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SUC 043CS
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Limited restock. Grup Ses presents Program #03: A Mixtape of Rare & Unreleased Beats. İstanbul based producer Grup Ses returns with the final episode of Program trilogy for Sucata Tapes. Program #03 focuses on productions of Grup Ses between 2008 and 2021. Grup Ses project dates back to 2007 which at the time focused on v/vm style edits and breakcore infused mash ups. Starting from 2008 Grup Ses started to build a version of Stones Throw and Brainfeeder influenced beatmaking mixed with a touch of humor. A blend including all kinds of local recorded material like records, tapes, radio broadcasts etc., which became the building blocks of signature Grup Ses sound.
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SUC 039-41CS
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A three-part journey into an imaginary Indian sub-continent from three artists working on the fringes of field recordings. Stories of the Dotted Indian Whale features Italian artist Giovanni Lami, Hannibal Chew III aka Gonçalo F Cardoso, and Argentinean noise prankster Bardo Todol. First part from Italian sound artist Giovanni Lami, entitled Soap Wolf Giovanni presents a collection of ghost recordings from several places in India. Second part from Hannibal Chew III is a collection of re-assembled recordings and in situ jams made in Arambol, Jaipur, Pushkar, Varanasi, Thar Desert, Pondicherry & Auroville between 2009-2019. Re-assembled in 2020. The third and final part from Bardo Todol contains abrasive tape and digital field recordings manipulation made by Pablo Pico in Nepal, Kolkata, Varanasi and New Delhi in 2012. A new weird collection of re-interpreted field recordings from artists connecting the dots between musique concrete, naive improvisation and field recordings processing. Artwork by Pablo Picco.
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SUC 036CS
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40 mins of Brexit gush from the Hair & Treasure crew. Recorded live at Archers Tower in 2019 at the frenzied soapy heights of the media whoopee shit pie. "Just the right amount of glue." "Rating 2.9." Artwork by Kenny Hosepipe. Mastered by Danny Garcia.
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SUC 035CS
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Longstanding collaborators and Bay Area-based experimental duo Kush Arora and Lucas Patzek, aka Only Now & Orogen, return with Avuls, the project's sophomore release. Building on the unearthly, black hole transmissions and creaking, exospheric ambience of their self-titled debut, Only Now & Orogen present an abyssal, elemental broadcast from another unchartered extra-terrestrial zone. Remote and astronomical yet tied to a newfound sense of rhythmic structure, Avuls navigates a course through inverted beat-led frameworks, surging detonations of sub-bass, and severely turbulent, monumentally scaled soundscapes. Amidst this large, slow-moving cyclone of sound sit fragmentary emergences of choral voices and Gregorian chants; a distant, esoteric presence within dense eruptions of attritional noise and infinite recesses of low end. In harsh, pointillistic detail and through infernal surround sound, Only Now & Orogen channel dub, noise, and power electronics, evoking a distorted, ritualistic inflection on the Voyager Golden Record; a mass of tectonic motion and friction; a storm in deep space.
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SUC 034CS
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Brand new 70-minute blast from the Hair & Treasure crew pressed a double dung casing for your listening (dis)pleasure. Recorded between 2017-2019 into Uncle Eddie's VHS player, magik happens inside the Archers boudoir. In the band's own words: "A clumsy wife with a tricky nose wants to feel deserving of her husband and a former male beauty pageant winner wants his out-of-place arm implants revised or removed. Rating 6.2".
