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Adventures in new music from the headwaters of the Heartland.

Today is release day! Four amazing new titles have arrived at Tymbal, which are:

Endurance - Celestial Governors MAbH - Cinjusti Budokan Boys - That's How You Become a Clown More Eaze - a l4ngu4g3

Head on over to tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com and check 'em out!

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A new batch of four tapes drops on September 1st, featuring More Eaze, Endurance, MAbH, and the debut of the Budokan Boys! While supplies last, you can pick up the whole batch at a discounted price (down to 10 sets left as of this morning). Head to https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/merch/september-2018-4-tape-bundle to snag ‘em all!

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Meinschaft video!

MEINSCHAFT has debuted a wild video for "The Midday Sun at Midnight," and you can read about it and watch here: http://www.creativeloafing.com/…/meinschaft-unveils-the-mid…

We have a single solitary copy of "To The Victim Belong the Spoils," and then our US edition is sold out. The Euro edition on Skrot Up is still available. Head to our Bandcamp and snag that last copy!

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Macho Blush is on tour! Check out these dates and hit up a show if you can. Not to be missed! There are also tour-only red j-card variants of her new “User Guide” tape on Tymbal that you might be lucky enough to snag...

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The October Tymbal Tapes batch is now up for preorder! Head over to tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com and check them out! Intense new work from Macho Blush, excellent improv on invented instruments from Bad Jazz, and some great live dance/psych jams from ARU are among our favorites in the whole Tymbal catalog. And you can save a few bucks on 3-tape bundles. Official release date is Oct. 13, but we’ll be packing orders up as they come in before that as well...

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You should really check out our new Leaaves tape!

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September Tymbal batch: three new tapes out now!

The latest Tymbal Tapes batch is out today! This batch features an intense set from Somnoroase Păsărele, the debut of Argentina's Valle de Galgos (featuring members of Pandelindio and Ø+yn), and a bizarre high-concept tape from Leaaves, made entirely of samples from Terry Crews' Old Spice commercials. Amazing art/design as always from Tiny Little Hammers. They're waiting for your ears and eyes right now at http://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com

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MEINSCHAFT is about to embark on their first tour, along with 1mitator, and they'll have some of these red-cover tour-only variants of their debut tape with them on the road. Be sure to like their Facebook page for upcoming event news, and here are the dates:

MEINSCHAFT & 1MITATOR present:

OCCUPY YOURSELF 2017

7/31 - Knoxville @ Pilot Light* 8/1 - Chattanooga @ Ziggy's* 8/2 - Nashville @ DRKMTTR* 8/3 - St. Louis @ El Lenador 8/4 - Chicago @ Slate Arts 8/5 - Detroit @ Trinosophes 8/6 - Meaford @ Electric Eclectics Festival 8/7 - Montreal @ Out Studio 8/8 - Providence @ Machines with Magnets 8/9 - Philadelphia @ The Pharmacy 8/10 - Baltimore @ Le Mondo 8/11 - DC @ Rhizome 8/12 - Roanoke @ Art Rat Studios 8/13 - Savannah @ Sulfur Studios*

* = w/ Jeff Zagers

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Just released: the solo debut of Patrick Hargon, and the debut of Meinschaft, a wild ride into unexplored territory. Head over to our Bandcamp and read all about them! https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/

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2017 spring batch released!

Boneblack and Mirages are out today! Hope everyone enjoys them as much as we do. It's great to be back! https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/

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May 2017 batch now available for preorder. Head to http://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com to order!

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Preorder now available for “Boneblack” by Yves Malone!

The mysterious Yves Malone has taken listeners on many journeys into speculative film soundtracks over the last several years. While much of his work has focused on evoking the cinematic, Boneblack goes into the screen and launches into orbit, channeling the feral edges of classic kosmische sessions amidst piles of evolving electronics. Reconnecting with his roots or trying on a potent new mask? Only time will tell, matey. Hold fast.

Yves Malone is a slight victim of many sub-standard zipcodes, but for the time-being, currently ensconced in the West, where he is learning patience and small talk, much to his chagrin. All instruments on this album are wrangled into line by he.

https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/boneblack

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Preorder now available for “Mirages” by Boron/Argon!

Around Tymbal Tapes HQ, New Boron recordings are cause for celebration, like getting a free certificate for modular immersion therapy. "Mirages" builds on the hermetic textures of its fine predecessors, but as Mr. Nelson's solo work transitions from Boron to the mysterious and noble gas Argon, you will find a new emphasis on powerful melodic writing and reverent atmospheres. Get blissfully lost as oscillators rumble the flying buttresses of these fine Mirages.

