New Arrivals
Macrodose
*2025 stock* "Macrodose" marks Bill Harris's third solo record, following "Blinking Glue" (2022) and "Onomat" (2021). Harris's unique approach to solo drumming combines acoustic and electronic elements, utilizing feedback and timbral manipulation to create a distinctive auditory experience. Where Blinking Glue was a single-take, live performance which represented a snapshot of his live solo set, Macrodose returns to a similar format of Onomat, encapsulating shorter sonic spaces in a number of di…
Just an Umbra of Symmetry
*2025 stock* Paradise Complete is the sound collage duo of Nick Meryhew (Chicago, IL) and Bryn Davis (St. Paul, MN). Their work centers on ideas of collaboration, asynchronicity, improvisation, and serendipity. It’s fun strange music and it feels nice to listen to it. With this album, Paradise Complete explores the branching lives latent within a fixed set of material. These tracks tell their stories in distinct but mutually intelligible tongues with, to, and against one another. Half of this al…
Blood Brothers
Reissue with alternate layout of this bonus tape previously only available in the creationist special edition.
Bathtub brothers (Prurient and Alberich) round two. Heavy electronics vs. doom electronics for double barrelled white sick sheets and prison blue uniforms. Wear the masks - close your eyes - innocence rejoined.
Is Noise Vol. 1
TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, is the trio of Ahmoudou Madassane, Mikey Coltun, and Souleymane Ibrahim, also known as the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. TAKAAT is sonic chaos, improvisation, freedom of exploration, and the punk styles of bands such as Fugazi and Unwound, all mixed together with the guitar music from the Sahel.
TAKAAT started during soundchecks while on the road with Mdou Moctar when the trio indulged their shared love for amps crank…
Sin Pavilion
100 copies limited edition Emerging from the intersection of electronic innovation and atmospheric storytelling, Sin Pavilion proudly announces the release of their highly anticipated self-titled album, Sin Pavilion. This record marks a bold new chapter for the artist, blurring the boundaries between shadowy electronica, pulsating rhythms, and ambient soundscapes.
Drawing listeners into an immersive sonic world, Sin Pavilion is a curated journey through evocative melodies, hypnotic basslines, an…
Worm's Meat
Body Tenant’s debut Worm’s Meat offers an unflinching examination of bodily horror and existential erosion, its sound design both suffocating and eerily beautiful. Each track submerges the listener in layers of distortion and desolation, exploring the fragility of the human shell amidst industrial ruin. This release aligns with Phage Tapes’ commitment to artistry over profit: all proceeds are reinvested into releasing more challenging, vital music.
Rites Of Rust
*100 copies limited edition* Phage Tapes is proud to announce the release of Rites Of Rust, the devastating debut album from Mortar Mouth, available on cassette and digital formats. Hailing from the heart of the leftfield industrial underground, Mortar Mouth is a new duo forging a raw and immersive soundscape at the intersection of death industrial and dark ambient music.
Rites Of Rust delivers six relentlessly bleak compositions, wielding bleak electronics and crushing atmospheres. Tracks like …
Elders of the Begena: The Harp of David in Ethiopia
"The Begena is one of those rare musical instruments of the world that has survived for more than 5800 years. What is fascinating about it is not only its age but the fact that both its manufacture and the purpose for which it is being played have never changed during all these years. It is still made of wood and animal products, such as the intestine of the sheep for the strings, the leather that covers the sound box. It is used for praying, for praising God and for meditation, just as it was i…
Erie, PA 1983 (Tape)
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles is proud to announce the release of a previously unreleased recording featuring Beat Generation poet Jack Micheline performing a complete reading in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1983. This intimate documentation captures the raw energy and spontaneous spirit that defined Micheline's legendary performances.
Recorded during the height of Micheline's creative period, this rare tape presents the poet in his element—delivering his trademark blend of street-wise verse …
split
From the enigmatic fringes of experimental sound comes an extraordinary split release between K/S/R and The Tulsa Ball Room Singers—a bold document of two singular live performances where music and moving image intertwine.
