and then you... Hold the mic back up. Does that sound good? You wanna kick the flush? Okay, good. Try again.
Starting point is 00:25:03 Try again. How's my levels? How's my levels? Check one, two. Go ahead, they're good. Pop, pop, pop. Try again. Try again. How's my levels? Check one, two. Go ahead. They're good. Pop, pop, pop. All right. The first release is by Space Malk. Want to play something?
Starting point is 00:25:15 The Land of Malk and Honey. The Land of Malk and Honey? Yeah. The second release is Minnesota Nice and Zemja Houdini King and you said the fifth is TV, Soundtrack to Expedition
Starting point is 00:25:30 now was that last one before that the second one, was that a split? let me check let me check it out you gotta say this kind of stuff Jamie people that listen to this shit, they wanna know if it's a split they do I mean I'm not, I don't, I can't vouch for the person that put this on Discogs want to know if it's a split they do uh i mean i'm not i don't
Starting point is 00:25:45 i can't vouch for a person that put this on discogs but it looks like it's a collab i can't vouch for it what what what can i do to make you vouch for it what is it going to take i don't like how well i haven't heard it yet but i don't like it when they put the genre non-music in it because anything can be music. So when you call something non-music, that's just a slap in the face. Jamie, I have a question. Like, what are you looking for in a Discogs user that you would say, okay, it says this and I trust them?
Starting point is 00:26:20 Like, what kind of things are you looking for? I'm looking for on their profile. Do they have a lot of submissions? Do they have a lot of experience? Um, also looking for, uh, like consistency,
Starting point is 00:26:37 thoroughness, citing your sources, things like that. All right. You're a sad, fucked up man, Jamie. Seriously,
Starting point is 00:26:43 man. That's okay. Sorry. Daddy, chill. Alright, so let's play all three of these. We'll play them all in a block. It's impossible to guess the genre. It's impossible. I wouldn't even let you try. I'm not gonna
Starting point is 00:27:00 let you try. Jamie, if you... And I can't trust the contributors to Discogs on the genre. How many submissions do they have? Non-music. This guy? This person? Let's see. You're really hung up about the non-music thing. Oh, the person has contributed 411 releases.
Starting point is 00:27:18 They're from the UK, so they know a thing or two about UK cassettes. So, are you vouching for them now? Yeah, I think so. This is the vouching ceremony. Do you want to give their name? Why don't you give their username?
Starting point is 00:27:34 Downing John. Downing John. All one word, Downing John? Yeah. And do they have a user rating, like a star? I don't know how Discogs works. Oh, yeah. They have five-star seller rating and five-star buyer rating.
Starting point is 00:27:48 And you weren't going to vouch for them? Yeah, you were poo-pooing on them. Can you please give a public apology? I'll apologize for not trusting that they could be vouched for, but I still don't like the non-music, unless it's like an infomercial or something. So we'll see if it's an infomercial, they can put non-music,
Starting point is 00:28:08 but otherwise you can't put non-music for an avant-garde set. What kind of fucking outsider are you that you would, you're telling me if I performed an infomercial that you would say, Mike, why didn't you do music? And I would look at you dead in the eye
Starting point is 00:28:23 and say, Jamie, I just did. I just did i just did because even because as the as a more outsider than you i know that even an infomercial can be music utilitarian sound is still music okay um and did you want to guess the genre? Let me take a look at those J cards. I think you can do it. There's not much going on there. Not much. It's reminiscent of like, this is I think what Patient Sound's website looks like.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Okay. Yeah, like a lot of like rectangles and stuff. I'm going to say they're more like beat oriented like they got some beats on them really you think it's more beat oriented i was gonna for some reason i'm it's either that or just like minimal drone see yeah i see i see these little like uh you know shapes of color that match the the the stickers on the tapes, by the way, very nicely. This one has a red Noroco.
Starting point is 00:29:31 What is it? TV, Soundtrack to Expedition. I think you're going to hear birds on here. I do. I think you're going to hear birds. I do. Like field recording birds. I think they're going to go out in the field
Starting point is 00:29:42 and they're going to record and there's going to be birds. And I think there's probably going to be like, yeah, a lot of drone and then some people are talking in the background. Maybe some leaves crunching underfoot. I think somebody's going to spend a lot of money on a lot of synthesizer and you're going to get a little twinkle. Okay. A little filter. Open that filter just a little bit.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Not too much. Don't let too much out Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and do that. Thank you. guitar solo Thank you. guitar solo Thank you. I'm going to go. As I don't take a bit for a let's see The amounts of time I've wasted in the empty I've learned all that's said and done to be holy Oh, you're a dance of sin Oh, you're a dance of sin Oh, you're a dance of sin Did we set you free? Did we spare you?
