Mirror Universe Tapes

MU16/SC190 The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient C94

2011-08-16T13:44:00.008-04:00

Side 1
1. Best Night
2. Brothers
3. I Was There
4. Your Love Is Calling My Name
5. The Animator
6. Come To The City
7. Come For It
8. It's Your Destiny
9. City Reprise #12
10. Baby Missiles
11. Original Slave
12. Black Water Falls

Side 2
1. No Returns
2. Snake Tongues
3. Song for Alice
4. Don't Fear the Ghost [Demo]
5. Real History
6. Future Blues

The latest from the War on Drugs. Side 1 is what you'll find on the CD/LP versions of Slave Ambient, and Side 2 is over 30 minutes of all-new stuff with a more ambient sound. 200 copies, red cassettes.

$10 + s/h

The tapes are here. We will start mailing them out next week. Thank you for being patient.

MU09 Baby Lips - Nineteen Ninety Ching C26

2011-06-22T14:27:00.000-04:00

A
1. No Blood
2. Skin
3. I Wanna See You

B
4. Address
5. Honey/Background Noises

Baby Lips plays lo-fi pop with a dark tinge. Drums, keys, uke. Luchador masks. Wigs. Feedback.

$5 plus s/h. ships late June/early July (or something)

MU28 Mr. Jenkins - In Transit/Sleep C30

2011-03-13T09:00:00.003-04:00

From the South Carolina Lowcountry, but most recently based in NYC, Mr. (Nick) Jenkins has been regularly self-releasing stuff for about five years. This tape is two EPs, one released earlier this year (In Transit), and one brand new (Sleep). In Transit sort of expands on the 8-bit instrumental pop direction explored in his 8 Bits & Pieces album from summer 2010, while Sleep goes in a more extended, glitchier direction. This tape was released as part of Receiver Fest, which was from March 10-13 in Charleston, SC. We made 25 copies of this on red tapes. If it sells out we will make 25 more. If those sell out, I'm not sure what we'll do.
In Transit:
1. Afternoon Showers
2. Parade
3. Trains & Tobacco
4. For the Bartenders of The Huxton

Sleep:
1. TV Setback
2. Maybe, Yes. Maybe, No. (Ask Again, Later)
3. Sleep

$5 plus shipping and handling

MU25 Idiot Glee - I Did It Sober C29

2011-01-12T17:18:00.002-05:00

Pop vocalizations deep from within a soul. This will open your eyes even if they are still wide open. Pianos that will make your heart stir and sounds that will fill your lungs. White girls will love it.

1. Piano Short

2. Boxer in Shorts

3. Sin Quai

4. Left My Heart in Bethlehem

5. Jamie's Song

6. Eyes and Arms of Smoke

7. I Did It Sober

8. Speakers

9. Nina Simone Rip 2

10. I Know My Mind

11. Pop Songs

12. Trying Out Pianos

100 copies on clear cassettes. $5 plus shipping ($2.5 USA/$4 Int'l).

MU23 Emperor X - Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse) C50xC6loop SOLD OUT

2010-10-12T15:59:00.006-04:00

Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse) is a meditation on the nature of life and death. It is dedicated to a young woman who lost her life in a car accident in Missouri.

Here is the concept: the sides of the C50 are reverses of each other. Things whose meaning is obscured upon first listen reveal themselves later, and things that made sense before are now unintelligible. The "single" and title track is on the six-minute loop cassette, in both forward and backward forms. Listen to both at the same time, or each separately.

If your download code doesn't work, please contact us.

Limited to 50 copies. $8 plus s/h ($2.50)

MU18 Cough Cool - Epic Dreams C22

2010-09-10T09:07:00.000-04:00

1. Flower Reading
2. Months
3. New Dance

4. Myself
5. Grabbing Smoke
6. Cold You Baby

This EP kind of reminds me of an industrial Jesus and Mary Chain, or something. I don't know! Check it out for yourself! Black cassettes.

MU19 Magic Places - Nitelab Lockbox C30

2010-08-07T07:59:00.001-04:00

Side A

The Dark of the Moon

The Bangkok Haircuts Society

Preteritus Et Posterus Unum

Side B

Disproving Occam's Razor

Paul Goerner lives in Savannah, GA and makes music as Magic Places, giving us sample-heavy electronic pieces.

This tape will ship around August 24th.

MU26 Yu(c)k - Weakend C22 SOLD OUT

2010-07-19T09:00:00.008-04:00

THIS TAPE IS SOLD OUT!
Yu(c)k is the piano-based side project of Yuck. Weakend is a collection of four songs, ranging from the hopeful and poppy opener "Daughter" to the slow and elegiac closer "Automatic."

