ABOUT MENSES

Menses is a monthly mixtape collaboration between two local independent labels, Loose Tights Tapes and Distribution and GEOGRAPHING RECORDS. This project features news and music from Vancouver, BC, Canada. It is dedicated to the Safe Amplification Site Society. SASS is a group dedicated to establishing a legal, all-ages music and arts space here in Vancouver. All proceeds of MENSES, outside of production costs, go directly to SASS.

Limited Edition/ available until supply runs out, contact specialprojects@safeamp.org, or at ZOO ZHOP (223 Main street)

MENSES ARCHIVES

JULY 2010
LOOSE TIGHTS FEATURE SIDE ONE: BEES IN VANCOUVER PART ONE and local music releases SIDE TWO: Local Music and Finding Sean Wesley Wood


JUNE 2010
GEOGRAPHING FEATURE 2 SIDES: OBEY THEME and some locals, Robert Downey Sr, Dirty Beaches and more. (Full List coming soon! )


MAY 2010
LOOSE TIGHTS FEATURE 2 SIDES: Slight Birching "Snow Plough"///Primates "beached fish"///Watermelon (formally Cat Attack) "How I Came"///Impossible Babes "Invisible"///Collapsing Opposites Live at the Railway Club///Collapsing Opposites "Follow It"///Aaron Mchattie "Collapsing Opposites Essay"///Rae Spoon "Come on Forest Fire"///MYSTERY TRACK///JOE HIRABAYASHI "Mozart and Copyright"///Special thanks Aaron Mchattie, Joe Hirabayashi, Anita Sparrow, Robin Anderson, Katie Caron


APRIL 2010
LOOSE TIGHTS SIDE: Role Mach "Following Wolf Tracks"///Half Chinese Interview///Half Chinese "Little Moon Beam" live at Zoo Zhop///Katie Caronn "Piles and Piles"///Garland & Yarn "Opiate Rose"///Aaron Read "Tiger Head"///Gross Placentas Interview///Bad Fate "Remorse On Hold"///Pizza "Brett Nelson"///Cousins "Lullaby"///Lake "Don't Give Up"/// Besh/Pat "Ryan Mccormick's City Council Speech in One Voice"
Special thanks to: half chinese, bad fate, gross placentas, enzio verster, aaron mchattie, zoo zhop, gbc
GEOGRAPHING RECORDS SIDE: The Moby Dicks "All The Time"///Student Teacher "Left For Dead"///Unreliable Narrator "Northern Flicker"///GEOGRAPHING PRESENTS "As-Is" Found Sound: Mohamed Abdul Wahab "Leilet Hob"///Falcao And Monashee "Money"///Jack Somerville "Music, Maestro, Please"///The Suzies "They Didn't Blow Up A Mountain Just To Stop You"///The Bloggers "Gunned Down"
special thanks: Ms. Grace Moore