Starting point is 00:35:02 The first thing is our death A spirit you know Confused, it is not dead You're the spirit It seems to fear When we turn To action When we turn To action When we get to the sun When we get home No, I'm dead so sorry No, I'm dead so sorry
Starting point is 00:35:55 No, I'm dead so sorry No, I'm dead so sorry No, I'm dead so sorry Thank you. I don't sound so real I don't sound so real Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. all right space mark space mark i love space mark All right. Space Malk. Space Malk. I love Space Malk. Minnesota Nice with Zemja and TV. Utility Tapes 2020. Yes, and that one, the Minnesota Nice Zemja one,
Starting point is 00:41:00 is a collaboration, and it's easy to tell if you just looked on the back, and it says this releases a collaboration between Adam Zemja, Zem, Zem, This releases a collaboration between Adam Zedjma of Sheffield, UK, and Benjamin Hines of, it says, Wisconsin, US. Do you think it means Wisconsin? Can't be sure. Probably. I mean, I don't want to feel like an idiot and have someone say like he's never heard
Starting point is 00:41:25 of wisconsin before what a dweeb but i think that's supposed to say wisconsin anyway there's also this other paper that came in um i think the space mock tape that's like a a note it's a note on listening to cassettes from utility tapes oh really yes it's you think it's going to be a download code and then you look at and you go this is like a manifesto somebody put on a download code like a crazy person got a hold of this you want me to read it yeah read it yeah hold on i can read it the compact cassette is an improv hold on. I can read it. The compact cassette is an imperfect medium for music consumption that works by converting audio signals into magnetic energy to move particles around a long length on magnetic tape. The slight inaccuracies of the approach give a very nice
Starting point is 00:42:29 character to the sound produced and in our opinion give much of the warmth that people seek out through vinyl record reproduction of music will stay i'm not going to read all this this is very long this is very long i'm not going to read all this. This is very long. I'm not going to read all of it. But it goes on for two more paragraphs. This is an insane person. There's almost like liner notes. Are those liner notes?
Starting point is 00:42:56 Like on a jazz record, an old jazz record with the long liner? Like, yeah, I know about everything. Before we move on, though, I do think we should mention oh first of all jamie were you going to drag the hell out of a discogs user for fucking something up they they they didn't use the right genres right well yeah i mean minnesota nice and zemja was clearly music it was clearly The submitter said it was non-music. And then TV said ambient and noise,
Starting point is 00:43:29 and that sounded like some vaporwave to me. I'm not an expert, but that didn't sound like ambient, nor did it sound like noise. You got any other gripes? Music is very subjective, so maybe when this person listens to it, they hear ambient and noise. And once again, you want to give their name out?
Starting point is 00:43:50 That's Downing John at Discogs.com. You are on notice. So where's number three and four? Ian, I asked that. Maybe they got lost. There's a possibility. I don't know. I mean, I don't see why.
Starting point is 00:44:05 Maybe they sent it to Norelco Mori. Oh, my God. They better not. I thought I've already destroyed that podcast. Yeah, you put them out of... You bankrupted Norelco Mori. I had some of my goons. I had Dave and some of my other goons.
Starting point is 00:44:17 Some of my bigger goons show up at headquarters and just smash things up, smash up a few tape decks. I'm not scared! Before we we move on we should probably mention the shell of the tv tape and that's t-e-e-v-e-e and do we know who that is at all jamie have we figured that out this is nothing this is utility tapes number five. Is this one. The shell. So what you got here is you got a red shell on one side with a white label.
Starting point is 00:44:54 On the flip side, it's a white shell with a red label. It's inversed. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. The thing. It's a thing of beauty. It's a thing. It's gorgeous.
Starting point is 00:45:08 This goddamn thing. But hell yeah. We definitely biffed. I biffed figuring out what that was going to be. I didn't come close. I was totally wrong. We were totally wrong on that one. And pleasantly surprised.
Starting point is 00:45:22 There's some good variety there for the cover art being so uniform the music itself was pretty varied wow man that's what that was deep jimmy deep shit man um also i gotta say like two for two like these were two good packages for all probably just jinxed it yeah because normally we like, there's a lot of bullshit. I'm guessing one of these is going to have to be really bad, right? It's probably this one coming up. This is a big one. And it comes from, it's coming
Starting point is 00:45:53 from, it looks like Marion, Illinois. I don't know where, I don't know where that is in relationship to Chicago. Jamie, you want to get on that, figure out if that's a suburb big guy? Come on, man. Okay. Give me some information on Marion, Illinois.
Starting point is 00:46:09 Come on. Marion. Got it. Got it. Zoom it out. Zoom it out. What the hell is this packaged in? Like a tape?
