This week's newsletter is an interview with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers, whose "Roulette" compilations play a different song every time you put the needle on the wax.
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FR 146: Tusco Embassy’s “Roulette” Compilations Are Black Magic on Wax
Bee Mask, Jim O’Rourke, Demdike Stare—wherever you drop the needle, there’s no telling what you’ll hear.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This week's newsletter is an interview with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers, whose "Roulette" compilations play a different song every time you put the needle on the wax.
futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-146-tus...
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🎉 Our TUSCO paper is out in Nature Communications! A new benchmarking framework for long-read transcriptome reconstruction using curated single-isoform genes as internal ground truth — no spike-ins needed, by talented @tianyuanliu.bsky.social 🧬🔗 nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72089-1
TUSCO: benchmarking transcriptome reconstruction with endogenous single-isoform controls - Nature Communications
Long-read sequencing enables comprehensive transcriptome characterization but remains challenging to benchmark due to sequencing errors, sample variability, and the limited scope of existing evaluatio...
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July 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
🎉 Our TUSCO paper is out in Nature Communications! A new benchmarking framework for long-read transcriptome reconstruction using curated single-isoform genes as internal ground truth — no spike-ins needed, by talented @tianyuanliu.bsky.social 🧬🔗 nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72089-1
Yo creía que los hermanos Jones eran 5: Tusco, Misco, Conco, Nico y Paco 😂😂😂😂
May 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Yo creía que los hermanos Jones eran 5: Tusco, Misco, Conco, Nico y Paco 😂😂😂😂
Beyond chuffed to be on this insane « Roulette » compilation from Tusco Embassy: the lineup is as wild as the concept: 32 radial cuts of short audio tracks from margin to center on a transparent LP so each time you drop the needle it is a 1-in-32 chance of hearing any particular track!
August 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Beyond chuffed to be on this insane « Roulette » compilation from Tusco Embassy: the lineup is as wild as the concept: 32 radial cuts of short audio tracks from margin to center on a transparent LP so each time you drop the needle it is a 1-in-32 chance of hearing any particular track!
The Andes Tusco Peru
February 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Andes Tusco Peru
Same, but in a dirt-floored house in the Tusco-Emilian Appennines, sleeping with animals at night to keep them warm during the snowy and frigid winters.
She didn't regret quitting that life for the city, nor do I.
She didn't regret quitting that life for the city, nor do I.
April 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Same, but in a dirt-floored house in the Tusco-Emilian Appennines, sleeping with animals at night to keep them warm during the snowy and frigid winters.
She didn't regret quitting that life for the city, nor do I.
She didn't regret quitting that life for the city, nor do I.
The Tusco Embassy “Roulette” style comp is available now! Lacquer cut to play tracks randomly! Featuring Incapacitants, Yeast Culture, Yellowhouse (Hanatarash related) Dilloway, and a track from Advanced Aesthetics (Ben Kudler and myself) 200 copies!
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Various Artists - Christmas Tape 2024 LP (PRE ORDER)
***Shipping on or before January 31, if purchased with other items, everything will ship together then.*** First of its kind "roulette"...
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January 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Tusco Embassy “Roulette” style comp is available now! Lacquer cut to play tracks randomly! Featuring Incapacitants, Yeast Culture, Yellowhouse (Hanatarash related) Dilloway, and a track from Advanced Aesthetics (Ben Kudler and myself) 200 copies!
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Today on WFMU: Put The Needle On Econo Jam Records feat Tusco. For this week's episode Billy Jam will be joined by Bay Area emcee Señor Gigio and Italian emcee Tusco, live from Econo Jam Records on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland
(7 p.m. ET = 4 p.m. California time). www.wfmu.org/upcoming
(7 p.m. ET = 4 p.m. California time). www.wfmu.org/upcoming
Upcoming Special Programs on WFMU
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August 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Today on WFMU: Put The Needle On Econo Jam Records feat Tusco. For this week's episode Billy Jam will be joined by Bay Area emcee Señor Gigio and Italian emcee Tusco, live from Econo Jam Records on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland
(7 p.m. ET = 4 p.m. California time). www.wfmu.org/upcoming
(7 p.m. ET = 4 p.m. California time). www.wfmu.org/upcoming
New Songs of Our Lives with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers! We dig into his wild 'Roulette'-style compilations, records that play a different song every time. Then we go full roulette with the interview itself. It's a blast. (Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, VU, Gang of Four, Yes, etc!) Weirdest episode yet?
Songs of Our Lives #118: Tusco Embassy (Roulette Style!)
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tusco Embassy’s Nathan Bowers! This episode is all over the place. Tusco Embassy re-emerged a couple years ago with a series of ‘Roulette’-style compilat…
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February 17, 2026 at 2:04 PM
New Songs of Our Lives with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers! We dig into his wild 'Roulette'-style compilations, records that play a different song every time. Then we go full roulette with the interview itself. It's a blast. (Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, VU, Gang of Four, Yes, etc!) Weirdest episode yet?
@longtrec.bsky.social is presenting the latest & hottest long-read transcriptomics research at #ISMBECCB2025! Posters D-176 (isONclust3), C-207 (Multisample isoforms), C-237 (TSS prediction), D-202 (Single-cellSQANTI), and talks at iRNA (TUSCO, Amanita) and HitSeq (SQANTI-reads) @hitseq.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@longtrec.bsky.social is presenting the latest & hottest long-read transcriptomics research at #ISMBECCB2025! Posters D-176 (isONclust3), C-207 (Multisample isoforms), C-237 (TSS prediction), D-202 (Single-cellSQANTI), and talks at iRNA (TUSCO, Amanita) and HitSeq (SQANTI-reads) @hitseq.bsky.social
Next ups:
Evil Moisture / Organ of Corti split 7" (iDEAL)
"Evil Moisture plays in the style of Organ of Corti" (iDEAL Secret Society)
Evil Moisture "DROOLZ" LP (Nashazphone)
Evil Moisture- "Yerm Flowers" LP (Nihilist)
Compliation track on Tusco Embassy weird spiral groove LP thingy
Evil Moisture / Organ of Corti split 7" (iDEAL)
"Evil Moisture plays in the style of Organ of Corti" (iDEAL Secret Society)
Evil Moisture "DROOLZ" LP (Nashazphone)
Evil Moisture- "Yerm Flowers" LP (Nihilist)
Compliation track on Tusco Embassy weird spiral groove LP thingy
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Next ups:
Evil Moisture / Organ of Corti split 7" (iDEAL)
"Evil Moisture plays in the style of Organ of Corti" (iDEAL Secret Society)
Evil Moisture "DROOLZ" LP (Nashazphone)
Evil Moisture- "Yerm Flowers" LP (Nihilist)
Compliation track on Tusco Embassy weird spiral groove LP thingy
Evil Moisture / Organ of Corti split 7" (iDEAL)
"Evil Moisture plays in the style of Organ of Corti" (iDEAL Secret Society)
Evil Moisture "DROOLZ" LP (Nashazphone)
Evil Moisture- "Yerm Flowers" LP (Nihilist)
Compliation track on Tusco Embassy weird spiral groove LP thingy
Forgot spike-ins in your lrRNA-seq experiment? 😅 No problem! Our TUSCO benchmarks your transcript models using endogenous single-isoform genes as internal ground truth. Integrated in SQANTI3 for human & mouse. 🧬 Just out in @natcomms.nature.com @pacbio.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com
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TUSCO: benchmarking transcriptome reconstruction with endogenous single-isoform controls
Nature Communications - Long-read sequencing enables comprehensive transcriptome characterization but remains challenging to benchmark due to sequencing errors, sample variability, and the limited...
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May 27, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Forgot spike-ins in your lrRNA-seq experiment? 😅 No problem! Our TUSCO benchmarks your transcript models using endogenous single-isoform genes as internal ground truth. Integrated in SQANTI3 for human & mouse. 🧬 Just out in @natcomms.nature.com @pacbio.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com
rdcu.be/fkZCb
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Dont miss your second chance to catch all our #LongTREC posters on day 4 of #ISMBECCB2025 ! Also, dont miss an exciting talk by
@tianyuanliu.bsky.social - "Transcriptome Universal Single-isoform Control (TUSCO) A framework for evaluating transcriptome quality." 15:40–15:50 Track iRNA · Room 02N
@tianyuanliu.bsky.social - "Transcriptome Universal Single-isoform Control (TUSCO) A framework for evaluating transcriptome quality." 15:40–15:50 Track iRNA · Room 02N
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Dont miss your second chance to catch all our #LongTREC posters on day 4 of #ISMBECCB2025 ! Also, dont miss an exciting talk by
@tianyuanliu.bsky.social - "Transcriptome Universal Single-isoform Control (TUSCO) A framework for evaluating transcriptome quality." 15:40–15:50 Track iRNA · Room 02N
@tianyuanliu.bsky.social - "Transcriptome Universal Single-isoform Control (TUSCO) A framework for evaluating transcriptome quality." 15:40–15:50 Track iRNA · Room 02N
Yo estudié allí la carrera, pero en la de Misco, no en la de Tusco, no sé si me explico.
March 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Yo estudié allí la carrera, pero en la de Misco, no en la de Tusco, no sé si me explico.
La universidad de Tusco
September 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
La universidad de Tusco
El dilema de si ser alguien completamente nulo a nivel ético y moral es lo que ha ayudado a Melón Tusco a ser trillonario, y que el hecho de que sea trillonario y tenga la percepción de que puede comprar la realidad que él quiere que exista es lo que lo hace cada vez más nulo a nivel ético y moral.
March 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
El dilema de si ser alguien completamente nulo a nivel ético y moral es lo que ha ayudado a Melón Tusco a ser trillonario, y que el hecho de que sea trillonario y tenga la percepción de que puede comprar la realidad que él quiere que exista es lo que lo hace cada vez más nulo a nivel ético y moral.
exacto del famoso doctor Jones, Tusco Jones
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
exacto del famoso doctor Jones, Tusco Jones
Forrado de piel de Tusco.
December 1, 2023 at 6:11 PM
Forrado de piel de Tusco.
The @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social is further represented at #ISMBECCB2025 by talks of key members in COSIs: @arnaumontagud.bsky.social at SysMod: "benchmark of multiscale tools"; @anarojas.bsky.social at Function "pLM in functional annotation"; @tianyuanliu.bsky.social at iRNA "TUSCO lrRNA-seq benchmark"
July 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social is further represented at #ISMBECCB2025 by talks of key members in COSIs: @arnaumontagud.bsky.social at SysMod: "benchmark of multiscale tools"; @anarojas.bsky.social at Function "pLM in functional annotation"; @tianyuanliu.bsky.social at iRNA "TUSCO lrRNA-seq benchmark"
"Arranca la semana, gente. Que no falte el café, la música que te levanta el ánimo y alguna buena excusa para hacer una pausa. Lo demás, se va viendo. ¡Vamos!"
a man holding a cup of coffee with the words vamos a por un cafe con leche de tusco below him
ALT: a man holding a cup of coffee with the words vamos a por un cafe con leche de tusco below him
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March 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"Arranca la semana, gente. Que no falte el café, la música que te levanta el ánimo y alguna buena excusa para hacer una pausa. Lo demás, se va viendo. ¡Vamos!"
What we build: SQANTI3, SQANTI-SIM, SQANTI-reads and TUSCO for long-read QC and benchmarking; tappAS and IsoAnnot for isoform-level function; acorde and scMaSigPro for single cell; maSigPro, NOISeq, PaintOmics, MultiBaC and MOSim for multi-omics. All open source.
August 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
What we build: SQANTI3, SQANTI-SIM, SQANTI-reads and TUSCO for long-read QC and benchmarking; tappAS and IsoAnnot for isoform-level function; acorde and scMaSigPro for single cell; maSigPro, NOISeq, PaintOmics, MultiBaC and MOSim for multi-omics. All open source.
Há uma verdade o povo americano vão pagar um preço alto por elegerem esse tusco.
August 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Há uma verdade o povo americano vão pagar um preço alto por elegerem esse tusco.
Yo que sé, Allen. Dile a la universidad de Tusco que se ponga las pilas.
June 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yo que sé, Allen. Dile a la universidad de Tusco que se ponga las pilas.