Posts Tagged ‘pressing records’

New Record Pressing — Karate Boogaloo

New record pressing courtesy of Colemine Records and College of Knowledge — Karate Boogaloo – Acess All Areas:

May it please the people of the known universe that the multi-monikered musical ensemble legally trading as Kay-Bee Funk Music Group are releasing what will alphabetically be their first album, ‘Access All Areas’. Created with Karate Boogaloo’s patented ‘Lovely Recording Technique’ these recordings let you know that everyone’s a VIP when you’re listening to KB.

‘Access’ was the one word maxim philosophically guiding The Old Kar-Boo’s this innings. If a tune became convoluted, to the bin it went. Only those that could be hummed by any and all were kept. This sieve was on hand throughout the whole process, arrangements and forms were kept watertight, bells and whistles to a minimum. If 2024’s ‘Hold Your Horses’ was an epic, ‘Access All Areas’ is a haiku.

The band’s tried and true recording process was dutifully respected save for one wonderful addition, the magnificent ‘Sound Recordings’ helmed by its proprietor and engineer extraordinaire Alex Bennet. Steering the 4 track Ampex 440 off road when required and making sure the vibes were constantly correct, Alex is a bonafide Booger.

Although it feels only a moment, the clock tells us it’s been nearly 20 years since Kay’s Bees first tried to play the songs of their musical heroes, The Meters, Booker T & The MG’s, and The JB’s to name but a few. Since then The Famous Flying Karate Boogaloo Brothers have put one foot in front of the other and distilled their own sound, one that respectfully acknowledges the history of instrumental Funk & Soul music, and reflects the time they’ve spent crafting their distinctive sound.

As bright as each member shines individually, it is a special event when all four planets in the Booger System align. ‘Access All Areas’ is one such eclipse, it is an artistic expression of equal measure by each member and it casts a shadow unique to the occasion. Every second of music was composed and produced with all hands on deck, mixing was handled by Henry Jenkins, artwork by Hudson Whitlock and Callum Riley, and Darvid Thor did things you’d have to see to believe. Music is a team sport and there’s no I in Funk.

Available from Colemine Records on October 9, 2026.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Spirit of the Bear

New record pressing – Spirit of the Bear – Affected By Light:

Spirit of the Bear quickly became one of the most fresh and exciting bands to emerge in the Ohio music scene with their unique blend of indie rock, pop, and electronic sensibilities coupled with their affinity for pop song writing. The band’s years of musical experience are accentuated by their use of two keyboard players, bringing a unique depth to their sound. Consisting of James Harker (lead vocals, guitar), Danny Svenson (keyboards), Ethan Schwendeman (keyboards), and Jamie Vitullo (Drums), the band has shared the stage with acts such as Crowded House, Our Lady Peace, Ra Ra Riot, and Robert DeLong, among others. The members of Spirit of the Bear have 3 dogs and 5 cats, collectively.

Affected By Light is far and away the most personal album for Spirit of the Bear. Two years in the making, from doing our biggest shows to splitting from our label/management, to our singer James being diagnosed with and going through cancer treatment for the nearly the entirety of 2024/2025. This album dives into all of it unapologetically. It’s our most complex and exciting body of work to date, and has something for just about everyone.

Available courteys of Wax Mage Productions

GGR For The Record: A History of Innovations and Advances

As we now enter our 18th year of operations, we are excited for the future of the record format, and we look forward to continually implementing our own innovations and advancements in the specialization of making records.

Here is a brief timeline of Gotta Groove Records innovations and contributions to the advancement of the phonograph record format, from the very beginning of rebuilding our pressing machines to the installation of our new DMM cutting lathe:

2009

Gotta Groove Records is founded, and immediately becomes the first pressing plant with its own online ordering system (eventually branded as the Record Builder).

2012

Gotta Groove Records participates in a program with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio which offered up to 40 hours of engineering work for each of nine participating companies in the program. Some of the press augmentations developed during the program are still being used on certain record pressing machines at GGR.

2017

Gotta Groove is the first pressing plant to install a newly-built press made by Nashville-based Record Pressing Machines. This was the first new pressing machine built in the USA in over 30 years.

Also in 2017, in collaboration with Nipro Optics, Inc., a new type of record plating was developed –GrooveCoated Stampers ^TM— which employs a lubricious plating surface that dramatically increases the lifespan of electroformed nickel record stampers. Some of these stampers can press over 4,000 copies of records before detectable frequency loss occurs in the program.

2019

A second computerized automated pressing machine built by Record Pressing Machines was installed at GGR.

Also in 2019, GGR acquired equipment from the famous record label printing operation Hamlett Printing Service in Nashville. This acqusition allowed GGR to continue offering the so-called “Hamlett Style” overprint labels that many record companies have used for two generations.

2017-2022

Gotta Groove collaborates with Sherwin Williams to produce a new nitrocellulose lacquer formula for the manufacture of blank lacquer master discs. During the course of this five year time period, GGR produced several batches of lacquers using two different types of curtain coating lines (pressurized and non-pressurized), a custom designed spin coating line fabricated by NiPro Optics, as well as a variety of spray systems. While a few records were successfully cut on these GGR-produced lacquers, the project was ultimately abandoned, primarily due to the challenges of curing such discs as well as the internal and external economies of scale limitations for the format. GGR continues to recommend master lacquer blanks produced by the Public Record Company in Japan (so called “MDC’s”).

2023

Gotta Groove Records acquired the record plating operation of NiPro Optics in Irvine, California. The operation was completely dismantled, transported to Columbus, Ohio, and re-installed in a new state-of-the-art industrial facility. Approximately one-half of the equipment arrived in a 53′ trailer on April 10, 2023 and stampers were successfully being manufactured on April 11, 2023. The operation is named The Electromastering Lab, and it produces thousands of stampers per month for several pressing plants in North America, Canada, Argentina, and Lithuania.

Since the initial installation in 2023, the facility has added new technology made by Sibert Industries for the processing of record stampers.

2024

Gotta Groove introduces another new type of record stamper, which is chemically treated after the plating process to give it a more lubricious effect, without the need for a different type of plating. This new type of stamper is called GrooveCoat Lite ^TM.

2025

Gotta Groove Records and Sonopress enter into a strategic partnership to market a new type of material and manufacturing process for making records — injection molded PET records, marketed as EcoRecords or GrooveWax. This new forumulation and process makes incredibly true sounding records, far superior to any other type of injection molded records produced in the history of phonograph records. Additionally, in 2026, a dramatic new color variant was launched which would not be feasible to make via traditional vinyl pressing — the InkSplosion variant.

2026

Gotta Groove Records installs a new Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) cutting lathe at its Columbus, Ohio plating facility. This new design lathe was developed by Thorsten Scheffner of Organic Music during 2020-2022, and GGR’s is one of three Scheffner lathes built to cut copper blank masters. For the first time in over 30 years, records can be cut onto copper masters in the United States! The first record cut on this new lathe was the album You Get Lost by the band Mantis (cut in early April 2026).

Additionally, GGR will be producing its own copper blank masters at its Columbus plating facility through its self-developed proprietary plating process that yields the softest copper cutting surface that is possible without the use of acid plating. This process is environmentally friendly, as well as safer for its operators when compared to traditional acid plating. The brand name of these discs is GrooveMetal ^TM, and GGR will supply these blank discs to other cutting houses who currently operate or who add DMM cutting lathes to their studios.

Luna Romantica & Rendezvous GGR + Wax Mage Productions Exclusive Reissues!

Luna’s last two albums – Romantica & Rendezvous – Remastered and Reissued with special color variants!

Wax Mage Productions is excited to announce the reissue of these two albums – both titles were remasteredin 2026 by Scott Hull at Masterdisk.

The standard/InkSplosion color variants are available via record stores worldwide TODAY!

Also, we will be offering /300 limited edition numbered handmade color variants at 7pm Eastern on August 7, 2026 via waxmage.com. Order links are below:

Luna Romantica 2026 Reissue Handmade Variants /300

Luna Romantica unlimited worldwide blue+white InkSplosion

Luna Rendezvous 2026 Reissue Handmade Variants /300

Luna Rendezvous unlimited worldwide white+clear InkSplosion

Luna Romantica:

Romantica — Luna’s sixth album, originally released by Jetset Records in 2002, now remastered and reissued by Wax Mage Productions. 2026 Remaster by Scott Hull at Masterdisk.

Romantica — Luna’s sixth album. This was a tumultuous period for the band, who found themselves without a label following the declared bankruptcy of their previous label, Jericho Records, who had signed the band after Elektra let them go. Justin Harwood had departed midway through the touring for The Days of Our Nights and was replaced by Britta Phillips, who had previously toured with Ben Lee, and was formerly the singing voice of Jem (Jem & the Holograms). In this period Wareham and Phillips became romantically involved and you can likely hear that in the songs.

The band found a new manager, David Whitehead, and signed to a new label (Jetset). Wareham wrote ten songs, Sean Eden contributed a couple also: “Black Champagne” and “Rememories.” They made the trek each day from lower Manhattan to Jolly Roger Studios in Hoboken, where the songs were recorded with Gene Holder (dB’s). They then traveled to Tarbox Road Studios in upstate NY where Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, Flaming Lips) mixed and did additional production work. Romantica was released by Jetset Records (in the USA) and Beggar’s Banquet (in Europe) in April, 2002.

