This video, Steve’s Vinyl Chops, demos physical mashups – music collages created by physically chopping up records, reassembling them and then using them to DJ. Anyone ready to trade Traktor or Ableton Live for this? via CrateKings
A beautiful incursion into The Vinyl Factory‘s manufacturing unit, where you can see the vintage vinyl manufacturing process in action. According to The Vinyl Factory: All our vinyl is created using the classic EMI 1400 Press at the original EMI vinyl pressing plant at Hayes, Middlesex, a century-old landmark in British manufacturing. Our paper stocks… Read More The Vinyl Factory: How Records Are Made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDmBx4R-Gas Two videos that look at how vinyl records are made. via cratekings
I’ve been listening to a lot of vinyl this weekend – but not the usual 70’s & 80’s classics. I went to a book sale at the Iowa fairgrounds, and they had a fairly large collection of records. Even more interesting, though, they had a lot of 78’s. And I happen to have a Victrola… Read More Vinyl Weekend
Looks like we are all Devo – CBS reports that vinyl is having a resurgence – which means the vinyl fetish is going mainstream. Just as DJ’s were getting comfortable with digital, too.
This documentary tells the story of Paul Mawhinney and Record-Rama, the largest collection of vinyl LPs in the world. Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to… Read More The Story Of Record Rama
Vinyl Record Day is August 12th, the anniversary of the day that Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. That’s right – people have been spinning disks for over 130 years. That’s an amazing run for a technology. According to organizers: It is the goal of VRD to establish August 12th as a day for… Read More Celebrate Vinyl Record Day August 12th
If you’re going to make an LP out of pot – what do you think the album should be? Rita Coolidge’s All Time High? John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High?
AlpineSoft has announced an updated version of VinylStudio, with enhanced audio cleanup tools. VinylStudio is designed to be a complete software solution for digitizing vinyl LP’s and tapes via your PC. It records, splits tracks and burns both audio and MP3 CD’s,. It can also look track listings up over the Internet and copy tracks… Read More AlpineSoft Releases Version 3 Of VinylStudio Digitizing Software
Vinyl isn’t as retro as you might think. The Tennessee Times Leader reports that Nashville’s United Record Pressing cranks out 20,000 to 40,000 records a day, making it one of the largest — and last — vinyl record manufacturers in the country. Most of the discs are 12-inch singles destined for professional DJs at radio… Read More Vinyl LP Manufacturer Growing
