Birthday Tapes 2012

Primarily a subscription series. Physical subscriptions were for twelve cassettes and a handmade wooden box (to be made by Winebox Press) in which to store them: four cassettes were released, 50 copies of each. Digital subscriptions were for twelve releases: eleven were released. Digital releases were also available individually via bandcamp, and small numbers of the tapes were sold individually in shops. "Explanatory notes" from the label's site: "At the beginning of the MMXIIth Year of our Lord we started a new collaborative with our sweet-hearted friends GIANT HELL. We called it BIRTHDAY TAPES, as it was to be in concert with the cosmos and zodiac-affiliated and but also because we wanted each object to feel like a gift, wrapped as they are specially commissioned art work. Essentially a 'singles' club with one split release per zodiacal month. So in MMXII there will be contributions from 24 different bands / recording artists and 12 visual artists / image makers / illustrators. There are still a few full subscriptions remaining, which, in addition to all 12 tapes, also include a hand-made wooden box to keep them all in courtesy of WINEBOX PRESS as well as some other surprises and printed matter."