Opal Tapes is an English independent record label that releases abstracted forms of house music, techno, and other types of electronic music. 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. Opal Tapes is well known for releasing its music on cassettes in addition to more popular formats such as vinyl. In January 2013, electronic music magazine Resident Advisor named Opal Tapes its "Label of the Month."
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 (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 2019OPAL147Soft IssuesSoft Issues2019OPAL148EvitcelesThe Substance Of My Fantasies2019OPAL149Katsunori SawaAn Enlightenment Manual, Your Consciousness Of Truth2019OPAL150Various ArtistsAmateur Vampires2019OPAL151RerekatOur Bones Are Dried Up2019OPAL152SDEMIIRC2019OPAL153J E L L V A K OINTEGRATION2019OPAL154DJ BANDOXanbient Works Volume 12019OPAL155Purpura & LacrimaNew World In A Peaceful Death / Dust Sculptures2019OPAL156VSCCEMSGD2019OPAL157New SincerityFiberglass Pools2019OPAL158AutumnsPissing Away My Youth2019OPAL159FilmmakerUnregulated2019OPAL160djb"dood & verderf"2019OPAL161Territorial GobbingCapitalist Art Is Cartoons Fucking2019OPAL162øjeRumThrough The Archway Of Mouths2019OPAL163The SubdermicTrepidation Ladder2019OPAL164VASEAmos' Flat: Room 1 & 22019OPAL165PtwiggsDarkening of Light2019OPAL166LyubochaRYYTMA2019OPAL167Life's TrackRace Against Time2020OPAL168Lucy JohnsonSoundtracks 2013 - 2019 Vol. 12020OPAL169Siavash Amini & SaåadAll Lanes Of Lilac Evening2020OPAL170Body Improvement CalendarBusiness Major2020OPAL171J. CarterRejoice!2020OPAL172Avril SpleenThumbs Cut2020OPAL173P A E S E F E R T I L EP A E S E F E R T I L E2020OPAL174LacrimaCandy2020OPAL175Kazuma KubotaMind2020OPAL176Jordan Edge & Navid AsghariAnamnesis2020OPAL177Thet Liturgiske OwäsendetDet Var Folk Där Ute. Dom Är Borta Nu.2020OPAL178Sugarstick & XeroxSugarstick & Xerox2020OPAL179SoteMOSCELS2020OPAL180MaltashClown For A Cold Audience2020OPAL181øjeRumSelected Percussive Works 1998 - 2001 Vol. I2020OPAL182Francisco López19852020OPAL183Emra GridA System A Platform A Voiid2020OPAL184MondkopfThe Day He Lost It2020OPAL185LacrimaSt. Petersburg2020OPAL186øjeRumSelected Percussive Works 1998 - 2001 Vol. II2020OPAL187Attilio Novellino & Our Love Will Destroy The WorldThe Assault Of Heaven2020OPAL188R.Y.N.Relics (Collected Works 2003 - 2011)2020OPAL189AutumnsYou Are Now Listening To Autumns2020OPAL190NocturnerrorLast Seconds Of Resentment Required2020OPAL191GOLPESARThe Flesh Of The World2020OPAL192brb>voicecoilThe Alms Of Guilt2020OPAL193Posverdad TraxThe Neutral Sin2020OPAL194Burning PyreUnited Angels2020OPAL195Soft IssuesHigh Capacity Magazine2020OPAL196TeghEmergent Errors2020OPAL197OOBESFTCR 22020OPAL198DominiqueLiminal Space2020OPAL199SelmTiiiER / Post-Adrenaline2020OPAL201IsserleyHardcore2020OPAL202BreatherCeremonies Of Aporia2020OPAL203SW1n-HunterAliasing The Empty Face2020OPAL204øjeRumSelected Percussive Works 1998 - 2001 Vol. III2020OPAL205Granite MaskTime Elapsed2021OPAL206DödJust Död It2021OPAL207EvitcelesBlack Leaf2021OPAL208Eating The InternetFor Parts or Not Working2021OPAL209AbbrumerEncina2021OPAL210Folded VoicesALL VELCRO2021
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
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