1. Daughter
2. Weakend
3. Walk
4. Automatic

$5 plus s/h Strictly limited to 100 copies on black cassettes.

MU14 Tapeworms Eat Bookworms - Space Burial C31

2010-07-08T23:39:00.004-04:00

1. Välkommen
2. No Magic
3. Alpaca Lips
4. The Replacements

5. Swarms
6. City Drone
7. Space Burial
8. Rebuilding

Bite-size new-age pieces, like if Tangerine Dream had a shorter attention span. This is Tapeworms Eat Bookworms' second full-length.

Clear cassettes with transparent packaging. $5 plus shipping

MU24 Cop Magnet - Babe Magnet C29

2010-07-04T15:01:00.004-04:00

We got a box of tapes in the mail with a scrawled note that just said "ERASE THIS TAPES." Not being one to disobey anonymous instructions, I fired up the ol' mass-demagnetizer and pressed GO. When I popped one of them in to make sure the deed was done, it had all this music on it. It was kind of like a pre- or post-beach barbecue when the sun is still up, at the house of your two best friends who got matching tattoos.

Effed up r'n'b hip hop jams, perfect for a party any time of year but especially summa tyme.

Side A
Ignorance is Mystery
Totonono
Geeked Out (prod. Ryan Hemsworth/Rene)
MNU (Cassie Remix)

Side B
Intro to Ass Shaking
Mall Talk (prod. Rene)
Lookers
Epic City
Bitches (prod. Ryan Hemsworth)

100 copies on clear cassettes in a baggie. $5 plus s/h

MU15 Blissed Out - White Triangle C31

2010-06-02T09:00:00.017-04:00

1. Ceballitos
2. Rain Stream
3. Trap House

4. Tie Dye Flowers
5. Tropical Fantasy
6. Intercalation
7. Empire State of Mind Edit

NYC's Blissed Out gave us this tape of electronic swirls and pulses.

Strictly limited to 100 copies on black cassettes. $5 + s/h

MU20 His Clancyness - Always Mist C26 TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT

2010-05-18T10:12:00.003-04:00

TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT
Side A

Mistify the Ocean

Misinterpret My Words

Vampire Summer

Piece of Cake

Side B

Just Like Monday (Early Vers.)

Nights and Fables

Ottawa Backfired Soon

Clear the Mist

Nothing and Nowhere to Go

Jonathan Clancy is from Ottawa but now he lives in northern Italy. He makes pop music that is marinated in reverb and double-tracked vocals. Taking the most compelling attributes of the past fifty years of Western pop, he turns them into something his own.

TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT
COMING BACK SOONER THAN YOU THINK

MU07 the Meanest Boys - Cheer Up Friend C34

2010-05-04T09:00:00.007-04:00

Side A
1. slow hand
2. no more thoughts about it
3. give it
4. water on my lips
5. smoke signals
6. call it what you want

Side B
7. we know you've got the sugar
8. im on fire
9. lost the line
10. nowhere to go
11. sorry to hear about the kid
12. we used to be such very good friends

This is like a fruit salad made up of Yo La Tengo, Elliot Smith, Grandaddy, The Robot Ate Me, and Circulatory System (to name a few).

100 copies on blue cassettes. $5 plus shipping.

MU13 Pink Priest - God of Blues C12

2010-04-05T10:21:00.002-04:00

Side A

1. Tell Me Something Awesome Before I Go to Sleep

2. Red Headed Dead Head

Side B

3. Workin' On Her Night Moves

4. God of Blues

Four short minimalist ambient pieces from W. C. Watson of Arkansas. White cassettes.

$4, $2.50s/h USA, $4 s/h Int'l

MU12 Dead Gaze - End of Days, Why Not You? C35

2010-03-16T09:00:00.001-04:00

Side A

Back and Forth

A Simple Man

Future Loves and Sing-Abouts

Store Space

You'll Carry On Real Nice

Side B

Stay, Don't Say

Enz

Your Ozzie Face

Song for RS

I'm a Mess When You're Gone

R. Cole Furlow from Mississippi made this tape and it rules. Sometimes it sounds like 80s-era Flaming Lips, and some tracks are ambient soundscapes. If you like pop, if you like rock, if you like weird, buy this tape.
Available from Cole Furlow, 52,5 Records (561 King St Charleston SC) and here.

First 100 copies on black C35s. $6, $2.50 s/h in USA, $4 s/h intl.

MU10 Sun Mantra - S/T C34

2010-03-09T17:00:00.003-05:00

Sun Mantra is Matt Ojala, and this tape will make you want to hop in a neon green convertible and bust out of your uncle's garage on one of the moons of Mars and then run naked through the streets screaming and yelling and jumping on top of cars and strollers like the Yankees won the Intergalaktic Futbol Championship. Trust me: rock and roll and its finest.

