Video Tape Club is the kind of producer album that defies the usual taxonomy of the format. Chong Wizard — Vancouver-based executive producer whose label history runs from mid-2000s mixtape DJing through the Infinity Stone EP series to curator of rare underground pairings — has assembled ten tracks with twenty-three vocal performers and managed to keep the whole project coherent. That is a genuinely difficult thing to do. The features span generations and aesthetics: Tha God Fahim, Denmark Vessey, MidaZ The BEAST, Estee Nack, Open Mike Eagle, Lungs and Phiik, Nolan The Ninja, .tetsuo and Doseone together on a single track, Myka 9, Michael Christmas, AJ Suede, Milc, Brother Tom SOS, Lord Juco, ICECOLDBISHOP, Chris Crack, E L U C I D, sleepingdogs. Mixed and mastered by Ro Data. Guitar on "Snake In The Eagle's Shadow" by Scotty Metz; violin and viola by Katie Jacoby; bass by Adi Bop on tracks 9 and 10. Artwork by Paul Rentler. Due June 19th, physical editions incoming. The conceptual anchor — cult VHS tapes passed between people who cared about them — gives the album its emotional logic: these are artists you have to be in the right place to find, and finding them together on one record is the whole point.
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