Recording from our first broadcast on our new bimestrial show via @LYL_RADIO.....presenting 60 minutes of tunes from some of our past, present & future GMT family members... Injoy!

VERA DVALE – Sirutumine
ANTHONY NAPLES – 365
SALAMANDA – Amazon Cactus
MAHBUNZI NAHGO PIHNDI – Harp Trance
2MORPH - Panaceum 
INNSYTER - Quero Ver Quem Viu
ED RUSCHA V & THE ONLY THINGZ TOO – Breaking Clouds
NUEEN - Time=Feel
FULL CIRCLE – Standing Horizontal
SAPHILEAUM – Kaf
XVARR – Elementals
X OR SIZE – Covert ID
YAMA YUKI – Jakarta 2025
PATAPHYSICAL – Xochitl
TAPES – Silence Please Pt3
ANGEL HUNT – Skulp Haunt

Peace Pilgrimage / LYL RADIO 09-04-21

We're very happy to welcome in NYC based sonic sourcier @benbondy to the Good Morning family fold.

Like a gentle toke of medicinal smoke, 'Camo' is an album that instantly draws you in, exhaling you into the ether, shimmering you across a lush tranquil realm of tingling bliss.

Ben kindly shared his reflections on the seven tracks..

"These sounds came to me in a stage of my life when i was learning to seek nothing...to be nothing.....Grasp the formless form and the world comes to you....All come to you unharmed for peace, security & rest. "

Mastered by the great Amir Shoat

Cover Art Photography by Misha Hollenbach (P.A.M.)

'Camo' is available on cassette now via the Good Morning online store, accompanied with a free digital download code.

GMT48 Ben Bondy - 'Camo' (Album Snippets)

For our 50th cassette release, we're very happy to welcome in Shakali (aka Simo Hakalisto) born in Finland, though now residing in the Czech Republic.

"Aurinkopari plays a lot with polarities as it seeks to find something celestial in the mundane. The brightest sound of the album was captured in the darkest night of the year. Sine waves, scaled according to old wartime engineers, ended up sounding like a magic flute. A hydrophone detected other-worldly sounds of a drowning compost and a ceremonial Javanese gendèr was recorded in a bunker… While the processes of recording the album were often playfully esoteric, the music itself is warmly heartfelt." - Shakali

Encompassing global and local music traditions and pre-Midi times, this album feels very organic, playful and warmly connected to a natural, higher consciousness state of being....We couldn't ask for a better way to celebrate our 50th cassette release.

Written & Produced by Simo Hakalisto

Mastered by Amir Shoat

"Aurinkopari" is available now on cassette via our online store.

GMT50 Shakali - Aurinkopari (Snippets)

"Always take from the past - avoiding the empty longings of nostalgia - with a view to understanding the new place it might hold in the future. Good Morning Tapes has done just that, and with the 90’s revival in something of a full swing, the label finally gets the chance to release a pivotal 10 year old mix that didn’t just ignite a curious wave of reflection and appropriation, it marked a culmination in the shifting sonic sands for its creator Mr. Alexis Le-Tan. His name needs little light thrust upon it in these hallowed cosmic halls, with his enduring and ever present mixes being a staple for those that know. 

Back to Disco Valley is arguably his most important mix - it both recontextualised a dirty and forgotten sound of the past, and facilitated a wave of new freedoms for those wishing to look backwards in order to move forwards. Most importantly it planted the seed for everything Full Circle to come.

 Back to Disco Valley is above all else a personal reckoning for Alexis and Joakim, it marked a moment when many problems inherent in a trapped older sound - with a sublime yet dated history of its own - could breath fresh life in the present day; a new slower realm was born. The slowing down of dance music is nothing new, and certainly where peak time beats have existed a spiritual shadow that revels in a slower ethereal space to dance has never been far away. 

Stylistically on one level, Back to Disco Valley might seem to build on what Baldelli or Loda were doing many years ago, and it certainly has that effortless charm, but it goes much further, not just in its re-appraisal of the frenetic fast paced sounds of Goa, but as a signifier of where many wanted to head on the dancefloor - towards a slower oasis - incorporating new releases and modern sounding rarities along the way. Indeed, in selecting the 33rpm dial rather than that marked 45, Full Circle at once opened up the new space inside a music some of us went bananas to 30 years ago, and at the same time made sense of a crucial yet forgotten heritage; a confession became a badge of honour.

