IAnd you want to buy a completely new machine to cut your vinyl records at home, and it seems that there is just one man who can help you. Ulrich Seriso The workshop at an abandoned railway station in a far part of the black forest in Germany, is at a very high request. It is selective about who sells his devices, and if he agrees to make some group, it is a small old school. “He is only cash, so I had to travel there with 7,000 euros Ali,” John Downing, who bought one in 2017.
Then Downing started running his small registration brand in Sheffield, do that is (this “do it for yourself” in the edge of Yorkshire), specializing in music from his area. The retirement project was “to keep me out of harm and return something to the local scene,” he says, but Downing has put 75 records, from the weird villain River worm To krautpop narcotic Sister wivesWhich he personally cut into a shed at the bottom of the garden.
The lathe cutting machine in Germany produces one records by one using a diamond needle. It is cut in actual time to empty vinyl tablets from a digital source. This service, and the names of the recordings that you use, flourish. “When I wrote our business plan seven years ago Lathe. “And now 10 People.”
The mysterious Souriseau in Germany may be the only place to buy a fresh machine, but with the renewal of more people and the sale of old models, records at prices are easily reasonable in small batches of increasing number of sources. “There is no very small project for us,” says Trigger. This means that people even get the most specialized things that are now placed on registration, or by using gifts, souvenir, or keeping family memories by pressing them in grooves. “We have made one -time records of everything from the first words of the child that was pressed to Vinyl, to one of both sexes, where they got their doctor to send an email to us at the sex of the child, as they had the option of two boy and girl’s songs.”
In addition to offering smaller standard stickers, many lathe stations also sell artists directly, who cannot go to a large pressure factory that requires the minimum demand. “Not everyone can carry 300 copies,” says Trigger. “So if we sell someone 20 records, and they can all sell it on a tour and make their money, with coverage, this is our work. Then they will not sit with 200 backup copies carrying their bed.”
Graham Duff, known for writing TV programs such as idealism, starring Johnny Vegas, also guides his own sign, SkyIn cooperation with Bladud file latheret lathe! It allows him all the fun and the creativity of a registration mark, but without pressure, risks or work burden that he usually goes with. They have cut only 100 copies of both the records they release, which included music by Graham Lewis from WIRE, Shrobbing Gristle’s Cosey Fanni Tutti, and even one of the final “scratch” records.
“For all of us, it is a side project,” says Daf. “But it is a precious thing. You can really make a high -quality product, but you don’t have to get huge expenses. Leadership is much shorter – you may wait a year in the largest manufacturing factories, so this creates a much shorter path than a idea to register and get it there.”
It is a victory for artists, too, they can issue a material record that has been stripped of the usual expectations and obligations. “There is no pressure on the artist,” says Daf. “There is no cost, it is completely up to them what they want to issue, and they keep all rights.” It gives an example of Adi Newton from the Clock DVA electronic experimental, who cut a piece of piano music. “You open channels for people to explore.”
The demand grows. Trigger holds conversations with Sureisseau about getting a third machine so that they can increase production next year – they currently run two devices for 70 hours a week – and it has enabled it to stop their other jobs. “It was amazing for us to be able to do this full time,” she says. “But in the end, we want the artists to support themselves and know that there are other options there: it is not just a flow or nothing.”