FAG TAPES

ANDREW COLTRANE "THE OS INNOMINATUM"

2012-02-25T17:29:00.008-08:00

FT195 ANDREW COLTRANE "the os innominatum" cassette. Downer-style minimal basement drone environs from Andrew Coltrane. Some of his most ‘vacated’ sounding electro-acoustic sorcery and the perfect marriage of the Hermitage and Fag Tapes aesthetics 2008. What could be better?

listen: ANDREW COLTRANE "the os innominatum"

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ESTEBAN DE LA MONJA CASAR "THE ELECTRIC FLOOD FLOODED"

2012-02-25T17:17:00.004-08:00

FT301 ESTEBAN DE LA MONJA CASAR "the electric flood flooded" cassette. Now this is it. It is. This fucking tape. Fuck this tape in 2008 reality mind blowing studio recordings. Recorded with a mic that records like the multi-intake pixilation of a fly eye. Sick. A loaf of bread was discovered in my house today that i almost threw up at sight because the mold was black and bile yellow colored. Eat shit. Sounds are a killer. Don't worry about different forms of expressing yourself, ok? A dead whale could be an island and things don't always go go your way. So read from the Bible a page a day and you will know yourself or listen to this tape from Guadalajara, Mexico and smoke some Sour Diesel. Blessed from the alien graveyard.

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BARF THOTH "DARK SPEECH"

2012-02-25T17:13:00.003-08:00

FT076 BARF THOTH "dark speech" cassette. Sick Llama presents: more ancient tongues unforgotten as they rise through the ground up from the grave. Vintage 2006.

$7

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SICK LLAMA "DISTANCE REMOVAL"

2012-02-25T17:05:00.004-08:00

FT175 SICK LLAMA "distance removal" cassette. Kitty litter EQ. Sick Llama style. A cannon of sound. Sometimes you just wanna be somewhere else.....recorded at HAM Studios Ypsilanti, MI in January 2008.

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DEATH COMM "LIVE"

2012-02-25T16:43:00.003-08:00

FT010 DEATH COMM "live" cassette. Live recordings from 2005 gigs in Flint, MI and Ypsilanti, MI. After a day's work in the chemical hole and toxic print dryer folding and a lunch break session on the quarter pipes grip some nighthawks and have some of the strangest jam sessions upstairs in the rat hole. The place got trashed. This all led to us playing a total of four gigs and the name eventually changing to DEATH KCOMM. Players on this one: Mike Connelly, Marx, Heath Moerland, John Olson. No rules.

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TYKEK / SNAKE HOLE

2012-02-25T16:31:00.006-08:00

FT315 TYVEK / SNAKE HOLE cassette. Live, split. Detroit garage punk chowderhead knucklehead crocodile rockers and Miami punk trio throwing up raw fantastic approach with a killer song punch. These two bands don't take no shit.

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SLITHER "ROOM WITH NO CORNERS"

2012-02-25T16:23:00.004-08:00

FT227 SLITHER "room with no corners" cassette. Chris Pottinger and Heath Moerland reeds - electronics duo tearing this one up. Amazing sounds. Alto saxophone and clarinet, tapes, etc. There's no where to hide and you keep running around in a circle trying to escape. Essential. Recorded 2009.

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SICK LLAMA "ONCE BELIEVED"

2012-02-25T14:43:00.004-08:00

FT057 SICK LLAMA "once believed" cd. Two takes at HAM Studios in Detroit, MI. Raw live to tape 2006. Sick Llama style.

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SICK LLAMA "HORRIBLE"

2012-02-25T14:17:00.002-08:00

FT091 SICK LLAMA "horrible" cd. Mind bending sounds. I found a couple of these left over from the 2006 tour with WOLF EYES. Horrible intentions. Horrible recordings. Amazing sounds.

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SUPER STREET "YOU HAD TO BE THERE"

2012-02-25T13:07:00.003-08:00

FT011 SUPER STREET "you had to be there" cassette. All live compilation featuring: Mike Connelly, Sick Llama, Burning Star Core, Blood Minded, Hive Mind, Nate Young, Tovah D-Day. Insane live recordings from 2005. Hand numbered edition 100.

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SLITHER "DISHEARTEN / DISENTHRALL"

2012-02-13T21:05:00.000-08:00

FT112 SLITHER "dishearten/disenthrall" cassette. Chris Pottinger and Heath Moerland reed projections. Alto saxophone and clarinet. The latest late night recorded 2007 straight to tape at Get Lost House, Hamtramck, Michigan.

listen: SLITHER "dishearten/disenthrall"

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DEMONS / ZAC DAVIS "THE GET LOST SESSIONS"

2012-02-13T20:38:00.000-08:00

FT153 DEMONS / ZAC DAVIS "the get lost sessions" cassette. Under the Earth these dawgs bled sounds through the mildew air. The culmination of these recordings resulted in a live performance a few days later that was recorded and released as a dvd on AA Records - Alivia Zivich and Nate Young. Steve Kenney, Zac Davis tearing it up. These are the basement recordings at Get Lost House, Hamtramck, Michigan 2007. Yo grab me a brew. Get lost.

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TYKEK "LIVE DEMOS REHEARSALS AND SCREWED"

2012-02-07T20:13:00.000-08:00

FT304 TYVEK "live, demos, rehearsals and screwed" cassette. A lot of sound to rip your face off. Live stuff from BookBeat book store parking lot. New raw recordings, great weird tracks. This is crocodile rock and screwed warbled tape sessions. Basement. Live. Demos. Rehearsals. Screwed. Chess it out. Screw it up. Live it up. A 2010 release.

listen: TYVEK "live demos rehearsals and screwed"

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DYLAN NYOUKIS "A MANY NIPPLED CHILD"

2012-02-07T20:04:00.000-08:00

FT318 DYLAN NYOUKIS "a many nippled child" cassette. Amazing non-music poetry that transports you walking down the street and into the same room where this is taking place. A strange man wants you to give him what he asks of you and then tells you what you want. Don't get into his car. He will take you to the pickle factory. A total head-scratcher here from the realms of Chocolate Monk, United Kingdom.

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COLORGUARD "SHARED PLANET"

2012-02-07T19:27:00.000-08:00

FT275 COLORGUARD "shared planet" cassette. Kryssi Battalene is an experimental angel who channels the sound of cosmic snowbirds through the physical friction of ferrous oxide tape against smoldering tapeheads. She also plays an astoundingly wicked guitar both traditionally and out of this world. She’s recorded a few weird cassettes handed off at gigs. A fine premier for this most awesome of wild improv enchantress. Mind travel bender from the shared planet of New Haven. Sounds. Folding space. Listen to this tape and you will travel far away into the sounds of new worlds. The pizza is amazing, your car will get broken into. It's a haze cloud sound blaze released 2010.

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GRAVEYARDS "FUCK MARKS"

2012-02-07T19:15:00.000-08:00

FT058 GRAVEYARDS "fuck marks" cassette. Don't know if you are sowing seeds or digging graves? Take a flatline tape trip and just do whatever. A farm for harvest on an alien graveyard shift. Free jazz punk noise. This tape rules strange from the graveyards. John Olson. Ben Hall. Hans Buetow. Talented dead ringer skills from 2006.

listen: GRAVEYARDS "fuck marks"

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BILE AND HORSEMAN "STARVED FARM"

2012-02-07T19:10:00.000-08:00

FT319 BILE AND HORSEMAN "starved farm" cassette. The crops aren't doing so well this year. The outlook of the harvest is looking less than pitiful. There is not even enough food to feed the laborers working the fields. The water supply has become diseased. One by one they drop like flies under the sweltering sun and the plantation owner and family have no choice but to resort to cannibalism. Forced to keep working and live, unable to scale the fortress walls, the alternative is to be found on the table in the dining room. Live recordings from the duo of Dog Lady and Tar Pit sourced from the Hell Ride To Texas Tour May/June 2011. Violin mutation manipulations, punk mutilations guitar and tapes.

listen: BILE AND HORSEMAN "starved farm"

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TAR PIT "STRUGGLE TO SPEAK"

2012-02-07T19:02:00.000-08:00

FT249 TARPIT "struggle to speak" cassette. Michigan blood mixed with alien blood = Sam Hooker. Slow pitch bending sweep electronics and tapes. Trying to teach someone to talk again after a reel of thought by playing them this tape would be a disaster. Instructions are to take the tape out of the plastic house shell to listen. The best amazing sound design. Hand painted covers.

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DOG LADY "LIVE"

2012-02-07T18:54:00.000-08:00

FT273 DOG LADY "live" cassette. Woof woof woof - Kaw kaw kaw kaw - A bunch of live recordings. Violin and reel-to-reel and ain't nothing but a dawg up in this dawg up in this dawg in here. Just like a dawg rollin' up to the dawg and actin' a dawg up in the dawg. A dawg is off the leash and is loose up in this dawg. Michigan dawg is alive and well. Violin, tapes, electronics. Live yard.

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SIXES "ORGAN CUTS III"

2012-02-07T18:42:00.000-08:00

FT247 SIXES "organ cuts III" cassette. Visceral organ hell. Crash Worship. Recorded at: Terminal - Oakland, California. Two Lowrey organs and a Wurlitzer in memory of Karla Pandit. Legendary memorial. July 2003 - July 2009. Hand painted covers.

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SICK LLAMA "PARENT LINES"

2012-02-03T19:03:00.000-08:00

FT342 SICK LLAMA "parent lines" - 5 x cassette box set. Featuring Sick Llama style melt down of withdrawal and outwardness taking in an ear full of sound and letting it out. Some sounds don't get along. Sometimes you don't get along with me. Some tones and notes don't match until they are all sentenced down the track. You can't control me and i can't control you. All the tapes in this box - they all do their own thing and at the end of the day that's what. Sounds and electronics + guitar/clarinet + amazing sounds + posters all in a plastic trap box deluxe. Collection of many different studio sessions and a few live recordings all unreleased. Four hours of music Sick Llama style. Limited edition /18.

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SICK LLAMA "UNTITLED"

2012-02-03T18:49:00.000-08:00

FT341 SICK LLAMA - DVD - Petrified screen burn retina presents ARP-2600 fed through a dawg of a video patch recorded at CalArts. I was hanging out in L.A. for a week soaking in minimal, first take, no over dub style divided into three separate chapters. Synth controlling the screen. A pale darkness. A remote passage on the screen before you. The soundtrack made the video and the video made the soundtrack.

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COMP OF NARF VOL. 1

2012-02-03T15:53:00.000-08:00

FT309 COMP OF NARF VOL. 1 cassette. Practice tapes / studio barfs featuring: 1. FULL MEAT JACKET "practice tape" - first evidence practice tape of the new line-up. Same drummer, Tar Pit guitar, Potthead guitar, no vocals. Raw and it'll kick yer head in. 2. CYGNUS "amuricha" - latest single from guitar gods duo. Specially crafted onto two-inch tape...mastered down to 4-track cassette at HAM Studios production engineering + landscape and time put down a reflection of reality snapped to tape. 3. SICK LLAMA "xxx" - harshed up in the studio Sick Llama is fucking PISSED!!! The world and the life we have apart of it sometimes has surprisingly harsh contrasts...if day and night had a way to go sideways. Surprise. Awesome style recorded live mixed crafted onto two-inch tape - mixed at HAM Studios by Radix. 4. UNCONCERTED "unconcerted 1 + 2" - first evidence practice tape of lost tape reels discovered. Recorded in Hamtramck (surrounded by Detroit) dated 1981 these rough, first take practice jams hit the scene from a band that never bothered after this initial try-out recording session. However, claiming their stake after
having played two live gigs the whole thing ended in mystery. Rare. 5. TYVEK "song 1" - basement 4-track recording. Never heard before jam conveying confusion enhanced moving forward. Recorded post-Nothing Fits. Edition of do what you feel released 2011.

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WASTE GROUND

2012-02-03T15:45:00.000-08:00

FT248 WASTE GROUND cassette. First release ~ Nate Young and Heath Moerland. Recorded at HAM Studios. Tape madness, guitar, synth. This unit now has a third member: Mike Collino (Dog Lady) but his violin and tape madness are nowhere to be found on this recording session. Magnetic sounds released 2009.

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TYVEK "POPEPRS"

2012-01-31T09:43:00.000-08:00

FT310 TYVEK "popeprs" cassette. Recorded on 2011 U.S. tour, assembled and dubbed in the van. Mixed at Jarhead Studio in Memphis. Recorded: live in Phoenix - live in Detroit (Damon on synth) including unreleased "girl on a bicycle" - "untitled" - "gridlock" + plus remix sessions over: "stop start" - "frustration rock" - "kid tut" - "nothing fits" - "mary ellen claims" = guitar & percussion overdubs @ Jarhead Studio in Memphis. Thanks Jameson for recording/mix/supplies + hospitality = no chowderheads allowed!!! Hand painted cassette w/ artwork in case sealed in envelope deluxe. Break strings edition of do what you want.

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SICK LLAMA "FUOR COFINS"

2012-01-28T19:50:00.000-08:00

FT311 SICK LLAMA "fuor cofins" box set. Four cassettes Sick Llama style. Howling across the Earth clarinet, trash compacter bent mirror guitar, tapes and whatever else was around. A window. A garage door. Cat eating crunchy cat food meow. All composed into a dynamic range of messed song structures. Put down and put out of their misery. Deluxe hand painted, Xerox box + posters. Released in 2010 XXX.

$25

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FT200 FOX BOX SET

2012-01-28T19:41:00.000-08:00

FT200 FOX BOX - V/A
All new/unreleased material. Twelve cassettes, hand painted/Xerox, posters, hand numbered. A dark shadow has fallen over clocks and the hands of time are bending. The wind everywhere becomes visible. Visible speech. Out of mouths like mirage vapors. Released in 2008.
_______________________________________________________
BARF THOTH "deaf universe"
RADIX s/t
SICK LLAMA "life doesn't suck, it sucks the life outa you"
FAIL SICK untitled
ARTS & CRAFTS BUILDING vol. 3
BURN VICTIM s/t
SLITHER untitled
CYGNUS untitled
SICK LLAMA "alien facial 5"
SICK LLAMA "rendering factory blues 5"
??? mystery
??? mystery
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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SICK LLAMA "EXISTENCE OF THE ETERNAL TOMB"

2012-01-25T09:49:00.000-08:00

FT225 SICK LLAMA "existence of the eternal tomb" box set. New messed and sick drug layered method. New and bent tunes housed in a beta video box deluxe. A new message of sound. Completely fucked. Complete shit. Double cassette Sick Llama style released in 2009. Hand numbered edition 26.

$20

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SICK LLAMA "CONTINENT OF THE ARBITRARY"

2012-01-24T19:26:00.000-08:00

FT337 SICK LLAMA "continent of the arbitrary" cassette. Sick Llama style. Another unsolved mystery. Identified by convention rather than any strict criteria. A continent based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system. Amazing noise released in 2011.

listen: SICK LLAMA "continent of the arbitrary"

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ZAC DAVIS "WHEN MY WINDOW WAS A MIRROR I COULDN'T SEE IN"

2012-01-24T19:21:00.000-08:00

FT340 ZAC DAVIS "when my window was a mirror i couldn't see in" cassette. Electric and acoustic bi-polar-flow guitar recorded at various Guitar Centers and music instrument stores on the fly. Collages and cut-ups of glimpses into different immediate moments ranging from dog shit chaos to serenity. No instruments, no studio, no music. Released 2011.

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FULL MEAT JACKET "DEMOS"

2012-01-24T19:11:00.000-08:00

FT339 FULL MEAT JACKET "demos" cassette. Michigan HxCx this one is really fucked! Raw recordings and demos from sessions where apparently not all members of the band showed up, or were passed out in a corner. The channel or microphone for vocals
was broken. Sometimes it's just the guitarist playing lone riffs. Did they even know they hit record? Maybe they thought they had a hit record on their hands? Released 2011.

listen: FULL MEAT JACKET "demos"

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NOBODY'S CHILDREN "NO ONE'S CHILD"

2012-01-24T19:01:00.000-08:00

FT235 NOBODY'S CHILDREN "no one's child" double cassette box set. Released in 2009 from the basement minds of Andrew Coltrane and Sick Llama. Asking questions like "what does love feel like". Nothing to rely on. Housed in a 5 x 5 TDK plastic for-who-knows-what-lid-clip-shut box, with inserts/posters, hand painted, hand numbered edition 27. An uplifting letdown.

$20

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HZMT/HUMAN LOOP/TAPE DECK "ARC"

2012-01-13T18:39:00.000-08:00

FT235 HZMAT / HUMAN LOOP "arc" split cassette. Anthony Moerland & Heath Miller recordings. Side A. is straight HZMAT some weird half-blank tape i found the other day in my archives. Side B. is the duo MAX CLOUD / SICK LLAMA / HZMAT. Hold on, i gotta some some here real quick and keep writing. Hold on....recordings from 1998? - 2011? Rough estimate dispersed. A compilation of unreleased recordings. Actually, HUMAN LOOP is a trio. Wes Weaver is the third member here showing up here and there on these recordings. How about that? This cassette. Hearing something new from the past. I like it, something about it just doesn't sound right.

listen: HZMT/HUMAN LOOP/TAPE DECK "arc"

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HIVE MIND "BENEATH TRIANGLE AND CRESCENT"

2012-01-13T18:23:00.000-08:00

FT210 HIVE MIND "beneath triangle and crescent" cassette. The last few Hive Mind gigs i've seen have been real sick. Now i forget what they sounded like. Good thing there's these studio recordings (2008) capturing synth drool-slicing industrial sounds. Giving you space to breathe until you are under the ringing bell of death. Given time to reflect and reason. Being crushed beneath triangle and crescent.

listen: HIVE MIND "beneath triangle and crescent"

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ARTS & CRAFTS BUILDING VOL. 1

2012-01-13T18:18:00.000-08:00

FT169 ARTS AND CRAFTS BUILDING VOL. 1 cassette. HAM Studios
presents: new field recording series... out of the ordinary
recordings of the arts, nature, mechanical, animal, human, etc.
Someday i hope to live in a crib that has an elevator opperated by a
dawg in a gorrilla costume and record that. Amazing recordings from 2007. Recommended.

listen: ARTS & CRAFTS BUILDING VOL. 1

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SICK LLAMA "CONCUSSION SOCIETY"

2012-01-13T18:14:00.000-08:00

FT313 SICK LLAMA "concussion society" cassette. Sick Llama style released 2011. I forgot where i recorded this and by what means; and so did everyone else. What i mean is: this is a lost recording from the future(?) that exists now. Treatment unknown. Disease un-curable for now. You've been put down already(?) and this tape will awaken and put you to sleep, both. Real and garbage instruments communicating audio unreality classics. Honed.

listen: SICK LLAMA "concussion society"

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CYGNUS "CRIMINAL WASTELAND DISCUSSION"

2012-01-13T18:08:00.000-08:00

FT168 CYGNUS "criminal wasteland discussion" cassette. More blues from the dark lakes of Michigan and desolation piss Texas.
Electric / acoustic guitars and organ of H. Moerland / G. Morren. Airplanes full off skeleton people sprinkling hang-over dust down on the masses. Riffs that scrape in and then are forgotten to the ear. Released 2007.

listen: CYGNUS "criminal wasteland discussion"

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RAVEN STRAIN "THE HOLLOWED OUT"

2012-01-13T17:49:00.000-08:00

FT089 RAVEN STRAIN "the hollowed out" cassette. Matt Billings solo depressive creep lurking industrial electronics. YPSI HxCx minimal lurk. Recorded 2006. Amazing sounds. sdnuos gnizamA .6002 dedroceR

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SOUL CARVERS

2012-01-13T17:34:00.000-08:00

FT255 SOUL CARVERS cassette. Way more beat up after a gnarly fight than anything thus far by this duo. Synth, tapes, and dog guitar, dog shit for pickups, reel-to-reel, sound-on-sound. Sick Llama and Kjeld recorded at HAM Studios 2009.

listen: SOUL CARVERS

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WAVES "JAWS PART 1 + 2"

2012-01-13T17:05:00.000-08:00

FT006 WAVES "jaws part 1 + 2" cassette. Electronics amazing thrown overboard. Coors Olson's (Wolf Eyes, Stare Case, Henry And Hazel Slaughter....) solo brainwash. Watch out for electronics! Brainwashed and shipwrecked sounds 2005.

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WOLF EYES "SLAM SECTION"

2012-01-13T16:54:00.000-08:00

FT043 WOLF EYES "slam section" cassette. Like getting yer head chopped off and watching yer body get murdered. Plus th' Jag Man was in town chillin' w/ th' boys, sippin' on a Coors. Total slam section!!! Recorded live 2005 @ Behind The Green Door, Detroit, MI.

listen: WOLF EYES "slam section"

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AARON DILLOWAY "SINCE HE'S BEEN GONE"

2012-01-13T14:52:00.000-08:00

FT085 AARON DILLOWAY "since he's been gone" cassette. This is some strange Dilloway footage. He told me a lot of it is his first experiments w/digital delay. Which is what it sounds like sometimes / other times it sounds like the gig he played just the other night / then it sounds like something on Inzane Studio's Podcast. Take a peek inside Dilloway's rotten skull and you'll see that he is gone and never coming back! Released 2006.

listen: AARON DILLOWAY "since he's been gone"

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HALIBET TIN METAL SEWAGE BAND

2012-01-13T14:38:00.000-08:00

FT115 HALIBET TIN METAL SEWAGE BAND cassette. Jamie Easter and best mates (Odd Clouds, Druid Perfume, The Piranhas) throw down and party with the stow-aways on board this cigarette boat of super cool male and female all vocal beautiful masterpieces. This is some heavy shit. Debut release 2007.

listen: HALIBET TIN METAL SEWAGE BAND

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SICK LLAMA "INBETWEEN THE MIRROR" IV

2012-01-10T14:12:00.000-08:00

FT236 SICK LLAMA "inbetween the mirror" vol. IV cassette. Sick Llama uses tapes, organ, synth, clarinet, and whatever else is laying around to balance a fine line between composition and improvisation. Try to look at what is there between the glass of the mirror. Unseen reality. A mirrored clock ticking in reverse. Bouncing around within a confined space forgetting about the outside world. There is something trapped in the void, un-playable, between side A. and side B. Further territory into one-dimentionality. The incomprehension of height or width. A pin-point of confusion. Parallel lines bent by gravity toward some point in time when they will intersect. Opposites change into each other in a melting glob of sound. Sick Llama style 2011.

listen: SICK LLAMA "inbetween the mirror" IV

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LAMBSBREAD "DRUG K-9"

2012-01-10T13:44:00.000-08:00

FT078 LAMBSBREAD "drug K-9" cassette. Fucking both sides rule! Free
shredders. Soul sessions. If you want to grind a curb, grind a curb.
Fucking do whuteva you want to do! Feedback, Xerox, Jazz HxCx from Bunty Station, Ohio. Lambsbread, a trio consisting of guitarists Kathy O’Dell and Zac Davis and drummer Shane Mackenzie. Amazing release from 2006.

listen: LAMBSBREAD "drug K-9"

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EMERALDS "GRASS CEILING"

2012-01-10T11:55:00.000-08:00

FT105 EMERALDS "grass ceiling" cassette. Stoned strum droner vocal spells from Cleveland, Ohio released 2007. On that tv game show "Press Your Luck" some contestant tape recorded some episodes on his VCR at home, watched them in slow motion and figured out the patern of the board so as synthesizer to not hit a WHAMMY. He raked in tons of dough. Smart guy. John Elliott, Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt began playing music together.

listen: EMERALDS "grass ceiling"

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SLITHER "BURNT OFFERINGS" VI

2012-01-05T18:17:00.000-08:00

FT321 SLITHER "burnt offerings" VI cassette. Released in 2011 this was a long wait for this entry into the series. Studio recordings revealing new set ups and approaches coming across as always two brain thoughts bringing together something at once. Reeds electronics synth duo. Decay delay corpse outside a restaurant. A corpse of sound that just ate. Saynara. Adios.

listen: SLITHER "burnt offerings" VI

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VIOLENT RAMP "STRANGE NOTES"

2012-01-05T18:08:00.000-08:00

FT048 VIOLENT RAMP "strange notes" cassette. Fucking violent ramp!
These mugs skate tough / you get in their way or snake 'em and it's
over. Raw pool coping hardcore released 2006.

listen: VIOLENT RAMP "strange notes"

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ELIZA AND PARRY

2012-01-05T17:57:00.000-08:00

FT338 ELIZA AND PARRY cassette. Vocals and alien terrestrial electronics by Cammisa F. Buerhaus. With the rhythm bouncing back from an echo off the concrete of an alternate reality NYC. Two computers talking to each. A therapist and a paranoid schizophrenic. A group of experienced psychiatrists analysed a combination of real patients and computers running PARRY through teleprinters. Another group of 33 psychiatrists were shown transcripts of the conversations. The two groups were then asked to identify which of the "patients" were human and which were computer programs. The psychiatrists were able to make the correct identification only 48 percent of the time — a figure consistent with random guessing. Released 2011.

watch video:

Eliza and Parry - Requiem For Regina from Salvia Plath on Vimeo.

listen: ELIZA AND PARRY

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SICK LLAMA "CRAFT OF RECOGNITION"

2012-01-05T16:57:00.000-08:00

FT308 SICK LLAMA "craft of recognition" cassette. Do you ever get ahead of yourself? I like to take things as they present themselves to me. However, taking that as a skill, then controlling what you perceive as the future or making it into what you want is an object of desire. Isn't it amazing? Released 2010.

listen: SICK LLAMA "craft of recognition"

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DRUG ABUSE "UNTITLED"

2011-11-27T20:01:00.000-08:00

FT159 DRUG ABUSE cassette. Collaboration super group of RAVEN STRAIN, NEW PLEDGEMASTER, CHARLIE DRAHEIM, SICK LLAMA. Quadruple threat! These are the first recordings. I get so sad when all the drugs are gone. It's like realizing you forgot to record what just happened in the studio. Released 2007.

$7

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DRUG ABUSE "RECOVERY"

2011-08-03T22:01:00.001-07:00

FT184 DRUG ABUSE "recovery" cassette. Quartet recordings featuring: RAVEN STRAIN, NEW PLEDGEMASTER, SICK LLAMA, CHARLIE DRAHIEM. Echos of the drug basement. Fucked up harsh mess and crazy zoned out sounds. Wake up surrounded by beer cans. Recorded on 4-track in Ypsilanti, MI. Released 2008.

$7

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SICK LLAMA "MAGIC CONTROLLING NOTHING"

2011-08-03T21:55:00.000-07:00

FT238 SICK LLAMA "magic controlling nothing" cassette. The bends suddenly in drastic, different ways. Released 2009.

$7

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HEATHER LEIGH MURRAY "JAILHOUSE ROCK"

2011-05-24T13:52:00.000-07:00

HEATHER LEIGH "jailhouse rock" LP - NNF153
It’s been a while since Scorces sorceress, Jandek collaborator, and Volcanic Tongue branch manager Heather Leigh has ventured out on vinyl under her own name. And it may be a while longer, as Jailhouse Rock is in fact a wax reissue of a long OOP 2006 cassette classic on Michigan crud factory Fag Tapes. It was a fave of ours that year (and every year), so it feels extra celebratory to be able to offer up a freshly remastered (by Pete Swanson) LP edition of the album for global re-appreciation. Sprawling, long-form descents/ascents into mythic electric disorientation, powered by her trademark recipe of FX-soaked pedal steel and voice. Jailhouse feels loosely more aligned with a mid-aughts drone/noise aesthetic than the outsider dirt road Americana of her Devil If You Can Hear Me LP (also on NNF), but the distinction is a slight one. Side A swims in swooping sheets of vox and tempestuous wind tunnel dynamics before slowly dying away to wheezing disembodied harmonica. The B piece begins in a more overtly beautiful mode, a trinity of crystalline notes picked and stretched until they’re transformed into a rapturous sky of textural distortion. Sensual and vertigo-inducing in equal measure. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with brand new paint/collage artwork by Heath Moerland (of Sick Llama, Slither, Odd Clouds, etc). Edition of 400.

$10

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SLITHER "LOST BEHIND"

2010-12-16T09:34:00.000-08:00

SLITHER "lost behind" CDr - Chocolate Monk
More illshapen and deranged brain snuff from Michigans Brothers Grime. You need that black fissure in the back off your head mended, right? Then start plastering. “SLITHER slathers strictly slack layers of hiss and too-trill reeds in single-take lakeside station session. Sick Heath and Cotton Chris trade echoed coin-flips along a horizon whose dark moon refuses to set, in a shitbrick piss-black back alleyway leading everywhere. Morepott loping loops elope with lingering lizard lines -- behold, the bundle of baby beats buried beneath BOSS-basted and beaten BASF blur! "An edgy blend of heart-stopping terror, wry humor and surprising humanity" -- thar thou thready thor thissssssss ??” - C Spencer Yeh.

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FT300 SURPRISE BOX SET

2010-10-07T13:53:00.000-07:00

FT300 SURPRISE BOX - 6 x cs./1 x cd/2 x poster/1 x photograph + ???. Everything for the senses. Hearing, sight, touch, taste,
smell and intuition all in a deluxe box set. There will be something to eat. There will be aroma. It's a big sensation. I could tell you what sounds/artists are included in SURPRISE BOX, but then it wouldn't be a surprise, now would it? Hand painted, sealed box. surprise or amnesia? Memory is disturbed or lost. No return policy. Secrets are uncovered. Diamantes. Hands off. If you look don't look pretty in a photograph it's the camera's fault. If you look ugly all of the time you better hope you have a nice camera! the cosmic universe and the human brain dedicate all experience to memory. Being able to recall these experiences is known as taking things to heart. Cold, compartmentalized realms of memory go left untouched. Vast un-recallable landscapes of data bank filing cabinets. The primal mist of what is really there, bloodless and alive, breathing underneath everyone of us. Capturing a moment of time is a difficult thing to achieve; it is unlike putting a wild beast in a cage. Something is forever escaping every one of us....

$40

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FT302 SICK LLAMA "FOSSILS"

2010-05-30T08:38:00.001-07:00

FT302 SICK LLAMA "fossils" LP....The rudest wax - it's possible that you have these sounds on wax already - if you have something that looks like a piece of garbage or smeared dog shit with: A. Sick Llama - B. Fossils - split LP - 4 lock grooves - then this is it. Music that is forever stuck in Chicago rush hour traffic - music digging its own grave for eternity - hating all four seasons - Sick Llama style - Fossils style - special artist edition. Playable at any speed - paste on front cover - screen print back cover - hand painted, hand numbered XXX.

