noise

Andy Klingensmith + closing.

2022 has been a rather sparse year for the label but worry not, there is a busy december ahead of us. First, a batch of experimental tapes.

mt047- ANDY KLINGENSMITH ‘My Voice Is Rain’ c30

The Modern Tapes debut from Chicago experimentalist Andy Klingensmith is a post-lowercase exploration of time and place manifested in a musique concreté informed assembly of field recorded texture and sub-bass conflict.

mt048- closing. ‘III’ c42

dissonant drones, clipped field recordings and other forms of tape-based dysplasia from the dimly lit corners of nyc.

both available dec 2, 2022

ROVELLASCA / UNFEELING

Textured, hissing tones give way to the sound of slowly dragging a cassette recorder behind you that is playing the recordings of slowly dragging a cassette recorder behind you.

Rovellasca is the prolific solo presence of sound and visual artist Craig Stewart Johnson, also of Death In Scarsdale, Liminal Haze and the curator of the impeccable Invisible City Records label.

Half-slept soundscapes succumb to the resonant rumblings of an unsettled sense of self on Derek Rush’s second release as UNFEELING, the first for Modern Tapes. The title NEUROBIOLOGICAL TRAUMATOLOGY, refers to actual physical changes that can occur in the brain due to emotional trauma. The music stirs misfiring synapses, pulsating blood vessels, and woozy sensations into the kind fog you can only remember in the moments just after you wake up.

HUMAN ASPIC + CLOSING

Harsh noise expose of the unspoken usage of human originated meat (HOM) as a part of the american food supply since 1942.
cassette is pro-dubbed and printed in a two color silkscreened cardstock jacket with photocopied booklet.
download includes pdf booklet of notes including an excerpt from FDA depositions on the history of the Human Salvage Program and a video edit (mp4) of “The Whistle Is Blown” which can also be viewed here: youtu.be/TnKDBA6FnZE

Dissonant drones and a hissing, murky ambience. The sound of isolation, slumber, depravity, rebellion, lonliness, whatever you want to project onto it. Grim minimalism for weary ears.
cassette is hand dubbed with a silkscreened jacket and photocopied insert.

DOSENÖFFNER and SCHOLL

NOW AVAILABLE! two brand new tapes from the mangled mind and electronics of Peter Keller (Unser Verhängnis, Bacillus, Condo Horro, etc.).

Mt030 Dosenöffner “Push For Signal” c60 + download

the duo of Peter Keller (aka Unser Verhängis, Scholl, Condon Horro, Bacillus) and Casey Chittenden Jones creates evolving textures of modular noise ranging from the harsh to the understated. an intriguing collection of improvised sounds captured live.

mt031 SCHOLL “Angesichts Konstanter” c60 + download

augmented debut release by this new project from Peter Keller (Unser Verhängnis, Condo Horro, Dosenöffner, Bacillus, ad infinitum). repetitive noise for a paranoid dancefloor that doesn’t exist.

NEW RELEASES for fall 2018. Rien “the grey tape” and Verhalten “corrupted structures v.2” PLUS a new batch of “This Machine Kills Fascists” tshirts with more sizes!

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Hello everyone! Here’s a doozy of an update for you. TWO new releases as well as “this machine…” shirts reprinted and in more sizes (XS and XL)!

mt028- RIEN “the grey tape” c40
the sound of implosion, of sound eating itself. we hear what is left behind.
stellar static noise (and sub sonic) minimalism from this prolific swedish provocateur.

mt029- VERHALTEN “corrupted structures v.2” c60
Second in a continuing series of releases for Verhalten. Distorted rhythms are woven with crackling walls of noise and syncopated sine waves pushing the further reaches of the audio spectrum. An exercise in tonality, texture and repetition. A minimalist exploration of the structures humanity creates to its own detriment.

Cassettes, downloads and shirts are all available now from Modern Tapes.

artist copies are enroute and will be available at live performances and online from them soonly.

