Modern 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.
Patrick Scott had been deeply involved in the Chicago music scene prior to starting Modern Tapes in December, including helming another label, Static Station. Somewhere between running sound at the Empty Bottle and splitting time between three bands—Locks, 97-Shiki, and Unur—Scott has found the time to drop three tapes in a matter of months by Guitar Party, Staring Problem, and Scott’s Unur project. Those bands will be featured on a Modern Tapes compilation that’s exclusively for tomorrow’s 50 Free Records night at the Whistler.
The A.V. Club swung by the Modern Tapes base of action at Scott’s Humboldt Park apartment to chat about the cassette as a cool object, the challenges of creating his label’s image with a letterpress, and the benefits of receiving a Hootie And The Blowfish tape.
