Travel Kyoto - Empire Of Signs

The perfect combination of jet age retro chique and seaside vibes from Travel Kyoto, with Empire Of Signs, on Singapore Sling Tapes. Soundtracking the perfect beach getaway. The c-20 opens and closes with the prolouge/epilouge, Tomorrow People, a spoken sample offering philosophical encouragement to imagine your mind as fist, and then open your fist. Perfect preparation for the relaxed vacation vibes contained within. Smoothed out calypso rhythms, easy obscured vocals, and synth patches reminiscent of Goichi Suda's Flower, Sun, and Rain. Sounds like the ultra stylized offspring of a Pan Am promotional video and a pet pink alligator named Christina. Totally digging this.

Thematically perfect collage art, limited edition of just 30 copies, grab direct from Moscow based Singapore Sling.

Lawrence Welks & Our Bear To Cross - Binary Execute Now

This may be one of the strangest tapes I've posted this year. And I say that, not to deter a listen of course, but to celebrate the odd and beautiful strangeness that makes Binary Execute Now, from Lawrence Welks & Our Bear To Cross such a powerfully emotional tape. Fractured, loungy, heartbreaking pop, produced in a broken, overdriven fashion that seems to deteriorate the further you proceed. Vocals, keys, horns, all delivered with such overwhelming conviction I can't help but fall in love with them, despite their bordering on parody. Sounds like The Darkness jamming with Prince during the outtakes for Darling Nikki.

Available in a physical edition of 100 direct from Russian label Singapore Sling, or for immediate gratification via Bandcamp.

Piper Spray - Greatest Adventure

Big, bubbly, planet hopping synth jams from Piper Spray, with Greatest Adventure, the maiden voyage for new label, Singapore Sling. Sounds like the soundtrack to the lost ninth level of Blaster Master. A collision of sounds reminscent of childhood VHS and 8 Bit all-nighters. The front side keeps the pace tight with a mix of pop influenced quickies, while the flip tears into outer space with a variety of insane collage work. (I swear the Baywatch theme is worked in) Somehow retro and futurist simultaniously. A straight up good time of a tape.

Hand assembled, each piece of the label, both front and back, is painstakingly adhered to the cassette. Available directly from Singapore Sling Tapes.