Various Artists - Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair - CAS
05/12/2025
LAPSE07
Artist:
Various Artists
Label:
Collapsing Drums
Version Description:
Grey cassette or clear cassette in stickered case with insert + sticker
Sound Carrier:
CAS
"Collapsing Drums tells the stories that matter in a post-pandemic world"
- The Wire
Collapsing Tape is a sprawling 23 track compilation which celebrates 5 years of the Collapsing Drums label via a diverse pool of artists working across experimental music.
It’s really hard to condense the amount of sounds going on in the 90 minutes — but here’s a brief attempt: there’s abstract vocal play (Elaine Mitchener), warm squishy electronics (Luke Sanger), frenetic turntablism (Mariam Rezaei and Dali de Saint Paul), Bristol freejazz-adjacent art-rock (Ex Agent), non-linear hiphop (Mr AKA Amazing), and a track in which you can hear the washing up pile collapsing (The Collapsing Beat Mix of The Jonny Halifax’ Invocation).
There’s irreverent, dubby house music from DJ Marcelle, haunting post-Tropicalia vocals from São Paulo (Fantasma do Cerrado) and two angles on pure percussion — Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello’s urgent ‘Migraine’ and Dan Johnson’s bottle-based ‘Pictures of the Actual Objects’
What this isn’t is a random compilation without shape. While it’s dense and multi-genre, the audio journey is carefully constructed — a textured, intentional movement through rupture, mess, humour and repair.
1. Luke Sanger - Road to Somewhere 03:39
2. Propan - Meditation 6 02:50
3. Elaine Mitchener - stretchedwoundspeaks 05:55
4. Dan Johnson - Pictures of the actual objects 03:18
5. Fantasma do Cerrado - Sabiá Nunca Repara de Onde Vem Sua Turma 02:21
6. Han - Communion Wafers 02:13
7. Graham Dunning & Sam Underwood - Live in the Malvern Cube 03:36
8. Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello - Migraine 02:58
9. Mariam Rezaei & Dali de Saint Paul - A Love Affair 04:54
10. Mooooooooo - Free#*^•.__Jazzzzzzzzzz 03:01
11. Sculpture - Portal Customer 02:26
12. Rojin Sharafi - Boloor 04:44
13. Ex Agent - ...And The Way She Shakes His Fist At Them 02:46
14. BIPED - Rarity Rarity 03:13
15. Mr AKA Amazing - Duane Freestyle 00:30
16. Aparapara - Ways 06:41
17. The Jonny Halifax Invocation - Celestial Symphony in D (Collapsing Beat Mix) 03:53
18. Caballo Perro - Mostaza Precariosa 03:48
19. Rebecca Lennon - Mouths (short version) 03:37
20. Jamie Hamilton - Index of Four (Instrumental Version) 05:48
21. Robyn Rocket - Yellow and Orange Leaves 05:05
22. Omega Institute - Mirror Test 05:23
23. DJ Marcelle - A Difficult Fridge For Cheese (Por Favor Remix) 04:52
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