Minimalistic Album Covers

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The artist Ty Lettau have taken 20 classic album covers and redesigned them in a minimalistic style. We rather like it! Check out the covers below, and tell us what you think?

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D.I.Y.: How To Pirate a Vinyl Record


This is pretty awesome: Mike Senese found and rescued this tutorial about how to “pirate” a vinyl record by casting!

If anyone want to try it out, follow the step by step guide and please let us know how it sounds!

(via MAKE, Yvynyl)

Animated Album Covers

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Album covers recreated in Lego and in perlplättor and in MS Paint were all great fun, but now we got some hilarious animated album covers to share:

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To Have & To Hold

To Have & To Hold – Taster Tape from Jony Lyle on Vimeo.

To Have & To Hold is a upcoming ‘musicmentory’ to celebrate the age of vinyl records… Looks exciting!

Cardboard Record Cover Doubles As Record Player

This looks pretty awesome: Audio engineering company GGRP have created a record player from a piece of corrugated cardboard that folds into an envelope. Once assembled, a record can be spun on the player with a pencil!

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(via Gizmodo)

Unboxing the Pixies’ Minotaur

Via always amazing Hard Format we bring you this great little unboxing video of the Pixies‘ gigantic box set Minotaur.

If this wet your appetite, you’ll find the Pixies’ Minotaur box set right here

Vinyl Sound Postcards

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During 60s and 70s communism in Poland, at a time when vinyl records hard to get, sounds postcards became extremely popular. They looked like standard postcards on the back, but on the front an analogue recording was engraved in a thin layer of laminate.

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Soviet Funk Volume 1

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Something that always turns us on here at Nylvi is people with dedication and passion. People like the great guys at Secret Stash Records who have just released the first volume of Soviet Funk, a compilation of funky rarities recorded in Soviet between 1971 and 1976! Here they have, together with Pavel Sysoyev, dug up some really fascinating stuff.

Check it out for yourself below:

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Charting The Beatles

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Graphic designer Michael Deal has a great project going visualizing and exploring The Beatles music through infographics. Through his amazing visualizations (see below) you can track things like The Beatles’ work schedule between 1963-66, song keys, authorship and collaboration and The Beatles’ use of self referential lyrics.

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The Best Selling Vinyl Records of 2009


Like we pointed out earlier, 2009 was great year for vinyl records. The Nielsen Soundscan numbers reveals a 33% growth in 2009 with about 2.5 million vinyl records sold in the US! On a even more positive note 2 out 3 vinyl records was purchased at a independent music store!

The top ten best selling artists on vinyl in 2009:

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