Starting point is 00:46:20 Oh, wow. You know what that is? Where is it? That is nowhere even close to Chicago, my friend. That is almost at the Kentucky border. Calm down. All right, calm down. I don't even know Illinois.
Starting point is 00:46:37 Jamie, you're not listening to me when I'm telling you this. Calm down. Calm down. You're like rock hard on this mic, man. Calm down. Did you know that Illinois and Kentucky share a border? Of course I did. I'm looking at this wrong.
Starting point is 00:46:50 You did? Look at this fucking thing. This is wrapped in an enormous plastic tablecloth. These tapes. Look, are you seeing this? I am. What is this? What are these people doing?
Starting point is 00:47:05 This enormous look at this big ass box. It had this enormous plastic tablecloth on it which I don't want in my house. How many tapes are in there? There's a double tape and two other tapes. That's all
Starting point is 00:47:20 that was in this whole box. We got a letter. It says, Love from Midwaste. Wait, Love from Midwaste. Okay, so I think the label's name is Midwaste. Again, we have... My friends, we have another...
Starting point is 00:47:40 Whoa, these look nice as hell, man. We're going with another... Same as the last one. We got an aesthetic going on here. We got a template. Continuity. We got the continuity. Okay.
Starting point is 00:47:57 Ian, you're going to like these because these look, look at this. They use the scary, you know, when you have a copy. Oh, yeah. When you try to copy something on the copy machine, and you can jiggle it so you spook the copy machine. Yeah. And it comes out a little scary. Yeah, it's like a, this one's a sickle,
Starting point is 00:48:15 and it's got a snake wrapped around it. It's got all this stuff. This is harsh noise. Get out of here. There's no way. It's called the name. Hold on. Hold on. If this isn't harsh noise, i'm done i'm done with
Starting point is 00:48:26 tapes i'm done with tapes if this isn't harsh noise if okay the name of the project is signal decay signal decay yeah okay okay it's looking good and this font that they wrote the crowned in what does this say That's not a word. They used like... They used like... Who was the killer that we never figured out who it was? Zodiac? They used like Zodiac Killer.
Starting point is 00:48:55 Ted Cruz. They used Ted Cruz's fun on here. Alright, yeah, that's a little scary. Midway's tapes, recorded March 15th and 16th on the eve of quarantine. Oh, spooky. Scary. Might be a little too scary.
Starting point is 00:49:10 On the eve of quarantine. You're telling me it was quarantine eve? And they must have been blasted out the harshest. The most fucked up. Damaged. Harshest bullshit. Blow out your ears, make you bleed. Harsh noise.
Starting point is 00:49:25 And it's got a sickle on it. And there's... This looks... On the paper itself, it's like aged. This is like homemade paper. Yeah, these are some true freaks. Yeah, there's some true freaks on here.
Starting point is 00:49:42 And I'm guessing Signal Decay runs the label because they're the first release on that label, and that's generally what that means, right? Typically, yeah. This one is number eight, the Signal Decay tape. The next one, number seven, Blue Movies. And they wrote Rock Island Trauma Club on paint on the Noroco.
Starting point is 00:50:07 Okay, I got another dead giveaway there's there's a little dusting of spray paint on the cassette and nothing else dead giveaway harsh noise motherfuckers that's how like yeah i've been tracking these bastards for years out in the wild and like i know what i know the signs i know the warning sign that's the call sign yeah that's a. That's mating season right there. This was a horny, harsh noise. They're spray painting this. Just nothing but a no-input mixer feedback going and just spray paint fumes.
Starting point is 00:50:35 I use this tape to stimulate myself Do we know who Blue Movies is? No. These are all pretty obscure tonight. Yeah, there's like a mayor. We don't have the big names tonight. It's hard to draw big names during quarantine. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:50:50 I will say, I see that Blue Movies did a release on Personal Archives, which I believe is Bob Bucko Jr.'s label. And I saw that his project, Sex Funeral, has a release on Midwaste. I'm so glad you just said that Jamie, cause I'm holding a double tape called palace zones by sex funeral. And if, and, and that's another dead, that's one of those red flags for these heart,
Starting point is 00:51:15 for these fucking sick, harsh noisers, sex funeral, anything like that, anything like anything like coffin boner or like, or like, uh, I can't think of another one at the top of my head i'm not funny enough and i'm not smart enough and it's way too way too late for that but this double tape comes
Starting point is 00:51:32 in the um the side by side the extra thick norelco cases and it looks nice as hell and i think we already know should we go into these in order knowing that we're going to be scared by scary harsh noise so when you say go in order do you mean the order that we talked about them in or the catalog order that's a good question because you went backwards a good question yeah um let's go catalog order you want to go catalog order so we'll go we'll go sex funeral i want hold on i gotta whisper that one so we'll go sex funeral and then blue movies and then signal decay I'm sorry. Thank you. so nice Thank you. so Thank you. so I'm sorry. so so Thank you. so so uh Thank you. I'm sorry. Outro Music Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of a spin. Hmm. I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a look at the camera. Oh, my God. Thank you. nothing uh they they i think they all try to be scary but none of them could do it none of them
Starting point is 01:03:20 could make me pee my pants or make me do anything that some of the harsher, some of the more harsher projects do to me. But Sex Funeral, Palazones with that double tape, with this artwork, it's got this quilt vibe on the cover that I'm digging very much. Blue Movies, Signal Decay. All very fun. Is this label again? What's this label again? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:46 Midwaste. I was just saying, the sex funeral tape, our friend Angel Mark Lloyd mastered this tape. You know what? I was thinking in the very beginning when I heard that first plonk, I was like, that sounds. That's some good EQ. Yeah, something about the EQ, the resonance.
