Hope all is well in your worlds. Lots of ice and snow round these parts, but it's done nothing to lessen our enthusiasm for this next harvest from Tape Drift. With this batch, we're up to 10 releases, and 2009 is already shaping up to be even more productive for the label. Stay tuned for lots of exciting news on that.
So here's the scoop - four new releases, three of which are ready to ship immediately, and the fourth (Stone Baby) will be shipping right after the new year. These four releases have taken our game up a notch too - some stellar sounds that will help you close out 2009! Our first foray into cassettes, a chance to work with the amazing Sunburned, another Century Plants release, and more.
All releases are $7 ea, PPD in the U.S., please email for international rates. SPECIAL SALE - buy any three releases for $18 PPD (in the US). We still have a tiny handful of copies of previous releases left for sale, so check the website (http://www.tapedrift.com) for those if you missed 'em before.
Finally, we have a few back catalog Century Plants items for sale, on labels such as Phantom Limb, Music Your Mind Will Love You, Peasant Magik, Deep Waters Acres, and Ikuisuus. Holler if you want to buy a few!
Shoot me an email if you have any questions or want to buy items...
happy holidaze!!
eric
P.S. --- NEXT BATCH = Magnetic North Duo (Sindre Bjerga, Nils Rostad) / 6majik9 / Enfer Boreal / Katchmare+Ophibre / Simon Wickham-Smith
Stone Baby - "Vir Heroicus Subliminus" cassette (TD07) The first Tape Drift appearance by Rochester NY-based Stone Baby, and we hope it won't be the last. We'd seen em live and knew what to expect, but this one exceeded all hopes by a long shot. This one is perhaps Stone Baby's heaviest exploration yet, with dense pillows of crystalline sound morphing into quasi-melodic motifs only to be obliterated by the next hypnotic swirl of noise. Like the best records, this one has both conceptual and sonic continuity and hangs together like a perfect work of art. Somehow this duo have honed their skills so well that sculpting a masterpiece such as this seems like second nature. Let's just be thankful we can all benefit. Tapes come in special cloth-covered boxes, wrapped in audiotape, and designed by Cory Card. 
Sunburned Hand of the Man - "Acid-X" cassette (TD08) "Acid-X' captures the mighty Sunburned in transplendent full live show format from a very special night in Saar Louis Germany in August 2008. Killer lineup featuring Moloney, O'Shea, Schneiderman, LaBrecque, and Thomas. This tape displays Sunburned at the height of their collective powers, magically conjuring clouds of spaced out, hypnotic beauty, leading us through cathartic workouts, and finally building to a kraut-inspired jam of epic proportions. Easily one of their best yet, and you know that's saying something.
Rambutan - "Rusted Prayers Converge" (TD09) CDR Debut solo release from Eric Hardiman of Century Plants and Burnt Hills. From ghostly noisescapes to swirling organic drone plateaus to pure guitar improvisations, Hardiman floats in and out of various sound worlds on this one, yet always ties things together with a thoughtful and compelling sonic thread. Four tracks recorded basement style deep in the night, and it shows. Dig in, yet another surprise from the Century Plants camp.
Century Plants - "Circular Spaces, Vol. 1" cdr (TD10)The tenth release on Tape Drift brings us back to the first, with a brand new offering from Century Plants. The first in a multiple volume series, "Circular Spaces, Vol. 1" finds Hardiman and hare in particularly fine form, showing how far they've come since their debut. This one splits the difference between their melodic and noisy extremes, with two beautifully intense guitar workouts and a long excursion into the depths of sonic abstraction unlike anything else they've committed to tape yet. Debut LP out soon on Music Fellowship!