Side 1:

B.B.
Cousin
Expo '18
Pockets Full
Question the Tropics
Garden Sounds

Side 2:

Wondered Often
Stump Feet
Reward Reaper
Muddy Clearview Parking Lot
Honeymaker

100 copies for now, on blue cassettes. $6 plus $2.50 s/h in USA, $4 intl.

MU08 Kid Trails - Winlow C28

2010-02-16T09:00:00.007-05:00

1. Managers/Animals
2. Old Dreams
3. Love Song
4. Miss You Most
5. Back Here Windsor

6. Wise Up
7. MBUR

8. Dead Fox
9. Favorite
10. Look Dinosaurs
11. 813 Food

Kid Trails is the project of Patrick Jeffords, of Columbia, SC. He is (was?) also in the Heist and the Accomplice with Chaz Bundick (Toro y Moi). This tape is lo-fi pop.

100 copies on blue cassettes. $5 plus shipping ($2.50 USA, $4 Intl.)

Or buy a copy from the band themselves, or at 52.5 Records on King Street in Charleston, SC.

MU11 Sacred Harp - Feast of the Green Corn C32

2010-02-02T09:00:00.002-05:00

Side A

Feast of the Green Corn
Make For Me a Way

Side B
The Seven Salvations

Dogwood

For fans of John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, Evan Miller, James Blackshaw, Jack Rose. Appalachian/Himalayan strings.

First 100 copies on white cassettes. $5 plus shipping.

MU06 Active Child - Sun Rooms C32 SOLD OUT

2010-01-14T11:45:00.007-05:00

Side A:
1. She Was a Vision
2. Take Shelter
3. Wilderness

Side B:
4. When Your Love is Safe
5. Voice of an Old Friend
6. See Thru Eyes

Electronic pop that will make you feel sad, calm, angry, happy, wistful, scared, anxious, and relieved, usually all at the same time. 100 copies on blue cassettes. Strictly limited to 100 copies. There is no digital download for this release.

SOLD OUT!

You can buy the 7" with "She Was a Vision" and "Voice of an Old Friend" (out on UK label Transparent Records)
http://www.puregroove.co.uk/itemview.aspx?item=1189

Apologies

2009-12-02T22:34:00.005-05:00

Dear Internet and the People affiliated with it,

Mirror Universe would like to extend its deepest apologies for the lack of updates as of late. Ben and I (Ryan) have had very busy personal lives including Work, School, the Holidays and other normal life things. There is good news on the horizon though, after months of toil and turmoil we will soon have several tapes available from artists such as Active Child, Sacred Harp, Kid Trails, and Sun Mantra. All for tapes will hopefully (PRAY FOR US) be out very, very soon and will be up on the website for order.

After those releases are knocked out we will have The Meanest Boys, Truman Peyote, Dead Gaze, Tapeworms Eat Bookworms, and Pink Priest. These are ALL going to INSANE cassettes and we will let everyone know when they are available.

In early 2010 we will have releases from Total Slacker, Cough Cool, Tan Dollar, Expensive Looks, and Magic Places. Check the bottom of the page to see what else we have coming out in 2010.

Last but not least, A group of friends have opened Charleston's very first Community Space and Venue (thats not a shitty bar) called OUTERSPACE and Mirror Universe has compiled a totally radical Fundraising Compilation entitled "Deep Space Drum Circles". Every last single dime of the proceeds will be going towards the venues costs and will be strictly limited to 200, 100 on White and 100 on Black for $4! THATS A STEAL! OR you can donate a dollar and we will send you the MP3 files, but thats not nearly as cool or tangible as a super limited tape with super rad artwork, right? So, help us keep our dream alive! Updates will come soon!

THANKS, RYAN AND BEN.

MU05 Weed Diamond - Sweater Kids C30 SOLD OUT

2009-09-28T21:00:00.011-04:00

Weed Diamond is Tim Perry.

Side 1:

Grand Piano Jam

Blurry Afternoon

No More School

Chelsea Koral

Side Two:

I Can't Understand you, Girl Bear (Redux)

All of Denver is Wasted

Janie Moved

Arlington Baby

We have sold out of this tape. Leftist Nautical Antiques might still have some.

MU04 Washed Out - High Times C22 SOLD OUT

2009-08-31T16:00:00.032-04:00

SOLD OUT

C22, first run of 100 was clear cassettes, second run of 100 was on white cassettes. There is no digital download for this release.

