Splatter,color, and wacky vinyl records.

[Angus McCarthy]

Impressive result from such a restricted spectrum!

[THD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioq70dsUmqI

[mentalgroove]

Here is my (late) contribution below:

[vmspoland]

[] , super work

[Aussie0zborn]

Nice work.

[concretecowboy71]

Nice job to everybody that does this kind of work.

I saw some jobs I cut in the Gotta Groove photos, interesting because I always just imagine them black...

Keelah...good job man, you have become quite the artist!

[KeeLeh21]

Thanks Clint you already now I throw down for Cleveland.

awesome work ofm it looks like the eye of providence, post more bro I like how you scanned it.

[GhostHighway]

All the pics in this topic are incredible fantastic!!!
great works!!!

[mentalgroove]

One of the 30 copies pressed for psyche italian label Sagittarius A-Star, natural/black marbled vinyl + glitter
(does not affect the playback of course).


[Friendly admin note, for posterity: Posted as username " ofmvinyl "]

[KeeLeh21]

these dude ordered this



photo courtesy: gottagrooverecords.com

[NottinghamToolexAlpha]

...interesting thread this...as we used to (unofficially..!) play around with colours at Independent in Nottingham - we came up with a few things - all semi legit pressings as we sent them out into the world without anyone knowing...sneaky way to create legendary LTD EDN records - people have been doing it for years on the sly...

What we came up with were pretty impressive, as we only sample bags of colours, so a very limited amount to play with - no pics tho, but they have all come up on ebay from time to time - check out these titles, if you can find them thru the interweb...

The Libertines " The Libertines" LP brown "smoke - swirl" vinyl - trying to characterise the lead singer blowing brown smoke thru the record, made by draining the hopper of nearly all black, dropping in some brown, and filling with black - the resultant pressings - maybe 5 or so looked like brown smoke "rings" ..!

U2 " Vertigo" 12" Clear vinyl mis-pressing - these were purely by accident, as the bead lorry left us a full 25kg bag of clear by mistake - so we used it sparingly , trying to get a handful of pure clear versions- at first - no matter how we tried, it just couldn't overtake the black thru the extruder, and the pressings came out with a fuzzy grey cloud, like a storm shifting thru the vinyl..incredible!

The last one I remember, and again, no pics, as we were trying to be very covert about this( 12 am midnight pressings they ALL were..!) Was one truly remarkable copy of Bjork's " Medulla" Lp, using the same process mikeOZ and mossy mentioned - taking off the cup and "spurting " clear vinyl onto a dish, and quick as a flash, throwing it into the mould, and see what came out...the results were stunning, what came out looked like a " cathrine wheel-effect" one long swirl that looked like it had exploded!
- highly dangerous, and I would NOT recommend anyone doing this - as we only used Toolex Alpha automatic 12" machines - not manual's, and we had a guy who literally was fearless ( Crazy?) called Deano, who would try anything to relieve the monotony of pressing endless amounts of black -(if Chris King is reading this- you know what Deano was like...!)

Using a Manual must be huge fun to a limit-less imagination - keep going Kee...!

[KeeLeh21]

We are always trying new stuff @ Gotta Groove!

Awesome post NTA!

[KeeLeh21]

had to edit the label on 2nd pic, so no center hole.

[EmAtChapterV]

had to edit the label on 2nd pic, so no center hole.

I thought maybe you were pressing orders for FolkTone Records?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izr-5yitrb0&t=1m19s

[KeeLeh21]

[NottinghamToolexAlpha]

WoW!! that second one is incredible! ... looks like a swamp! ...is it just a random sprinkling of beads that gets that formation..?

..was talking to a friend who worked for Damont Records (now closed) here in the UK, who did nearly ALL of the shaped picture disc work in the uk in the 1980's/90's, and he told me how they tried to do a shaped picture disc record for the band W.A.S.P. ( Blackie Lawless actually came to the factory!) called " F*** like a Beast" which was wholeheartedly banned in Britain everywhere!

So, if you have seen the sleeve to this record, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about, a shaped pic disc of THAT sleeve? Not going to happen in th UK..so a cunning ruse was thought up - a coloured vinyl 12" instead...ahem..in pink...and red...and ..erm.. steel?
..hand designed in a marble-effect...
...the Metal crowd would have loved it!
i'm told some test pressings do exist, although there can't be more than 4-5 as I'm sure they were scrapped....

[djlithium]

Here is my (late) contribution below:

Ok, thats really really nice.

[mentalgroove]

Hello,

This is my latest production.
It's called "Procession Towards The Unknown" and it's a pressing of nine one-sided vinyl in wooden box, numbered and signed by the artist. Each records size is approximately 11” and was pressed by night with special overheated translucide compound to get that amber effect. For some I also used two cakes of vinyl cut in half.
To get the "unfinished" effect I managed the extruder got me less compound but just enough to have the grooves well done.

Music recorded in Cairo by Samy Sayed, Cherif El-Masri & Sherif Adel. Art direction by Sandrine Pelletier & myself.






Enjoy.

source:
http://olivierducret.tumblr.com/post/61494095117/procession-towards-the-unknown-9-x-one-sided-vinyl

[gusgus]

That is absolutely beautiful!!! great idea and very well packaged and displayed! 10 thumbs up! I also Press records at Gotta Groove! we constantly are experimenting here's my contribution!

[gusgus]

check out the halo in the matrix, crazy!