ANOTHER new Verhalten cassette!

hot on the heels of last month’s release of Number, Verhalten returns with a brand new two track, 22min EP that will serve as the first in a series of releases called Corrupted Structures. Based on inconsistency and a sense of chaos as much as it is based on repetition and the build of inertia, Corrupted Structures v.1 crumbles and hisses all around us just like the people, movements and institutions we feed daily.

mt027 vh cs1

limited edition of 15.

Shaan and Verhalten tapes now available!

It was june of 2016. Froe Char was playing a show in Belgrade, Serbia with the newly minted Unur alias, Verhalten. The opening act for the night starts. A young woman with a single sampler begins a kinetic and intriguing set. We have just witnessed Shaan. As the evening progresses everyone starts talking and as we have an extra couple days in Belgrade we make plans to hang out more, then to make some music together and as this friendship forms, so does an idea. “why don’t you do a tape for modern tapes?” Here is just that:

It is 2017. US political conversation is getting more frustrating and inane as the days go on. A balance between activism and nihilism is all we have to keep ourselves sane. We feel anonymous, we feel numb. In a fit of isolated incredulousness, VH decides to make something that feels immediate, something that feels more like a live set. Each track is constructed live on modular synth and contact microphones. We now have Number.

VOLHNN “artefact” and UNSER VERHÄNGNES “Peace Is A Lasting Legacy When The Earth Is A Silent Grave” available now.

After much waiting and a couple delays the new Volhnn and Unser Verhängnis tapes are available.

mt023 Volhnn “artefact” c60 limited edition of 15
cold and bleak ambient noise wall project of this French provocateur, otherwise known by his Chier alias.

mt024 Unser Verhängnis “Peace Is A Lasting Legacy When The Earth Is A Silent Grave” 2xc60 limited edition of 15
Grim, ambient noise walls for the contemplation of our undoing. double cassette from this project of the ever prolific Peter Keller aka Condo Horro.

packaged in aluminum boxes with photocopied artwork and insert along with a download code and “this machine kills fascists” sticker.

Verhalten- west coast us tour, new video and 12″ vinyl release of “Forgiveness”

On March 31 Verhalten returns with “Forgiveness” a collection of noise laced industrial tracks based around rhythm and slow melody. Well, underneath the membrane of static and feedback that is. This is the 12″ vinyl edition of the cassette ep released in early 2017 that is already out of print.

The release is accompanied by a short tour of the west coast from March 31-April 09 and the release of a video for the track “Pictures Drawn In Water”. A minimalist short film of natural white noise photographed while on tour in the Czech Republic, Germany and Iceland in February of 2017.

Tour dates below the video.

Verhalten Tour Dates:

March 31- Los Angeles @ Handbag Factory w/ Pod Blotz, J. De sosa & Analscubahive
https://www.facebook.com/events/388201664882398/

April 1- Oakland, Ca @ Night Light w/ Forbidden Colors, Type B, Blie (Ex Machina #1)
https://www.facebook.com/events/268522096923168/

April 6- Portland, Or @ Atlantis Lounge w/ Portable Morla, Elrond, Disxiple 113 (Live in the Depths #10)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1663105603987556/

April 7- Seattle, Wa @ Teatro De La Psychomachia w/ Pink Void, Glacial, Dosenoffner, Koan-Din (Sonic Decasia)
https://www.facebook.com/events/512467465593447/

April 9- Corvalis, Or @ Interzone

Verhalten Europe Tour 2017

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Cassette copies of both “Forgiveness” and “Oxter” will be available, as well as the Staring Problem and Worker/Parasite releases from the end of 2016.

Jan 27- Paris, France @ Studio Campus w/ Froe Char, Mecano Lacrymo & Viktor Alles
Jan 28- Brussels, Belgium @ Rue De La Sene 88 w/ Froe Char & Mecano Lacrymo
Jan 31- Hamburg, Germany @ Astra Stube
Feb 03- Vienna, Austria @ Au
Feb 04- Brno, Czech Republic @ Skleněná louka – Sklepní scéna
Feb 05- Leipzig, Germany @ AKKO w/Ovo
Feb 06- Zurich, Switzerland @ Boschbar
Feb 09- Rome, Italy @ Fanfulla 5/a
Feb 10- Rimini, Italy @ Wave

US dates coming. More Europe in the summer too.