"The Basement Labs is RECORDS.
I started digging crates with Employee #6817 almost a decade ago. . . I had been messing around with making tunes of my own, and I showed #6817 what I knew.
#6817 had already started cacheing records. . . Peter The Wolf, his Dad, had a pretty rad record collection, all originals, from when he was a teen. . .
So we started building on it.
I can't remember how I met #6817, or how we started hanging out in The Basement Labs. . . what I remember from those hazy days is COMPUTERS. . . LOTS and LOTS of Computers. The Basement Labs, for a LONG TIME, was the most wired residential building I had ever seen. We'd Doom Deathmatch for HOURS. And HOURS. AND HOURS. And once Wax got mixed into the equation, it became home. . .
I've lived in a couple different states, in a bunch of cities, and whenever I talk about 'home', more often than not, I'm talking about The Basement Labs.
So, The Basement Labs is a Place.
We love samples. . . Endtroducing was our White Album, our Dark Side of The Moon. . . our Blonde on Blonde, and shit. When we started making tunes, we made what we liked. . . so we started digging breaks for tracks. So, The Basement Labs is also a Sound. . . it was SUPER Lo-Fi because we were broke, and weird, cuz we like FUCKING WEIRD. Anything Goes.
I guess The Basement Labs is also a label. . . sort of. Nothing is really for sale. . . you can just DL the work that we've (mostly #6817) have done. ANYONE who's got something cool can have a release on The Basement Labs. . . just send it our way.
NOW, The Basement Labs is a Blog. #6817 sells records online to fuel his digs, and he comes across ALOT of really far-out sounds. So we're gonna share 'em. Do with 'em what you will. . . when we can find info on 'em, we'll post, and if we've got one in stock, we'll post a link. . .
I'm sure there's shit he'll want to add. .. The Basement Labs is #6817's baby. . . I'm just happy to babysit."
~ Mike Mazzotta/SCREWFILMS