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SUC 037CS
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Having recently retired from his most prolific moniker Gonzo, Gonçalo F Cardoso keeps busy and plowing ahead into an ominous 2020 with the second tape from his new concept: Prophetas. Inspired by visionary/paranoid cult figures, modern/new idiosyncratic figures as symbols of hope/despair for the uncertain times of the new decade. Where the first tape compilation -- Reveal, Accept, Remember, Forget (SUC 027CS, 2020) -- revived mid-50s ideas (UFO sightings, suburbia, space race), this new work reshuffles the now established paranoia to new heights by positioning itself in early '90s disillusionment: mall culture, X-Files, rampant consumerism, and late night cable TV. The new past/present memories finally laying the groundwork for the ubiquitous fake prophets of the 21st century: Silicon Valley types, Apple, Google, Facebook -- the new cults -- all filtered through an overused '90s fragmented lens. "History is the price we pay for progress. If the future should ever come to stay again, it will only be to haunt us" --Ken Hollings, Welcome to Mars (2008)
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SUC 038CS
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Late 20th Century outsider music from the outskirts of Buenos Aires featuring Alan Courtis, Pablo Reche, Quum, and many more artists from the Argentinian underground. Setting out as an archaeological excavation, literally exhuming material which has been under the surface for more than two decades, this special compilation features work by established and under the radar artists that helped set the now fertile Argentinian underground. All tracks were directly digitized from the original cassette masters (half of them never previously released either). The emphasis being to maintain the original sound quality as it was produced at the time (hence the cassette format). The compilation also showcases a broad-spectrum style of music that was done at a specific time with very primitive gear -- not by choice but because of the obvious economic restrictions of accessing sophisticated equipment forced these musicians on the DIY road. Domestic tape recorders making cassette loops, broken record players, toy keyboards, and the noisy "fingers on circuitry" long before Nicolas Collins championed it on Handmade Electronic Music (2006). Whilst some artists actually had access to professional synths and drum machines (UnoxUno, Quum, Jaime Genovart), they still lacked of standard recording equipment. A crucial document then showing how their unique approach to music making influenced the forthcoming experimental scene of South America making these artists influential cult figures of the underground. Compiled by Juan José Calarco and Pablo Reche. Digitized and mastered by Juan José Calarco. Also features Alfredo Horacio Pérez, Luis Marte, Conducto, Esófago Zombie, Las Cintas Magnéticas, Zigo, La Espora Invasora, and Francisco Ali-Brouchoud.
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SUC 027CS
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Having recently retired from his most prolific moniker Gonzo, Gonçalo F Cardoso keeps busy and plows ahead into an ominous 2020 with a new moniker/concept: Prophetas. Inspired by visionary/paranoid cult figures, gurus with delusions of grandeur, lonely, and idiosyncratic figures as symbols of hope/despair for the uncertain times of the new decade. Starting with ideas developed in the mid '50s: UFO paranoia, suburbia, Lemuria, space race, and going all the way to '80s excess, mall culture, collective consumerism, future memories finalizing laying the ground work for the new fake prophets of the 21st century, in the guise of silicon valley type bosses, Apple, Facebook -- the new cults -- all filtered through an overused '80s broken lens. Living and repeating the exact same age of dystopia paranoia as ever, Reveal, Accept, Remember -- and Forget.
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SUC 029CS
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Ubek returns. The mysterious Polish duo digs out a new collection of degraded echoes, salvaged from authority. Galvanized as if lost to the shock of formal experiments. Ubek II revises the present and takes you back to other versions of actuality. Ubek: UB + -ek, with UB being an initialism of Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (literally "Security Office").
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SUC 028CS
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The Aetherius Apreciation Society presents Accelerated Evolution Music by The Silent Group. A mysterious outfit from nowhere rooted in the extraterrestrial belief that intelligent experiences with "Cosmic Beings" will "help humanity solve its current Earthly problems and advance us into the New Age." Vague notions of higher consciousness are matched by slowly evolving drones and tones eventually reaching an effect of Accelerated Evolution Music. Dialoguing electrical circuits and frictionless metals being be main conductor here to this so called new heightened state, you can decide for yourself.
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SUC 033CS
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Program 02 includes a selection of Turkish rap from tape-only releases between 1986-1995. German/Turkish band Cartel's self-titled debut album (1995), set the standards for Turkish rap, both in terms of production and lyrical content. This mixtape compiles rap music that came out before Cartel's debut which are mostly studio projects. Lyrically this period is the era of covers and comedy rap. Topics include daily matters, politics, school, urban life, and rapid changes in culture. Previously released as a short online mixtape, now finalized for Sucata Tapes as an hour-long set with more tracks from the era. Mixed and compiled by Grup Ses.
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SUC 031CS
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Mark Gergis is a producer, musician and audiovisual archivist known for his radio and video productions, recordings, and performances. His work has focused on regional folk-pop music from the Middle East and Southeast Asia, including choubi and dabke from Iraq and Syria. As an archivist, Gergis is currently working on the project Syrian Cassette Archives, for which he aims to restore, preserve, catalog and share his large collection of Syrian media from what can be called Syria's "cassette era" (1970s-2010). As an artist, under his name and others (Porest) he has released music on the Sublime Frequencies, Discrepant, and Nashazphone, to name just a few. It's a wonder that amongst this hectic schedule he still finds time to present us with a new (old) collection of early century recordings (1999-2013). Locational recordings, radio, and TV intercepts, cassette excerpts, environments, and street music all expertly all expertly meshed into a vivid sound journey from places that were (and might) never be again.
