The Tapes
News From Nowhere
*2025 stock. 80 copies limited edition* First album in 26 years from Italian brothers Giancarlo and Roberto Drago, the Genoese duo behind one of the most significant minimal-industrial projects to emerge from Italy's "Anni di Piombo" (Years of Lead).…
The Tapes / Intolerance + Chant d'amour (2 tapes + Amen - This Is Religgion N° 6 fanzine)
Very rare complete 6th issue of Amen magazine including the experimental / synth-wave split tape by The Tapes and Intolerance plus the all-French electronic/industrial/zeuhl cassette compilation including Pacific 231, Vox Populi!, Phaeton Dernière Da…
A Touch Of Despair
*200 copies limited edition* The project "The Tapes" by Giancarlo Drago developed over a span of 10 years, between 1982 and 1992, before being revived in 2016 in Genoa, Italy. In 1982, Drago was 16 years old and recorded his first tape using toy inst…
Selected Works 1982-1992
A fascinating, often dizzying insight to the primitive industrial minimalism of Italian siblings Giancarlo and Roberto Drago aka The Tapes, sourced from original tapes and pressed to vinyl for the first time ever. This set surveys a blind spot in mos…