Gotta Groove Records

Gotta Groove Records

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Introducing InkSplosion Color Records

InkSplosion: The look of a handmade color record, but the price of a standard color.  

Best of all, the sound quality is impeccable regardless of the color combination!

Available in either 140 gram or 180 gram weights (12inch records only).  100’s of color combo’s available (many beyond what the photo above shows)!

Can be run in variant quantities as low as 100 copies, with an unlimited max quantity cap!

Can be combined with Wax Mage pressings, and/or any other quantity of black or other color records!

Contact us today to place and order or obtain a quote:  (800) 295-0171  |   sales@gottagrooverecords.com

New Record Pressing — Eddie 9V

New record pressing – Eddie 9V – Little Black Flies on Orange Vinyl!

All his life, Eddie 9-volt has acted on instinct. Aged just 15, this old-soul artist turned away from the path of college and jobs to burst all guns blazing onto the blues club circuit of his native Atlanta, Georgia. Flash forward to 2019, and for his debut album, Left My Soul In Memphis, the prodigious multi-instrumentalist simply powered up the amps in his mobile trailer and with his brother/co-writer/producer, Lane Kelly, laid down one of the year’s breakout releases, acclaimed as “fresh and life-affirming” by Rock & Blues Muse. “Memphis was a total side project,” shrugs Eddie, “that ended up taking off.”Now, released in 2021 on Ruf Records, Little Black Flies is the 24-year-old’s most impulsive move to date. Tracked live in Atlanta’s Echo Deco Studios through November 2020, once again with Lane turning the knobs, plus a who’s who of the state’s best musicians (including guitar icon Cody Matlock), it’s an album that Eddie planned to feel like it’s unfolding right in front of you – right down to the clink of bottles and loose studio banter.

Available courtesy of Ruf Records.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Chat Pile

New record pressing — Chat Pile – Masks b/w Sifting.

Sub Pop and Oklahoma City noise-rock powerhouse Chat Pile present a limited-edition 7” single featuring two studio tracks: one brand new original, and the other a burly reimagining of the early Nirvana song “Sifting.”

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing, DMM and Lacquer cutting, plating, and printing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Fela Kuti He Miss Road

New Record Pressing — Fela Kuti He Miss Road. Record pressing back in print on vinyl, courtesy of Partisan Records.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — The Vindys

New record pressing – The Vindys: Trapdoor has been years in the making, with several singles already released along the way. This album has been an ever-evolving production, and we’re so excited to finally share the full thing with you! We hope you love Trapdoor as much as we do.

— The Vindys

Available now.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Marta Sanchez

New record pressing – Marta Sanchez – For The Space You Left.

Recorded at Opus Studios in Berkeley, CA by Adam Muñoz in February 2024.
Mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Studio.
Produced by Marta Sanchez.
Associate Producer: Mark Weiss.
Artwork + design by TJ Huff (huffart.com).
Cover photo by OGATA.

Available courtesy of Out Of Your Head Records.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Victor Vieira-Branco

New record pressing — Victor Vieira-Branco – The Giant is Awkward.

The Giant is Awkward is the second album by vibraphonist and composer Victor Vieira-Branco’s Bark Culture. The ensemble—featuring John Moran (double bass) and Joey Sullivan (drums)—is joined by pianist and composer Sam Yulsman for five pieces that mirror the prismatic nature of a sound Vieira-Branco has been tirelessly crafting with the group since 2021. With the addition of Yulsman, the group reveals, as Peter Margasak states, “a heightened sensitivity and grace, with increased harmonic splendor thanks to the added chordal voice. The record also marks the vibraphonist’s clear growth as a composer.”

The band’s 2024 debut, Warm Wisdom, received high praise, with New York Times jazz critic Hank Shteamer listing it among his top debuts of 2024, as well as landing a spot on Bandcamp’s Best of Jazz for September 2024. Since then, Vieira-Branco has joined Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra and the Chad Taylor Quintet, the former of which released the album Smokeshifter, featuring three pieces penned by the vibraphonist. The core trio of Bark Culture was also heavily involved in Rob Mazurek’s score for Kelly Reichardt’s 2025 film The Mastermind.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressings – Record Store Day

Happy Record Store Day April 18, 2026!

Among the list of releases this year, be sure to check these new record pressings out, pressed at GGR:

U-Roy: Feel Jah Spirit: U-Roy Meets The Aggrovators

Dada – El Subliminoso

Son Volt – Sound Signal Serenades

Ghost Funk Orchestra – Live In Europe

Drumplay – XCSB Benefit

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Blue Ash

New record pressing – Blue Ash – Dinner at Mr. Billy’s.

During 1971 and 1972, the classic Blue Ash line-up of David Evans, Jim Kendzor, Bill “Cupid” Bartolin and Frank Secich played more than quite a bit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It seemed like we were playing “The Burgh” 4-5 nights a week. At the time, we had two booking agencies in Pittsburgh, Go Attractions (Rich Engler and Paul St. John) and Fly By Night Productions owned by Joe Riccelli. One time back then we were driving on Rt. 51 south of Pittsburgh to a gig in Clarion. Cupid looked out the window of the car and saw a big sign for a restaurant called “Mr Billy’s”. He said to all of us as he pointed to the sign, “If we ever get to make an album, we should call it “Dinner At Mr. Billy’s”. We all laughed. I thought it was a hilarious idea. Cupid and I even wrote a song right after that called “Dinner At Mr. Billy’s”, then we promptly forgot about the whole idea. While going through the vaults recently at Peppermint Productions, we found the tape of the song “Dinner At Mr. Billy’s” and in honor of Cupid, Mr. Billy has now finally made it out of oblivion and on to an album.

Available courtesy of Peppermint Records.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

The Gotta Groove 350 gram Advanced Audiophile™ Pressing

The Gotta Groove 350 gram Advanced Audiophile™ Pressing We are extremely excited to announce our newest advancement in our pursuit to produce the most perfect vinyl record ever made – the 350 gram Advanced Audiophile™ pressing.

What makes this record so advanced is, in spite of its nearly double* the weight of a traditional 180 gram audiophile pressing, the thickness and profile of the record is unchanged – it is the mass that makes the difference.  In other words – the record takes up the same amount of space as our 180 gram pressings do; but the weight of the record is nearly double, which deadens the microvibrations that occur at the point of the stylus during playback, and produces a sound that is the closest possible reproduction of the original recording with zero background noise on a properly calibrated turntable.

(*Records vary in weight +/- 5 grams.  Incidentally, we attempted to make it truly double the weight of a 180 gram record – our initial goal was to make a 360 gram record. But, the mass caps out at an average 350 grams +/- 5 no matter the press setting). 
 
How it came about:

Going back to 2012, Gotta Groove has collaborated with NASA engineers in various facets of its record pressing operation.  We could not have developed the Advanced Audiophile™ pressing without NASA’s assistance…and a little luck.

As widely reported on March 17, 2026, a massive meteor explosion occurred over Northeast Ohio.  Our Cleveland pressing plant happened to have a truckload of vinyl gaylords being delivered at the very moment that explosion occurred.  After the truck left, upon inspection of the gaylords, many small holes could be seen in the tops of the bags – almost as if something had burned through the lining.  We did not think much of it, until the next day, after many employees had heard/read/seen the news about the meteor explosion.

We immediately reached out to NASA to describe the burnt holes in the gaylords, and the timing of the delivery in relation to the explosion.  Within hours, several of their engineers were on site to conduct tests, and determine if somehow fragments of that meteor landed in our delivery of vinyl. 

The following week, the suspicions were confirmed from NASA’s testing – we in fact had a “meteoric mix” of vinyl on our hands.  While we did agree to part with one of the gaylords so NASA could conduct further tests, we kept the others – just to see what might happen if we pressed records with it.
 
The first results, to our surprise, were well-pressed good looking records.  However, upon playback, it seemed like the music was slowed down.  But, in actuality, this was because the weight of the record was actually slowing the turntable.  Once we put the record on our house Technics SP-10 MKIII, it spun correctly, and the sound quality was absolutely mind blowing.  (So, the Advanced Audiophile™ pressings will require playback on a turntable with sufficient torque to spin at the correct speed, in spite of the increased weight of the record). 

Since there is an extremely finite amount of raw material with the meteor fragments mixed in, we are offering Advanced Audiophile™ records solely as a one-time auction.  There is approximately 30,000 records’ worth of material, and order quantities are being limited to 500 copies per title.  We will begin auctioning the material for pressing orders in August 2026 on our company’s 18th anniversary. 

To be kept in the loop for how to sign up for the auction, please click here. 

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