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Monuments by Requiem

Happy Bandcamp Friday! We made it through the summer folks! The kids are back in school, its beginning to seem like it might stop being unbearably hot (at least here in Vermont), and Bandcamp Fridays are back. I still make it habit to keep abreast of all the new music from folks that I follow through out the year, but I also still love that holiday feeling associated with these days. I hope you…

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Matt Atkins

We’ve got something things for your ears here at Histamine Tapes. Matt Atkins is a sound artist, percussionist, label head for Minimal Resource Manipulation and host of radio show Auricular Shelter. Their second installment of no input mixer explorations is out now on Histamine Tapes. No matter the medium of sound Atkins works with he is always doing something textural. There is a repetitive…

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Antihistamine 2024

Hello, Its time for the annual No Synth Compilation. If you are receiving this email its because you have participated in Histamine Tapes compilations in the past. If you’re new to the Antihistamine Comp read below to get the details of how we do it. thanks Antihistamine 2024: Fire I joked last year about keeping the elemental theme going this year with fire, and enough of you responded…

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out of the ash (HT101) by Heavy Cloud

Friends of the label no doubt are well aquainted with Heavy Cloud. In the relatively few years Ryan has been on the scene, their music has seemingly appeared everywhere. It’s been a joy to see that name pop up via their generous promotion of all things ambient and experimental via radio shows, music criticism and of course their various sound and poetic projects. out of the ash bridges many of…

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Number 100

Hello Friends of Histamine Tapes HT 100 is finally here! I honestly thought it was going to take me longer than this to reach the 100th release. Or maybe it should have come sooner? I should have been releasing more material! This is the constant back in forth in my mind running a label. The side I have landed on recently is to give each release more individual attention than to just release a…

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nd dentico - this is an acceptable station

Family vacations for me have always been opportunities to record in novel environments. I am admittedly a very amatuer field recordist, only going around with cheaper handheld recorders, using internal mics or contact mics that I get from Crank Sturgeon (which are budget friendly, but do not mistake that for cheap seriously they are great stuff go get yourself some…

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Lines are Optional (HT099) by nd dentico

The first release of 2024 from Histamine Tapes has been released.This is a follow up to last years hydration/development by nd dentico. It follows that same format of two longform drones created with prepared bass, but this time I added a layer of other recordings: junk percussion with various metal objects on a racks tom and hydrophone recordings of the winooski river. Please give it a listen…

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Goodbye 2023

Hello Friends of Histamine Tapes, I don’t often find myself getting caught up in the “this year sucks, next year is going to be my year” nonsense, but I will say I am happy to put 2023 behind me. I was still pretty traumatized from July’s floods when Decembers floods hit (luckily causing much less damage). There was so much upheaval in my personally and work life, and I am still finishing label…

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Antihistamine 2023

What is the sound of two rocks hitting? That more or less sums up the prompt for this years Antihistamine No Synth compilation. Make sounds with rocks, stones, pebbles, gravel, sand, pretty much any earth based hardscape. Oh and no synthesizer. People had a lot of fun with this one. There was a variety of interpretations of the theme that both met and exceeded my expectations. Hail, crystals,…

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Video for Antihistamine 2023

I just want to give you a little taste of what to expect from the annual Antihistamine compilation. This year’s theme is rock/earth sounds a compliment to last years water sounds comp. Buben and their partner Anastasia Labada make a video for their track “It’s a Time for Choosing”

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drifts by puberty

Dearest Friends of Histamine Tapes there is new music for you all!! The latest comes from a duo project from the label head of Flop House (Detroit based experimental music label) called puberty. This is one of those pen pal sort of collaborations where folks send sounds back and forth adding to the soup until things start to sound thick. A real stew this is indeed. I like to use the word sound…

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Reid Karris Cassette Out Now

From Reid himself:Not Only Will This Kill You, It Will Hurt the Whole Time You​’​re Dying is “An album about medieval and ancient execution techniques but i guess it’s really just a metaphor for the lengths we humans go to in order to hurt each other and in the end ourselves, explained through sound waves of chaotic dissonance.” Reid approached me about this release sometime mid last year. He…

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Call out for submissions to the annual Antihistamine No Synth Compilation: !!!PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!!! (I don’t really have the time to explain to everyone what I mean by “synth”) Last year’s theme was water so I thought it would be fun to make this year’s theme earth. Rocks to be precise. I want your tracks to prominently feature the sound of rocks, pebbles, stones,…

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Bandcamp Friday

As I lament the sale of my favorite music platform to yet another giant unknown profit motivated entity and wait for news of weather or not it will be irrevocably altered, I spread the cheer that at least for one more friday those fuckers won’t be getting your money! No new music, however music never ages, so get some of your favorites you passed on earlier this year at a discount! Its Cassette…

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Prairie Dogs by Robert Eggplant

Friends of Histamine Tapes will undoubtedly know by now that ambient guitar drones over field recordings are some of my favorite things. I have attempted over the years to not be pigeonholed as an ambient label, but try as I might that stuff is my bread and butter. You all come out in droves to listen when these types of albums drop and HT and I am appreciative if a little disappointed that I…

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Two New Ambient releases for Bandcamp Friday

Hello Friends I’m writing you late on this fine Bandcamp Friday to celebrate ambient music. I have two New albums for you. First off is digital release from research musician and composer Demetrio Cecchitelli. OBVIOUS OBLIQUITY was primarily conceived as a compositional installation art piece only using a tiny square waveform oscillator and a blank cassette player. The poetic idea behind the…

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Another Dark December

Hello Friends of Histamine Tapes! I’m so thrilled to share with you the latest from Another Dark December. Jay is one of the oldest contributors to Histamine Tapes, being on the very first Antihistamine Compilation, under his other project name Another Forest Opera.This album feels more akin to that previous project. Populated entirely with samples these tracks feature layered textures and…