 Coming back to Full Circle and its genesis: it was only a matter of time before the old Goa records would come back down from the racks and spawn a new life, and perhaps whilst Le-Tan cemented something a lot of us knew, Back to Disco Valley somehow liberated many of those early records from their stylistic shackles initiating a creative project that - along side the collaborative work with Joakim - has released a wave of inspirational edits and re-imaginations. 

Full Circle - in all its conceptual & metaphorical majesty - really has come to represent the most stylish of takes on past sounds, both in the realm of selection and re-working. It is certainly true that Back to Disco Valley - sounding now as it did then (to the select tuned ears that got to listen) - reflects a perfect meeting between an off-tempo past, present and future, being more than a functional assemblage, it revives many a lost memory, inspiring a new batch of ideas, and always looking back with a purpose.

"Back to Disco Valley" is available on cassette via the GMT Online Store.

@alexisletan @joakim

GMT52 Full Circle - Back to Disco Valley (Snippets)

Big Love to Gi Gi @keptmale

"Sunchoke" is available now on Cassette via the GMT Online Store.

GMT54 Gi Gi - Sunchoke (Snippets)

Full Circle return "From Back There Again" with 6 pieces of cosmic dust for you to sniff!!!

@alexisletan @joakimbouaziz

Vinyl only - No Digital !

Limited copies available via the Good Morning Tapes Bandcamp site:
https://goodmorningtapes.bandcamp.com/merch/full-circle-from-back-there-again-vinyl-lp

Kindly distributed by our friends at Boomkat:
https://boomkat.com/products/from-back-there-again

GMV17 Full Circle - From Back There Again LP (Snippets)

Originally released on cassette 25 May 2018 & mixed by Judaah @bfdmrec

GMT11

Judaah - Sky is the Limit (Side A)

Mixed by Cyprien Gaillard

Originally released on 31 October 2020

GMT36 Neurodermythis -  'The Reconciliation Tape' (Side B)

Originally released as a cassette on 20 February 2021.

Mixed by @SKYRAGER

GMT28

GMT28 Skyrager - Rhizosphere (Side B)

GMT28 Skyrager - Rhizosphere (Side A)

Mixtape by CS (Conrad Standish) from CS + Kreme. @conrad-standish

Originally released in 2017

GMT03

CS - JHONN JOHN JONN (SIDE A)

GMT56 Saphileaum - 'Intrapersonal Experience' Album is now available on physical cassette via our Bandcamp!

https://goodmorningtapes.bandcamp.com/merch/saphileaum-intrapersonal-experience-cassette-album

It's a continuation of Saphileaum’s previously released (& highly praised) album 'Transpersonal Experience' from 2021, and as the title suggests, these 6 tracks follow a deeper more reflective tone… Highly recommended for intimate moments lost in nature or as a daily focus aid tool.

Digital coming soon via Saphileaum's Bandcamp…

GMT56 Saphileaum - Intrapersonal Experience (Snippets)

A mixtape with selections by Ian Kim Judd, originally released on cassette in May 2020.

@iankimjudd

GMT29

Ian Kim Judd - Leave No Trace (Side A & B) 2020

"This one's a collection of moody 90's guitar psychedelia - "rock music" that fits into my sonic worldview...shades of sonic worldview, shades of dream pop ambient, dub, shoegaze, electronica, ethereal post punk chillout..." - Gi Gi @keptmale

Cassette available now via our Online Store!

https://www.goodmorningtapes.com/collections/tapes

GMT59 Gi Gi - 'Wonderwhirl' Cassette (Snippets)

We continue on with the ever evolving sounds from our beloved family abroad with a new Vinyl Compilation.

Available now via our Online Store - strictly vinyl on this one!

