About

402 Productions, the company and website, have seen many different changes over the years. The company, initally a DVD production company, started out making DVDs for artists like Gratitude, onelinedrawing, and ArnoCorps. Many of these DVDs never saw the day of light for miscellaneous reasons. The company’s workforce, split mainly between the three founders, Remy Chan, Ryan Tamborski, and myself, Nick Wan, found DVD production to be harder and harder, losing less drive due to artists not wanting to do what we want as well as ourselves losing the drive due to our distance between each other. Finally, the face of 402 Productions changed over the Summer as we started to produce music rather than DVDs. Artists like Erik Schau (www.myspace.com/erikschau) and Ariana Lenarsky (http://www.myspace.com/arianalenarsky) ended up doing some songs in Tambo’s studio, code named Shedaluma. The word got out and Tambo started rallying artists to his studio to be produced. Flying under the flag of 402 Productions, the once DVD-turned-music production company has always immersed itself in the idea that music is life. In some way, regardless of the official nature of the company, 402 Productions will always be “producing” something related to music, and that idea is something that doesn’t change.

As for the community, the original genesis was far before the idea of 402 Productions. Starting out as the fan forum for the band Straylight Run, the community initially boomed due to unreleased tracks from Straylight Run being posted on the forums. After being a community known for leaking music, the forums boomed with people in search of new Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday, and Brand New tracks, along with other bands. After a mix up in the website’s ownership, the original website was lost with all it’s members and posts. A reformation was made by myself on a forum named Smackaroons, which was a forum for me and my friend Brian Lin, originally one of the staffers for the Straylight Run fan forum. Smackaroons was primarily for writing and literature, but after a migration of the faithful regulars, it soon became a music forum once again. After Brian Lin took over Straylight Resource, the fan site, completely, he reintroduced the forum and we all migrated to the past forum again. Unfortunately, it was shortlived. At the same time, 402 Productions’ website was initiated, and the transition from one forum to the other was somewhat seemless. Most members have been around since 2003.

Overtime, the 12 or so members who keep the community above water became the crux of the entire site’s survival. Without the strong support from all of us, this would never have existed.

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