Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones.
A UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes in a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favourite tunes or their last will and testament. Minimalist audiophiles might want to go for the simple option of having no tunes or voiceover, and simply pressing the ashes into the vinyl to result in pops and crackles.
The company was founded by Jason Leach, who co-founded the techno group and record label Subhead in the 1990s and has since founded a number of other labels, including House of Fix, Daftwerk and Death to Vinyl. Read more
Massimiliano Pagliara’s music is house, it’s deep, it’s disco, it’s new wave, it’s italian. There’s bittersweet, 80s inspired new wave romantic side by side with electric boogaloo dancefloor bangers and futuristic disco dreams. Old synthies, gentle drum machine sounds and pop influences forming together a dense soundtrack of the night. Read more
Diggin deep deep in the crates is one of the best activities on a holiday weekend, so if you are in Berlin don’t miss the HHV Diggin Days this weekend! Read more
In case you are in Paris at the moment you should check out Rex Club tonight. Detroit legend Jeff Mills will be on the decks, alongside Joe Claussell and DJ Deep. Highly recommended! Read more
laFraise.com, Europe’s famoust shirt design competition, organized a contest for VKMP3.
Have a look here at all the great designs! It wasn’t easy to select the winners.
The VKMP3 Contest winner is Roll It! by Vix.Graphix. Big congrats! Vix will get 1500 Euros and his tshirt will be printed in a limited run of 500 pieces sold exclusively on laFraise.com.
We’ve also decided to pick a 2 more designs to be printed in a smaller limited run & sold online here! Feel Da Beat & VKMP3 by Cuypi. Read more
The video below shows Mathieu Berthet, audio engineer in Paris, specialized in vinyl mastering ; he shows us quickly the successive steps to proceed to the vinyl mastering of a track, before its sending to the pressing plant:
Step 1. Premastering. Tthe goal is to enhance and improve the overall quality of the sound (equalization, compression, and spatialization)
Step 2. The track is cut on a vinyl support (laquers)
Step 3. The lacquers are put in a box and are going to the pressing plant. (Celebrate, Optimal Media, MPO, Record Industrie … ) Read more
Fireworks just started here in Berlin, tonight’s gonna be a long night .. and the last party in 2009. the last party is also our last podcast this year, an 80 something minutes mix recorded a few hours ago. Many great vinyls were released in 2009 on labels like Delsin, Ostgut, & Rush Hour to name [...]
YANNECK SALVO aka IANEQ aka QUARION may be known under different names, may work in various genres and by different professions (like producing dope HipHop beats as well as tech house grooves, spinning DnB in the 90s, remixing house and techno cuts, co-founding the vinyl only label Retreat) – but there is one constant [...]
