This is a mix by Tristan Bath to accompany his final Spools Out column looking at the best cassettes of 2014. 


Mark Dicker - Talk of the University - “...Hell is a Grammar School to This”
Empty Taxi - IRIZAJN EP - “Bending”
Lily - Modern Malaise - Side A (excerpt)
Marcus Whale & Tom Smith - Localities - “Lugarno”
Joseph Curwen - Shunned House - “A2” (excerpt)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Songs of Forgiveness - “A Side” (excerpt)
I Have Eaten the City - Secret Paths - “Mannequin Gait”
Threes and Will & Huerequeque - Blue thirteen - “Amudarja”
Various Artists - Federally Administered Tribal Folk And Pathan Pop From Peshawar To Kabul - Akhir Sheikh - “Dekh Tamasha Dekh”
Sayat Nova Project - Kazbek: Field Recordings from the Caucasus 2012-2014 -”Ashiq Alesker (Algeti, Georgia)”
Various Artists – La Psicotropia - Efrain Rozas - “That's Right Bitch”
AygeeTee - Eternity’s Conceit - “The Feed”
EQ Why - Tokyo Mixtape - Side B (excerpt)
Marreck - Thirteen - “Beautiful K”

The Quietus' Spools Out 14 For '14 Best Cassettes Mix

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