New Releases

The Summer has almost come to an end, and we're very much looking forward to getting back on the gig circuit. We've spent the Summer taking some time off from shows and have been busy recording and sorting out new releases.












First up we've got two lovely singles out in October from Mr James Bright and Dogtanion.


Also in the pipeline is a collaboration EP from Peter Lyons and Kerry Leatham (entitled Peter and Kerry - Clothes, Friends, Photos EP), Dogtanion's debut album - Psychoses, and the debut from James' side-project, Hairy Hands. There's another record coming out too, but that'll need it's own blog.

We're super excited about the goodies that'll be coming up in the next six months - they're going to look and sound INCREDIBLE. I promise.

Take care now,

Willy + the gang.

The Terrible Two.

Peter and Kerry have been doing a lot of music making together recently. In fact, they went as far as burying away at Pete's home studio in Southampton and recording an entire EP in 3 days. We'll be releasing this really really soon but, in the meantime, have a look at these lovely videos:

Kerry Leatham / Half Empty from itdrewitself on Vimeo.

Peter Lyons / Profound & Slow from itdrewitself on Vimeo.

My my my.

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Using the internet

We're getting involved in lots more of these new-fangled media services nowadays. First up, here's a little video of Peter Lyons which just went up on BeatCastTV:

Peter Lyons from BeatCast on Vimeo.

Next up, we've started a Soundcloud page, and it lets us do things like this:

Don't Let Your Body Drag Your Spirit Down - Team Tape Club by Tape Club Records

Finally, we've got a Tape Club Records 'Facebook Page' - which means you can 'Like' us.

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So, in the words of James Brown, 'Get into it, get involved'. You will be rewarded, we promise.

Being filmed.

We met the lovely people of It Drew Itself at the Solipsistic Pop 2 launch a few months back. Headed up by Pro and Marley, It Drew Itself will soon be re-launched with a load of goodies, including lots of beautifully filmed footage.

Initially, we'd agreed to do a short video for the blog, but since meeting up and getting to know each other, the guys have decided that they'll be following us over a longer period of time so that they can put together a mini-documentary.

Pro has already filmed tonnes of footage, and intends to accumulate more and more over the coming months (and maybe even years!). To give you a sneak peak of just how incredible it's going to be, see the video below. We hope that it'll give you an insight into exactly what goes on at Tape Club, who's involved and how we go about our business.

I'm so excited about this I can only think about it for a minute or so a day, otherwise it literally clouds EVERYTHING.

These are good times for us, and they'll all be caught on Mr.Camera.

DogtAnion / Something Beautiful from itdrewitself on Vimeo.

BBC Introducing

Last week we were invited to play some sessions for the BBC Introducing - South show with our man Phil Jackson. All of the guys played as a four piece (as well as Tom Eno for one of his tunes) and they interviewed myself and Matthew Dogtanion. We had a blast and it sounded real good. Very impressed. We'll put out the recordings as a free MP3 album later on this summer, and you'll like it.

Oh yeah, a mic died on Kerry's set. It pretty much happened on the drop of her track - I think it was all too much for the little AKG. Bless him.

After that we went to shoot some stuff on the beach (in Brighton, where the sessions were). To find out what we're shooting, read the next post.

Jimbob and Kezzle:



Beautiful Pete:

Hairy Hands

Later on this summer, we'll be wrapping up a new installment from Mr.James Bright. This release will be under the 'Hairy Hands' moniker, a more folk-beat/glitch-hop kind of vibe. Here's a little taster of what it sounds like....

Wideo.

Yesterday we were involved in our first proper music video filming. I'm talking lights, camera, make-up and HOT people. Kwame and the guys at ATC, who run Kerry's main label 'Savage Fox', fronted the cash for some serious eye-candy.

The video is for Kerry's next single 'Do You Fancy Me? (Bluff)' and was taken care of by Drew and Lucy from Slanted Eyes and Lullabys. They've done tonnes of fashion/ad work as well as Master Shortie's vids.

We'd originally planned to have all of the Tape Club crew (Mr James Bright, Peter Lyons and Dogtanion) play with Kerry in the 'band' shots, but due to work commitments and such, we were down to just Petey. I stepped up for a little bit of bass action, and all was sorted.

I won't go into the theme of the video too much (don't want to give it away!), but let me just say, there'll be some jiggling, some beautiful people and Kerry looking FINEEEEEE.

Let the post-processing begin! Here are some candid shots...

Kezzle and Pezzle:



Kwame and Drew: