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TL 1012 | Dead Red Velvet | Skeleton Shore

Available for purchase at Bandcamp.

Tape Life Records presents Dead Red Velvet’s second release, Skeleton Shore, a six-song romp through dark techno, gritty electropop and cinematic dark ambient. The follow-up to The Ghostly Divide drops the guitars in favour of Mohr’s trademark synth work, seducing with urgent songs touching on arboreal ghosts, Austrian immigration, nuclear power and otherworldly luminosity. Culled mostly from the period 2004-2006, this is Mohr’s most tonally-consistent work. An electronic music acid bath of edge and depth, this short album is recommended for fans of 80s alternative, dark ambient, golden era industrial, Skinny Puppy and darker sides of Shriekback.

released February 14, 2019

ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED, EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED & PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.

SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 2004-2006, EXCEPT 06 FROM 2011, PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2019.

VOCAL SAMPLES ON 01 BY JULIA GALIOS. SOPRANO VOICE ON 05 BY KRISTIN MUELLER. COVER IMAGE IS FROM THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR 02, DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH FEARON, SHOT BY GILLIAN WILLIAMSON. PAPER MOUNTAIN DESIGNED AND BUILT BY EDMUND LAW. SLEEVE DESIGN BY SITUATSI.

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© 2019 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

tags: dark ambient, dark electronic, goth, post-punk, Alternative, new wave, electronic, atmospheric, male vocal, electropop, synth pop, dark techno, industrial, cinematic, soundtrack

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TL 1009 | Dead Red Velvet | The Ghostly Divide

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The debut release from Dead Red Velvet, The Ghostly Divide, picks up where Karl Mohr Audio-Yo left off, with a grave shift towards heavy, mood-laden songwriting. Flirting with gothic rock, Mohr’s 6-song collection of dark, slow burners features his best work from 1997-2001. For fans of dark ambient, goth rock, dark electronic, 80s alternative.

released October 19, 2018

ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED, EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED AND PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR. 05 PRODUCED BY STEPHEN SKRATT.

SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 1997-2001
PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND
REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2018.

BACKING VOCALS ON 01 BY PETRA GRUNIG, BACKING VOCALS ON 02 BY RACHEL SMITH. VOCAL ENGINEERING, DRUMS AND PERCUSSION PROGRAMMING, SOUND DESIGN ON 05 BY STEPHEN SKRATT. FRONT COVER PHOTO BY ADRIAN BATTY. REAR COVER PHOTO BY SOLEYMA ABIAD. DESIGN BY SITUATSI. SPECIAL THANKS: R. CORRIGAN, E. MCCONNACHIE, S. SKRATT, P. THILLAYE, E. DOUGLAS.

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© 2018 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

tags: dark ambient, dark electronic, goth, post-punk, Alternative, rock, electronic, atmospheric, male vocal, synthwave, synth pop, dark synth, new wave, Toronto, Canada

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TL 1008 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Standard Deviation

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Tape Life presents the eighth and final Karl Mohr Audio-Yo release: Standard Deviation, a dark ambient film score. Following his 1997 techno-industrial tour de force, The Heck, Mohr switched gears into songwriting as Dead Red Velvet, but not before composing this dire soundtrack to Samuel Kiehoon Lee’s independent feature, Standard Deviation. The film concerns psychic hotlines, lottery pyramid schemes and the Y2K Problem; the accompanying music is no less intriguing. Acoustic and electronic instruments blend tastefully with copious sampling – the album stands as a mature, sophisticated and textured body of work. This pivotal release echoes, in chrysalis anguish, Mohr’s early experiments and also foreshadows the bleak, downcast goth elements found in Dead Red Velvet. Recommended listening for fans of film music and dark ambient; reminds at times of Peter Gabriel’s Passion or Alexander Zlamal’s score for Heller als der Mond.

released March 19, 2018

ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED,
EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED & PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.

SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 1997
PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND
REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2017.

MUSIC COMPOSED FOR THE SAMUEL KIEHOON LEE FILM,
STANDARD DEVIATION (1997). THE VOICE ON 04 IS SAMPLED
DIALOG FROM THE FILM AND IS USED BY PERMISSION.
SPECIAL THANKS: S. K. LEE, I. REVELL, E. MOHR, V. MARCONE.

COVER IMAGES ARE STILLS FROM THE FILM. DESIGN BY SITUATSI.
BPM VALUES ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY DRIFT.

TAPE LIFE RECORDS / TL 1008
FOR MORE INFO VISIT: TAPELIFE.COM/TL1008
℗ 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS.
© 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

tags: alternative, techno, dark ambient, industrial, electronic, soundtrack, film music, film score, ambient, ambient music, instrumental, drone, electroacoustic, atmospheric, dark electronic

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TL 1003 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Strange Tides

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Tape Life presents the third Karl Mohr Audio-Yo release, Strange Tides, a moody journey into ambient instrumental works recorded 1991-1995. Five pieces demonstrate a vastness of desolation in pensive electroacoustic art, conjuring images of tidal flats, pagan ritual and surgical purgatory – an opening of the floodgates to become submerged in cinematic sound. A dark ‘make out record’ for intimate moments of melancholic escape, this album is recommended for fans of dark ambient and film music.

released February 2, 2018

ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED,
EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED & PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.

SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 1991-1995
PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND
REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2017.

ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT COURTESY OF CHRIS GRISMER,
JOHN MILLER, THRESHOLD THEATRE. GRAPHIC DESIGN BY SITUATSI.

SPECIAL THANKS: S. ABIAD, M. GAREAU, I. REVELL, V. MARCONE, E. MOHR.

THIS ALBUM CONTAINS NOISE AND OTHER DETAILS PRESENT
IN THE ORIGINAL ANALOG CASSETTE TAPE RECORDINGS.
BPM VALUES ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY DRIFT.

TAPE LIFE RECORDS / TL 1003
FOR MORE INFO VISIT: TAPELIFE.COM/TL1003
℗ 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
© 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

tags: alternative, techno, dark ambient, industrial, electronic, ambient, ambient music, electroacoustic, soundtrack, film music, film score, synthesizer music, instrumental music, atmospheric, drone