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01. THE TAPES - Cinque
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02. THE TAPES - Berlin '89
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03. THE TAPES - Self Propelled Limb
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04. THE TAPES - Time Out of Joint
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05. THE TAPES - Falso Movimento A4
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06. THE TAPES - The Gate
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07. THE TAPES - Il Tempio
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08. THE TAPES - Low Gear
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09. THE TAPES - Nervous Breakdown
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10. THE TAPES - Doubts
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01. THE TAPES - The Wait
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02. THE TAPES - The Day of Silence
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03. THE TAPES - Otto
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04. THE TAPES - Nove
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05. THE TAPES - Totem 1351
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06. THE TAPES - Sly Time
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07. THE TAPES - Tanz Fabrik
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08. THE TAPES - Il Manifesto
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09. THE TAPES - Speak to Me
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10. THE TAPES - Falso Movimento B2
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11. THE TAPES - Emotional Warfare
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ARTIST
TAPES, THE
TITLE
Selected Works 1982-1992
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
ECSTATIC
CATALOG #
ELP 017LP
ELP 017LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/4/2016
A fascinating, often dizzying insight to the primitive industrial minimalism of Italian siblings
Giancarlo
and
Roberto Drago
aka
The Tapes
, sourced from original tapes and pressed to vinyl for the first time ever. This set surveys a blind spot in most people's knowledge of early-'80s Italian underground music, framed against a backdrop of the Anni di piombo or Years of Lead -- a period of domestic political turmoil between the late '60s and early '80s -- and the mushroom shadow of nuclear war. Like their international tape-scene allies, The Tapes reacted to this world thru a matrix of mono-synths, drum machines, microphones, and four-track recorders, mostly recording ideas direct to tape in one take and making a virtue of their lo-fi set-up's infidelities and imperfections -- randomness and mistakes were embraced rather than discarded -- while absorbing the counter-cultural influence of
William Burroughs
and
Throbbing Gristle
and the sci-fi dystopia of
J. G. Ballard
and
John Foxx
. These 21 tracks, drawn from ten different limited tape releases, perfectly distill a wandering, weirdo spirit, ranging from the funereal swagger of "Tanz Fabrik" and the darkwave hip-thrust of "The Day of Silence" to freeform, motorik trajectories such as "Time Out of Joint" and singular enigmas like the
Actress
-esque bobble of "The Wait" and the weightless, hyaline spindles of "Falso Movimento B2." Collected and compiled by
Alessio Natalizia
(aka
Not Waving
) and remastered by
Matt Colton
,
Selected Works 1982-1992
represents a decade of modest but searching and instinctively grooving experimentation of the most precious and compelling kind. As Giancarlo Drago explains, "The Tapes was an unplanned experience, an unplanned need to express myself Looking back on this music I wonder sometimes how I did it -- the whole process from the concept to the completion. Everything I do now seems trivial and obvious and I just end up aborting the idea. And exactly for this reason I think that everything has its time, with a beginning and an end . . ."
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