Car Wash Tapes
Welcome to Tapes ’n’ Tapes, a bimonthly video series focusing on local cassette labels to help get the feel for why some people have turned to tapes for their musical medium.
One of the concepts behind Zach Mark’s cassette label is pretty simple: “Music I like by people I know.” Mark launched Car Wash Tapes in 2009 with a collection from one of his many noise projects, The Wilford Brimleys. Since then, he’s dropped more than half a dozen releases, including a Red Electric Rainbow (aka Dan Smith of Neon Blossom Records) side-project called Dead Pilots, and an experimental solo endeavor from graphic designer Kirk Markarian.
The A.V. Club dropped by the Car Wash Tapes HQ at Mark’s apartment to discuss having the final say on how his cassettes come out, the accessibility of the medium, and growing up with a Fisher Price tape recorder.
