Opal Tapes

Opal Tapes
Founded2012
FounderStephen Bishop
GenreTechno, house music
Country of originUnited Kingdom
LocationRedcar
Official websiteopaltapes.bandcamp.com

Opal Tapes is an English independent record label that releases abstracted forms of house music, techno, and other types of electronic music.[1] Founded by Stephen Bishop (who produces original music as "Basic House") in 2012 in the small town of Redcar in northeastern England, Opal Tapes is now based in Newcastle, UK.[2] Opal Tapes is well known for releasing its music on cassettes in addition to more popular formats such as vinyl.[1] In January 2013, electronic music magazine Resident Advisor named Opal Tapes its "Label of the Month."[1]

Opal Tapes Discography

Catalog Artist Title Year
OPAL001 Tuff Sherm & PMM The Pagan Theatre 2012
OPAL002 Personable Alternate/Other 2012
OPAL003 Huerco S. Untitled 2012
OPAL004 BAT & OND TON BAT & OND TON 2012
OPAL005 1991 High-Tech High-Life 2012
OPAL006 Basic House I'm Not A Heaven Man 2012
OPAL007 51717 0VUL 2012
OPAL008 Wanda Group Piss Fell Out Like Sunlight 2012
OPAL009 MCMXCI Skogen, Flickan Och Flaskan 2012
OPAL010 MCMXCI Skogen, Flickan Och Flaskan (vinyl edition) 2012
OPAL011 DJ Ford Foster Function Trax. Vol 2 2012
OPAL012 IVVVO All Shades Of White 2012
OPAL013 Ex-Con Manual De ForÁa I T‡ctica 2012
OPAL014 Traag Confused In Reality 2012
OPAL015 Various Artists Cold Holiday 2012
OPAL016 Uio Loi Cane 2013
OPAL017 COIN Stilled 2013
OPAL018 Lumigraph Nautically Inclined 2013
OPAL019 HOLOVR Lunar Lake 2013
OPAL020 Wanda Group Piss Fell Out Like Sunlight (vinyl edition) 2013
OPAL021 Naka Naka Juan Pestanas 2013
OPAL022 Nikolai The Symbols and the Signs 2013
OPAL023 S Olbricht Deutsch Amerikanische Tragödie 2013
OPAL024 Rejections Resin In The Filter 2013
OPAL025 Yves De Mey Metrics 2013
OPAL026 Shapednoise Until Human Voices Wake Us 2013
OPAL027 PHORK Privileged Life 2013
OPAL028 Bleaching Agent Stride By Stride 2013
OPAL029 Karen Gwyer Kiki The Wormhole 2013
OPAL030 Patricia Body Issues 2013
OPAL031 OOBE SFTCR 2013
OPAL032 Lumisokea Apophenia 2014
OPAL033 Kaumwald Hantasive 2014
OPAL034 Body Boys Growth Window 2013
OPAL035 Lumisokea Contrapasso 2013
OPAL036 Manse Lying In Wait 2013
OPAL037 Dreamweapon Living In Hell On Earth 2013
OPAL038 COIN Inside Palace 2013
OPAL039 Austin Cesear & Stefan JÛs We Live Here 2014
OPAL040 Ketev Ketev 2014
OPAL041 James Place An Entire Matchbook A Night 2014
OPAL042 Ford Foster & William Watts FF & WW 2014
OPAL043 Alley Catss & S Olbricht Alley Catss & S Olbricht 2014
OPAL044 D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. Förintelsen & Döden 2014
OPAL045 Mike Simonetti At the Juncture of Dark and Light Vol. 3 2014
OPAL046 Worker/Parasite Proletariat E.P. 2014
OPAL047 Run Dust Zeckenentferner 2014
OPAL048 Violetpoison Sovrastrutture 2014
OPAL049 HOLOVR Holo Earth 2014
OPAL050 Siobhan Southgate 2014
OPAL051 Michael DeMaio Half Cross 2015
OPAL052 Decimus Maroboduus 2015
OPAL053 BAT Form & Void 2015
OPAL054 D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. Killing Is No Murder! 2015
OPAL055 Masks Food Plus Drug (II) 2015
OPAL056 Ontario Hospital Future Ready 2015
OPAL057 Gondwana Aum 2015
OPAL058 Flores Del Vicio Reach A Better Feeling 2015
OPAL059 Body Boys No Face 2015
OPAL060 Michael Vallera Distance 2015
OPAL061 Perfume Advert +200 Gamma 2015
OPAL062 Russell E. L. Butler God Is Change 2015
OPAL063 Cubic Space Collective Dass II 2015
OPAL064 D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. Leave Of Absence 2015
OPAL065 Lumisokea Transmissions From Revarsavr 2015
OPAL066 Patricia Bem Inventory 2015
OPAL067 Son Of Social Zombies 2015
OPAL068 German Army Preserving Senses 2015
OPAL069 Clouds Sapporo NYE Crew (1995) 2015
OPAL070 Cremation Lily Radiance And Instability 2015
OPAL071 Basic House & Metrist The World Is Order, Incarnate 2015
OPAL072 Basic House Cryptid Binaries 2015
OPAL073 Basic House Caim In Bird Form 2015
OPAL074 $$$TAG$$$ Crowd Surfing 2016
OPAL075 Wanda Group Central Heating 2016
OPAL076 Helm & Decimus We Will Meet At Other Human Parties 2016
OPAL077 D. Glare 68 Samples At 68 BPM For Phased Heads 2016
OPAL078 CAO Marginal Virgin 2016
OPAL079 Body Boys Hood Spectrum 2016
OPAL080-X Kaumwald Rapa Nui Clan 2016
OPAL081 Pierrot Lunaire Dog Chakra 2016
OPAL082 Gultskra Artikler Industria 2016
OPAL083 Sote Hardcore Sounds From Tehran 2016
OPAL084 Various Artists U S S R (Ur Social Status Resistance) 2016
OPAL085 Your Planet Is Next Virgo Moon 2016
OPAL086 Emra Grid The Same Face 2016
OPAL087 E-Saggila Old Orders Of Beauty 2016
OPAL088 YancityGurl Shadow Medium 2016
OPAL089 Död Muscle Trax 2016
OPAL090 Facialmess The Onedin Line 2016
OPAL091 German Army Te Ano 2016
OPAL092 XDCVR Cold Slab 2016
OPAL093 Various Contemporary Dance 2017
