Seattle / Washington / United States
REALTIME CASSETTE DUPLICATION was founded by Philip "Pip" Mc Caslin in 1986. After searching in vain for a high-quality vendor for his own music projects, he set up the company to provide short-run audiophile-quality tape duplication and related services to small-time musicians and independent record labels. Early clients included many of the original Subpop artists (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Tad and just about every other Jack Endino effort; Green Monkey Records (Green Pajamas, Arms Akimbo, The Bombardiers, Prudence Dredge); other local groups such as Sadhappy and the many different versions of what would become Pearl Jam; along with numerous people from the regional jazz, folk, world music and singer-songwriter genres (Chuck Metcalf, Bill Davie, Laura Love, Erin Corday). By 1990 REALTIME was running the only 120-unit pro- Nakamichi tape duplication system in Washington, cranking out over 2000 crispy hot chrome cassettes a day for all sorts of wide-eyed, innocent Northwest musicians. The business soon began to offer Compact Disc manufacturing services in addition to cassette duplication as demand for the five-inch disc blossomed. By the mid 90s CD manufacturing had become the mainstay of the company, and REALTIME had developed a reputation for excellent quality, know-how, service and fair dealing in a local industry which oftentimes came up short in these categories. Over the last half of the 90s decade Pip established REALTIME as one of the most prominent CD & CDRom duplication companies in the Northwest. Clients included Popllama Records (The Presidents of the USA, The Posies, Young Fresh Fellows, The Picketts, Fastbacks ), DC Comics ( Batman & Robin Styleguides), Saltmine Creative, RealNetworks, Swamp Mama Johnson, Microsoft Corporation, Corbis Corporation, Fastrax, Amy Denio, JZK Inc., KCTS, KING, Seattle Opera, Seattle Youth Symphony, Black Cat Orchestra, Super Sonic Soul Pimps, King Sunny Ade, Aaron Parks - and many others. During the last year of the century the company phased-out its venerable real-time cassette duplication service to concentrate on short-run CDR & DVD manufacturing and the ever-popular CD & CD-ROM packages. REALTIME has continued to nurse a vibrant niche market since the dawn of the new millennium. Seattle Opera - Seattle Chamber Orchestra - Seattle Youth Symphony - Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival - Marrowstone Music Festival - Seattle Chinese Chorale - Philadelphia String Quartet - Gila Cadry - Mother - Sugartown - Arcola Records - Ray Skjelbred - Furry Lewis, Bukka White & Friends - Henry Townsend - Big Al Calhoun - Garnett Hundley & Bev Daugherty - Blackthorn - The Walkabouts - Bhakti - Anne Marie Russell - Ken Waldman ( Alaskas Fiddling Poet ) - The Hudson Blues Band - Stinkhorn - Robert Blake - Colorado Luke & the Scrimshaw Boys - Sweet Lou - The Tremens - Joe Illing - Eileen Cuba - Amos Galpin - Kelly Wright - Janeanne Houston - Chris Welch - Serotonin - Signor Groove - MJ Bishop - Thomasa Eckert - Wes Weddell - St. Joseph School - Bobby Medina - Black Frames - Skerik - Tom Hunter - Roosevelt High School Jazz Band - Marie Eaton - Linda Waterfall - The Humidiflyers - Distant Satellite - Seattle Express - Hometech Inc. - Buyonet - The Malinks - Sandra Layman - The Walkabouts - Dorkweed - St. Francis of Assisi Parish - Women of Wisdom - Trination - Brad Warren - Cheap Ass Games - Jesse Sykes - Woody Woodhouse - The Righteous Mothers - Chuckie Boy Records - The Heats - The Cowboys - The Umen - The Lewd - Heather & Rain Records ( Michael Allison ) - Jennys Song - Where Eagles Fly - Every Breath A Gift - Mary McFaul Booking & Management - Laura Love - Jo Miller - Mason Ridge Records ( David Templeton ) - Promise - The Deepest Water - Time Alone - Change - Ponyboy Records - The Big Bad Groove Society - Darin Clendenin - Charlie May - Joe Massters & Chris Clark - Santa Swings - Dina Blade - Lance Bueller & The Monarchs - Brian Nova Trio - HB Radke - Barry Gordon - Carolyn Graye - Fl
