New vinyl pressing plant to open in Sydney, The Marrickville facility will have the capacity to press three million records each year: A new vinyl manufacturing facility is opening in Sydney with the capacity to press three million records each year. Tone Deaf reports the yet-to-be-named plant will be set up in the inner west suburb of Marrickville with “full analogue mastering, a Neumann disc cutting system, stamper making facility, fully automated record presses, and a manual press for specialty records such as picture discs, split and splatter colours.” The factory will offer Australian artists, who often use offshore plants, an opportunity to get their releases produced closer to home and cut back costs.
Ryan Adams Reveals Quirky ‘Prisoner: End of World’ Box Set, Seven-inch vinyl versions of each single, 2-D action playset to be included in massive collection: Ryan Adams announced a limited edition box set of new album Prisoner, out February 17th. The release comes with vinyl records as well as a 2-D action playset. The Prisoner box set is career-spanning level massive, with each of the album’s 12 songs getting pressed to their own, individual seven-inch vinyl. Each song’s vinyl copy will not only be a different color but will each feature a unique cover as well. Seventeen previously unreleased B-sides will be featured on the various LPs. A 2-D action playset is also included with action figures of the full band, Adams’ actual stage set-up, working lights and sounds and a variety of assorted objects and animals.
Man Prefers the Warm, Crisp Sound of Telling People He Only Listens to Vinyl Records: Local music connoisseur Dominic Wyatt announced earlier today that “nothing quite compares to the pure, warm tone” of his own voice informing people that he only listens to vinyl records, witnesses confirmed. According to Wyatt, each release in his collection of over 1,000 vinyl records has its own original melody when he speaks of them. Family, friends, and strangers all say he never misses an opportunity to tell them that LPs are “the optimum way to listen to music.” “I just love the pops and cracks in my voice when I tell people they haven’t truly listened to Neutral Milk Hotel’s Aeroplane Over the Sea unless it’s on vinyl,” boasted Wyatt. “Anytime I talked about using a CD, I just remember feeling so robotic and cold. I had no soul to my description. It had to be so irritating for them to listen to.”
This Device Turns Your Smartphone Into A Turntable, The LOVE turntable looks promising… (No, it doesn’t. —Ed.) “Once LOVE is synced with your audio device, put any size vinyl on one of the two complimentary 7″ record bases. LOVE then scans the vinyl to determine its size and number of tracks. If you’d like to start your listening experience with track 3, simply Press LOVE’s top shell three times or select the track through the app. From there, sit back, relax, and enjoy your record.”
