Amateur Vampires, by Various Artists

Amateur Vampires

by Various Artists

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martintosterud Most scary album I bought this year. Favorite track: Discourse.

deadshotkeen Opal Tapes just goes from strength to strength. This isn’t just the best electronic compilation of 2019 but amongst the best of all time. Superb sequencing too as the set moves from early quasi-industrial bone-crunchers through (slightly) softer techno and house jams and ending with ambient/avant weird-scapes. A first class journey through worldwide electronica like no other. Favorite track: Rust.

Anthonny Aguilar Filmmaker kills again! Favorite track: Floating Tower.

mboyo An entire rainbow of abyssal sounds. Favorite track: White Wall.

molluken Enlightening diverse sounds, vibes and people

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1.	Selm - Nineteen Voices 03:42	buy track
2.	Avril Spleen - White Wall 04:48	buy track
3.	VASE - Content Locked 04:32	buy track
4.	Filmmaker - Floating Tower 04:38	buy track
5.	Autumns - Nah, You're Wrong Actually 05:25	buy track
6.	J E L L V A K O - KODE 01 02:44	buy track
7.	R - Mind Hunters 06:26	buy track
8.	XDCVR - X002 05:34	buy track
9.	Chafik Chennouf & Katsunori Sawa - Time Of Deceit 05:58	buy track
10.	Domenico Crisci - Napoli Power 05:12	buy track
11.	Katsunori Sawa - Piggy Back 05:36	buy track
12.	Monotronique - Driiil 04:43	buy track
13.	Evitceles - Trembling Shape 03:53	buy track
14.	Sote - For Arta 04:16	buy track
15.	Scald & Sharon Gal - Discourse 06:17	buy track
16.	Soft Issues - Decompress 05:55	buy track
17.	Depletion - Zero Hour 07:04	buy track
18.	Eye Spirit & Matt Finney - Rust 06:00	buy track
19.	SDEM - Kaelie 03:28	buy track
20.	Scott Young - Lonely Only 06:17	buy track
21.	Rojin Sharafi - Spray And Pray 07:57	buy track
22.	Real Terms - Answer Back 05:24	buy track
23.	R.H.G.T. - Dysphoria 06:32	buy track
24.	Burning Pyre - Urban Cosmetica 03:46	buy track
25.	SW1n-Hunter - John Mainland Is Relocating 06:53	buy track
26.	Basic House - Sleeping Sickness 06:08	buy track

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Opal Tapes celebrates its 150th catalogue number with a vast compilation of names, new and old, whose work covers the gamut of tastes that Opal celebrates.

Selm open proceedings with the torturously heavy 'Nineteen Voices', lumbering a ball, chain and sinking anchor of gyrating bass textures and globs of power. Avril Spleen, the duo of Freya Edmonds (Elvin Brandhi, Yeah You) and Joseph Jadam sick it with a screaming industrial-trap monster of pure unhinged anger.

VASE balms the proceedings with swung out minimalist strokes of Cubano rattle before Columbia's Filmmaker shreds it on a smoked out cyber-noir electro bit. Autumns balances this perfectly with the aggro-new beat spatter patterns of 'Nah, You're Actually Wrong".

We follow with Korea's J E L L V A K O stepping out with some heady steppin' dub flavoured with killer rolling perc straight off Kromestars back. They of great mystery, known only as R close out the A-side. Mind Hunters is the Amiga screen of your nightmares.

SIde B bangs into existence through the Klein flask operations of XDCVR whose computer gracefully malfunctions into full groove. Chafik & Katsu go dark-side on 'Time of Deceit', whispering devils telling you to get back indoors before the sky falls.

Domenico Crisci presents the snaking oblivion of 'Napoli Power' before Katsunori Sawa returns in solo-mode to hop scotch a sourly melodic chugger in the form of 'Piggy Back'. Karkov's Monotronique gets clinical with 'Driiil' allowing the anaesthesia to stick around long enough for Evitceles bad dreamscapes to invade your head.

Sote dedicates a beautiful piece to his son Arta as side C begins, all sweetness gone by the time the vortex of voice and iced out electronics gather for Scald & Sharon Gal. Soft Issues continue their journey inwards with the harrowing 'Decompress' while Depletion fuses MS-20 drones into steely beauty on 'Zero Hour'.

Eye Spirit & Matt Finney begin their collaborative work together with the folorn 'Rust', voice and cello searching over a scorched earth. SDEM sharpens senses to synthetic diamond points with his recurring wail on 'Kaelie' before the side falls into warm velvet with Scott Youngs mellow clouds breathing hope back in.

The final stretch brings a number of Newcastle's artists together later on but is opened with the superb electro-acoustic constructions of Rojin Sharafi. Soft Verses' Real Terms offers as beautiful an argument at work could ever turn out to be with 'Answer Back' while R.H.G.T. corrodes ears with the rotten lullaby 'Dysphoria'. Burning Pyre presents a beautiful, perfume wash of ambience whose soft leash walks the bizarro punk-poetics of TOPH mainstay and underground stalwart SW1n-Hunter. Finally, following 140 minutes of precious sounds from the Opal Tapes crew, label owner Basic House sits by the road and wonders what's up, are the vampires coming from elsewhere to drink it all away?

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released June 21, 2019

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