Opal Tapes

16/08/2024

Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

14/08/2024

Upcoming in support of at their album launch for the new one with

11/07/2024

Congratulations - tonight we’re celebrating 230 years of vinegar with you!

05/07/2024

Lacrima & .pyre at this years - shout out the Kleenex Cru

26/06/2024

Couple of box finds while clearing up, they’re up on Bandcamp now, very limited numbers.

16/06/2024

Coming soon.

02/06/2024

This month there will be a stock take gathering all and sundry related to the label that’s just sitting there and growing barnacles. Expect the £3 record sale by the end of June, make my garage great again!

02/06/2024

Also selling a real tasty BIM - beautiful 12-bit delay with a fully analogue compander, filter, limiter and feedback path, hit me up with offers on this one.

Boxed and 99% new condition

02/06/2024

Selling a microgranny 2 - IG heads can cop for £120, worldwide shipping with low to no import fees, give me a shout.

24/05/2024

- Everything is Resurrection
Super limited edition of 13 tapes available for this one, stream in full at Bandcamp today.

22/05/2024

Heavy duty this Saturday at with Beau Wanzer and - ticks via Lubber Fiend Cartel

04/05/2024

I was fortunate to perform last weekend with - an artist whose work I’ve admired for a long time. provided an amazing space in their Old Crown Court. 100ft domed ceilings with beautiful reverberance.

I played some synths and samplers and would like to do it more often. Please get in touch if you’d like me to play at your spot.

📸 -

02/05/2024

Tomorrow also sees the release of the extra-ordinary purely digital album release of ‘Dissimulazione’ by PureData aka

30/04/2024

30/04/2024

Please send good wishes to my Dad, Bob. Surgery for him tomorrow and he deserves a swift and healthy recovery. Big love Bob!

25/04/2024

Thee rad back at next month.

19/04/2024

Beautiful day to expose a corner w/

09/04/2024

Still hits as hard as it did back then.

02/04/2024

track by Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet

02/04/2024

remix of the vicious Litania Della Scelta by featuring is up to hear in full on Soundcloud…digital and tape orders can be placed at Bandcamp.

28/03/2024

Two new offerings are out in full tomorrow…

Crown of Cerberus releases “Rabih” a paen to his newborn son of the same name, born amidst the grief of the death of both of his grandmothers. A gorgeous but irritated suite of glitching electronics and steamy ambient. -

There’s also a mesmerising new release by the mad hands and mind of - Throw-Up Concrete combines a punk as f**k, cannibalistic sampling style, more Dhomont than Dilla. Where sound is scratched into concrete forms and guests are kept at uncomfortable distances from the beat.

Celebrate tomorrow with a listen, feed a donkey wine and laugh as it eats figs. Die.

23/03/2024

De nouveau chez Opal Tapes, l’Américain Terminal 11 conserve une large avance sur les tendances actuelles de l’IDM, rivalisant plus que jamais sur ce nouvel opus vertigineux avec les rythmiques métamorphes et les harmonies malaisantes d’Autechre ou de Phoenecia.
Chronique : http://www.indierockmag.com/article36627.html

23/03/2024

Playing some grot as Pale Saab tonight in support of and

22/03/2024

Liz Hurley Deathrock Mixtape Gang

21/03/2024

Del Monte Daniel Craig Popsicles (2009-2009): To celebrate National Ice Cream week in the UK, Del Monte decided to release cranberry, blueberry, and pomegranate “iced lollies” modeled after the shirtless torso and head of actor Daniel Craig.

15/03/2024

Turning 40 tomorrow. Thanks for the nice messages, airplane mode on.

13/03/2024

Next few months catalytic inverter. Music coming from…

Crown of Cerberus
Eke
Granite Mask
Agnes Haus
Purgate
eSludge & Tricknology

02/03/2024

I’m honoured to perform on this incredible line up forthcoming at Middlesbroughs Courtrooms alongside the legendary Robert Turman and other sage alumni. With thanks to for the vision.

Posted • Genuinely thrilled to host Robert Turman this April in Middlesbrough

Great bill all round::
Bodyweather (US)
Stephen Bishop
Pale World
Rovellasca

And, it’s in the amazing surroundings of The Town Hall Courtrooms

Gig of the year?

21/04/2023

OUT TODAY
https://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/velvet-room

For anyone who’s ever followed the work of producer Etien Slavchev as EVITCELES it’s no secret that guitar-oriented and aggressive instrumental music fall among his main influences. “Velvet Room”, his latest Opal Tapes offering, is the closest Evitceles has ever got to some of the genres which initially inspired the project. It’s not only the guitar as a key element that's spread over the whole tracklist distinguishing this record from the rest in the artist’s ever-evolving body of work but the exploration of his own voice as well. Throughout “Velvet Room” you will find many mainstays of the signature Evitceles sound such as the beautifully damaged production, introspective and moody beats, or infernally melodic ambiance. This album, however, feels and sounds like the result of an almost singer-songwriter approach to track-sculpting. It is an intimate music experience, at times brooding, almost broken or falling apart but always there to hold your hand without letting it go until the final bits of the "Velvet Room" are revealed.

- Angel Simitchiev

9 track album