MEMORY TAPES TAKEOVER

Well that's it for me (unless some stragglers show up late to the party) so thanks again for having me and i'll leave you with my favorite record ever: "I Never Dreamed" by The Cookies. -- Memory Tapes

When Phil at Golf Channel sent me Juju & Jordash's "Unleash The Golem" 12" he tucked in an early pressing of another forthcoming LP he thought I'd like... major understatement. Orange Cloud Nine is a collection of tracks taken from a series of home recorded LPs that were self-released in the early eighties by Dutch artist Spike...

Afrobeat is another source of endless comps (some of my favs being "The World Ends" & "Bambara Mystic Soul") but what sets this one apart is it's taken from later and skews more towards proper disco. The LP is over a year old at this point but it gets so much play in my house I had to mention it...

This time of year the music world is flooded with LISTS but, let's be honest, it's mostly gonna be the records you've been hearing about all year. Name your favorite record/track/artist that you think was overlooked in the comments below with your name for a chance to win all three Memory Tapes records on vinyl as well as some other surprises...

I was recently asked to remix Tame Impala's lovely "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" and the good people at Modular have hooked up the premiere. -- Memory Tapes

There seems to be an endless stream of post-punk comps dropping every other week but this one is a bit special: Focusing on Irish groups from 1980-83, Strange Passion is probably one of the best snap-shots of a time & place I've seen put together in a while...

Juju & Jordash are a pair of Israeli ex-pats now working out of Amsterdam who make some of the best live electronic music going. Their recent full length Techno Primitivism is one of my favorites of the year. The guys are about to release part 2 of 4 in an ongoing series for Golf Channel that, in their words, "deals with the Holocaust, Israel, victimhood and aggression; a concept that wa

Pye Corner Audio has had a great year; the first two volumes of his Black Mill Tapes were reissued on vinyl by Type and he recently dropped another solid full-length Sleep Games on Ghost Box. Whether you're a fan of UK soundtrack/library music or not, his work is so genuinely musical that it transcends the style...

Hey everyone, this is dayve/Memory Tapes and I'll be running GvsB today in celebration of the release of my new record GRACE/CONFUSION which is out today. I'm going to be posting tracks from some of the artists that have inspired me this year so thanks to Chris for having me and hopefully you'll enjoy the music I've gotten together to share with you...

Memory Tapes' sprawling, heartfelt, beautifully flawed new LP Grace/Confusion is out today on Carpark, and while we continue to attempt to wrap our heads around the record's layered intricacies and thrilling/unexpected/emotional melodic turns, we're commemorating the occasion by handing the blog over to Memory Tapes mastermind Dayve Hawk for the day...