OPAL094 D. Glare 4 Oscillators & 130 Samples At 130 BPM 2017
OPAL095 Bronze Teeth Artex (MiniAlbum) 2017
OPAL097 Domenico Crisci Body Punishment 2017
OPAL098 Vargdöd Brutal Disciplin[3] (Album) 2017
OPAL099 Gondwana Miccaotli 2017
OPAL100 Basic House I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me 2017
OPAL101 Basic House Government 2016
OPAL102 R Man Of War 2017
OPAL103 Gosheven Leaper (Album) 2017
OPAL104 Finn McNicholas Concrescence 2017
OPAL105 K. Reinshagen Dominati Symbols 2017
OPAL108 Sote Sacred Horror In Design 2017
OPAL109 Evitceles Imperfect Charm 2017
OPAL110 Binary Digit Acid Drop 2017
OPAL111 Hainbach No Need For Rain 2017
OPAL112 E-Saggila Lux Campaign 2017
OPAL114 Chafik Chennouf Dual Aspect (EP) 2017
OPAL115 Various The Harvest of a Quiet Eye 2018
OPAL116 Cosmin Nicolae Semnal (Album) 2018
OPAL117 David Terry Sorrow 2018
OPAL118 Acre Hollow Body 2018
OPAL119 Shadows Particles Of Life 2018
OPAL121 Yeah You KHOT< 2018
OPAL122 Gosheven Bivaq 2018
OPAL123 Hainbach Songs For Coco (Album) 2018
OPAL124 N1L 山卂ㄒ乇尺 爪乇爪ㄖ尺ㄚ 2018
OPAL124-X N1L Water Memory (Remixed) 2018
OPAL125 Phork No Afterlife 2018
OPAL126 Domiziano Maselli Ashes (Album) 2018
OPAL128 Monotronique Heat Absorber 2018
OPAL130 Chafik Chennouf & Katsunori Sawa For The Mimics 2018
OPAL131 Angelo Harmsworth Kompressor 2018
OPAL133 Sloth Getting Ready For Christmas (It's About Malt Liquor) 2018
OPAL134 D.U.D.S Not At All / A Different Stage Part II 2018
OPAL135 Emra Grid From A Band Of Thoughts That Ended My Year 2018
OPAL136 D.U.D.S. Immediate 2018
OPAL137 R.H.G.T. Depersonalisation 2019
OPAL138 Selm Kreise 2019
OPAL139 Siavash Amini & Matt Finney Second Shift 2019
OPAL140 The Newcomer Earth Motivation 2019
OPAL141 The Newcomer Reality Used To Be A Friend Of Mine 2019
OPAL143 David Terry & Eye Spirit The White Horse Of The Sun 2019
OPAL146 Död Arbetets Ära 2019
OPAL147 Soft Issues Soft Issues 2019
OPAL148 Evitceles The Substance Of My Fantasies 2019
OPAL149 Katsunori Sawa An Enlightenment Manual, Your Consciousness Of Truth 2019
OPAL150 Various Artists Amateur Vampires 2019
OPAL151 Rerekat Our Bones Are Dried Up 2019
OPAL152 SDEM IIRC 2019
OPAL153 J E L L V A K O INTEGRATION 2019
OPAL154 DJ BANDO Xanbient Works Volume 1 2019
OPAL155 Purpura & Lacrima New World In A Peaceful Death / Dust Sculptures 2019
OPAL156 VSCC EMSGD 2019
OPAL157 New Sincerity Fiberglass Pools 2019
OPAL158 Autumns Pissing Away My Youth 2019
OPAL159 Filmmaker Unregulated 2019
OPAL160 djb "dood & verderf" 2019
OPAL161 Territorial Gobbing Capitalist Art Is Cartoons Fucking 2019
OPAL162 øjeRum Through The Archway Of Mouths 2019
OPAL163 The Subdermic Trepidation Ladder 2019
OPAL164 VASE Amos' Flat: Room 1 & 2 2019
OPAL165 Ptwiggs Darkening of Light 2019
OPAL166 Lyubocha RYYTMA 2019
OPAL167 Life's Track Race Against Time 2020
OPAL168 Lucy Johnson Soundtracks 2013 - 2019 Vol. 1 2020
OPAL169 Siavash Amini & Saåad All Lanes Of Lilac Evening 2020
OPAL170 Body Improvement Calendar Business Major 2020
OPAL171 J. Carter Rejoice! 2020
OPAL172 Avril Spleen Thumbs Cut 2020
OPAL173 P A E S E F E R T I L E P A E S E F E R T I L E 2020
OPAL174 Lacrima Candy 2020
OPAL175 Kazuma Kubota Mind 2020
OPAL176 Jordan Edge & Navid Asghari Anamnesis 2020
OPAL177 Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet Det Var Folk Där Ute. Dom Är Borta Nu. 2020
OPAL178 Sugarstick & Xerox Sugarstick & Xerox 2020
OPAL179 Sote MOSCELS 2020
OPAL180 Maltash Clown For A Cold Audience 2020
OPAL181 øjeRum Selected Percussive Works 1998 - 2001 Vol. I 2020
OPAL182 Francisco López 1985 2020
OPAL183 Emra Grid A System A Platform A Voiid 2020
OPAL184 Mondkopf The Day He Lost It 2020
OPAL185 Lacrima St. Petersburg 2020
OPAL186 øjeRum Selected Percussive Works 1998 - 2001 Vol. II 2020
OPAL187 Attilio Novellino & Our Love Will Destroy The World The Assault Of Heaven 2020
OPAL188 R.Y.N. Relics (Collected Works 2003 - 2011) 2020
OPAL189 Autumns You Are Now Listening To Autumns 2020
OPAL190 Nocturnerror Last Seconds Of Resentment Required 2020
OPAL191 GOLPESAR The Flesh Of The World 2020
OPAL192 brb>voicecoil The Alms Of Guilt 2020
OPAL193 Posverdad Trax The Neutral Sin 2020
OPAL194 Burning Pyre United Angels 2020
OPAL195 Soft Issues High Capacity Magazine 2020
OPAL196 Tegh Emergent Errors 2020
OPAL197 OOBE SFTCR 2 2020
OPAL198 Dominique Liminal Space 2020
OPAL199 Selm TiiiER / Post-Adrenaline 2020
OPAL201 Isserley Hardcore 2020
OPAL202 Breather Ceremonies Of Aporia 2020
OPAL203 SW1n-Hunter Aliasing The Empty Face 2020
OPAL204 øjeRum Selected Percussive Works 1998 - 2001 Vol. III 2020
OPAL205 Granite Mask Time Elapsed 2021
OPAL206 Död Just Död It 2021
OPAL207 Evitceles Black Leaf 2021
OPAL208 Eating The Internet For Parts or Not Working 2021
OPAL209 Abbrumer Encina 2021
OPAL210 Folded Voices ALL VELCRO 2021

