Guide to Starting a DIY Cassette Tape Label zine

Guide to Starting a DIY Cassette Tape Label zine is an independently produced publication by artist and indie publisher Julia Arredondo. Released under mixtape publishing imprint From Away Tapes, the zine combines practical how-to instructions with interviews from Maine- and Chicago-based cassette tape labels. Covering tools, processes, and sales strategies, the zine provides readers with a creative blueprint for starting their own cassette tape label. By blending guidance with real-world insights, the zine not only aligns with Julia's scholarship and research of artist-run business structures, but also engages audiences with the DIY spirit of independent artistry.

Artist bio

Julia Arredondo (she/they) is a Tejana who's been away from home for too long, who now considers Portland, Maine a permanent place of residence. Julia's pronouns fluctuate between she/they due to the mercurial tendencies of being a gemini - and also to the duality of performing identity as a femme-bodied, Mexican-American-Italian. Julia received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago where she spent the past decade publishing zines, designing for DIY spaces, and exploring archives as divinatory and transformative spaces. Julia's shifting identities lend themselves well to the exploration of syncretic spiritual practices and the inherited narratives, imagery, and rituals we carry and evolve through time.

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Cover image: Julia Arredondo, Guide to Being Alone zine Version 2.0 (back cover). Risograph zine on paper, saddle-stitched, 5.5" x 7", 2024