Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
SENSO - Always on My iPhone (Petrola 80 / Opal Tapes)
Inverted AudioFollow “Copenhagen’s Lyra Valenza and the UK’s Opal Tapes go way back, to 2018’s ‘Scan, Deliver‘ EP, which was released on…” on Apr 26th, 2021 →
Opal Tapes - Rattles
The QuietusFollow “From abandoned tours to life-threatening health issues, tQ spoke to different UK-based artists about how the coronavirus pandemic has left…” on Mar 18th, 2021 →
Abbrumer - Trève (Opal Tapes)
Inverted AudioFollow “*This premiere is part of Inverted Audio x Opal Tapes partnership, offering a limited run of exclusive merchandise available to…” on Mar 4th, 2021 →
Autumns - Doire Dog Race (Opal Tapes)
Inverted AudioFollow “Opal Tapes line up their next album release from the prolific yet shadowy producer Autumns — aptly titled ‘You Are…” on Aug 28th, 2020 →
Lyra Valenza - Down Not Out (Petrola 80 / Opal Tapes)
Inverted AudioFollow “Commanded by an analogous appetite for subversive floor ordnance, cutting-edge electronics and off-road rhythmic experimentation, it’s safe to say Copenhagen-based…” on Nov 1st, 2018 →
Opal Tapes - Eating Nagchampa
Tiny Mix TapesFollow “Low-end noises makes me rotate, and irradiate my routine. Tech flashbacks grab me by a non-existent ponytail. Borderline disrespectful meanderings,…” on Sep 27th, 2018 →
Opal Tapes - Bird Element
Lend Me Your EarsFollow “"playfulness, aggregation of detail & detritus into constructs that are somehow both wonky & balanced...naivety, experimentation, spontaneity" Students of Decay/Taiga…” on Sep 13th, 2018 →
Opal Tapes - Trial 6
Passive/AggressiveFollow “Af Emil Néné Rasmussen Den britiske DJ og musiker Acre har med sit nyeste udspil, “Hollow Body”, begået en aldeles…” on Jun 3rd, 2018 →
Opal Tapes - Until Exhaustion
RecorderFollow “A magyar zene híre a nagyvilágban, a Metallica Tankcsapda-feldolgozásától a Kolorádó fesztiválon át a fura nevű Pándiig és tovább. [...]…” on Apr 16th, 2018 →
Opal Tapes - My Friends, You Are Shining Pillars Of Light
The QuietusFollow “Happy birthday to our New Weird Britain column, which is one year old and still mewling and puking in our…” on Mar 27th, 2018 →
Opal Beau - Bronze Mirror (Altered States Tapes)
Inverted AudioFollow “It’s been a solid eight years since Australian label Altered States Tapes began “documenting the marginalised fringes of electronic experimentation”…” on Mar 7th, 2018 →
Opal Tapes - In The Atrium
Resident AdvisorFollow “Montreal's Devon Hansen has used a few names in his time. Persuasion replaces Stefan Jós, the alias under which his…” on Feb 9th, 2018 →
Opal Tapes - Fingered (Basic House Erosion)
Resident AdvisorFollow “B-O-D-I-E-S is one of the three labels that make up Sound+Matter, a new Malmö-based platform curated by Rivet. Suspended In…” on Feb 23rd, 2017 →
Opal Tapes - Waiting For Alexis
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Ross From Friends At the beginning of December, London’s UNDRGRND Sounds, a company that creates software starter kits of readymade…” on Jan 9th, 2017 →
E-Saggila - Staggering Embrasure (Opal Tapes 2016)
TRUANTSFollow “E-Saggila is a Canadian producer with ties to Toronto’s Summer Isle label, which deals in esoteric industrial cassette releases. Old…” on Sep 25th, 2016 →
Opal Tapes - Lowtions
Tiny Mix TapesFollow “A new multimedia experience has opened at Yan City. The new attraction was designed by multimedia company Spinifex Group. The…” on Aug 29th, 2016 →
Opal Tapes - Common Form
Tiny Mix TapesFollow “Preserving Senses presents yet another side to German Army, aka GeAr, the enigmatic San Bernardino (yes, that San Bernardino) duo,…” on Apr 12th, 2016 →
Opal Tapes - Rene
Both bars onFollow “…the world, the tide, the seasons, the wheel, the dial… Change is a constant. Here we are with a selection…” on Mar 21st, 2016 →
Opal Tapes - Prophylaxis
Sounds of a Tired CityFollow “End-of-year lists became something like a plague these days. Like a constant mass of unrequested baby pictures or wedding photos…” on Dec 26th, 2015 →