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Customer Highlight — Tapes ‘n Tapes

Matt Earley — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:43:09 +0000

The release date for Outside, the brand-new LP from Tapes 'n Tapes is only a week away; hot off the GGR presses and shipped to the distributor....

To celebrate, the band put another new song from the album, Badaboom, on its website. Just head on over to tapesntapes.com to check it out!

If you're going to be in Minneapolis on 1/11/11, you should join the band for the official record release party. First, they'll be playing a FREE in-store performance at the Electric Fetus at 7pm. PBR, Modern Cafe, and Peace Coffee will be providing FREE food and beverages. After the in-store, they're moving the party over to Nick and Eddie for an Outside listening party, giveaways, and DJ sets by Mike2600 and Tapes 'n Tapes. It's gonna be an all night celebration!

There are a lot of other pre-album release festivities planned for this week. The best way to keep up with everything is via the Tapes 'n Tapes Facebook and Twitter.

Customer Highlight — Exit Stencil Recordings

Matt Earley — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:22:49 +0000

Ryan Weitzel of Exit Stencil Recordings came by to pick up his latest GGR-pressing -- Cleveland's own Like Bells new album Palma. Available on totally rad-looking (if we don't say so ourselves) random color vinyl that goes with some very cool looking jacket art -- you have to grab this album while you can!

Customer Highlight – Common Cloud Records – Fey 7″

Tyler Kremberg — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:37:26 +0000

This is a great project. Common Cloud Records and the Carrefour Collective are releasing a series of limited edition 7″ splits to benefit aspiring Haitian musicians who’s passions and dreams have been put on hold due to the devastating effects of the massive earthquake.

The first release includes a hand-screened & number art print, unique packaging, and a limited pressing of 300. All proceeds go towards purchasing instruments for the Holy Trinity School of Music.

Includes one track by Ragged Claws and a B-side by Mike Noyce. (Bon Iver)

Order it now, the records shipped out today!

Holiday Thanks

Tyler Kremberg — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:06:24 +0000

Gotta Groove Records did not exist a year ago. The dream of starting a vinyl pressing plant was nothing more than idle speculation then. It was in mid-January of 2009 that the journey to making this dream a reality began to take shape, thanks to the willingness of Jerry Salerno at Dynamic Sun to depart with his assets after over sixty years of being in business.

Moving the presses and the associated equipment to Cleveland took place last March, and the Tyler Village space in which we now reside was confirmed in May. It wasn’t until late August that we were in a position to press our first records.

Upon reflection, we have come an incredibly long way in a relatively short period of time. Such progress only occurs due to the efforts of many people. Dan Greathouse’s willingness to jump on board and tackle the job of learning, operating and repairing the machinery was a key first step. Matt Earley and Tyler Kremberg joined up with us in June, and they have done a fantastic job spearheading our sales and marketing efforts. Tim Thornton and my son, Vince, have both been working with us over the last couple of months as press operators, quality assurance and jacks of all trades. My wife, Becky, has helped out with the books and provides sanity checks when needed. We hope that our continued progress will allow us to hire more talented individuals, and provide some opportunities to people during these difficult economic times.

Thanks are also in order to our many suppliers; not only have they been providing timely delivery of quality product, they have been very helpful with their advice. Of particular note is the selfless help and counsel provided by many of the people at the other pressing plants in the industry. They could have viewed us as competition and ignored our overtures - that they did not speaks volumes about their integrity and their understanding that another plant producing quality records only helps our collective efforts to spread the vinyl love. And, of course, thanks to our customers for taking a chance with the new guys and for their patience.

You are receiving this message because you make your living in the music industry. Like us, you have a passion for music, and perhaps even for vinyl. If vinyl isn’t already a part of your business plan, please consider it; thousands of artists and labels have seen the positive profitable and promotional value of the medium. Whether you use Gotta Groove Records or any one of the other fine pressing plants, let’s make some records!

- Vince Slusarz

Record Shopping in the East Village

Tyler Kremberg — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:17:59 +0000

Those flat, round, black things with the hole in the middle that your father keeps stacked in his man cave: they’re called vinyl records.

via Local Stop - East Village - Returning to Music’s Old Home - NYTimes.com.

Wow, you can collect album art via iTunes

Tyler Kremberg — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:03:50 +0000

iTunes now has album artwork.

So do we. Except its real, and collectible.

And most people will actually care about it.

image via Gizmodo

Merchant Records: Diggin' for Hip Hop Vinyl

Tyler Kremberg — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:02:13 +0000

Diggin' for Hip Hop Vinyl

via Merchant Records: Diggin' for Hip Hop Vinyl | Ads of the World: Creative Advertising Archive & Community.

Pretty sweet ad, click for the full-size. Great work by DDB Denmark.

Special thanks to Jonathan Achor for bringing this to our attention.

File this under "crazy-expensive-vinyl-accessories"

Tyler Kremberg — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:19:17 +0000

The Air Tight Disc Flatter uses warmth and pressure to restore the flatness of LPs. An LP is centered between the marks on the Disc Flatter and the top is closed and locked. The LP is now sandwiched between two glass plates. Set the timer and low power heating elements slowly bring the LP up to the optimal flattening temperature; with heat distributed to the most commonly affected areas of the record (the label and record edges). The timer on the Disc Flatter allows for flattening times from 30Mins up to 120Mins, but in our experience, there's no harm done to the LP no matter how long it's in the Disc Flatter, so we routinely set it to 120Mins.

via MUSICDIRECT - AIR TIGHT - DF-01U DISC FLATTER. actually via our friends at Analog Apartment

LA Weekly – New Vinyl Only Blog

Tyler Kremberg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:50:42 +0000

Very exciting to see more vinyl coverage in the media.

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (one populated by many indies and some well-intentioned majors), but to pay dap to those who continue to tend the flame, believing that good music deserves much more than a handful of ones and zeros.

via Los Angeles - West Coast Sound - New Vinyl Column, Inches, Debuts: New Wax from Mika Miko, Xasthur, Castledoor, Rx Bandits, Shafiq Husayn (MP3).

Records as Race Tracks

Tyler Kremberg — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:31:54 +0000

From Carolina Vallejo , on Flickr, from Japan (of course!)