Between Summer & Now (a fragmented diary of depression)
*2025 stock* This record is made up of a collection of songs made over the past two years. To me, it felt disjointed and I struggled to understand the theme of the record until I began making a short film of the same name. Normally, when making an album, I take a period of time to set intentions and/or practice methods. But this record is a collection of music from various sessions, the link between them being ambient in nature. This film became a way of creating a narrative through image and te…
Altar
*2025 stock* NOx is the sonic reaction between Pedro Roque and Jerome Faria. Both accomplished musicians with diverse backgrounds in various musical genres, Roque brings extensive experience and a passion for pushing boundaries at Portugal's heavy music scene, while Faria contributes with innovative soundscapes and experimental techniques. Together, they conjure an immersive experience that defies clear definitions and challenges the boundaries of experimental music.
Ao Ser Sereno
To be human is to be in flux. It is to exist at the intersection of order and chaos, between structure and dissolution, between noise and silence. Identity does not anchor itself to a single moment; it oscillates, vibrates, dissolves, and re-emerges, like a sound echoing through time, shaping itself within the landscape of its own meta-stability. Identity is not a fixed code, nor a stable structure that accompanies us from the beginning. Were it purely contained within genetic material, identica…
Silvo
*2025 stock* 'Silvo' presents a series of musical compositions in which the artist intricately explores the evolution and transformation of harsh sounds into a musical narrative, employing dissonance, glitches and textural intricacies in a melodious manner. The creation of piercing sounds and densely inhabited spaces imbued with intensity proved a fruitful source of inspiration, evoking the sensation of capturing moments of implosion and suffocation. The distinction between cacophonous noise and…
Omni
First time meeting of Sam Wenc (US/pedal steel + objects) and Stefano Grasso (Milan/percussion + recorder). The record is one take, broken into 10 tracks, exploring the boundaries of the rhythmic grid, never quite landing inside it, but hovering on its perimeter, through extended technique, melody, and disharmony.
The Witch Is Back (High School Party Promo Mix '1992)
"This cassette is a promo mix that we originally sold in high school to promote the parties my friends and I did back then (The Witch Is Back); M.O.A. Productions, Frantik Party Productions, some of my earliest House crews. We (Marky P, DJ Juice, DPC, James) did underground house parties in basements and around while in high school. The mix is a fusion of Chicago house, and also the European minimal techno that was coming into Chicago back then. A timestamp on our histories, early roots and what…
Undertow
*70 copies limited edition* Eventless Plot, the renowned experimental duo from Thessaloniki, proudly announce the release of their latest cassette, Undertow. Known for their genre-defying sound and meticulous sonic craftsmanship, Eventless Plot continue their tradition of pushing the boundaries of contemporary music with this immersive new work. Undertow is a two-part suite (Part A, featuring Marco Paltrinieri, and Part B), unfolding through a spacious interplay of analog textures, modular synth…
Yavireri: Los que viven en lo profundo
Yavireri - a Matsigenka word that can be understood as "those who live in the depths" - describes the spirits of the forest and those who, from within the jungle, sustain a way of life rooted in listening, vision, and oral tradition.
Nothing Left to Dissolve
A local to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nick has been involved in the electronic music scene since the mid-90s. Known mostly for live hardware techno sets, Nick spent years making broken beats as Vasculator, spaced-out techno as 1/2 of Untethered, and gutter-dipped "dub" as 1/2 of Gnarled Horse Throat.
In 2022, a virus of some sort made percussive transients and loud sounds difficult to tolerate. This resulted in a shift to deeper listening music not aimed at the dancefloor. A trip to Asia served a…
Earth Mother Spectral Pilot
Bristolian artist, illustrator and toymaker Ed Cheverton debuted as Earth Mother Spectral Pilot with a cosmology-inspired melodic ambient album on SWIMS. We are now treated to a long overdue re-release. Known for his features in publications like It's Nice That, Juxtapoz, and The Guardian, Cheverton widens his creative scope to music via a project that borrows its title from a series of comics of his. Influenced by ambient and atmospheric soundtracks, one can hear the connection to Kawai Kenji, …