ARTSCAM ARCHIVE

ARTSCAM ARCHIVE is Tape Lab’s companion release to the self-published book ARTSCAM ANNEX from Tape Lab Publishing: a strange, danceable, tape-driven compendium of ideas, jokes, references, and rave-adjacent chaos. It plays like an audio appendix to the book—part archive, part soundtrack, part evidence locker for whatever Tape Lab was thinking at the time.

The lead single, “Can’t Make U,” is the pop centerpiece: a dance-driven, vocoder-heavy anthem built around the line, “I can’t make u love me, but I can make u dance.” It is funny, direct, and genuinely catchy, landing somewhere between emotional deflection and dance floor therapy.

Elsewhere, “Rustry Bridger” nods to Rusty Bridges, the elusive dubstep producer, while “When Real Goofballs Get Silly” finds Tape Lab operating at peak absurdity. “reverbo” brings a cleaner, calmer energy to the collection, offering a brief moment of polish before the album leans back into club mode. “Classic Cheese” (dubstep) and “ACIDITTY” are straight-up techno anthems, pulling from the sound and spirit of the ’90s rave scene with Tape Lab’s usual analog grit and sideways humor.

For fans of Tape Lab Publishing, ARTSCAM ANNEX, experimental dance music, vocoder pop, 90s techno, rave nostalgia, dubstep references, cassette culture, and underground archive releases, ARTSCAM ARCHIVE is a perfect mess: self-published, self-aware, and fully committed to making the weird stuff move.