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Selected Works 1982 - 1992

The Tapes

Selected Works 1982 - 1992

Ecstatic Recordings
MP3 $9.90

02/19/2016 5060165481118 

 


FLAC $11.99

02/19/2016 5060165481118 

 


Ecstatic offer a fascinating, often dizzying insight to the primitive industrial minimalism of Italian siblings, Giancarlo and Roberto Drago, a.k.a. The Tapes, via Selected Works 1982 - 1992 sourced from original tapes and pressed to vinyl for the first time ever. 
Following on from Ecstatic’s issue of “mail artist” Danielle Ciullini’s Domestic Exile Collected Works 82-86, this set surveys a blind-spot in most people’s knowledge of early ‘80s Italian underground music, framed against a backdrop of the Anni di Piombo, or Years of Lead - a period of domestic political turmoil between the late ‘60s and early ’80s - and the mushroom shadow of nuclear war. 
Like their international tape-scene allies, The Tapes reacted to this world thru a matrix of mono-synths, drum machines, microphones and 4-track recorders, mostly recording/experimenting ideas direct-to-tape in one take and making a virtue of their lo-fi set-up’s infidelities and imperfections - randomness and mistakes were embraced rather than discarded - whilst absorbing the counter-cultural influence of William Burroughs or Throbbing Gristle, and the sci-fi dystopia of J.G. Ballard and John Foxx. 
These 21 tracks, drawn from 10 different, limited tape releases, perfectly distill a wandering, weirdo spirit, ranging from the funereal swagger of Tanz Fabrik and the darkwave hip-thrust 
of The Day of Silence to freeform, motorik trajectories such as Time Out of Joint and singular enigmas like the Actress-esque bobble of The Wait and Falso Movimento B2’s weightless, hyaline spindles. 
Collected and compiled by Alessio Natalizia (aka Not Waving) and remastered by Matt Colton, Selected Works 1982 - 1992 represents a decade of modest but searching and instinctively grooving experimentation of the rarest, precious and compelling kind. 
As Giancarlo Drago explains: 
“The Tapes was an unplanned experience, an unplanned need to express myself Looking back on this music I wonder sometimes how I did it - the whole process from the concept to the completion. Everything I do now seems trivial and obvious and I just end up aborting the idea. And exactly for this reason I think that everything has its time, with a beginning and an end...”

Tracklist

  1. #1 Cinque

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  2. #2 Berlin 89’

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  3. #3 Self Propelled Limb

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  4. #4 Time Out Of Joint

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  5. #5 Falso Movimento A4

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  6. #6 The Gate

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  7. #7 Il Tempio

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  8. #8 Low Gear

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  9. #9 Nervous Breakdown

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  10. #10 Doubts

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  11. #11 The Wait

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  12. #12 The Day Of Silence

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  13. #13 Otto

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  14. #14 Nove

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  15. #15 Totem 1351

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  16. #16 Sly Time

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  17. #17 Tanz Fabrik

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  18. #18 Il Manifesto

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  19. #19 Speak To Me

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  20. #20 Falso Movimento B2

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  21. #21 Emotional Warfare

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