TAPES
12 JANUARY 2010
Written by
ALAN WILLIAMS

Tapes -
Hissing Theatricals
Digital Dub? Tape
hissing? Heavy shuffling?
Tapes on the Jahtari Label release the 9 Track EP;
Hissing Theatricals. Principally a record consisting
of condensed bass riffs with colourful synthy walls
of sound with a percussive clarity that resonates
from head to toe.
Apparently this record was originated on the dirty
streets of Hackney but was then painstakingly
mastered to cassette and then re-mastered back
again; it was finally finished in some kind of squat
in Liepzig. This ones definitely one to hear; it
sounds like a mixing between a Dirty 80s Dancehall
with King Tubbys Sound effects Library.

Tapes -
Hissing Theatricals
Gorgeously blended and textured together to create a
complex and ominous record Tapes has built this from
scattered percussive blips and soul numbing Bass
lines unmistakably to form his Stylistic Signature
sound.
Tapes on Jahtari: http://www.jahtari.org/artists/tapes.htm
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