For the April Tape Label Report, I covered Dubbed Tapes, a New Zealand label who utilize a method they call “erase and replace” to dub over boring and tired canonical sounds on thrifted tapes to distribute sounds by the artists they work with–heavy on the queer, trans, and femme noisemakers.
Born at Fairview General Hospital in the Year of the Reformation of Pere Ubu, when Jane Scott still ruled the Land. Born of the cybertronic union of Planet E and Channel Z, "getting nothing but static" and techno liberation thru space. I try to imbue music journalism with meaning beyond moving units and I am working on a book about the development and enormous influence of punk and art rock in Northeast Ohio. Hard Femme, more than a bit of an iconoclast. she/her/Miss Sir.
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