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SUC 030CS
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Picking up from their previous cassette album on Sucata Tapes, AMAN!!! deliver Aman!!! #2, another series of live tracks, this time recorded in Athens and London. The duo of Tasos Stamou and Thodoris Ziarkas bring back the improvisational element to the old Greek rebetiko style and expand it towards other avant-garde musical genres. "Sirtaki hate" and "Merakia" recorded during a performance at KET, Athens, November 2018. All others recorded at the Owl Studio, London, autumn 2018. Personnel: Tasos Stamou - Greek bouzouki, tzouras, baglama saz; Thodoris Ziarkas - parlor and gypsy guitar.
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SUC 024CS
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QorusQoros is "outernational" free jazz madness from Lisbon trio Alförjs. It could as well be an ethnographic soundtrack from another planet as the trio of Mestre André (saxophone, electronics), Bernardo Álvares (contrabass), and Raphael Soares (drums) delve deep into the outer realms of what jazz/electronic music can sound like. Urban shamanism, magical practices, and ancient/future world views collide in unsuspecting ways on this out-there tape. A unique sound from a unique trio, Alförjs have a very special place among what is out there of more intriguing and radical in this final stretch of the 21st century's second decade.
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SUC 025CS
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Banha Da Cobra is a project of Lisbon-based artists Mestre André (laptop) and Carlos Godinho (objects). Born from a stream of research and electroacoustic sound intervention, Banha da Cobra starts from an imaginary sonic place of handcrafted, ritualistic and traditional activities and landscapes. The compositions are made as sound ruins, based on an ecology between the sustainability of the sound nature of the found -- structures, places, objects, etc. -- and their appropriation and transformation. The collecting inherent in this project is of an archaeological character, complemented with processes of alchemical manipulation like musical creation in real time. On Mãe D'Água, Banha da Cobra present a live recording of their concert/performance on a four by four channel system at Mãe d'Água, recorded on the 21st of September, 2018 within the context of the Lisboa Soa festival. Mãe D'Água (Mother of Water) is an old water reservoir located in the center of Lisbon; it used to be the main reservoir for Lisbon, being fed by a massive 19th century aqueduct.
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SUC 026CS
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Closing the unofficial "New Weird Portugal" tape batch on Sucata Tapes is Eosin, aka Diana Combo, with For Beniko, a mixtape of crackling and drone-y vinyl mixed with field recordings recorded outdoors on a later summer afternoon in Alentejo.
''This piece was made during a residency in Elvas (Alentejo, Portugal), in the context of the first edition of the festival A Salto, in July 2016. one of the invited artists was given a specific place to develop work to be presented during the festival. I spent a week at Fábrica Frutas Doces, a small "factory" dedicated to the preparation of prunes and plums in syrup. Some families have been linked to it for several generations, as is the case of Luís Silveirinha's family, the current owner. Frutas Doces isn't the only factory of this kind but it is the only one operating exclusively in an artisan way. Luís and his only employee were cooking the plums, adding fire to the already-high summer temperatures of around 40 degrees Celsius. This has to be done when the plums are collected, preserving the fruits at their best. I recorded bits of our exchange of words while they were doing their job. At home, I worked with a collection of vinyl records and made a composition using them. It was like I was creating the tone, a certain voice of the space, a construction that becomes its new reality. At the same time, I joined Beniko, a visual artist, for the creation of her performance to be presented as the opening of A Salto, and one thing influenced and inspired the other. The piece I made was presented as a live composition using the pre-recorded bits, at the terrace of the Fábrica in a late afternoon that was surprisingly mild. I decided to name the recording of this piece For Beniko, as she was an inspiration and remains as a beautiful memory of the time spent in Elvas. Listening to the piece is a way to go back in time and remember the period of its creation. Sounds can bring images, and other sounds, feelings, smells and taste to memory in a way that is so acute and live, even when the material that documents that certain reality is a construction of it, quite afar from its figurative or realistic representation.'' --Diana Combo, January 2018
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SUC 023CS
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From Sucata Tapes/Discrepant, comes Hour of the Wolf, a new project by Berlin-based artists Pedro Silva (turntable percussion) and Stefan Brunner (guitar and field recordings). Hour Of The Wolf is an improvisational piece based on an associative storyline, written by Brunner and divided into eight chapters. One is invited to look at the score at http://hourofthewolf.org while playing this tape. Recorded live at Ausland, Berlin.
