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Ep446: Handmade Vinyl Boxsets of DEAD and We Empty Rooms
Manage episode 415218165 series 1337222
DEAD and We Empty Rooms regularly releases extremely ambitious vinyl packages and boxsets. Today we speak with proprietor Jem on the making of these collections, the recent "Burn Us Clean" 9-7" boxset, working with Hard-Ons, Melvins and what's next for this creative label.
Topic Include:
- Zoom anxiety / interview start
- Jem’s skills in manufacturing and music
- Keeping limits of record numbers
- Variations of “The Laughing Shadow”
- Using various record pressing plants and materials
- Manufacturing challenges
- Discovering records – much cheaper than CDs
- Zenith records made the “Burn Us Clean” records
- Deciding to make a boxset of 9 – 7” records
- Working with 9 other bands to have b-sides for each single
- The Melvins and Hard-Ons split – 70g 7”
- Hard-Ons 30 Years boxset
- Guidance from Hard-Ons for their boxset
- Recording the new album with all-analogue intentions
- Announcing their new Double Album
- The various versions of “Burn Us Clean” boxset
- The logistics of coordinating “Burn Us Clean” boxset
- Minimal guidance given to the other bands
- Packaging for the “Burn Us Clean” boxset
- The surprise flexi-disc
- Will DEAD consider another major boxset?
- Hand-silkscreened record sleeves
- Upcoming new double LP set
- Other projects with ambitiously underestimated complexities
- The endearing qualities of hand-crafted record packaging
- Interview wrap up
Follow DEAD and We Empty Rooms' Bandcamp pages here.
Extended, Commercial-Free & High Resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide
Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/2Y6ORU0 Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36qhlc8
475 episodes
Ep446: Handmade Vinyl Boxsets of DEAD and We Empty Rooms
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Manage episode 415218165 series 1337222
DEAD and We Empty Rooms regularly releases extremely ambitious vinyl packages and boxsets. Today we speak with proprietor Jem on the making of these collections, the recent "Burn Us Clean" 9-7" boxset, working with Hard-Ons, Melvins and what's next for this creative label.
Topic Include:
- Zoom anxiety / interview start
- Jem’s skills in manufacturing and music
- Keeping limits of record numbers
- Variations of “The Laughing Shadow”
- Using various record pressing plants and materials
- Manufacturing challenges
- Discovering records – much cheaper than CDs
- Zenith records made the “Burn Us Clean” records
- Deciding to make a boxset of 9 – 7” records
- Working with 9 other bands to have b-sides for each single
- The Melvins and Hard-Ons split – 70g 7”
- Hard-Ons 30 Years boxset
- Guidance from Hard-Ons for their boxset
- Recording the new album with all-analogue intentions
- Announcing their new Double Album
- The various versions of “Burn Us Clean” boxset
- The logistics of coordinating “Burn Us Clean” boxset
- Minimal guidance given to the other bands
- Packaging for the “Burn Us Clean” boxset
- The surprise flexi-disc
- Will DEAD consider another major boxset?
- Hand-silkscreened record sleeves
- Upcoming new double LP set
- Other projects with ambitiously underestimated complexities
- The endearing qualities of hand-crafted record packaging
- Interview wrap up
Follow DEAD and We Empty Rooms' Bandcamp pages here.
Extended, Commercial-Free & High Resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide
Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/2Y6ORU0 Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36qhlc8
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