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Lost Sound Tapes

Lost Sound Tapes is a short run, independent, cassette tape label, based in Seattle, WA, that revolves around DIY music.

Monday, July 26, 2010

FRIENDS: Get to know Pug Records

We would like to introduce you to a new and exciting label based out of Brazil!

From their website:
"Pug Records is based in Minas Gerais, Brazil. We release records in limited handcrafted cassettes and free mp3. Our goal is to have fun, promoting and celebrating bands and musicians we love. (:
Feel free to send us your stuff, be it music or any other form of art. We’ll be happy to hear from you!
contact@pugrecords.com
Myspace Twitter Facebook"

They currently have two fantastic releases available in the LST store,
Top Surprise "Everything Must Go" tape and Coloração Desbotada "Eu, eu mesmo e os vários beijos cafeinados" tape. Top Surprise can be compared to The Intelligence, Times New Viking and Wavves while Coloração Desbotada could be compared to Built To Spill, My Bloody Valentine and Eric’s Trip.

Both tapes are highly recommended and available as free downloads. Visit the Pug Records website for download links and more information. Expect Lost Sound Tapes to carry any and all future releases on Pug Records. While you're at it, check out the Brazillian Guided By Voices tribute compilation CDR, Uma Nova Orquidia CDR, Coloração Desbotada CDR, Lê Almeida CDR and Lê Almeida 7" -- all Brazillian noise pop imports from Pug Records buddies Transfusão Noise Records.

We hope to work a lot with Pug Records in the future, so stay tuned!

Friday, July 23, 2010

LST NEWS: Summer 2010 Release Schedule

Here's a loose schedule of the releases we're planning for this summer!
It's going to be our biggest yet. YEAH!

late July 2010 (aka next week):

- Antarctica Takes It! "Constellations" tape
http://www.myspace.com/antarcticatakesit

- Pangea "Pangea" tape
http://www.myspace.com/togetherpangea

- iji "Soup / Salad" tape (3rd edition)
http://www.myspace.com/iji

August 2010:

- World History "You Can't Stop Trying" tape
http://worldhistory.bandcamp.com

- Dude Japan "Simple Living" tape
http://www.myspace.com/dudejapantheband

- Sundance Kids "Tell The Truth" tape
http://www.myspace.com/sundancekids

- Blanket Truth/Dana Jewell "Split" tape
http://www.myspace.com/blankettruth

- Nana Grizol "Ruth" tape
http://www.myspace.com/nanagrizol

September 2010:

- Lost Sound Tapes 7" record club
featuring Charlie Mcalister, Math The Band, Sandy City, and more!!! Only 50 subscriptions will be available and will consist of 6 very limited edition records. Each batch will be compiled on cassette tapes for mass consumption. More information in the next blog post...

- Blanket Truth early recordings tape
http://www.myspace.com/blankettruth

Now for those who want some personal information, read on:
I, Jonathan Manning, am going back to school full time at the end of September. I got into the commercial photography program at Seattle Central and I'm very excited about it. This past fall was the first time I have had any formal schooling since 2004 and that was just a couple classes. From what I hear, it's a fantastic program and faculty but it's incredibly time consuming. 12 hour days every day, lots of equipment to purchase, etc. So I'm not entirely sure how much time/money I will be able to devote to tape and record making for the next two years. By no means will we be closing up shop, but we may be operating at limited capacity and have a slower rate of new releases while I'm getting the hang of a new schedule and program. Thanks for caring enough to read this section of the blog post, I really appreciate your support!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

LST BANDS: Blanket Truth has a website

The band Blanket Truth has a new website!

www.blankettruthband.com

You should check it out. It only took 5+ years to decide to make one, but now here we have it. They have decided to make all of their albums available for free download, so take a look around.

For some reason Blanket Truth has a soft spot for having two completely different versions of a release: Blanket Truth "Indoor Camping" CD version is a digital 8-track recording with a full band and Blanket Truth "Indoor Camping" tape version is a solo boombox recording.

