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POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release

CHARLES - THAT’S HOW BABY LEARNS // L.A. DREAMPOP ON AN AWESOME TAPE!

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Some people apparently start revolutions from their beds. I, in times gone by, have built space station forts from pillows and duvets and imagination. Charlotte Lindèn Ercoli Coe aka Charles has created an awesome album of considerable dream-pop classics that not only perfectly suit our format of choice - Cassettes! In case you weren’t listening - but feels like it was made for it. Now I’m not saying producing ‘That’s What Baby Learns’ from the comfort of some wood and linen is any more of an achievement than my pillow space fort, but it’s probably a lot easier to drop into everyday conversation.

 

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As you have become accustomed, and before I wax on about this gem of an album, have a little listen and come back when you’re convinced:

 

 

Effing great huh? It’s the kind of album I can sit back and close my eyes and let it wash over me with it’s dreamy layered super pop. It also feels like reading someone’s diary (specifically Charlotte’s!) but a diary written with Ariel Pink stationery (why isnt there Ariel Pink stationery?). It’s getting some good hype at the moment and you can read one such review over at Gorilla vs Bear.

 

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Charlotte is playing with POST/POP favourite, Neon Indian on Feb 24th (tomorrow, day of release!) so if you are in Hollywood and have a ticket to the show, you can buy this tape from the lady herself, or from POST/POP using any of the links that points to “SHOP” on this site.

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I can’t recommend CHARLES enough, but I am incredibly biased as I am trying to get you to listen/buy so don’t tale my word for it, check her out in these other places too and make your own mind up!

https://twitter.com/Charlesdecrema

https://cactusmilk.bandcamp.com/

 

Hope you like this album as much as I do gang. stay tuned as I have some BIG releases out in the next few weeks! Also you might see me pop up in all kinds of cool places (more on that later!)

<3

 

jed

 

POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release

NO CARS // YOKO GOES TO BOLLYWOOD - CASSETTE ALBUM OUT NOW!

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I’ve released a few tapes for NO CARS and seen their evolution from a novelty pop band, to a fully-fledged juggernaut of originality and FUN. This is the third album POST/POP has released for NO CARS and it’s the best by far. A concept album where the concept is ” Japanese Girls Do Bollywood” is so far deep into the rabbit-hole, we may never see the light of day.

‘Yoko Does Bollywood’ continues the No Cars tradition of name checking as many foodstuffs as possible until the actual product has no meaning and all you know about ‘Curry’ is what lead singer Haruna tells you. I originally believed Curry to be a nice menu option, preferably as hot as possible, but now I know it to be integral to a dance routine and cultural confusion.

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POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release

MODEL VILLAGE // HEALING CENTRE - LTD EDITION TAPE OUT TODAY!

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I want to go on record that ‘Healing Centre’ is the best MODEL VILLAGE album there is. You see, I thought the last one was the best, but turns out this one is. If I say this about their next album, please remind of this paragraph so I can reign in my adoration for a band with the specific skill of wrangling every inch of pop from a chorus, until there is nothing left but heartfelt verses of heartbreak and the administration of a family owned business.

 

God I love this album, but I want to point you first toward Track 5, also known in certain circles as ‘Time To Share’ (I’ve helpfully put the whole album to stream below). Have a listen now…

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Cassette Store Day, POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release

GUNSHIP - GUNSHIP // LTD EDITION ALBUM ON GOLD TAPE - SIDE B A C64 GAME!

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It’s Cassette Store Day once again, and this year, POST/POP is doing something very special. Not only are we releasing a tape for the effing incredible GUNSHIP, but we are doing it in STYLE. Yes, that is a Limited Edition Gold tape and yes, it is as beautiful in real life as it looks in that photo! How about that trailer above? Please share with likeminded people and show the love!

 

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just look at this tape. isn’t it just beautiful?

 

It’s Cassette Store Day once again, and this year, POST/POP is doing something very special. Not only are we releasing a tape for the effing incredible GUNSHIP, but we are doing it in STYLE. Yes, that is a Limited Edition Gold tape and yes, it is as beautiful in real life as it looks in that photo!

Side A features the self-titled album from GUNSHIP filled with the most epic sounding songs you have heard in your lives. Don’t believe me? Have a listen:

 

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POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release, video

NO CARS // ‘CRESS’ - LIMITED EDITION CRESS GREEN TAPE + FREE PACKET OF CRESS!

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The brand new single from the best Japanese girl-band that has a Racoon as a drummer! YES, its POST/POP fave, NO CARS! This is the third release we have done for NO CARS and wont be the last. They are just the best live band in london, and this single is the best translation of that energy onto a rectangle possible.

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In other exciting news, I also directed the music video… and WHAT A VIDEO! The premise is “what would happen if NO CARS starred in a Japanese Karaoke video in the 1980s, but then a spaceship landed and an alien Raccoon tried to steal their CRESS, but then they developed psycho-kinetic powers from eating too much cress, and fought the Raccoon to the death?” This is the sexy result.

NO CARS // CRESS (Official Video) from Jed Shepherd on Vimeo.

