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Interesting article on new local pressing plant in the Adelaide Hills.

Great to hear about another local facility, wish them good luck.

 

http://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/coming-soon/record-pressing-plant/

 

Also, their Facebook page.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Roundabout-Records-1566846523632192/?fref=photo

 

 

 

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Interesting article on new local pressing plant in the Adelaide Hills.

Great to hear about another local facility, wish them good luck.

 

http://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/coming-soon/record-pressing-plant/

 

Also, their Facebook page.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Roundabout-Records-1566846523632192/?fref=photo

 

On the first link, last pic, he's holding a white "Queen - A night at the opera". Anyone venture a guess or has some knowledge if they printed it or if it's a known pressing? Just curious.

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On the first link, last pic, he's holding a white "Queen - A night at the opera". Anyone venture a guess or has some knowledge if they printed it or if it's a known pressing? Just curious.

There were French and Dutch pressings ,at the time ,on white vinyl that are both collectable.

Unable to see what pressing this one is in photo.

Perhaps it is a sideline of his pressing plant .Hard to see a reason for him to be holding a record they did not press. 

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A pressing plant is vastly complicated, having a Neumann cutting lathe is merely the start  The owner will need laquer masters, the expertise to cut them, electroplating baths to make the mother, then a vinyl press. I visited Corduroy Records once located in Highett back in the late 90's, then run by the Breadmaker's bassist Nick Phillips. their cutting, plating and pressing line was a sight to behold, very backyard engineering!

 

Here's some background

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Livewire/Vinyls-last-stand/2005/03/23/1111254040164.html

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/a-look-back-at-corduroy-records

http://www.lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2490

 

Corduroy morphed into Zenith Records, still pressing vinyl

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/vinyl-record-maker-reaching-for-a-new-zenith-20140620-zsf36.html

http://www.zenithrecords.org/

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There were French and Dutch pressings ,at the time ,on white vinyl that are both collectable.

Unable to see what pressing this one is in photo.

Perhaps it is a sideline of his pressing plant .Hard to see a reason for him to be holding a record they did not press. 

 

Colin Forster, the owner of Roundabout Records, was on Radio 891 today. He is an avid record collector and the copy of Night at the Opera is the French version that was released before the record went on sale in the UK.

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