In February, 2015, I launched a new website, TheVinylPress.com. My “vision,” at the outset, was to focus on the golden age of analog recording and address recordings that deserved renewed attention, musically and sonically.
In a few short months, I have covered a range of topics, from restoration of older audio recordings–listening to old acetates cut by Les Paul himself in his early experiments with multi-tracking (and cut to directly to disc, before Paul started using the multi-track tape machines for which he is famous), to a survey of some significant UK labels, like “Vertigo Swirl” and the Island “pink labels” during an era of significant change in popular music. I am also addressing particular pressings, and through interviews with the people who were behind the scenes at the time, get some sense of why these recordings are so great, musically and sonically.