- Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:45 am
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Exclusive preview for you fellas of the two cassettes we have arriving for Cassette Store Day in exactly two weeks' time (October 14th)!
Very exciting. Must say these sound absolute knockouts, and the artwork by Eric Adrian Lee... blown away!
Here is the blurb to go with:
Cassette Store Day releases by electronic duo ‘worriedaboutsatan’ & reclusive synth genius Stefan Bachmeier on Spun Out Of Control
The independent label focusing on emerging electronic musicians and fledgling film score composers brings you one of each for Cassette Store Day 2017 (October 14th). Both tapes are released as a limited run of 150 units each.
FILLING IN THE BLANKS…
‘Blank Tape’ by Yorkshire based electronic duo worriedaboutsatan – made up of composer and electronic musician Thomas Ragsdale and multi instrumentalist Gavin Miller – is presented as a ltd custom-made, split-colour blue and white cassette shell, mirroring the duo’s cover art. Layout is again by Spun Out Of Control’s in-house designer Eric Adrian Lee. This tape is not blank!
Describing their sound as ‘spectral electronica’, worriedaboutsatan deliver a heady mix of swirling ambient melancholia, skyscraping post-rock guitar atmospherics and pounding slo-mo techno. They’ve shared stages with a diverse array of musicians including Underworld, Ólafur Arnalds, Clark, Dälek, 65daysofstatic, Tim Hecker, Pantha du Prince, Braids, HEALTH and Kiasmos. The band also worked closely as music supervisors and composers with BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis on his acclaimed ‘HyperNormalisation’ documentary.
Blank Tape is the worriedaboutsatan’s third album. Collaborators include Liverpool stadium rock band Anathema and Bristol’s Face+Heel.
THE ‘BACH’ STORY
The shadowy Stefan Bachmeier was (or is?) both an author of short science-fiction stories and an electronic musician, who, in a short space of time, recorded a rumoured 50 concept albums to accompany his writing.
Whilst his current whereabouts are unknown, his work lives on through the tapes he recorded. We were contacted by one of his fans, Stephen James Buckley, who you may recognise as the musician behind Polypores. Buckley sent us a number of these tapes, painstakingly restored and re-mastered, in the hope of Bachmeier's work receiving a wider audience and acclaim.
Our Cassette Store Day release – the first time any of Stefan’s music has appeared on any physical release – is culled from the best of those tapes, its title ‘Anomaly On Meadow Road’ taken from a short story of Bachmeier’s. Set in an innocuous suburban town, a chance encounter with a strange hermit leads a lonely computer enthusiast to inadvertently open a portal to a parallel dimension, unleashing all manner of chaos on the unsuspecting residents.
As was often the case with Bachmeier's stories, it is steeped in paranoia and distrust of a government who clearly know more than they are letting on. And there are creatures. Creatures with tentacles… So, if you dare, strap on a pair of headphones and prepare to enter the strange world of Stefan Bachmeier!
Presented on ‘translucent tentacle orange’ cassette shell, reflecting the stunning pulp novel-style cover design and layout by Eric Adrian Lee.
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