Ikea Crimejazz

Influences: Motëm - Yawn

2012-01-16T10:19:00.000-08:00

Some Archer video

2011-12-07T19:15:00.001-08:00

http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multimedia/includes/featuredvideo.php?id=3319

Archer Pressing Plant

2011-12-07T18:59:00.000-08:00

Archer Pressing Plant

Archer Record Pressing, the plant where all the classic techno records were pressed, is part of the music’s indie history. It’s run by Mike Archer, the grandson of the original founder who started the place in 1965. Since the 80s, techno was a big part of their business. They pressed the old Metroplex and Transmat records, basically everything that came out of Detroit, and they continue to press techno records today.

Infinite State Machine

2011-12-07T18:44:00.000-08:00

Mastering for vinyl, for those who aren’t sure about this part of the process, is when a sound engineer plays the raw uncompressed master version of a track through his audio processing equipment in order to make the recording work well and sound loud in the vinyl medium. The master lacquer is a 12″ round disc of soft material that is cut buy a diamond tip lathe creating the grooves that will play back music when a stylus and needle run through the groove. Mastering involves compression and equalization to allow the lathe to cut the lacquer without distortion or errors that would cause pressing flaws. This is also the point where the label’s matrix number is etched into the runout grooves. reference

Other formats

2011-12-05T15:29:00.000-08:00

RSVP TAPES

My Brother Daniel - 4M Tape (RSVP001)

My Brother Daniel - Ponky / Moon Climb The Wall - Quite Boring (RSVP002)

ondoh - @ / My Brother Daniel V's Moon Climb The Wall - Zip Zip (RSVP003)

My Brother Daniel & Anton Mobin - Radio Buddha (RSVP004)

Seventh Gear - Gunshot / Lofiuser - Feast (RSVP005)

Eigenheimer - Bear Thinks / Main Fader - Later Daze (RSVP006)

COMING SOON!

Dino Felipe - Farms / My Brother Daniel - Keith (RSVP007)

Looking forward

2011-12-04T17:03:00.000-08:00

Mastering

2011-12-04T16:53:00.000-08:00

The first (and possibly the most important!) decision that needed to be made is where to get the record mastered. infinitestatemachine

Influences: Melkeveien & Sagtann - Every Junkie Is A Setting Sun

2011-12-02T13:35:00.001-08:00

Influences: Yöt - Feeling The Real Feeling

2011-11-28T15:39:00.001-08:00

Yöt 1 by Yöt

Stamp Arrived

2011-11-28T07:39:00.001-08:00

Influences: Limonious - Swedish Pommak

2011-11-27T14:08:00.001-08:00

Influences: ARP 101 - Warriors Galactic

2011-11-27T14:04:00.000-08:00

Plastic Sleeves

2011-11-25T09:40:00.001-08:00

Picked up 200 sleeves for $8 - Great deal

Distribution

2011-11-22T11:14:00.001-08:00

So my dilemma about distributing to Europe has left me with no other option but to do it myself - Why would I go through a distributor if I'm only pressing 200 copies? Lucky for me I have kept all my packaging from previously shipped items & learned how other small record labels send theirs [turns out you can use a square piece of cardboard & some tape] So that should save me some cash on packaging when re-mailing.

Rubber Stamps

2011-11-21T10:57:00.001-08:00

One thing about pressing a 45 on a budget is that it probably costs an extra $150 for colored labels etc - I'm going for the white label look but with some DIY designs - it cost me $24 for a logo to be put on a rubber stamp.

Welcome to my blog...

2011-11-21T09:48:00.000-08:00

Here I will post everything relevent to pressing my first 45 - from inspirational acts who helped me create my sound to the instruments & hardware I used, as well as useful facts & tips to help you press your own record. Everything is being done in true DIY fashion.