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Seattle's source for quality duplication, replication, design and packaging services.

ABOUT US


A BRIEF HISTORY OF REALTIME

Picture of Pip at Realtime Headquarters 1988

Extremely animated duplication industry pioneer reads Backlash Magazine while running Nirvana cassettes for Subpop Records, Year 1988 (note advanced "Princess" phone system and programable typewriter technology).

REALTIME CASSETTE DUPLICATION was founded by Philip "Pip" McCaslin in 1986. After searching in vain for a high-quality vendor for his own music projects, he setup the company to provide short-run audiophile-quality tape duplication and related services to smalltime 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 90's 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.

Picture of Pip at Realtime Headquarters

New century Command Center, Year 2000.

Over the last half of the 90's 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 realtime 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 millenium.

A FEW OF OUR CLIENTS

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 (Alaska's 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) - Jenny's 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 - Floyd Standifer - Karen Shivers - Popllama Records - Posies - Fastbacks - The Presidents of the United States of America - The Squirrels - Nevada Bachelors - Sarathan Records - Two Loons For Tea - Malachy Papers - Sinister Kitchen - Swing Cat Records - Juan Renoso (4-disc set) - Hart & Blech - Al Berard - Cayenne - Paul Anastasio & Richard Bellow - For Old Times' Sake - Unit Circle Rekkids - Sonicabal - Intonarumori - Bill Horst - Subarachnoid Space - Pineal Ventana - Bethany Curve - Mlumbo Vs. Kobalt 6 - Vast Records - Saturnhead - The Spinning Jennies - Dana Lyons - Cows With Guns - Turn of the Wrench - At Night They Howl at the Moon - Lubricate the Red White and Blue - Michael Tomlinson - Julie Wolf - Les Femmes D'enfer - The Blues Torpedoes - Kings Of Swing - Val D'Allessio - Caryn Simmons - Washington Middle School - Mockingbird - How's Bayou - Tina Lear - The Owl & Thistle Band - Havilah Rand - Shinola - Andrea Benezra - Tuffy - Pris - Will Martin - Ted Hickey - Phil Westbrook - Jon Strongbow - Aaron Parks - Nelda Swiggett - Square Of David - Danny Godiniz Band - Jay Clayton - The Toucans - St. Bushmill's Choir - Island Time Steel Drum Band - Primo Kim - The Hope Heart Institute - Steve Griggs, Elvin Bishop - Dave Peck - Jesse Sykes - Alaska Chamber Chorale - Edmonia Jarrett - Dehner Franks - JZK Inc. - Mark Pearson - Amy Read - Crushcoat - Deborah Bartley - Jimm McIver - Square of David - Cheapass Games - Spiderweb Software - Janis Mann - The Tudor Choir - Niobe - Peter Ross - Biznautics - Mirando Al Lago - Devin Brewer - St. Gregory Choir - Doug Flemming - Mary Lofstrom - L.J. Porter - Jan Stentz - Randy Halberstadt - Aaron David Miller - The Groove - The Herbivores - Margo Murphy - Saltmine Creative - Realnetworks - Larry Barrett - Kings of Swing - Anna Schaad - Jami Seiber - Dan Greenblat - Motherlode - Deems Tsutakawa - Skagit Valley Chorale - The Esoterics - Musicworks Northwest - Pearl Django - Katie King - KCTS - The Adding Machine - Player King - Acetylene - Everett High School - Evergreen Middle School - The Dudley Manlove Quartet - Cartours - Lisa Koch - Degenerate Art Ensemble - Circus Contraption - SuperKali - Yerba Buena - University of Washington Press - National Resophonic Guitars - Wayne Henderson - The Dunton Sisters - Cornish College of the Arts - West Valley Highway - Camille Bloom - The Toucans Steel Drum Band - Pistol Star - Gary Stroutsos - Trwst - Vendetta Red - Oba - The Walkabouts - The Brothers Four - Peter Cetera - Chad and Jeremy - Circus Contraption - King Sunny Ade - St. Mark's Cathedral - Tacoma Youth Symphony - Northwest Chamber Orchestra - Roosevelt High School Jazz Band - Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival - Pearl Django - The Esoterics - Seattle Pro Musica - Dave Peck - Two Loons For Tea - Black Cat Orchestra - Dale Chihuly - Meydenbauer Center - Microsoft Corp. - Lux, Inc. - The Dudley Manlove Quartet - Linda Waterfall - Big Cheese Photo - Emerald City Jazz Orchestra - The Kosher Red Hots - Awesome - Signor Groove - LeRoy Bell - Jminus - Experience Music Project - Tom Rawson - Handful of Luvin' - Nova Bossa - Loft Recordings (The Gothic Catalog) - The Medieval Women's Choir - Grantmakers in the Arts - Washington Middle School - The Treatment - Northwest Girls Choir - Earthtunes - Alan Merrihew - Village Media Works - Sacred Fire Choir - The Compline Choir - KBCS - Electron Love Theory - Michael Partington - Spiderweb Software - Popkin, Weinstein LLC - Andrea Wittgens - Vanilla - Brent Amaker and the Rodeo - North Twin - Aedonis - University Presbyterian Church - Skagit Gardens - The Boeing Company - Microsoft - Philanthropy Northwest - University of Washington - The Purrs - Hunab Ku - Saint James Cathedral - Awesome - City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs - Alicia Healey - Three Generations Bluegrass Band - Portland Symphonic Choir - Gary Stroutsos - Experience Music Project - KBCS Radio - The Physics - Leah Natale - The Pacific Institiute - Windward Press - Trademark Graphics Services - Think 2A Design - Loft Recordings - Elspeth Savani - Sean Nelson - Vindaloo - Kultur Shock - Smartalk, Inc.

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