Something that’s becoming a lot more popular over recent months is the 7″ record with the 4 lug knocked out centre. A 7″ cut adaptor is used to cut into the centre and notch out four ‘lugs’, resulting in the consumer having the choice between a standard hole, or a dinked hole. During the 1950’s Capitol Records released a series of 7″s using a tri-center or 3-lug, they named it the Optional Centre or ‘O.C.’ It proved extremely…
With the vinyl format ever becoming more collectable, label owners are always thinking up ways in order to make their product more appealing and exclusive. Many like the idea of coloured vinyl, though with the reduced amount of polycarbonate comes the higher noise floor level. This is something which a lot of label owners would rather stay clear of. After all, vinyl is the purists choice, so if you look at the format from this angle then decreasing the quality…
Here’s a great collection of photos, showing the finished 7″ ready for Record Store Day 2014, hand assembled in a 12″ sleeve with a custom dink in the centre of the 7″. Such a great looking product here, for me this is definitely what vinyl is all about. A highly collectible record and the music is really good also! Of course the 7″ has been manufactured by Well Tempered. Well organise and well planned for RSD 2014. …
A very exciting 7″ release here, manufactured by Well Tempered for Blunt Force Trauma. Released for Record Store Day 2014. A: ‘Viva La Vinyl’ by Sage Francis – a mournful sweet three-minute hymn to vinyl. AA: ‘You Can’t Win’, a TOTAL fists-in-the-air anthem by the Epic Beard Men – Sage Francis, B.Dolan and Buddy Peace.Both taken from Sage’s mixtape ‘Sick To D[eat]h’ It’s a limited edition dinked 7” in a double-sided-print 12” package, out in April 2014, on Blunt Force Trauma Records. See www.factoryroad.net for news! Watch Inkymole creating the…