Luna Rendezvous:

Rendezvous was released in October, 2004 on Jetset Records. Now reissued on InkSplosion color by Wax Mage Productions. 2026 Remaster by Scott Hull at Masterdisk.

After extensive touring for Romantica, Luna (Dean Wareham, Sean Eden, Lee Wall and Britta Phillips) commenced writing and rehearsing new songs in a rehearsal room on east 23rd Street in Manhattan. Rendezvous was recorded at Trout Recording in Brooklyn with Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Phish) producing. The album was recorded live in one big room, with minimal overdubs apart from vocals and guitar solos, and it captures the sound of the band playing live. For the first time ever, guitarist Sean Eden sang a couple of songs that he had written: “Broken Chair” and “Still at Home.” Other highlights include “Malibu Love Nest” and “Cindy Tastes of Barbecue.”

The album was released in October, 2004 on Jetset Records, and the band announced that they would be breaking up after one final tour. As things turned out, this break-up amounted to a 10-year hiatus, as Luna are now back playing shows. But Rendezvous is their final studio album of original material.

Luna’s allegedly last studio album is astonishing, their best since 1995’s Penthouse. The band has arrived at a pleasant, Television-on-xanax variant of indie-rock that’s so smart, sexy, and sophisticated, it threatens to melt right into the background. As befits a group thinking of (their own) empire, Luna revisits one of their best songs, “Astronaut.” Like the rest of the album, here it’s leaner, stronger, and slower, while “Malibu” and “Owl” display some of the finest, melodic and stripped-down guitar playing since the Feelies’ heyday. Much of what helps raise Luna from pretty sonic wallpaper are Wareham’s lyrics. Delivered in a stylish deadpan, Wareham’s words seem to owe much to New York School poets like John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, and, of course Lou Reed. –Mike McGonigal.

Luna is on tour beginning September 16 in Chicago:

https://lunamusic.com/news

New Record Pressing — Bob Azzam & The Great Expectation

New record pressing – Bob Azzam & The Great Expectation – Self Titled.

This 1969 oddity goes for big bucks if you can find it for a couple of obvious reasons. First, the drum break on the cover of Alvin Toussaint’s classic “Rain Rain (Go Away)” has become legend among crate diggers and samplers. The other is that the version of the Stones’ “The Last Time” is astonishingly psychedelic, a delirium of fuzz guitar, electric sitar, rumbling piano, and throbbing bass punctuated by soaring, Left Banke-esque vocal choruses. But, those highlights aside, this one-off album from Egyptian vocalist Wadie George “Bob” Azzam and his merry band of pranksters is a refreshingly eclectic and highly listenable affair leavened with a hint of electronic weirdness a la Lothar and the Hand People or Silver Apples. “Mon Amour” pays tribute to Azzam’s Middle Eastern roots with a jaunty Arabic melody, while he brings a Beatle-esque sensibility to the two Les Reed covers, “Mr. Lovin’ Luggage Man” and “One Little Packet of Cigarettes.” And “Berimbau” offers an unexpected outburst of Tropicalismo. In short, not just a rarity, but a record to appeal to anybody with a warped pop sensibility…and ain’t that all of us? Remastered and pressed in fire orange vinyl for its first reissue in any format!

Available courtesy of Real Gone Music.

New Record Pressing — Lady Flic ft. City Hayes

<a href="https://ladyflic.bandcamp.com/album/inside-your-vibration">Inside Your Vibration by Lady Flic ft. City Hayes</a>

Side A is jazz infused House Music for the soulfully discerning dancefloor.

Side B harkens back to the 90s Trip Hop era with a DJ friendly cut, pressed loud for the listening lounge.

The debut release by Love from NYC Music is from Lady Flic, a veteran DJ from New Zealand residing in NYC via London and Bali. 30 years in the game as a wildly eclectic DJ, Lady Flic stays true to her House and Trip Hop roots with this beautiful release.

Vocals by City Hayes, who some may recognise from one or two Red Rack’em productions.

Written and Produced by Lady Flic. Co-Produced by Lorqa. Extra keys on Side A by L3ni. Mastering for vinyl by Coflo.

Vinyl only release. No digital release is available at launch. Select DJs have received advance copies.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Josaleigh Pollett

<a href="https://josaleighpollett.bandcamp.com/album/if-i-let-it-quiet">If I Let It Quiet by Josaleigh Pollett</a>

New record pressing – Josaleigh Pollett – If I Let It Quiet

Available courtesy of Audio Antihero and Lavender Vinyl.

