Tabs Out Cassette Podcast - Bonus Episode: Going Through the Mail | 5.8.20
Episode Date: May 8, 2020The bonus brigade catches up on the ever growing pile of mail stacking up at Tabs Out HQ. ...
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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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
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?
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...
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
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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?
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.
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,
here's what we have
on this,
on this,
well,
Jamie,
you're so smart,
you got Discogs open,
we got releases
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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?
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,
thoroughness,
citing your sources,
things like that.
All right.
You're a sad,
fucked up man,
Jamie.
Seriously,
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
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.
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?
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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,
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
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
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?
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,
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Come on.
Marion.
Got it.
Got it.
Zoom it out.
Zoom it out.
What the hell is this packaged in?
Like a tape?
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.
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.
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?
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
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...
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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