Why is it called "Tape Mountain" when you haven't released any cassettes?
- Kid, I've been in love with cassettes (and "putting them out") for 14 years, and this label owes a tremendous aesthetic and modus operandical debt to great tape labels of the past like Shrimper, Catsup Plate, Flannel Banjo, Traumatone, etc. etc. Calling it "Tape Mountain" keeps me in touch with my roots.
- I've got a mountain of tapes in my room and this label is a lot like that. And someday I will release a lot of them (Yak Ampersand, Winchester Geese, Lobstora, etc.)
- But dubbing tapes is a pain in the ass for sure. And I'm so cluttery and disorganized that I would lose all the master tapes very quickly. Keeping things on my hard-drive keeps things all in one place. Plus, high-speed CD burning is progressing far faster than high-speed cassette-dubbing, progress on which, for some reason, has more-or-less ground to a halt.
- Nobody ever calls me on the fact that I do not live on a mountain. I don't. I am, however, 45 or so blocks from Mt. Tabor, a real-live volcano, and some days I can see Mt. Hood from the Morrison Bridge.
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