Music geeks rejoice! There’s a new cassette label in town and they’re not messing around. Nugget Records, started by Dave Carey, known for his role in indietronica duo Nocturnes, and Jen Rao, whose artwork has graced fairs and cafés across Beijing, looks to merge the DIY ethos of underground music with the fuzzy, immersive lo-fi sounds that have been enriching the scene across China.

The labor of love is visible in just about every aspect of the label’s domain, from the sun-kissed high-hued colors that are splashed across their zine to the bedazzled reformatted cassette players. Both will be available this Thursday, Sep 19 at DDC as Nugget Records unleashes their first two releases: one from lo-fi pop duo lost memory machine (consisting of Carey and Wuhan singer Shii) and another from Beijing electronic genre-melding maverick thruoutin.