Blank Tapes is very happy to be able to confirm that Bass Clef will be appearing at this year's Sónar festival in Barcelona. Also confirmed so far for this year are Konono No 1, Mala, Shackleton, Justice, Diplo, Hercules and Love Affair, Neon Neon, Yellow Swans, Yo Majesty, and many many more.
More festival dates to be announced soon . . .
» Posted: 28/02/08 at 13:44
Mike Watt - of Minutemen, Ciccone Youth, fIREHOSE, and lately The Stooges - does a peerless podcast and we thought you should know. They're usually a couple of hours long and he manages to come up with a couple a month on average. Every one begins with a different Coltrane freak-out, and after that gets into seriously in-depth exchanges with the likes of Jim O'Rourke on (in his case) Japanese cinema and syntax.
It's called The Watt From Pedro Show, and you can listen here.
More LINKS news: we've added a Myspace category to the links page so you can click straight through to any BT artists.
» Posted: 27/02/08 at 23:34
Blank Tapes is delighted to announce another new signing: Zunzunegui.
Zunzunegui are from Bristol, and anyone from the area may have caught some of their magically exploding sets at festivals like Venn or Ashton Court.
A six piece, they make a sound located roughly in between . . . Mauritius, Köln, west Massachusetts and Montpelier.
And to make sense of that you can listen to and make friends with them HERE.
More news to follow soon - including details of Zunzunegui's first release on Blank Tapes.
» Posted: 21/02/08 at 13:37
More Bass Clef shows, including four in the space of next week alone.
This Saturday (23 February) Bass Clef will be in Bristol at the Trinity Centre for a D.R.O.I.D. night also featuring Luke Vibert.
The following Wednesday (27 February) he hits Brighton for a Wrongmusic night at the Volks - only Ł5 and Shackleton is also on the bill. So go.
Friday 29 February sees BC as special guest at the launch party for a new Robert Logan release on Slowfoot Records, the venue is Upstairs at the Adelaide (Adelaide Rd, Chalk Farm). Go to this too.
And on Saturday 1 March, BC can be caught at Square Roots, at SE-ONE, London. You should go.
Blank Tapes is pleased to announce a new French tour by Thee, Stranded Horse! For full details check the live section - dates confirmed so far include Paris, Grenoble, Vendome, Chabeuil, Macon, Caen, Rennes et Morlaix.
Equally exciting is the next Thee, Stranded Horse release on Blank Tapes, which, production permitting, should be available on this tour before it's available anywhere else, as a limited vinyl-only gem. Full news story and details on BLANK009 to follow, but we can reveal that it is a) collaborative, b) very kora, and c) fucking good.
» Posted: 21/02/08 at 13:36
Some new Bass Clef dates to check out in our LIVE section for the new year: London in January, Nottingham and Bristol in February, back to London in March, then trips to Norway and Scotland in April. Could be lots more continental action confirmed soon, so keep checking for updates.
Also this enjoyable short film to take note of: AFX dropping Bass Clef's 'One Hundred Point Three' into a DJ set. Yes!
» Posted: 21/02/08 at 13:35
Last Thursday Radiohead 'took over' the Zane Lowe show on BBC Radio 1. Well, god knows somebody had to. Only kidding Zane! Anyway, Ed O'Brien and Thom Yorke played a variety of tracks of varying vintage, including Sonic Youth, Os Mutantes, Burial, Holy Fuck!, Konono No 1 and . . . Bass Clef's 'Ballad of the Broken 808', sandwiched between two TLAs:
Thursday 17 January 2008
20:00
. . .
AFX - 'Crying In Your Face' (DGC)
Bass Clef - 'Ballad of The Broken 808' (Blank Tapes)
XTC - 'Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me)' (Virgin)
. . .
Good decision. Full tracklisting for their show can be seen in situ at Radio 1.
» Posted: 13/12/07 at 16:15
2008 is nearly here and Blank Tapes is taking no time off for Xmas, Hanukkah, Sanghamitta or Cam Cei Log.
Swimming around unofficially on white label for all too long now has been the debut EP from Spring Tides, a new signing to Blank Tapes. The Hostile Takeover EP, which will officially hit racks early in the New Year, sounds like this on paper: krautrock, Afrobeat, improv, No Wave disco, cluster organ chords, 14/8 basslines, and Ghanaian lyricism. It also sounds like that on vinyl, thank god. There's also a Hot Chip remix which transmutes from space dub to astral folk without skipping a heartbeat.
Tracklisting and other technical discographical detail to your left.
Further updates to follow: another new signing which we are very very excited about, details of an amazing one-off Thee, Stranded Horse release, and lots lots more.
» Posted: 13/12/07 at 16:15
Bass Clef's Zamyatin series has now been fully triangulated, with the release of volume three, Zamyatin Digitised.
Available as MP3 or FLAC from here, this collection gives you six all-new tracks plus two of the peaks from Vols 1 and 2 ('Ballad of the Broken 606' and 'Get on the A10 and Drive and Drive').
The new stuff is namely:
Stand by to Dive
Music Will Fade Yr Poisons
Letter to Stalin
Bittersweet All Over the Place
Stokes Croft 3AM
Three Dots
Get this third part to make the two preceding instalments sound even better, while also satiating your third eye, outer ears and inner completist.
