OSEES / John Dwyer Cassette Tape Archive Box Set
Update 3: Less than 35 box sets left!
Update 2: Less than 50 box sets remaining
Update 1: Dark Weald Sets now SOLD OUT
Now available for preorder: a 12-cassette boxset featuring 23 recordings from Osees, Bent Arcana, and Damaged Bug — 200 songs and 911 minutes of audio. All recordings are on cassette for the first time, with a few making their debut on any physical format. Limited to 200 hand-numbered sets with slipcase designed by Elzo Durt. This is a preorder and ships mid-September.
100% of profits from this release go to the ACLU. Keep up the good fight.
(These Dark Weald variants are now SOLD OUT) 75 boxsets will include the ultra limited Dark Weald. 65 will be on black cassette or 10 on green cassette from Philthy Phonographic Records.
Preorder: Shipping mid September. We have all the tapes in hand (they sound incredible), we are just waiting on the slipcase, which is being manufactured and should be ready by early September.
Records
1. Dead Medic - Oh Sees
2. Clearly Invisible - Oh Sees
3. Protean Threat - Osees
4. Live Rehearsal For Protean Threat - Oh Sees
5. Panther Rotate - Osees
6. Bug On Yonkers - Damaged Bug
7. Live in Big Sur - Osees
8. Weirdo Hairdo - Osees
9. Bent Arcana - John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone & Marcos Rodriguez
10. Improv at Zebulon 2/6/21 - Osees
11. Endless Garbage - John Dwyer, Ted Byrnes, Greg Coates, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins
12. Moon Drenched - John Dwyer, Sawyer, Kerlin, Dolas, Caulkins, Malone, Rodriguez, Boye, Soubiran, Myers-Ionita, Renteria
13. Moon Drenched Bonus Sessions
14. Gong Splat - John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, Andres Renteria
15. Gong Splat Bonus Sessions - John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, Andres Renteria
16. A Foul Form - Osees
17. Live on KEXP 9/12/22 - Osees
18. Bent Arcana Live at Zebulon
19. Intercepted Message - Osees
20. Intercepted Message - Live on The Best Show - Osees
21. Sorcs 80 - Osees
22. Sorcs 80 Live - Osees
23. Ritual - Habit - Ceremony - John Dwyer, Tom Dolas, Kyp Malone, Heather Lockie, Brad Caulins, Ciriza, Andres Renteria, and Archis Carey
Questions:
- So are there 12 tapes or 23 tapes? There are 12 tapes, some of these cassettes have 2 records on there. Shoot one has 3 records, Clearly Invisible, Dead Medic, & Improv at Zebulon
- Yeah but I see 23 tapes in the image, what the fuck? Well, we used double sided U-cards so that we could showcase the full sized album artwork for each of the records.
- How did you fit so much music on each tape? No idea, but the fine folks at Duplication.ca did an incredible job making this project work. One of the tapes has 58 minutes on one side (!!!) and +110 minutes of audio across both sides. We have never heard about a commercially available tape with so much audio. 200 songs and 15 hours 11 minutes of audio. This is a beast
- When does this ship? Mid september when we get the slipcases back from the manufacturer.
- Anything else I should know? Yeah we have a few other surprises up our sleeve for this release, but we dont want to spoil it
- Will there be a second run of this boxset? Unfortunately not, once these sell out thats it.
Important Disclaimer 1) , we heard from our last sale that several people had items in their cart and when they tried to pay it said the product was no longer available. So it seems that big cartel doesnt reserve your item until you pay for it and get an order confirmed notice. That sucks, we prefer the systems that dont let you add to cart unless inventory is available. Oh well, we cant change big cartel. So if you add something to cart and it denies you at the end, we are sorry. We have been there before and it suuucks.
Important Disclaimer 2), if you are planning on flipping this boxset on ebay please dont. We are going to track what # goes to what buyer, if we see your # on ebay in the next few months we are going to ban you from future purchases. We understand if your circumstances change and you need to sell the boxset at some point, thats fine. But flipping it right when you receive it is not fair for fans that want to enjoy these releases without paying inflated ebay prices. Remember we are a non profit label, we do small runs, we try to keep our prices down, & we really dislike when our fans get fleeced on ebay having to pay ridiculous prices.
Important Disclaimer 3), US shipping should be standard $9 (media mail + shipping supplies), International unfortunately is much more pricey. We dont make money of shipping, we are sorry international shipping is so expensive, especially to australia. If we end up finding cheaper shipping we are happy to refund you. Setting shipping rates is a pain, if the shipping cost looks high or if it says we dont ship to your country, email us @ [email protected].
