RELEASES

a Microkorg and tape recorder in Glen Canyon park, San Francisco

https://solotape.bandcamp.com/album/canyon-tape

Bandcamp

Canyon Tape

Drifting Ufo

New Take edit

Bandcamp: https://solotape.bandcamp.com/album/days-on-end-pt-i


“Days On End” serves as a sonic archive of mid-pandemic moods. Through a collection of live-recorded tracks, it captures a raw, creative burst from Solotape during a period of stripped-down production. Signature rhythm-work and gritty sound design return for this extensive collection, released in two parts.

“I was kind of burnt out on music early during the pandemic - everyone at my house was suddenly home all the time and I never had any alone time to work on it. Eventually, I ended up renting a shared rehearsal spot nearby in San Francisco. My audio interface was still at home when I first moved in there, so I didn't have a way to digitally record. I brought my tape deck instead and pressed record when things started sounding good.”

“My whole setup was pretty basic with less instruments than I usually have. There was a sort of simplicity to making stuff that I think was good for me. I was just excited to work on music again, and wasn’t obsessing over the technicalities. I didn’t have any particular plans for what I was recording, and just set the tapes aside for a while. I had forgotten most of what I had recorded by the time I returned to them months later. I didn’t know what to expect once I listened back and essentially rediscovered all of the material like it was new. The tapes felt like a physical little time capsule of an earlier period. After I realized that I liked what I had made, I dubbed the tapes to digital and made some edits to clean them up. Almost everything from the three tapes is included here.”

Despite this simplified approach (or perhaps because of it), Solotape has created a body of work that is full of excitement, joy, and playfulness, as well as frustration, catharsis, and dread. At times rambling, at others immediate and visceral, it resembles a series of vignettes, tied together through a common tonal palette and form rather than emotional valence. “Days On End” strikes a balance of raw emotion and analog textures, providing an honest snapshot into the artist's internal world.


Solotape:
https://www.instagram.com/tapes_and_moire/
https://linktr.ee/solotape
https://soundcloud.com/enceence

Silva Electronics:
https://www.instagram.com/silvaelectronics/
https://silvaelectronics.bandcamp.com/
https://www.silvaelectronics.net/
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11glIMvFlbpftSVUPrVLB0?si=8356319043d240c9&nd=1

Days On End (pt. I)

SE 15 //  Solotape - "Days On End (pt. I)"

Fluuuzoz Finale

https://solotape.bandcamp.com/album/canyon-tape

Realizations

Future Visions

Micro Ballet

🔮🌿 Silva Electronics is excited to announce the 20th entry in our catalog: Part II of solotape's 'Days on End' album—A series of vignettes where simplicity breeds authenticity, delivering smoked-out jams perfect for late-night introspection. 🌃🌌

Pre-order is now available for both digital and cassette formats! Purchasing the tape includes a digital download of Part II and Part I (you'll receive a digital download code for Part I when the tape ships).

SE 20 - Silva Electronics, November 2024

Music: solotape (@tapes_and_moire )
Mastering: Mark Pistel (@mark_pistel )
Cover render: @hydra_v0id 
Design: Saish K (@saishk___ )

SE 20 // solotape - "Days On End (pt. 2)" (cs)

from Days on End Pt.II, released on Silva Electronics
Full release available on tape with Part I and II

Wroffa

FlatLine

SlinK

rslnc

https://discretetapes.bandcamp.com/album/tape-1052-emerson-feed

SKINTIGHT

LI$012

H>R Demo

flat step loop

Silva Electronics SE005 - Synthetic Instantiations of Nature

Synthetic Instantiations Of Nature

At Home

E Gull 2000

r b m

Square Dance

Another Visitor

D - 06

Cypher's Theme

Moltres

Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus

“Change! Our hearts demand it. Change! Our eyes demand it”, sings Kino’s Viktor Tsoi in “Peremen”. This song may now be heard on the streets of not just Minsk and Grodno, but also Babruysk, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev, Pinsk, Vitebsk and what – at least to a foreign onlooker – looks like countless Belarussian cities and towns engulfed in protest. Following years of Alexander Lukashenko’s rule, another rigged election, omnipresent violence perpetrated by the state apparatus, censorship and draconian laws, the people have taken to the streets en masse. This is not the first time the Belarusians are out to protest, but the scale of these disturbances is unprecedented. Also unprecedented is the fact the rallies are led by women, who head the peaceful marches that have spread onto the streets of Belarus. Workers, miners, teachers, employees of the media and the Minsk underground as well as artists from the Belarusian State Philharmonic have all joined the protests. They stand against lies, demand the transparency of public life, and access to power. As they rally against repression and torture, they expose themselves to the same.

The artists featured on the Peramen! compilation also demand changes. While we cannot physically join the protesters on the streets of Belarus, we want to offer them at least this form of support. Our thoughts are with our friends – and with all the people who have been arrested, beaten, and humiliated. We join in the grief of families of all those murdered in the protests.

The compilation covers a broad selection of genres: from club music, through classical and experimental classical, to noise, ambient, and rock; from pieces that were composed to ones that were improvised or inspired by folk music. Its geographical scope is similarly broad, spanning Belarus, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, USA, Russia, and Hungary.

Buy - Comp for Belarus

Future Life

0ans

Curious Arp

Ritual Means

big whoosh dj tool

Tracks by @enceence 
Mastering by Beau Thomas.
buy - https://pluscplus.bandcamp.com/album/esx-1
Artwork by Horah INC.
+C+ 2020

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