Experimental/noise act Death Tape Super Bass released a new tape at the beginning of January. With six tracks themed around the grotesque horror subgenre, Aaron Steinmetz brings his eclectic blend of industrial clangor and techno sensibility. The last two tracks dive straight into harsh noise for ten minutes each, more or less, reflecting the more jarring and corrosive sensations of
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Prolific and productive experimental/noise act Death Tape Super Bass released a new album on the 1st of the month. These live-recorded tracks contain elements of industrial techno and harsh noise created using synths, samplers and drum machines. Mordant textures and palpitating electronic rhythms are combined to send us on a grinding, whirring voyage. Death Tape Super Bass delivers yet another
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Prolific experimental/noise act Death Tape Super Bass is out with his first release of 2023. Over six tracks, Aaron Steinmetz explores minimal techno built from variably metallic and wonky textures. A couple tracks span over eight or nine minutes long; “Tooth Party” and “Sound Drown” give Steinmetz plenty of room to feel out industrial soundscapes with alarm-like repetitions. “Hellmouth” is
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Experimental noise-electronica project Death Tape Super Bass has the first new tape in a few months out. Clangorous, metallic techno cuts – some conventional length, some extended – are built with layered industrial sounds and textures arranged along the drilling, pounding, slicing rhythms. There’s an overall dystopian atmosphere here; the synths and abrasive noise embellishments send us upon the mist
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Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released yet another tape last week. Adam Steinmetz utilizes modular synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and other sound toys to assemble this collection of minimalist techno embedded with a couple abstract noise cuts (“Small Man, Big Head” and “Hollandaise in the Sun”). Death Tape Super Bass records are a reliably zany sequence, and “Organ
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It’s only April and experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass has been on a roll this year with a third tape out now. Alex Steinmetz finds himself comfy in minimal techno territory without feeling any need to restrict himself from getting cacophonous or abrasive at times, even throwing in some whimsical interludes. With thumping bass lines and buzzing industrial
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Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released a two-piece last week. Think of these tracks as oddball dance cuts, with minimal techno sensibilities and industrial-esque textures that feel like footwork in a wonky dream. Thrifted keyboards and old samplers were used here, giving something of antique feel. It’s been exciting to follow the work of Death Tape Super Bass
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Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass has a new album out. Alex Steinmetz describes it as “dead serious authentic circus music” that gets progressively muddier as time goes on. Some tracks have techno sensibilities while others carry industrial electronica; there’s gruesome imagery of gouged eyes, severed heads, worms, a frog becoming a person, and other monstrosities. Death Tape Super
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Noise label/concert promoter FTAM hosted a massive noise showcase in the backyard of X-Ray Arcade Sunday afternoon. Sets from Death Tape Super Bass, Citizen 2-13, Chamber of Knives, J. Mollerskov, Steve Schlei, Lorna Dune, Frenia, TamperTamper, and Pleasure Thief all took place. We got to talk to each and every one of them – except Frenia, since we spotlighted them
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Industrial-experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released his seventh tape of the year last week. Themed around severe weather in the Midwest, this body of work features chopped-up emergency sirens, windy field recordings, and storm chaser samples. It will remind you of all those times you’ve gotten caught driving in nasty storms, that’s for sure. If you’re looking for
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