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FAG TAPES PODCAST - RADIX - CHARLIE DRAHEIM - NO ONE WOMAN

2010-05-23T14:56:00.000-07:00

FT297 RADIX cassette. From the burning reaches of the FOX BOX to the singed blues of Draheim/Radix "black infest" cassette. After taking a break and collecting thoughts Radix vocals/electronics Sick Llama side project is black in back and melted all over the front. Solo tracks from a corner of darkness. Lyrics that refuse to be written. Try to sketch them on paper and it bursts into flames, type it up on your computer = crash and erase 2010 edition /25.

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FT298 NO ONE WOMAN cassette. Hear ye, hear ye: "Status googolplex" said the King with infinite wives. Nowhere Man, Nohere Man and Nowhere Woman all teamed up to overthrow the king. A pimp doesn't deserve to be King. Especially if he runs a
monopoly on all women except Nowhere Woman. Also, Nohere Woman must be freed so she can make it to her recording session. Acoustic, musiqu-concrete, tapes, electronics 2010 edition /25.

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FT299 FAG TAPES PODCAST Vol. 1 cassette. The first ever podcast cassette. New Year's Eve Eve 2009. A huge box of mystery cassettes unlabeled/missing info, fools on the echo mic, WEIRDING MODULE, rare NATE YOUNG synth tapes, rare LUDO MICH, JAKS, mystery sounds, noise tapes/demos, beers crackin' and MB and more party animals busting thru the door with tapes. The recording reflects our wasted way of bringing in the new year early 2010 edition /40.

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FT177 CHARLIE DRAHEIM/RADIX "black infest" cassette. Sick basement tapes of some messed up basement blues. Basement studio noise blues. CHARLIE DRAHEIM/SICK LLAMA collaboration recorded in Ypsilanti, MI 2008 edition /77.

$7

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FAG TAPES T-SHIRT - SICK LLAMA - SLITHER - SWEPT OFF TH' LAND

2010-04-21T18:37:00.000-07:00

FT283 SICK LLAMA "must counter" cassette. Making new sick llama sounds on the newly formed Tape Synth Tower. Your older brother told you to throw this tape on when you went to make-out-point with your girlfriend. It worked but then some crazy fucker with a shotgun jumped on the hood of your car and blew ya'll brains out!!! Hand painted, hand numbered edition 30.

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FT284 SLITHER "burnt offerings" IV cassette. Fourth installment from reeds/ electronics duo. Chris Pottinger (COTTON MUSEUM) and Heath Moerland (SICK LLAMA). In the basement of your mind recorded in a basement. Amazing free calculating recordings.
Hand painted, hand numbered edition 25.

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FT285 SWEPT OFF TH' LAND "sick pledge" cassette. Damaged new duo sounds like something you would hear coming from behind an auto graveyard. Hillbilly, primitive outsiders trying to keep warm playing homemade instruments; training their dogs to fetch road kill. Electronics and acoustics. Hand painted, hand numbered edition 30.

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SICK LLAMA - TIGER HATCHERY - SICK LLAMA

2010-04-21T17:45:00.000-07:00

FT294 SICK LLAMA "a disgrace 'pon th' land" cassette. Depressive forcefields. Make. Time slower. While some things speed up. Goes to some of the darkest places yet. Sick llama style. No use calling for help. Full color photograph covers. Edition 25.

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FT295 TIGER HATCHERY cassette. Out of Chicago free jazz trio crazed drums, sax, bass, amazing sounds! Raw and sick...or it's like punk jazz. Then quiet and moody. Great solos. A quote from the drummer: "Fuck the Burger King at Chicago and Western...got my car towed at 4.30 AM while in Village Pizza for 2.5 minutes". Xerox/hand painted covers. Edition 40.

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FT296 SICK LLAMA "chronicle distance" cassette. You get there and then you wish you weren't there. Or your not really into going there, but when you arrive suddenly you're really into it. Your mind is blown and you remember why your alive...but you can always just go somewhere else. Full color photograph covers. Edition 25.

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FAG TAPES 2010

2010-04-13T19:10:00.001-07:00

FAG TAPES 2010

2010-01-27T13:37:00.000-08:00

FAG TAPES 2010

2010-01-16T18:49:00.000-08:00