Have you heard about the slow movement? This concept was created in the 1980s but truly became popular during the last few years. It started with the observation that people are more and more stressed by the acceleration of their life rhythm, in particular because…
2014 was another record year in vinyl sales with 2014, with over 1.3M albums sold. Many are hailing this as a return of physical music after the death of CDs. For some that means an imminent death of streaming music. But Spotify has 75 million active…
Have you heard of Jamie Smith? Probably not. But you sure know him better under his stage name Jamie XX. And the English music producer and DJ is our vinyler of the month on 30rpm! The Londoner teamed up in 2008 with former school friends…
The vertical record player Gramovox is finally on sale for everybody. This comes after a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, which raised over $1.5 million. The record player comes with your choice of a complimenting wood or maple turntable base, combines to create a modern meets vintage…
What is Rough Trade? Rough Trade is a London based Vinyl music store. In this interview with the manager of one of their London based stores we look at how the emergence and growth of the digital music industry has affected the business of having…
How VNYL works Hailed as the Netflix for Vinyl VNYL was originally funded through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. VNYL hand-curates and mails 3 records specific to each user every month. These are records that are based on members’ specific music tastes. To start a membership,…
Vinyl is not vinyl. In 1888 a man named Emile Berliner created the first flat disc. These were between 12-18cm, somewhat bigger than the CD we loved and saw disappear. The 45cm LPs(Long Play) that we know today began to truly appear during World War…