300 copies

E Ruscha V - Memory Leap

Tapes - Indigo Tide

Gi Gi - Opioid Rev

Full Circle - A Definition Of What

BC Geo Feat Ja1da - Testing The Waters

Kiki Kudo Feat. Haruka - Hzaruigara

Jonnine - I Won't Lift Another Finger

Shakali - For I Am A Reflection Of That Radiant Light

I was asked by Tess & Simon from @skylab_radio to present some music from the Good Morning Tapes catalogue live on air at the recent Independent Music Exchange in Melbourne.
If you're newcomer to the label's output, this might be a nice place to start...  
- Biscuit / Good Morning Tapes

Tracklist:

E Ruscha V & The Only Thingz, Too - Waves Over Stones
Ben Bondy - Kanga
Jonnine - I Won't Lift Another Finger
Pataphysical - Integument
Nueen - Split
KikI Kudo feat. Haruka - Hzauigara
Jonnine - I Don't Seem Myself Tonight
Os Sienis - Power Source (Mika Snickars Version)
Salamanda - Amazon Cactus
D.K. - The Goddess Is Dancing
Shakali - Aja Udu
Full Circle - Standing Horizontal
Gi Gi - Fainting Pill
Swampy - Far From Home (Edit)

Bless up to all our artists for making the label what it is XO

SkyLab Radio @ The Independent Music Exchange w/ Biscuit

Amazing new mixtape put together by Andrea Zarza & Matthew Kent from Mana Records....Its up there as one of the best mixtapes we've ever released!

The cassette is available now via our Online Store
https://www.goodmorningtapes.com/products/gmt60-mana-records-vessels-in-july

Unfamiliar with Mana? 
Check their amazing catalogue of releases here:
http://manarecords.com/contact
@manarec

GMT60 Mana Records - 'Vessels In July' Mixtape (Snippets)

"This casing holds the next chapter....Imagined & recorded in Space. Going further where you already know...Play and Live at your own speed...Take care of yourself and look out for others...What goes around comes around...Things go round in circles, such is life...We are not alone" - Full Circle 2023

Full Circle's 'Further Knowhere' cassette is available now via the Good Morning Tapes Online Store!

GMT61 Full Circle - 'Further Knowhere' Mixtape (Snippets)

"Continuing the loose 'isle' theme with a fictional soundtrack to flying over Benbecula at sunrise. Looped & layered voices, scuzzy psych rock concrete, modern downtempo, warped club stuff, field recordings, 90s Futurism, songs about the land & sea, plus a smokers cough for good measure...." - Fergus Clark

@fergus_clark

Fergus Clark - Soon Over Benbecula (Side A)

Side A taken from Gi Gi's "Wonderwhirl" mixtape released last year 🙏 @gigigigigigigi

Gi Gi - Wonderwhirl Mixtape (Side A)

A raw snippet taken from part of @Tapes epic DJ set at the Good Morning Tapes release party back on Thursday August 23 2018 at Paloma, Berlin.

Tapes @ Good Morning Tapes / Paloma / Berlin 23.08.2018

'As we blew the dust off our boots, so too did we blow the dust off the relics that defined us then. Now, the Heroic New Creed promised by these secret patchwork vehicles, these mutant transformations signal the opening of a hopeful route. Beyond the borders of our old timecode there exists a perpetual countdown along the liquid highway: only after well-rehearsed inter- reflection can we glimpse the Portals of Knowhere.' - Full Circle

The limited 'Trip to Knowhere' 12' is available now via our online store!

Huge thanks to @alexisletan & @joakimbouaziz

Distributed by Boomkat.

GMV06 Full Circle - 'From Knowhere' 12' (Snippets)

Introducing @Saphileaum, a kind, gifted earth spirit, transmitting his cosmic energy out of Tbilisi, Georgia.

'Transpersonal Experience' is a state in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind, life, cosmos.

It is a beautiful expedition where you lose yourself in order to become one with all the existence. To meld with the whole and dance with it, all in sync.

"My Grandfather, who played a grand role as one of the Masters in my upbringing, introduced me to Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Nizami Ganjavi, Saadi and other Persian philosophers and poets. Basically the whole Sufi poetry, teaching, vision and being is the major and vibrant source of a dancing inspiration for the album."

Much like Saphileaum's forementioned inspirations, 'Transpersonal Experience' has an instant transcending effect on the listener - invoking a sense of clear focus & tranquility, yet subtly pulsing with the tribal rhythm of dance. It's the perfect mood enhancer.

Mastered by Krikor Kouchian

Now available on cassette via our Online Store.

GMT40 Saphileaum - Transpersonal Experience EP (Snippets)

For all enquiries please get in touch here:
contact@goodmorningtapes.com

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