Releases and label milestones.
Reverse-chronological. What actually happened, when.
Borrowed Light EP page + share site + first tracks
Borrowed Light EP page and share site live, with the first tracks wired for preview. The next release cluster opens.
Many Names out
Many Names released. Five tracks, one vessel, many states. The release that takes the label public is out.
Many Names expands to five tracks ✦ EP mastered + cover finished
Many Names grew from three tracks to five: the devotional-ambient core (Quiet Seed, Medicine Light, Same Cup) now closes with A Peek at what it's like to be Peaking, the EP's only true instrumental, and Chaos Order, a long-form textural suite that surfaces a sung coda on the far side of the churn. New thesis: one vessel, many states. All five run through a single Ozone chain for a unified, true-peak-safe cohesion pass. EP cover finished and wired. Full five-track preview live on the EP page.
Round 2 polish + launch-readiness pass
Hero rebuilt to a four-line headline: BUILT BY HUMANS. USING REAL CRAFT. AI IN THE TOOLBOX. GENRE AGNOSTIC. EP arc canonized as buried, true, spilled, drawn from the actual songs (Quiet Seed buries, Medicine Light lands on "is finally true," Same Cup spills). Real album art now renders on the /releases/ sleeves. Open-graph share cards generated for the homepage, the Many Names EP, and the DJ archive. Press bios rewritten in Builder-Philosopher voice. Animated divider under the hero. EPK tagline tightened. Twelve audit-flagged copy violations cleared sitewide.
Site v1 lands
Four audience views (press, sync, label, editorial) on the EPK page. Many Names EP page live. Catalog, contact, label thesis, and craft documentation pages open.
Same Cup mastered and reclassified
Same Cup mastered via Ozone 12 Master Assistant on the Indie Pop target, landing near -14 LUFS, -1.5 dBTP true peak. Confirmed as Many Names EP track 3. EP arc locks: buried, true, spilled.
Many Names EP architecture published
Three tracks, devotional-ambient register, methodology documented end-to-end. Palette overlap (felted piano, cello, brushed kit, tabla, male tenor breathy) accepted as deliberate EP spine. Designated the release that takes the label public.
Domain live
redplasticrecords.com domain registered. Cloudflare Pages live; Email Routing setup pending.
Same Cup v8 lyrics locked
Same Cup v8 lyrics plus paste-sheet locked after four iterations. The synergistic Style + Brackets + Excludes skill codified as canon during the same session.
Same Cup workshop opens
Eastern/Western chamber fusion concept committed. The arc-end track for the EP enters paste-sheet methodology.
Sunday Practice devotional collection
Sunday Practice devotional collection live at travismakes.org/sunday-practice/. The pre-label catalog that grounded the harvest-and-collate practice.
The name takes its first form.
~1995-1996. Red Plastic Cup, the teenage rock band: industrial-tinged hard rock, talent shows, park gigs, a couple downtown Austin venues. Influences in the toolkit: Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Ministry. The lineup ends; the name survives. Becomes Red Plastic Records, the label under which all subsequent work releases.