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SUC 022CS
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From Sucata Tapes/Discrepant comes Cercueil Flottant, a mini-album by Gonçalo F Cardoso's most experimental and retro avant-garde moniker, Papillon. After a self-titled LP (CREP 009LP, 2014) and a two-part tape (Aqueducts (2017)) for Dinzu Artefacts, the Henri Charrière-inspired alter ego hasn't been the most prolific of late. He now returns with seven mini-vignettes full of mood swings, silly 'ambiances' and made-up stories to make one dream and wonder. Featuring contributions from Mike Cooper and Yannick Dauby, this mini-album will be the precursor to Papillon's final album, Le Banco to be released on Discrepant in early 2020. For now, recline on that burnt-up sofa chair and enter the schizophrenic trip wonderland of Papillon's Cercueill Flottant. Artwork by the ever-talented Evan Crankshaw.
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Aman!!! is a newly-formed project by Tasos Stamou (Greek bouzouki & Turkish saz) and Thodoris Ziarkas (blues guitar). The duo explores the borders of improvisation in the context of traditional music, especially focused in the musical heritage of Greek rebetiko and other styles of the south-east Mediterranean. The project reflects reflects both musicians's interest about reinterpreting traditional music in a contemporary, non-sterilized form whilst dealing with music tradition in their very own special way; abstract prepared-strings improvisations blend back-and-forth with original old songs of '30s and '40s phonography.
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Lisbon's finest Bruno Silva, aka Ondness, aka Serpente, presents a schizophrenic split EP on Sucata Tapes, featuring different projects on each side. Ondness showcases what Bruno's "main" project has been elegantly and quietly doing for a while. Sound debris, chopped beats and rejected samples are intertwined to create two unique epic tracks that travel far and wide between the zones where you wished you would be. Serpente delves deeper into Bruno's repetitive mantra styles. Blasting sample based beats into a disparate whole, and coherently collaging it all through vivid sleep walking techniques.
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SUC 021CS
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Sucata Tapes presents Valid Sparrows, a split tape between dungeon electronic outfit Angela Valid and Hey Colossus member Sparrows Herne. Angela Valid return from spawning whoopy shit. Bob from Hey Colossus added the string plucking on this number and single-handedly churns up a two piece pong on the flip under the newly hatched Sparrows Herne moniker.
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Sucata Tapes presents the third entry in their South American tape extravaganza with Panchasila. Panchasila are the duo of Juan Jose Calarco (Bloque del Sur) and Guillermo M. Cerredo (M3Y, VLUBÄ) from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They started playing together with Panchasila around 2012 and define their sound as a mix of dub music techniques applied to cumbia and other South American rhythms. On this self-titled debut tape they took inspiration from Bollywood, Thai films and Indonesian music to create a unique melting pot of genres and styles defying categorization.
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Concluding Sucata Tapes' South America batch comes this Andean mix from Tomás Tello, a Peruvian artist now residing in Tavira, Portugal. Using field recordings of the region, noise experiments and classic Latin songs, Tello creates an absorbing and enigmatic soundscape of the continent's Andean culture. The mix is named after the Ekeko, a Tiwanakan (pre Columbian civilization), a god of abundance and prosperity in the mythology and folklore of the people from the Andean Altiplano. RIYL: Sublime Frequencies, Andean music, chicha, cumbia, field recordings.
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SUC 009CS
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A new Gonzo collage, of sounds, of scraps, of things he might use (never) again. Picking up where Ark Eulogy left off (2014), a journey through places and times you think you know but only HE knows about.
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SUC 010CS
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On Music Is Not A Copy, Kink Gong turns crystal pop into syrup musak, a skippy glitch digital re-configuration of Chinese popular music, sounding like a broken unrelenting CD player under Beijing's main underpass. There's no one else making music like this, be it destructive or celebratory -- dive in, never come back.
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