Raajmahal / Cenote Glow (Freebies!)

Guitar and vocal smeared across your dreaming subconscious by Raajmahal, with Celandine on Digitalis. Heady meditation vibes and mountain sunrise from Cenote Glow with Anza-Borrego on Fadeaway Tapes. Great tapes, great labels. I've thoroughly enjoyed them both, and now it's time to pass them along to another. If you have interest, email me at guidemelittletape at gmail dot com and they're yours, no catch. First come first serve.

Gone to Chris from San Francisco as of 9/10. Enjoy!

Lightning Strike Lightning - Creepy Power

Refreshing, clear, overwhelmingly emotive passages of ambient electronics, drone, and organic instrumentation. Lightning Strike Lightning are absolutely stunning with Creepy Power on Digitalis. Chimes, melody, and vibes of eastern influence seem to float in pools of ghostly vocal and thick buzzing guitar work. The tape is varied and progressional from front to back, traversing peaks of accessible, almost pop structures, and delving deep into droning hallucinogenic ambience. Images of a Tibeten monk creating tape loops for a shoegaze band somehow see relevant here. As with all the Digitalis releases, the quality here is really sharp. Full color J Cards and incredible sound.

I purchased from Discriminate, along with several others from the last official Digitalis batch and that glorious white box was ascending my front steps in just two days.

Battered Movement - Garden-Shackled

Whoa. I wasn't familiar with Battered Movement prior to this release. Picked up the new batch from Digitalis LTD and got my hair absolutely blown back by huge walls of complex synth and distorted bass. Garden-Shackled sounds absolutely huge compared to most of the tape scene. The entire tape has an extremely thick bottom end, both with beats, rumble, and some melody. Nothing wrong with focusing on small delicate soundscapes, but it's really refreshing to hear 8 tracks rip right out of the speakers at you. I think it sounds like Alec Empire fighting with Lunar Miasma while high on pain killers but what do I know?. I purchased directly from Discriminate.

Hobo Cubes / J Hanson - Split (Freebie!)

Really nice split tape from Digitalis LTD, featuring Hobo Cubes and J Hanson. Cool metallic pulses and other assorted mind melting sound waves. I've enjoyed this tape and now it's ready to be shared. If you have interest, simply email me at guidemelittletape at gmail dot com and I'll drop it in the mail. No catch. Links to several other unclaimed freebies on right as well. Cheers! Gone to Tanner from Vancouver as of 1/5. Enjoy!

Inez Lightfoot - Pollen on the Brow

Hypnotic new tape excursion on Digitalis. Soft fuzz, forgotten rituals, and field recordings mixed with blurry female vocals. Very nice tape, culminating in pure sonic hallucination on side B with the melodic "Dreamwalk". At it's best moments Pollen on the Brow allows the listener transport into a strange and wonderful world. I purchased my copy at Discriminate Music Inez Lightfoot - Dreamwalk by Inez Lightfoot