Max Julian Eastman is a noise musician known for recording music under his own name and with projects like Greathumour and Tantric Death as well as the proprietor of what we consider to be one of the best American noise labels currently in existence. In contra to countless other labels that endlessly put out everything that comes out of "the scene", Max approaches Tribe Tapes with an aesthetic and conceptual theory. There is a general sense of discovery here, with reissues of artists that you certainly have never heard of, and a strong, unmistakable visual aesthetic. A welcome addition to the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde, indeed. Max discusses the label, his label's reissuing of classics from the late Marco Corbelli's Slaughter Productions label, the avant-garde and post-punk beginning of industrial and noise music, Smell and Quim, Atrax Morgue, the Haters, and much much more. SOUNDTRACK: Max Eastman "Extreme Psychedelia" Die Sonne Satan "Purity" Smell and Quim/Expose Your Eyes "Quim B" Ashtray Navigations "2" Atrax Morgue "Autoerotic Death 2" LINKS: Tribe Tapes Tribe Tapes Bandcamp Tribe Tapes Instagram: @tribe.tapes Adam on Ashtray Navigations