- Tape Archive has connections to Berlin's Bass Cadet Records. It started out as a YouTube channel for browsing deep and dusty house releases from F.T.F., who inaugurated this vinyl-only label last summer, as well as other treasures from unknown names. Proper record store curation goes into it, with each track set to its own oddball clip of found footage—from a burning car, to greased-up bodybuilders, to a slow-mo shot of a belly dancer's navel.
Tape Archive is also the only place on the web where you'll find Waitress, whose COPY1 is the label's second release. The record's A-side is an eight-minute sojourn fleshed out with barreling drums and metallic hits. Technoid figures rake through a balmy melody that drops halfway through, ushering in a breezy calypso vibe. On the B-side, something ethereal—a disembodied voice, maybe—floats above the first untitled track, and a gutsy kick binds it all together with other low-end frequencies. The second one's hollow drums rattle on loop, before the whole thing changes into wispy dub techno. Every now and again that first percussion pattern emerges, sounding closer to gentle rain on a corrugated roof. It has a subtly transportive effect.
TracklistA1 Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled