Formed in 1994 with the release of tabulaRASA'a (Bob Perry, Sean Seymour, Chris Flynn and Alan Katz) first cd, Somewhere Out There and armed with a Macintosh computer and Sean's access to the postage meter at his day gig, Cropduster Records figured they could do as poor a job of releasing a record as anybody else. According to their biography they made lots of mistakes, learned a lot, but felt certain they could do a better job with the next record. While hanging out in clubs after their friends' bands played and lamenting about the state of the record business, they found several friends in the process of preparing their own indie releases. After a few pints, the notion that "In unity there is strength" began to make a lot of sense. Thus, a full-fledged indie label was born.