EL TULE is a DIY cassette tape label.
All tapes dubbed and assembled with love in Bloomington, Indiana.
PLEASE get in touch! tapeseltule at gmail
TO ORDER:
Please visit the El Tule website at http://www.eltule.org or send and e-mail to tapeseltule at gmail.com to place an order. List each tape you want and I will respond with the total and instructions for payment.
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All tapes $6 domestic
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Tracey Trance - "The American Heartbeat"
Tracey Trance is a mysterious entity, never staying in one place for very long, constantly traveling with his beautifully painted organ and collection of thrift store keyboards. This tape is a collage of recordings of lo-fi organ and keyboard jams made in Lawrence Kansas, Bloomington Indiana, and Catskill New York. Almost as soon as you become accustomed to one of the many keyboard grooves, the tape lurches and another groove picks up immediately. Organs and electronic beats pulse and dance around an omnipresent level of tape hiss and static, sucking the listener down into a murky swamp of catchy keyboard hooks. Tracey Trance is definitely on his way to becoming a musician on par with contemporaries like James Ferraro and Peaking Lights.
Shep and Me - "Nasturtium Inertia"
I met Matt Himes, the man behind Shep and Me in Belfast, Maine last spring and I was instantly captivated by his music. Using a mix of incredible folk inspired guitar playing, tape loops, field recordings and his unique voice, he makes some of the eeriest, most engaging folk infused soundscapes I have ever heard. I imagine that Shep and Me sounds like a collection of old dust-bowl folk recordings that have been melted corroded and then discovered seventy five years later. Ghostly, haunting and beautiful are all adjectives that can be used to describe this tape.
Rob Funkhouser - "Prevention and Suspension"
Everyone in Bloomington knows and loves Rob Funkhouser. He's everyone's favorite Hawaiian-shirt wearing party-attending, philosophy-spewing college student. Most people haven't heard his music yet though. Rob is an incredible percussionist and composer and this tape showcases both of these talents. Side A is an epic synth-based piece that could easily be the new soundtrack to chasing replicants through future Los Angeles. Side B is a haunting marimba composition recorded in an empty high school gymnasium. Both sides show that Rob is extremely talented and is deserving of much more recognition.
Dylan Ettinger- "Bread of the Dead" (Special Edition)
Classic El Tule tape re-released with brand new artwork. Another beautiful screen printed insert from our favorite printmaker, Kelly Filreis. Limited to 25 copies!
The Parasails - Skylife
Come Join us 500 feet above the Atlantic Ocean for the 1982 Summer Season. Enjoy the views of your favorite Beaches and wave to your friends below as you check out schools of Sealife. Parasails is a new project from purveyor of feel-good tunes, Matt Mondanile (Ducktails, Real Estate). More of the lo-fi, tropical nostalgia his fans have come to expect, but this time instead of sitting on the beach, this tape takes you for a dream-like flight above the coastline. Limited to 100 copies!
SOLD OUT
Children of Scare-Midget - Invocations
Chidren of Scare-Midget is one of Bloomington, Indiana's hidden treasures. He has been intriguing the locals here for some time now with a collection of limited CD-R releases and numerous, spooky live performances. This tape is a perfect example of COSM's total outsider weirdness, consisting of bizarre drones, lo-fi keyboard murmurs and mumblings in an unidentifiable ancient language. Sounds like the lost, corroded master tapes to a 1930s horror movie soundtrack. Dubbed on to found cassettes, the A sides are all COSM, the B sides are what was originally dubbed onto the tape, but with a hidden bonus track.
Dylan Ettinger - "Bread of the Dead" C50
Una ofrenda por los antepasados. An interpretation of the Mexican Día de los Muertos festival recorded in abandoned house during a bitter, Indiana winter. The tape starts off with a celebratory tone, but quickly shifts to a more reserved, mournful sound. Muffled saxophones strain to be heard against a wall of intertwining, organic synthesizer tones. The primal rhythms of "Safari Zone" are replaced by sparse, pulsating electric beats reminiscent of the darkest of dubstep. Screen printed inserts by the extremely talented Kelly Filreis. The first run of these fifty tapes is available in two colors, oro y plato. Feel free to specify which color you prefer upon order or just pick up both!
DREKKA - "PIA: Flight 813/761" C30
SOLD OUT (Available from Tomentosa)
"This cassette, entitled 'PIA: Flight 831/761' is a 30 minute sound journal I recorded in the airspace of Pakistan on October 16, 1999. While traveling home from Nepal that day, my friends and I were delayed for a few hours in Karachi airport because there was a coup happening in Islamabad! We weren't in any danger, but it was still quite intense.
Side A features an extended spontaneous harmonium piece entitled 'Ke Garne' (Nepalese for 'What to do')... layered harmonium melodies blend with the sound of the airport and CNN reporting the coup live as it unfolds.
Side B features a 15 minute master-mix of the exciting in-flight entertainment offered on board PIA... enjoy the sound of the plane and an eclectic A.D.D. shitfest of sound!"
Limited to 50 Copies
Artwork by Michael Anderson
Dylan Ettinger - "Safari Zone" C60
SOLD OUT (Available from Tomentosa)
These here rhythms throb because they are organisms in movement, like moss falls off of tree legs pointed towards the sun, these trees competing for light, trees so complacent with the possibility of complete darkness and death. Dylan Ettinger throws his puffy-fisted punches of sound, and barks like a dog who has never before seen the moon until this evening. He wakes up covered in fur or is it mold; the pulsing, steaming organism that the darkness unsuccessfully tried to put to sleep. These sounds exist because of and as a reaction to this trinity: The darkly tangible harmony of the universe, the mind-numbing persistence of gravity, and the beautiful silence that inevitably follows every utterance. Hear and be heard, listen and feel the strange familiarity of even the most foreign language. The constant nature of ritual, AND the evolution of ritual, the inaccurate map drawn by man's crude hand, AND the stone-cold precision of every single double helix. Each leg is actually made of thousands of tiny legs, each brain made of thousands of tiny brains, each part of every sound the fractal of the bigger sound from which it was born. Believe and be believed, change your robes and be changed.
Women In Tragedy - "Nothing But Dreams" C30
Just when you think you have Women In Tragedy figured out, Bob McCully gives us his most melodic, atmospheric offering yet, "Nothing But Dreams." On this release, Bob trades in the feedback and ferocity for bouncing synthesizers, pulsating electronic beats and gorgeous guitar lines. Though working from a different palate, Bob manages to retain his trademark dramatic undercurrent and eerie ambiance. This is not a noise tape, this is not a pop recording. There really is no point in trying to cram these expansive, psychedelic soundscapes into a certain genre. Women In Tragedy has truly crafted something unique with this tape.
Limited to 50 Copies
All tapes available for purchase at TD's CDs and LPs in Bloomington, Indiana.
Tapes are also available at Tomentosa Records. If we're out of a tape, there's a good chance they'll have it.
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