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
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