Side A:
Belong
Good Luck
Phone Call
Olivia

Side B:
Clap Intro
Luck
It's Kate's Birthday
You Will Be Sad
Yeah

Washed Out is Ernest Greene. His hazy electropop has been making waves the past few months and here he brings it out full force, along with some downtempo instrumentals.

SOLD OUT

You can purchase a digital version of Washed Out's Life of Leisure 12" EP from Mexican Summer at http://mexicansummer.com/release.php?artist=42

MU03 M.R. - Sun-washed C28

2009-08-14T22:11:00.023-04:00

Side One
1. Mississippi
2. Sunwashed
3. Apples on Her Trees
4. Mother's Son

Side Two
1. Mom Meets a Stranger
2. Traps & Contrivances
3. DCAE
4. (Summertime) Split Personality Blues
5. The Great White Light
6. You are the Lion

$5 ($2.50 USA/ $4 Intl.)

M.R. is a stage name of Matt Rabin which is itself a stage name. Previously making music as Green Man Blues Band, this new name, like many others, signifies a new musical direction. One one hand, he is distorting the guitars a little bit and adding drum machines, and on the other, he is shedding the structure and sound of the blues (a shedding he had already started) to make gentler, folkier tunes that still pack a menacing punch. I truly believe that this is what Charles Manson would sound like if he was making music now. Also present are shades of Ugly Casanova and Devendra Banhart.

Comes with a free download.

MU02 Toro Y Moi - Body Angles C20 SOLD OUT

2009-07-20T22:16:00.045-04:00

SOLD OUT!!!!

Side 1:
Night Body

Side 2:
Do the Stuff
Supposed to Do
Can I Know
Timed Pleasure

SOLD OUT!!!

You can buy Toro y Moi's album Causers of This and his 7" "Blessa" now from Carpark Records! http://www.carparkrecords.com/shop.htm

MU01 Ophibre/Brian Grainger split #3 C44

2009-03-16T23:58:00.031-04:00

BLACK SIDE: OPHIBRE - THE ASCENDING TORQUE AURA sample
BLUE SIDE: BRIAN GRAINGER - THE DESCENDING CRYSTALLINE HAND sample
$6 plus shipping

I don't know much about Ophibre, except that he is from Boston, he puts out some deep layered conceptual drones and he is friends with Brian Grainger, who has been making music as Parallax, Vhom, Coppice Halifax, Milieu, etc. for what seems like forever. Black Side is like a machine dying, Blue Side is like a planet coming to life. Perfect for driving (during the day), studying, meditation/prayer, or for putting on at a winding-down party at your house where you want everyone to leave or fall asleep (that is a good thing).

On handsome purple tinted cassette with spray-painted labels.

Comes with free download! Just enter the URL that you find in the tape and enter the passcode. We ripped the tape so you don't have to. Two copies for the price of one!

Ophibre links:
http://www.ophibre.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ophibre

Brain Grainger links:
http://www.milieu-music.com/
http://slowlid.blogspot.com/

Also available at 52.5 Records at 561 King Street, Charleston, SC . You might even be able to buy one from Brian Grainger or Ophibre themselves, or me and Ryan if you see us in person.

Mirror Universe Tapes

MU16/SC190 The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient C94

MU09 Baby Lips - Nineteen Ninety Ching C26

MU28 Mr. Jenkins - In Transit/Sleep C30

MU25 Idiot Glee - I Did It Sober C29

MU23 Emperor X - Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse) C50xC6loop SOLD OUT

MU18 Cough Cool - Epic Dreams C22

MU19 Magic Places - Nitelab Lockbox C30

MU26 Yu(c)k - Weakend C22 SOLD OUT

MU14 Tapeworms Eat Bookworms - Space Burial C31

MU24 Cop Magnet - Babe Magnet C29

MU15 Blissed Out - White Triangle C31

MU20 His Clancyness - Always Mist C26 *TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT*

MU07 the Meanest Boys - Cheer Up Friend C34

MU13 Pink Priest - God of Blues C12

MU12 Dead Gaze - End of Days, Why Not You? C35

MU10 Sun Mantra - S/T C34

MU08 Kid Trails - Winlow C28

MU11 Sacred Harp - Feast of the Green Corn C32

MU06 Active Child - Sun Rooms C32 SOLD OUT

Apologies

MU05 Weed Diamond - Sweater Kids C30 SOLD OUT

MU04 Washed Out - High Times C22 SOLD OUT

MU03 M.R. - Sun-washed C28

MU02 Toro Y Moi - Body Angles C20 SOLD OUT

MU01 Ophibre/Brian Grainger split #3 C44

MU20 His Clancyness - Always Mist C26 TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT