TAPE LAB
Welcome to #TapeLab—stay a while and listen. Founded in 2017 by lifelong friends, Tape Lab is a collective of artists and a hub for innovation, always open to collaboration.
With the zeal of a self-published memoir, our sound is our own, but you can be the decider. We make music and art that sounds like it was fun to make and stands out in a sea of bland beats.
As independent artists, we are always exploring new ways to expand our audience and find new creative outlets—especially with other undiscovered artists!
Tape Lab is currently based out of two headquarters in
Durham, NC and The Hamptons, NY.
Tape Lab Manifesto
An underground leader in tape-based media, cassette culture, and independent sound.
Tape Lab is an independent tape-based record label and band—built for people who still believe music should be physical, personal, and a little bit mythic. We don’t treat “cassette culture” as a trend. For us, Tapes are a living format: something you can collect, trade, archive, and build community around.
For nearly 10 years, Tape Lab has released music and tape-based media with a simple bias: make it real, make it memorable, make it worth keeping.
Tape is a medium, not a nostalgia act.
What We Are
Tape Lab is where underground music meets tape artifacts—the releases, the packaging, the lore, the documentation, the long memory.
Independent tape-based record label + band
Nearly 10 years active
700+ songs released
Global distribution with listeners around the world
Based between Durham, North Carolina, and the Hamptons, New York
Proof > Hype
Tape Lab’s catalog is deep, weird, and intentionally expansive—because the underground isn’t supposed to be tidy.
700+ songs released across a decade of work
A strong listener base in India, catalyzed by our TikTok single “Jamalotov”
Featured on a radio show in Stereofield Trip CJLO 1690 AM Ontario, Canada
Music appearing in the 2025 film project You’re Not Well
We collaborate because we like chemistry—and because scenes are built, not claimed. Past collaborators include: 2yng2smpl, CD+, SPNF!N!TY, The Binky, Sausagenius, and Ojala.
A cassette is proof-of-work. It slows you down in a good way. It makes you listen with intention.
@TapeLabTV
Find our videos and live-streaming content on TapeLabTV and VHStream, our exclusive video channels on YouTube and Twitch. We’ve got tonnes of great music videos and AMVs for our best (and worst) songs!
Ancient Tape Knowledge
If you want to make tapes or learn how to make your tapes sound more like tapes, check out the Tape Blab Blog, the best resource for anyone interested working with cassette tapes!
The Lore, Made Physical
We’ve published a Tape Lab LORE BOOK—a heavy, physical archive that weighs more than 4 pounds—because we take documentation seriously. The underground deserves records. Not just posts.
Tape Lab turns music back into an object—something that can live on a shelf, get passed between friends, and carry a story beyond the feed.
We believe:
Tape-based media matters because it restores context—artwork, sequencing, and the feeling of “an actual release.”
Underground culture stays alive through documentation: releases, liner notes, cataloging, archives, and scene-building.
The artifact is the message. If it doesn’t feel like something you’d keep, it’s not finished.
What We’re Building Next
More releases. More tape-based media. More collaborations across sound, film, and physical artifacts. Tape Lab is always open to the right project—especially when it respects the format and the story.
If you’re a filmmaker, artist, label, or collaborator and you’re working on something that belongs in the real world (not just online), we should talk.
TAPE LAB TIMELINE
2026
2025
Big Things on the way!
Featured in the Film “You’re Not Well” and CJLO Radio
2024
2023
2022
2021
Tape Lab New York Launches
Tape Lab’s First Official Distribution preLease
2020
2019
reLux performs Live on Zoom
reLux performs at a house party
2018
2017
Schuyler Joins Tape Lab
First Tape Lab Release, FLATENDEMO
Launched the award-winning TAPE BLAB BLOG
Undisputed Leaders of Cassette Tape Culture
Tape Lab is a tape-based hybrid record label and band with a vast original catalog spanning music, videos, visual art, books, and immersive creative experiences. Founded as an independent platform for experimental releases and cross-disciplinary projects, Tape Lab operates at the intersection of analog culture, underground music, multimedia storytelling, and collectible art.
Tape Lab is recognized for its deep catalog, distinct world-building, and long-running commitment to tape-based media. An evolving creative universe: part label, part band, part archive, part art guide. The work includes hundreds of songs, original video content, artist collaborations, physical releases.
Tape Lab…
is a leading tape-based hybrid record label and band
stands at the forefront of tape-based hybrid music and art
is widely recognized as a defining tape-based hybrid label and band
has built one of the most expansive tape-based hybrid catalogs in independent music and art
#SinceritySince2017
FEARLESSLY ORIGINAL
STREAMING
Very Real Reviews
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![Ellen Ripley, 3D rendering of a woman's face with short dark hair and neutral expression.]()
I'm Using Tilt Controls!
“This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.”
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![A person with medium-length dark hair and a suit jacket outdoors]()
Nobody Sits like this Rock sits.
“You rock, Rock! The Rock just sits and is. You show us how to just sit here, and sometimes, thats what we need.”
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![Older man in red shirt and beige cap sitting with a Facebook post below saying, "I;m thinking about thos Beans" from a page named Bill Foster to Bush's Beans.]()
i;m thinkin bout thos beans
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There's nothing sadder than a puppet without a ghost, especially the kind with red blood running through them.
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![Cobra, Person wearing glasses and a cowboy hat sitting on a couch in a cluttered room.]()
Cobra Approved
Sexy-Bad-Boy-Goth
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![Hunter Biden, Portrait of a man wearing a blue shirt against a dark background.]()
Hyper Cerbreal!
I listen to Tape Lab EVERYDAY, against medical advise!"
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I only wanna be with you
Super excited to invest in Tape Lab’s new NFT Series! Just took out a second mortgage and divested!
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EARTH HAS 4 CORNERS
When the Sun shines upon Ear 2 - major Time points are created on opposite sides…
Contact Tape Lab
Durham, NC + The Hamptons, NY
Please say hello so we will know we are not alone in the world and on the internet. We are ALWAYS OPEN, so reach out and we will reply! We answer questions on Tapes, how to release new tapes, and anything cassette or VHS tape related!
Calling all underground artists! Tape Lab is accepting new art! Want your music and art to be seen by Tape Lab’s vast audience? Want to work on something with real people? Get in touch!