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Post Tension's top albums of 2011 so far Weirdlings from January to July. #Post Tension

Diamond Catalog, Magnified Palette A bass and drum record for the mutants. #Post Tension

A History of Space #6: Henry Flynt, You Are My Everlovin’/Celestial Power A force of nature. A fucking force of nature, even. #Post Tension

Natural Snow Buildings, Waves Of The Random Sea The first great psych-drone drop of 2011. #Post Tension

The top experimental and rarities of 2010 Sifting through the fine print. #Post Tension

A History of Space #5: Technical Space Composer’s Crew Canaxis 5 (1969, Music Factory), a seminal release. (95 to go!) #Post Tension

Hiiragi Fukuda, My Turntable Is Slow (2010. Sloow Tapes) A Serge Gainsbourg channeling-psych project that missed my best of list. #Post Tension

A History Of Space #4: Les Rallizes Denudes ? Live ’77 (Rivista Inc, 1991) This is the ultimate cult band. #Post Tension

Stunned Records: Dire Wolves & Warm Climate Here are some slam fucking dunks. #Post Tension

A History of Space #3: Pelt, Ayahuasca (VHF, 2001) A very serious nod to the spiritual and religious psychotropic aspects of the plant. #Post Tension

Kemialliset Ystavat, Ullakkopalo Exploring Scandinavia's psychedelic experimentation scene. #Post Tension

A History of Space #2: International Harvester, Sov Gott-Rose Marie (Love, 1969) Hear the most refined LP of the Parson Sound legacy. #Post Tension

Dead Luke's Cosmic Meltdown c45 Yes, tropical psychedelia is pretty terrible, and yes neo-psych is becoming the new indie. #Post Tension

A History of Space #1: Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Paix (Phillips, 1974) Kickstarting a new ride on the way back machine. #Post Tension

Robert Turman, Chapter 11 This four hour, 8-cassette re-issue has your hypnagogic whatever, from the 70s. #Post Tension

Psychedelic Horseshit, Acid Tape Time to talk about my favorite tape of the year. #Post Tension

Eff yeah, old MV&EE bootleg So most of you headz probably know MV & EE quite well at this point. Their discography is pretty long so there are still a lot of little gems out ... #Post Tension

El Jesus De Magico, Ragtime Hors c23 Punk ethos meets space rock. #Post Tension

Peaking Lights, Space Primitive c20 A followup c20 to the band's fantastic Imaginary Falcons. #Post Tension

Caboladies' CD-R coulda been a contender This would have easily been one of my top albums of the year, with a little bit of hindsight, but I totally missed out on it, what with the typical on... #Post Tension

Jah Lion, Dub Bible It can be hard to find good dub outside of the classics, crate-dug gems, and the rare collection of avant dubs (Sherrif Lindo & The Hammer Ten Dub... #Post Tension

Hollow Man: Transient Surroundings Hollow Man is a one-man smorgasboard of borrowed sounds, synth arpeggios, mixer feedback squelch and a whole host of other shit. #Post Tension

The Best Cassette Releases of 2009 The best in the deck for 2009. #Post Tension

The Flower-Corsano Duo, The Choclate Cities CD-R Time to give a little love to the CD-R. For a column that supposedly focuses on the best cassette releases coming out these days, I had to stop and ta... #Post Tension

Elfenbeinturm, 1982: Pizza, Beer & Smokes C'mon America, how can you not like a German psychedelic artist who list his main influences as "Pizza, Beer & Smokes"? #Post Tension

Teepee, I Can't Believe I... 2xcs A new double cassette by Florida swamp thang Teepee. #Post Tension

Tonstartssbandht covers Parson Sound It seems for every full length Tonstartsbandht drop there is a nice c20 waiting in the wings to swoop in shortly afterward. We had Water Buffalos show... #Post Tension

Oneohtrix Point Never, Ruined Lives c20 Hey, readers. With a whole slew of new tapes coming down the pipeline this week and poor me with no time to listen to them, I figured now was a good t... #Post Tension

Trauma, It Ain't Happenin' c30 Man, the Midwest is one fucked up place. In the best way possible. Something about those wind swept plains inspires a kind of rawness that the hazed-o... #Post Tension

Expensive Shit, bringing the heat Not Not Fun, doing you good. #Post Tension

Treetops/Abelar Scout/Evan Miller/Taterbug - Split 2xc20 The split cassette is a tradition as old as the split LP (citation needed).  Young Tapes ups the ante with an impeccably packaged double split fu... #Post Tension

EYE makes a mixtape Yamataka Eye makes a mixtape. #Post Tension

Beru, What Would I Do Without You c48 Keiji Haino and Vashti Bunyan had a music baby. Beru is the avant folk project of one Jessica Collins who, at leasttheoretically, can be described in ... #Post Tension

Pummeler, Jungle Olympics c32 Noise, noise, noise. Don't let the name fool you, this is no "tropical-drone" excursion.  You will get a faceful of electronics, indistinguishabl... #Post Tension

Expo 70, Corridors To Infinity Hey, welcome into Post Tension. This byte section is going to showcase all the best limited cassette releases money can buy, but often doesn't. ... #Post Tension