Voices have never really been central to the music Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has made. The focus has always been on the heavy, crushing electronics, a wall of sound acting like the trash-compacting walls from Star Wars. Words, however, have drifted into his work at times — but never like they do on the Magnolia…
Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has the perfect song to listen to before hitting the ol’ hay — if you fancy having nightmares for the rest of the night. “Sleep Jam” is a rumbling slow-mo number, where voices blur together over the central mass, and electric storms gather on the sides (or maybe that’s just the…
Nagoya’s House Of Tapes is usually responsible for pounding, crushing electronic music, but on “I Die In A Beautiful World,” he’s stepped back from the destructive sounds in favor of something more reflective. Chaos hides in the corners, as it tends to always do, via a few warped electronic and rougher elements, but the bulk…
OK, now this is more like the House Of Tapes I remember. The Nagoya producer recently released a short EP that found him moving towards more vaporous, beat-removed sounds and it sounded like a welcome diversion from his usual suffocating bang-bang. “Strange Mercury” returns to that, though, and is strong reminder that House Of Tapes…
What, exactly, is the end game for an indie producer? Looking at the landscape in Japan in 2014, the answer would be “get the chance to produce for someone else, maybe on a bigger label,” with the ultimate prize being the chance to be turned into a project worth pushing all your own. Nagoya’s House…