Salt Lake City-based singer-songwriter Josaleigh Pollett (any/all pronouns) has announced their fourth full-length album, ‘If I Let It Quiet.’ Produced by long-time collaborator Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy), the record will be released July 24th via Audio Antihero (Frog / Tiberius / Avery Friedman / CIAO MALZ) and Lavender Vinyl on digital and vinyl. It will be preceded by May 19th’s “The Witness” single.

The work of Pollett and Watko has received a slow burn of recognition over the years. Following Pollett’s warm and rootsy solo debut ‘Strangers,’ the duo initially found acclaim together in 2020 with their ‘No Woman Is the Sea’ album. They reached a broader audience with 2023’s electronics-infused ‘In the Garden, By the Weeds,’ thanks to support from notable outlets, including NPR Music’s All Songs Considered, as well as awards and end-of-year lists.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Eddie 9V

New record pressing – Eddie 9V – Little Black Flies on Orange Vinyl!

All his life, Eddie 9-volt has acted on instinct. Aged just 15, this old-soul artist turned away from the path of college and jobs to burst all guns blazing onto the blues club circuit of his native Atlanta, Georgia. Flash forward to 2019, and for his debut album, Left My Soul In Memphis, the prodigious multi-instrumentalist simply powered up the amps in his mobile trailer and with his brother/co-writer/producer, Lane Kelly, laid down one of the year’s breakout releases, acclaimed as “fresh and life-affirming” by Rock & Blues Muse. “Memphis was a total side project,” shrugs Eddie, “that ended up taking off.”Now, released in 2021 on Ruf Records, Little Black Flies is the 24-year-old’s most impulsive move to date. Tracked live in Atlanta’s Echo Deco Studios through November 2020, once again with Lane turning the knobs, plus a who’s who of the state’s best musicians (including guitar icon Cody Matlock), it’s an album that Eddie planned to feel like it’s unfolding right in front of you – right down to the clink of bottles and loose studio banter.

Available courtesy of Ruf Records.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Chat Pile

New record pressing — Chat Pile – Masks b/w Sifting.

Sub Pop and Oklahoma City noise-rock powerhouse Chat Pile present a limited-edition 7” single featuring two studio tracks: one brand new original, and the other a burly reimagining of the early Nirvana song “Sifting.”

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing, DMM and Lacquer cutting, plating, and printing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

New Record Pressing — Fela Kuti He Miss Road

New Record Pressing — Fela Kuti He Miss Road. Record pressing back in print on vinyl, courtesy of Partisan Records.

(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).

Gotta Groove Records

Posts Tagged ‘pressing records’

New Record Pressing — Karate Boogaloo

New Record Pressing — Spirit of the Bear

GGR For The Record: A History of Innovations and Advances

2009

2012

2017

2019

2017-2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Luna Romantica & Rendezvous GGR + Wax Mage Productions Exclusive Reissues!

Luna’s last two albums – Romantica & Rendezvous – Remastered and Reissued with special color variants!

Luna Romantica:

New Record Pressing — Bob Azzam & The Great Expectation

New Record Pressing — Lady Flic ft. City Hayes

New Record Pressing — Josaleigh Pollett

New Record Pressing — Eddie 9V

New Record Pressing — Chat Pile

New Record Pressing — Fela Kuti He Miss Road

Custom Record Pressing

-Professional mastering and cutting
-High quality plating & pressing
-Unsurpassed quality control
-Custom printed packaging
-Distribution/fulfillment consulting
-Responsive customer service

Big Plant Capacity
Specialty Shop Quality & Service We want to press your next record.

Mailing List

Resources:

Buy Merch & Records:

Socials:

Gotta Groove Archives

Posts Tagged ‘pressing records’

2009

2012

2017

2019

2017-2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Luna’s last two albums – Romantica & Rendezvous – Remastered and Reissued with special color variants!

Luna Romantica:

Custom Record Pressing

-Professional mastering and cutting -High quality plating & pressing -Unsurpassed quality control -Custom printed packaging -Distribution/fulfillment consulting -Responsive customer service Big Plant Capacity Specialty Shop Quality & Service We want to press your next record.

Mailing List

Resources:

Buy Merch & Records:

Socials:

Gotta Groove Archives

-Professional mastering and cutting
-High quality plating & pressing
-Unsurpassed quality control
-Custom printed packaging
-Distribution/fulfillment consulting
-Responsive customer service

Big Plant Capacity
Specialty Shop Quality & Service We want to press your next record.