Black Opal Discography

Catalog Artist Title Year
BOP001 Patricia Body Issues 2014
BOP002 Cloudface Untitled 2014
BOP003 Naka Naka Mundo Harsh 2014
BOP004 Xosar Let Go 2015
BOP005 Metrist This Is For Sore Is Just There 2016
BOP006 Russell E. L. Butler The First Step 2016
BOP007 Personable Oyster 2016
BOP008 J. Albert Small Room 2016
BOP009 Cop Envy Total End 2016
BOP010 Clouds DJ Ultra Greatsword 2016
BOP011 Annanan New Wave of Nature 2016
BOP012 DJ S Neva Done This Before 2016
BOP013 Sciahri Quiet Witness 2017
BOP014 Persuasion Quatermass EP 2018
BOP015 Lyubocha Berzerk 2018
BOP016 Lyra Valenza Scan, Deliver 2018
BOP017 Patricia Heavy Merging 2019
BOP018 Domenico Crisci Velvet 2019
BOPW001 J. Albert Untitled 2015
BOPW002 Life's Track The Smell Of Sanctity 2015
BOPW003 Nathan Melja A.C.I. 2016
BOPW004 Sciahri Behind The Line EP 2016
BOPW005 L Neils Puzzlebox 2016

BOPW catalogue discontinued. All titles are now BOP whether single/EP/LP

References

  1. ^ a b c Ryce, Andrew (29 January 2013). "Label of the Month: Opal Tapes". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  2. ^ "Opal Tapes". Facebook. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  3. ^ "Brutal Disciplin". OpalTapes.com. Retrieved 2019-09-03.