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"Collapsing Drums tells the stories that matter in a post-pandemic world" - The Wire Collapsing Tape is a sprawling 23 track compilation which celebrates 5 years of the Collapsing Drums label via a diverse pool of artists working across experimental music. It’s really hard to condense the amount of sounds going on in the 90 minutes — but here’s a brief attempt: there’s abstract vocal play (Elaine Mitchener), warm squishy electronics (Luke Sanger), frenetic turntablism (Mariam Rezaei and Dali de Saint Paul), Bristol freejazz-adjacent art-rock (Ex Agent), non-linear hiphop (Mr AKA Amazing), and a track in which you can hear the washing up pile collapsing (The Collapsing Beat Mix of The Jonny Halifax’ Invocation). There’s irreverent, dubby house music from DJ Marcelle, haunting post-Tropicalia vocals from São Paulo (Fantasma do Cerrado) and two angles on pure percussion — Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello’s urgent ‘Migraine’ and Dan Johnson’s bottle-based ‘Pictures of the Actual Objects’ What this isn’t is a random compilation without shape. While it’s dense and multi-genre, the audio journey is carefully constructed — a textured, intentional movement through rupture, mess, humour and repair.

Track listing:

  1. Luke Sanger - Road to Somewhere 03:39
  2.  Propan - Meditation 6 02:50
  3.  Elaine Mitchener - stretchedwoundspeaks 05:55
  4.  Dan Johnson - Pictures of the actual objects 03:18
  5.  Fantasma do Cerrado - Sabiá Nunca Repara de Onde Vem Sua Turma 02:21
  6.  Han - Communion Wafers 02:13
  7.  Graham Dunning & Sam Underwood - Live in the Malvern Cube 03:36
  8.  Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello - Migraine 02:58
  9.  Mariam Rezaei & Dali de Saint Paul - A Love Affair 04:54
  10.  Mooooooooo - Free#*^•.__Jazzzzzzzzzz 03:01
  11.  Sculpture - Portal Customer 02:26
  12.  Rojin Sharafi - Boloor 04:44
  13.  Ex Agent - ...And The Way She Shakes His Fist At Them 02:46
  14.  BIPED - Rarity Rarity 03:13
  15.  Mr AKA Amazing - Duane Freestyle 00:30
  16.  Aparapara - Ways 06:41
  17.  The Jonny Halifax Invocation - Celestial Symphony in D (Collapsing Beat Mix) 03:53
  18.  Caballo Perro - Mostaza Precariosa 03:48
  19.  Rebecca Lennon - Mouths (short version) 03:37
  20.  Jamie Hamilton - Index of Four (Instrumental Version) 05:48
  21.  Robyn Rocket - Yellow and Orange Leaves 05:05
  22.  Omega Institute - Mirror Test 05:23 23. DJ M

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Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair

Collapsing Drums
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Released12/05/2025Catalog NumberLAPSE07Learn more