Are You Sacred?

Are You Sacred? is a 4-track Tape Lab banger built on the Roland SP-404, turning manual sampling, Super Smash Bros energy, and cassette-minded beat-making into something both technical and extremely playable. The process is part of the story: Tape Lab loaded samples from Super Smash Bros into the SP-404 by playing them against a metronome, manually triggering each sample so it would lock into a matched BPM with the beat.

For fans of SP-404 beats, Super Smash Bros samples, Nintendo-inspired music, Star Fox, Captain Falcon, underground tape beats, cassette culture, and experimental video game music, Are You Sacred? is a compact but highly charged entry in the Tape Lab catalog.

That hands-on approach gives the Are You Sacred? EP its charm. Nothing feels too polished or automated; the grooves move with real human timing, tape-labbed texture, and that slightly unstable SP-404 swing. With highlights nodding to Star Fox and Captain Falcon, the project taps into video game nostalgia without becoming a simple novelty release.

The result is danceable, focused, and surprisingly functional—music for moving, studying, working from home, or quietly turning your desk into a miniature battle arena.