One of the more immediately appreciable aspects about the Tacoma School of the Arts is the constantly renewable source of music the school supplies. Tight-knit groups of musicians are bred and make an impact on the local music scene before moving away or sticking around and becoming young veterans of the Tacoma scene. Then, in a couple years' time, another group of musicians emerges from the school and the cycle begins again.

"Have you ever heard of Dear Records?" says Josh Tacke, via telephone. "(SALT Records) was definitely inspired by that. It was mine and my friend Nathan Faber's senior project, last year, for school. I was really inspired by Dear Records having an artist's collective of SOTA kids. I had a lot of friends who were making really awesome music and recordings that we weren't really doing anything with, outside of SOTA. It was an effort to band all these SOTA artists together, go out in the community and play and establish a presence for ourselves."

Some of you may recall Dear Records, which largely featured singer-songwriters and some electronic artists from SOTA, and would occasionally release compilations. SALT Records has a similar model, even going so far as to feature some Dear Records alums on their compilations, such as Paul Dally, Dylan Treleven and I Low. The songs are still mostly homespun and lo-fi, which was often a staple of Dear Records.

But SALT Records are far from copycats, which their compilations easily prove. It's an interesting experience to listen to SALT Records and to compare it to Dear Records - to listen to two groups of frighteningly hip, ambitious young people and to see how the dynamic of the indie music scene has changed over the years. SALT Records features more upbeat pop, when they're not devoting time to droning electronica.

Friday's upcoming show at The Space, in conjunction with the Warehouse, will feature performances from some artists of the SALT Records roster, in addition to a performance from Drew Grow, of the Pastors' Wives. Tacke informs me of a project wherein SALT Records will release a new single every week for the foreseeable future. "At least until September," he says. Look up SALT Records on bandcamp.com to keep track.

[The Space, with Drew Grow, Valerie Warren, Roswell, Josh Tacke, Dave Yi, Nathan Faber, Chayse Cope, Grace Oberhofer, Friday, Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m., $5, 729 Court C, Tacoma]