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Undiscovered Artist?
Are you a new Undiscovered Artist ready to make waves or collaborate? Want to join Tape Lab? Looking for artist commissions? or art submissions? Great! Send us a message and include any details about yourself or what kind of art you make!
Neo-Carrboro & Beyond
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Tape Lab is a free creative collective for artists, musicians, producers, visual makers, and performers who want to make original work without giving up ownership. We believe the best projects come from encouragement, community, experimentation, and collaboration—not gatekeeping. Members keep 100% of their publishing while gaining access to Tape Lab’s creative network, digital archive, catalog, coaching, promotional opportunities, and exclusive experiences.
The Benefits of Joining Tape Lab
Creative Encouragement
Tape Lab is built for artists who want to try ideas, finish projects, and stay inspired. Whether you are recording your first track, building a visual concept, experimenting with analog media, or developing a larger release, Tape Lab offers a supportive space to make work that feels authentic, original, and fun to create.
Community and Collaboration
Join a network of musicians, producers, visual artists, performers, and creative weirdos who love making things together. Tape Lab members may have opportunities to collaborate on songs, mixtapes, live sessions, video projects, album art, zines, multimedia releases, and experimental concepts across the Tape Lab universe.
Promotion Opportunities
Tape Lab regularly highlights artists through releases, blog features, social media, TapeLabTV, playlists, visual projects, and other digital channels. Members may be featured across Tape Lab’s growing platform, helping connect their work with fans of underground music, cassette culture, outsider art, analog media, and independent creativity.
Access to the Tape Lab Archive
Members can explore Tape Lab’s vast digital archive and catalog, including sounds, visuals, logos, art, video overlays, FX, creative assets, and past releases. The archive is designed as a resource for inspiration, sampling, collaboration, remixing, world-building, and new creative work.
Exclusive Experiences
Tape Lab members may be invited into recording sessions, listening parties, live projects, pop-up events, creative workshops, shared studio opportunities, and limited-run media experiments in Durham, NC, the Hamptons, NY, and beyond.
Free to Join. Artist-Owned Forever.
Tape Lab is free because we genuinely love working with other artists. No weird ownership grabs, no publishing traps, no creative fine print. You keep 100% of your publishing, and we help create more opportunities for your work to exist, evolve, and reach people.
Coaching and Creative Direction
Members can receive guidance on songwriting, production, release planning, branding, visuals, storytelling, and project development. Tape Lab helps artists shape raw ideas into finished work while preserving the personality, imperfection, and creative spark that make independent music interesting.