Dan Nelson is an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work as Boron and Argon inhabits the vague interstice between music and sound art. He has a background in conceptual and visual art, photography, and video, and is the author of the book "All Known Metal Bands."

https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/mirages

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Tymbal Tapes – A Q&A with Scott Scholz

In recent years, the resurgence of the cassette tape as been synonymous with forward thinking leftfield labels and the music they perpetuate. The reasonably affordable audiophile format has given many artists and labels a springboard to reach wider audiences through a format that is an iconoclastic

Here's a wonderful Q & A about the new Tymbal Tapes batch and Tymbal more generally at The Formant, who have been very supportive of our humble beginnings this year! Thanks so much!

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Tymbal Tapes 3rd batch now available for preorder

From the headwaters of the heartland, Tymbal Tapes hopes to become a home for dense, idiosyncratic musical adventures from around the world. Our second batch features artists from Chicago, Texas/UK, Romania, and San Francisco. Our four new releases will become available to the public on 12/12/2015 in cassette editions of 50 each, as well as digitally formats, through Bandcamp (http://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com). Artwork and design for these releases was done by Tiny Little Hammers (http://tinylittlehammers.com).

Arvo Zylo - Upheaval, TT-08

https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/upheaval

Arvo Zylo's work is often the product of literal years of toil, the potent result of countless hours refining, perfecting, and focusing wild energies. Projects like his "333" and "Assembly" feel more like they've been finished in a metal refinery than a mastering house, their labyrinthine vertical layers chosen and fixed in place with firm force.

These Upheaval versions, each created in a single sitting from one block of material, act as industrial etudes, a peek behind the curtain at Zylo's unique approach to sound, space, and the art of the edit. Enjoy these fluid sessions of extemporaneous work from a master aural sculptor.

IXTAB - Voice-Hand, TT-09

https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/voice-hand

IXTAB create a music that resonates on many levels. Bringing prodigious intellect to body music, and blending vintage electronics with environmental atmospheres, Voice-Hand may metabolize your dreams and tone your subtle body. And savor your ride through occasional shadows--as Il hombre invisible himself once articulated:

"When I become Death, Death is the seed from which I grow" --WSB

Somnoroase Păsărele - GAMA, TT-10

https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/gama

The followup to this Romanian duo’s brilliant ABECD on Baba Vanga, “GAMA” is an immersive, intuitive, cinematic suite. Recommended for headphones or robust speaker separation. Also stay tuned for a sort of companion album coming soon on Baba Vanga.

bran(...)pos - Prickers & Peckers, TT-11

Tymbal is vibrating with joy at this bran(…)pos album, as the label's name came from his excitement at the sounds of late summer cicadas at Tymbal Tapes HQ in the midst of a tour several years ago. And his observations about the chickens in our backyard led to this proposal for a conceptual trilogy, laid out in pairs of pieces across three tapes:

I. Insects (whose drones fuel our emotions)

II. Chickens (whose feathers steal our dreams)

III. Chickens and Insects

"During daylight hours hens love to dine on tasty protein-rich insects. Grasshoppers, crickets, flies, spiders, ticks, and just about any other six- or eight-legged creature they catch becomes lunch. They even snatch flies out of the air and consider them tasty snacks.

But, come evening, the relationship between insects and chickens switches. When chickens hop up on their roost and settle in for the night they are vulnerable to pesky mosquitoes, black-flies, and various species of gnats. There are even reports of birds being killed by enormous swarms of black-flies…" --scoopfromthecoop.com

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New titles from A Giant Fern available today!

Two new tapes from the excellent UK label A Giant Fern are out today, and for US customers, you can get them without overseas shipping costs from Tymbal. Just follow these links: Yves Malone: https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/merch/yves-malone-golden-twilight-of-the-black-sun-a-giant-fern Mike Nigro: https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/merch/mike-nigro-mental-thaw-a-giant-fern While you're there, be sure to check out the July Tymbal releases as well. Supplies are getting low. For US customers, the first item you buy is $3 shipping, but additional items only add $1 each.

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A Giant Fern coming to Tymbal

So this is some sweet news: A Giant Fern and Tymbal did a little distro swapitude in hopes of saving folks on shipping. I'll have these two new killer tapes from Mike Nigro and Yves Malone on the Merch page of the Tymbal Bandcamp on July 30th for US folks. And if you're in Europe, the A Giant Fern merch page has the July Tymbal quartet right now: head to https://agiantfern.bandcamp.com/merch to check those out today!