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Death Is Not The End takes avant-garde LPs originally released by a New York artist-owned label and reissues them as cassettes.... Earth Libraries takes avant-garde cassettes originally released by a New York artist-owned label and reissues them as vinyl LPs.... TELLUS: The Audio Cassette Magazine Anthology Vol. 1 is two metallic silver vinyl discs and 36 tracks of selections from the long-running series of multi-artist tapes compiled and issued by the downtown Manhattan imprint Tellus from 1983 onwards. It's coming out on November 13.Release rationale: "... Tellus transformed the humble audio cassette into a magazine, commissioning and publishing new works by musicians, composers, visual artists, poets, writers, choreographers, and performers who were reshaping the boundaries of contemporary art. Each issue invited listeners into a world where no wave, industrial music, spoken word, Fluxus performance, electroacoustic composition, downtown pop, conceptual art, and avant-garde…