There's also the split with Watercolor Paintings which has two versions, titled "Lo-Fi For Life" and "Lo-Fi Sellouts". The former are lo-fi cassette recordings while the latter are digital recordings done at a college radio station, both versions have completely different track listings.

At the moment, the only Blanket Truth music we have for sale in the Lost Sound Tapes store is the Ukulele, Mekulele, Wekulele cassette tape compilation. It has one track from BT and one track from 26 other bands.

There are plans for a cassette release on Lost Sound Tapes that compiles much of the early Blanket Truth material as well as some unreleased tracks.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

TOURS: Defiance, Ohio on tour - west coast and the south

Last night I went to see Your Heart Breaks, Chin Up Meriwether, Kimya Dawson, Theo Grizol, and Defiance, Ohio at The Mine in Seattle. People really came out of the woodwork and the show "sold out", which pretty much just means there were a whole lot of people for a not so large space. Every band was wonderful, it was definitely the show of the summertime.

At the show Theo Grizol gave me some Nana Nemo cassette tapes for distro. You can get them in the Lost Sound Tapes store for $5 each. It's a split/collaboration between Theo of Nana Grizol/Defiance Ohio and Welcome Home Nemo. WONDERFUL! The new Defiance Ohio album is out on cassette as well, but you can only get that directly from the band for the time being. Hopefully we can stock some when they get back from tour. For now, you can buy it on CD and LP from No Idea Records.

Here's a video (from ToddTondera via Youtube) of Defiance, Ohio playing "Eureka" on this current tour.

Here are the dates for the rest of their tour:
WE JUNE 30 PDX @ SATYRICON (125 NW 6th Ave) w/your heart breaks, foot ox, dmv
TH JULY 1 MEDFORD, OR @Musiched (350 S. Riverside Ave.) w/koalacaust
FR JULY 2 OFF
SA JULY 3 OAKLAND, CA @ Fun Day All Day Fest (at The Continental Club in West 1658 12th Street) w/Big Kids (Oakland), Mother Country Motherfuckers (Ilya and Mike’s band), The New Trust (Santa Rosa), Dead To Me (San Francisco), Towers (PA), 1994! (PA)
SU JULY 4 BERKELEY, CA @924 GILMAN w/tba
MO JULY 5 SAN DIEGO @ CHE CAFÉ (building 161 on the UCSD campus) w/di nigunim, koalacaust
TU JULY 6 LOS ANGELES @syncspace (4306 melrose) w/summer vacation, joyce manor
WE JULY 7 LAS VEGAS @Circadian Galleries (1551 S. Commerce Street) w/tba
TH JULY 8 TUCSON @ DRY RIVER Collective (740 North Main Avenue) w/tba
FR JULY 9 LAS CRUCES, NM @the trainyard (102 Conway space 3W) w/tba
SA JULY 10 AUSTIN TX @the 21st st co-op w/shaghai river
SU JULY 11 NEW ORLEANS @hey! cafe (4332 Magazine Street) w/tba
MO JULY 12 OFF
TU JULY 13 LITTLE ROCK AR @Enjoy skateshop (805 W.4th Street North Little Rock) w/real live tigers
WE JULY 14 BLOOMINGTON, IN @The Bishop w/art vanduhlay, toby foster

http://defianceohio.terrorware.com

Sunday, June 27, 2010

COMMUNITY: Donate to Hollow Earth Radio by July 9th!

Hollow Earth Radio is an organization very near and dear to my heart. I've been involved with HER since August 2007 and I am now the volunteer coordinator, a weekly live DJ (Sundays from 6-8pm), and a member of the HER board of directors. We are a community based, online, free form radio station based in Seattle, Washington. Hollow Earth Radio provides a forum for underrepresented music, sounds, and perspectives in Seattle, King County, Washington state, and the larger Pacific Northwest. We focus on found sound, field recordings, forgotten music, local musicians, bedroom recordings, lo-fi demos, dreams, storytelling, and things that feel real.

