A great collection of record listing abbreviations for collectors.
Just a little fun reference material for your Monday!
Music 101 – Record listings abbreviations. Just what does RW mean?.
Gotta Groove Records
Record Pressing Specialists – The Best Sounding Records On Planet Earth.
Archive for the ‘Vinyl Love’ Category
Behind the Artwork
If you aren’t familiar, donewaiting.com is a pretty fantastic music site here in Columbus, OH. They cover way more than just local music news.
Go and check out their feature “Behind the Artwork” where they discuss the new Times New Viking artwork / record.
Behind the Artwork: Times New Viking’s Born Again Revisited.
Amateur Music Production – DIY Vinyl
Personally, I still have to say that I think we do it better, but these folks are definitely doing it awesome.
Check out a pretty sweet DIY vinyl project.
But, if you want a little more professional job, feel free to check out our pricing.
Merchant Records: Diggin’ for Hip Hop Vinyl
Diggin’ for Hip Hop Vinyl
Pretty sweet ad, click for the full-size. Great work by DDB Denmark.
Special thanks to Jonathan Achor for bringing this to our attention.
Vinyl Cafe – CBC Radion
The Vinyl Cafe stories are about Dave, owner of the second hand record store, and they are collected in books and on CD. The stories also feature Dave’s wife, Morley, their two children, Sam and Stephanie, and assorted friends and neighbours.
The motto of Dave’s store – and of the radio show – is “We May Not Be Big, But We’re Small”.
via Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean – The Official Website.
Definitely adding this to the office playlist.
File this under “crazy-expensive-vinyl-accessories”
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
The Beat is In Your Head!
Loving this. Plant is almost ready for public. We’ll soon be welcoming visitors and definitely read to press some awesome vinyl. In the meantime, hope you enjoy this.
via Design You Trust, via our good friends at nottwomu.ch.
I Need That Record
I’m not sure why I’ve been so into posting these trailers, but people seem to be digging them.
That was kind of a terrible record pun there.
Anyway, plant is nearly ready to be open to the public September 1.
We’re ridiculously psyched. New site re-launch coming as well.
LA Weekly – New Vinyl Only Blog
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.
Records as Race Tracks
From Carolina Vallejo , on Flickr, from Japan (of course!)