This is the vinyl category. In this category, you can find everything about it. From its history to a DJ interview.
I got into vinyl with the big resurgence that was in everyone mouths. It now seems to have slowed down a bit. However, that might be due to the production capacity being reached.
Even though the demand went higher and higher, the production capacity stayed the same. At the moment, it seems that nobody wants to invest money into building new pressing plants.
Maybe they think that it is just a hype and that vinyl will finally be dead in a couple of years.
However, I think that vinyl has a place in music consumption now and in the future. As handy as digital files and streaming might be, a lot of people want to have something tactile as well. In addition to that, the sound of vinyl is just distinct different to a digital file.
Record Store Day is certainly getting bigger and bigger. That shows that even niches in the music industry have the possibility of surviving. Contrary to the belief that only the newest technology and gadgets are valuable. Besides, the vinyl probably only has a chance especially because of digital files. Studies show that a lot of people who buy it doesn’t even have a record player.
Will vinyl ever be a mass-market product again? I don’t think so. But it doesn’t have to be that anyway. If it keeps up with modern-day life to offer analogue experience and fun, it’ll be worthwhile.
The Vinyl Factory has released a new podcast from their series about the vinyl record which discusses the ‘supply and demand in the vinyl industry’. The experts in this round are Frank Merritt (The Carvery), Crispin Murray, Sofia Ilyas (Erased Tapes Records) and Gennaro Castaldo (BPI).
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The Vinyl Factory has published a new podcast. A discussion round about up-to-date questions about the recent hype of vinyl records. Previously, the question if ‘the internet has ruined the joy of records collecting’. Now, however, it is about the ‘issue with reissues’ of old vinyl records. The issue with reissues In today’s round, there are Jonny
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Yesterday, the worldwide Record Store Day took place again. This year with American rock legend Dave Grohl as the official ambassador. The annual event makes every record collectors’ heart beat faster. It’s worth noting that there are many exclusive releases available. The 2015 list is remarkably extensive, but some of the highly acclaimed records are
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London-based The Vinyl Factory has established a podcast series. It features 4 discussion rounds about vinyl records. Nicole McKenzie, the founder of Discogs, along with Kevin Lewandowski, Alexander Nut from Eglo Records, and Bill Brewster from djhistory.com, are having a discussion about how the internet is affecting the vinyl record industry. They are particularly interested
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This winter, as part of my thesis research, I conducted multiple interviews with experts to gain insight into the world of vinyl records. I would like to share some of them here. One of the interviewees is William Pink. He is a Linux System Administrator at Artirix and DevOps Engineer at tape.tv (e.g. web-programmer), as
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The British Band and Newcomer Royal Blood won the Best Art Vinyl Award in 2014. Best Art Vinyl Award is coming in and the selection is stunning. The winner of the 2014 Best Art Vinyl Award is Brighton Band Royal Blood. The sleeve artwork of Royal Blood‘s self-titled debut album is an original piece of
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For the first time in two decades, the vinyl sales in the UK music market are said to rise over the figure of one million. You can call that the vinyl comeback. Referring to the BPI, Arctic Monkeys “AM” is so far the best-selling album of 2014. The vinyl made a remarkable comeback and is
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