I don’t need to lecture someone who listens to music all the time that your relationship to a song changes on your mood…if you’re happy, sad, blah blah blah. For me, a crucial way to appreciate music happens when I’m sick, especially if I have a fever or just feel like I’m moving at half…
Nagoya’s House Of Tapes recently started a new netlabel to share music, called Sleep Jam Records. So far, the digital label has put out a compilation and two House Of Tapes’ albums, the latest of which is Heavy Heaven. And it’s somewhat of a throwback for the artist. The three songs here hearken back to…
Nagoya’s House Of Tapes offers up something hypnotic on Jump Up, a three-track album released via netlabel Force Records. Roughness exists around the edges — every song here sounds like flakes are coming off of it, while the beat itself often sounds especially clattering (track one in particular) — but it never gets overwhelming, allowing…
Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has been pretty busy in 2017, thus far. He’s established Sleep Jam Records, put out a tour-only album and prepping a release with his other project Swamp Sounds. Yet he still drops songs on to SoundCloud under the House Of Tapes name, such as the fluttery “Rosemary,” which is a “limited…
Now here’s some lovely cacophony. Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has created a lot of busy and, at times, crushing works over the last few years, but “Spark Spark” belongs to a different category — this is a charged-up number, one featuring ominous beats and a lot of distorted vocals, like transmissions coming from some hell-park…