This cassette comes in a delightfully green shell, the real colour of the cress found in the forest of Japan + you will get a REAL packet of Cress with it! Yes, you too can now grow your own cress, in the comfort of your own home OR office! You can watch your cress grow while listening to No Cars serenade you with their song ‘CRESS’.

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If you can make it to london tonight (September 4th), NO CARS are playing a free gig at the South Bank Centre and if you go, not only can you buy the tape, but you also get to see me! Also HETTIE will be there too so you can high-five her and then go buy her EP!

Please note: If you listen to the song so much, you actually do get “hooked on my cress”, please do not blame POST/POP. Cress consumption should not be taken lightly and may lead to Salad abuse.

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You can find out more about NO CARS by typing their name into google along with the word “band” or by using these links!

http://nocarsmusic.com/

https://www.facebook.com/nocarsmusic

https://twitter.com/nocarsmusic

https://instagram.com/nocarsmusic/

got another tape out on Monday so stay tuned! (especially if you like HIP-HOP)

 

jed

x

POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release

POST/POP & SOUL LABELS present: LO-FI ODYSSEYS VOL 1 // Nigerian Beat Tape

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ALL PROFITS GO TO NIGERIAN CHILDRENS CHARITIES (As chosen by Lo-Fi Odysseys).

The UK’s LO-FI ODYSSEYS bring us the first beat tape in the ‘Palm Wine Beats’ collection. The best Nigerian Music, interwoven with snippets of Nigerian pop culture, this collaboration between POST/POP and SOUL LABELS shows that you CAN make an authentic African music tape on Western labels.

Daniel Oduntan of Lo-Fi Odysseys has compiled an important work of Nigerian history that embodies his childhood, growing up surrounded by the music of his family’s culture on tape and vinyl. Beat tapes are classic streams of consciousness, always unpredictable and in this case, also educational. You will find the true Nigerian greats, mixed in with some surprising and welcome additions, making a truly unique African beat tape for the 21st century.

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we made sure the artwork mirrored Nigerian tapes from the 70s/80s.

If you are sick of so-called “African” tapes that were compiled by white guys from New York appropriating African music and taking all the credit, then Palm Wine Beats Vol 1 will be a breath of fresh air.

ALL PROFITS GO TO NIGERIAN CHILDRENS CHARITIES (As chosen by Lo-Fi Odysseys).

Spread the word and collect the first tape in the Palm Wine Beats series.

 

You can buy this important new beat tape by clicking on this sentence, or clicking on the shop link at the top of the site or on the right.

 

You can find out more about Palm Wine Beats and Lo-Fi Odysseys using the below links. You will also be able to buy this tape direct from Daniel/Lo-Fi Odysseys (its not there yet but will be!)

https://lofiodysseys.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LOFIODYSSEYS

https://twitter.com/lofi_odysseys

 

Have a good weekend guys, and don’t forget all profits from this tape goes straight to Nigerian Children Charities!

jed

 

POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release

DAPHNE & CELESTE // YOU AND I ALONE - 24.7.2015

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“Jed, have you heard the new Daphne & Celeste song? You’d love it!” said Dave Cronen, manager of ASH/Johnny Marr. I hadn’t at the time, but went home that night and watched the video. “Woah! Max Tundra produced this? Woah! Daphne & Celeste can really sing! Woah, there’s a Twin Peaks reference? Woah! its all about cassette tapes?” Yes Dave, I LOVE IT! So then I set about speaking to Mr. Tundra about releasing the cassette and this is it below!

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POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release, SPOTLIGHT

San Cisco // Gracetown - Ltd Edition Cassette drops July 6th!

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EDIT: (The band’s lot of tapes were sold out in a couple of hours today, so these are the only ones left on the planet! BUY NOW)

I’ve had some really good luck with discovering Australian bands. First up was the incomparably awesome PEPA KNIGHT, and since then, I have been on the lookout for another group of beautiful misfits from the furthest place away I can think of. Step forward San Cisco and the gloriously indie-pop ‘Gracetown’ album. Man, these guys know exactly what a chorus is, and make sure we don’t forget it. Incredibly radio-friendly Vampire Weekend-esque pop with bigger hooks than Candyman working part-time at a fishing shop; San Cisco are like a tonic to my tired ears. I’ve also just realised that I am totally projecting this band as a slightly older version of PUGWALL :) “Morning to Midnight…. cha cha cha”

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POST/POP Ltd EditionTape Release

ness // A Second To Think EP - Out June 15th!

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What I have in my hand right now is a plastic rectangle. Inside this plastic rectangle is magnetic tape. Recorded onto that tape is an EP of music so genuine, it should come with a certificate of authenticity. The fact I can hold the “A Second to Think” EP from New York duo NESS in my hand, is somewhat akin to that of Thor, grasping Mjolnir. The humble cassette tape is almost as mythical as a Marvel’s favourite deus ex machina, and by all contemporary thinking, shouldnt really exist. Not anymore anyway. Yet here I am, In the summer of 2015, holding this ness cassette tape aloft, watching the light bounce off the transparent shell and make patterns on the carpet that shouldnt exist pass the mid-90s. But it does. One of the best new bands in the world (in my opinion), can only sound better when played on this format. I’m fantastically biased of course, but buy the tape and prove me wrong!

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