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.
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 [...]
In November Art Vinyl with the help from Creative Review’s Mark Sinclair, Rough Trade’s Spencer Hicks and John Doran from The Quietus shortlisted 50 record sleeves and invited everyone to cast their vote. The results are in and the winner of the best vinyl album cover of 2009 is:
This company, which we think make glue for a living, made one.
via DOIS PONTO OITO
Record geeks rarely need a reason to feel smug, but vinyl hoarders worldwide had reassuring news the other week as Nielsen SoundScan released figures predicting that sales of proper, old-fashioned albums will top 2.8m by the end of 2009. This will mean an increase of almost 1m on last year and the highest annual figure [...]
Somewhere in Africa, there’s a room full of vinyl records… Discovered of course by none other than Voodoo Frank, the legendary DJ and record collector who sold off everything and spent three years in Africa hunting down rare funk records. We talked to Voodoo Frank about his trip a while back, you can read the [...]
Christian Marclay, often known as the “unwitting inventor of turntablism” has his latest installation 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, a site-specific floor-based installation of vinyl records on display at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York this fall.
Consisting entirely of 12-inch records of every musical genre and style, Marclay’s installation highlights the experiential qualities of [...]
From our friends at the Vinyl Factory comes two very special and very limited vinyl releases.
Together with Air’s art director Laurent Pinon and the band themselves they have crafted a limited box set of Air’s latest album “Love 2″. Housed in a silver mirrored box, the set includes:
• A gatefold 200-gram super-heavyweight 15-track double album, [...]
“Record Making with Duke Ellington” is a great little movie from 1937 highlighting the production of 78 RPM records with the great Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974).
Check it out and like Analog Apartment points out what’s truly fascinating is just how little the whole process has changed in 72 years!
Ryan Adams is back from his temporary break from all things music. Via TwentyFourBit comes the news that “Lost and Found”/”Go Ahead and Rain,” is Adams first official digital release on his own Pax-Am label and available as a $1.49 download from Ryanada.ms
Pax-Am was originally intended by Adams as a way to release vinyl versions [...]