We have a Kickstarter project, that I should have posted about earlier, in order to raise money for our new public space! It's located in the central district of Seattle right next to 20/20 Cycle on E. Union St. & 21st Avenue and will be open to the community. So far we have raised over $4,000 and we are trying to make it to $5,000 by July 9th, 2010. The money will go to the construction costs that Hollow Earth Radio have incurred for the new space and, if we are able to make it to $5,000, HER can purchase a much needed new computer. HER will start broadcasting from the new space starting this August!

The best part about donating to the Kickstarter project is that you will get a gold spray painted cassette tape with your name on it at the new station for donating $1 or more. All it takes is one dollar to be immortalized on the wall of our new space. There are also other wonderful incentives to donate, such as Hollow Earth Radio in-studio MP3s, tickets to the annual Hollow Earth Radio Magma Festival, a limited edition lathe cut record, and more! Payments for Kickstarter projects are done through Amazon.com so if you already have an account with them, it makes things very very easy.

From the Kickstarter project page:
For 3 1/2 years, Hollow Earth Radio has been operating out of a residential home. As an entirely volunteer-run organization, our focus is to be accessible and open to community involvement. By moving to a public venue in Seattle's Central District, we will expand our support to the local music community. However, this new space requires renovation before our projected move-in date of August 2010.

Friday, June 25, 2010

VIDEO: Kimya Dawson "Driving Driving Driving"

The BP "oil spill" has been an incredibly tragic disaster. A lot of people have been lost for words when it comes to talking about this situation. Kimya Dawson has written a song that effectively manifests a lot of peoples feelings into words.

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I read blogs by scientists
And I believe they know, more than we are being told
By the mainstream media sources who want the truth to hold it's horses
so there isn't mass hysteria as the sea floor erodes

And those in and on the ocean all say hey what's this commotion
and they try to get away but they are moving in slow motion
because their bodies are so heavy from a substance thick and deadly
they say I don't want to die It's all your fault I wasn't ready..."
(read the rest of the lyrics on the youtube page)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

LST NEWS: Cassette tape prices going up in July

It's been 5 years now since LST-00 and we have sold tapes for $3 as long as the label has been active. Sadly, the time has come that we have to raise our prices. On July 1st, Lost Sound Tapes cassette releases will be $5 + shipping. We work very hard and put a lot of time into making the highest quality tapes possible, often with unique, handmade artwork for albums that are available on other formats (Madeline "White Flag", Math The Band "Don't Worry", The Endless Bummer "Donald Fagen Mix Tape", etc). Not to mention we release plenty of exclusive cassette tape releases (both Ukulele compilations, Seasonal Splits boxset, Blanket Truth "Indoor Camping" boombox version, iji "Soup/Salad", etc). Check out a short overview of all of our releases so far: http://www.lostsoundtapes.com/releases.php

All money that Lost Sound Tapes receives from cassette sales or distro orders goes directly into new releases. By purchasing music from us you are helping us release new cassette tapes and even start a Lost Sound Tapes 7" series (more about the 7" series in an upcoming blog post). Next up from Lost Sound Tapes are cassette releases from Pangea, Nana Grizol, Antarctica Takes It, World History, and Dude Japan, as well as an LP from Small Sur!

Between now and July 1st, feel free to stock up on Lost Sound Tapes releases at the $3 price. After July 1st, we'll add some package deals for people who want to buy a bunch of tapes at once and get some dollars off their order. Thank you for understanding!! Please comment or contact lostsoundtapes@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

TOURS: Math The Band still on tour w/ MC Chris!

Did you know that Math The Band is currently on tour with MC Chris??? They've hit the halfway point in the tour, but that still means there's a month left! If you're quick you'll be able to snag a limited edition handmade
Math The Band 7" cut by Single Piece Slate and released by Slanty Shanty Records.