Starting point is 01:04:07 The upper mids. I was looking how round they were, and I was just like... I've earned my right to say it. And it was very recognizable. It was some good stuff. An honest respect to silence concerns the foundation of creativity.
Starting point is 01:04:20 All good shit. All right, are we ready to go out with one last package? Yeah. Is it okay if I open one that i know who it already is yeah that might be a welcome change i'm tired i can't learn about another label this late wait have you learned about other labels tonight have you been learning about some of these john pile friend of the show the ex-friend of the show doesn't give a shit about us anymore i guess but was once friend of the show one of my many friends who has left me beyond the ruins is the name of his label and he reissued uh this a skin graft see this one time I know it's a collab, a skin graft and scant collaboration
Starting point is 01:05:08 tape, and it's Beyond the Ruins number 50, I think it came out like maybe three or four years ago or something, you know what, like all the other ones, it says it in here, I don't know why I try to guess, because like I'm not going to know, and like half the time, it's not like they're
Starting point is 01:05:24 trying to keep a secret from you. They're going to write it in there. Originally released as Beyond the Ruins number 22 in September of 2014. 2014. Okay, that's interesting. So he released it in 2014 as Beyond the Ruins number 22
Starting point is 01:05:40 and then just the reissue of it is Beyond the Ruins number 50? Number 50. You don't do that. It gets a new release number? You don't give it a new catalog number. Well, you don't give it a new number. You put a letter after it like R or something or X.
Starting point is 01:05:57 Yeah, but I don't agree with that, John Pyle. I'm sorry. No, Jamie. You look really... Do you need a minute? Obviously you don't obviously you don't need any time at all i wish i could hand the tape to you that he used like these are i feel like you could really hurt someone with the tapes he used these are high quality cassette tapes there first of all there's five screws in there five honest to god metal screws in the shell that's too much yeah it's too many for ian you you're gonna be afraid you're
Starting point is 01:06:33 gonna cut yourself on one or something it could happen yeah it could happen but you'll be all right man um again scary they're doing the scary stuff um the inside of the j card it just says btr over and over and over again like a madman would like a scary madman like like you're trying to get into the zone of someone who's a psychopath very scary but skin graft of course from ohio wyatt wyatt holland you don't hear too much from me the motherfucker used to put out a c10 every week you don't hear too much anymore and then matt becky from uh who was scant and then uh another tape that came along another double tape but this time in the high naroko one of those tall fellas. I like those.
Starting point is 01:07:25 Which one do you like more? I like that one better than Thick Boy. I like how I asked one question about tapes and Ian just let out a sigh. He's ready to be done. He's like, are you fucking kidding me? I'm thinking about it.
Starting point is 01:07:42 Are you fucking kidding me? I'm thinking about it. you fucking kidding me i'm thinking about it and the show and it no because i like the look of the tall ones better but the thick ones fit in a shelf situation better do we know who mistletoe is is mistletletoe John Pyle? Yeah. It is, but I think that's an off-the-record thing. Oh, that's classified? I think that was classified. What is with these harshers where they have these secrets? Well, he played a Final Friday under Mistletoe one time. Did he wear a mask or something weird?
Starting point is 01:08:21 I don't know. No, just the lights were off. So you couldn't see them. That's a very good trick. A very good trick to keep your harsh noise secret identity secret. Only play with the lights off, kids. Only play with the lights off. Too scary.
Starting point is 01:08:38 Alright, well let's go out. But let's do these last two. We'll do this again sometime. Thanks for hanging out with Hellos. Yeah, it's good to see you guys. Good to see you. Hope everybody's well. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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