Histamine Tapes

Hello Friends of Histamine Tapes The annual synthless experimental music compilation is out today! This years comp theme is wind. I feel like this theme was held to pretty well by all the contributors and offers a fun and varied interpretation. If you can listen to this album all the way through that would be great. I put a lot of thought into the order and feel like it takes you on a pretty…

We are back for another no synth compilation. This year will be the final in the elemental series. This years theme will be air. Record the wind and process it. Stick a contact mic on something in wind storm. or just craft something light and airy. As always the one firm rule is that source sounds need to not be electronically generated. I do this to try to push us all out of the habit of running…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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”

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…

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…

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…