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Rainbo Records Shutters After Pressing Records For 80 Years (Corrected 11/15/19)
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2019
Rainbo Records' President Steve Sheldon announced the other day that after pressing records for 80 years the company would close and liquidate its assets—and not because of a business slowdown. Quite the opposite as everyone knows.

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Ray Sings, Basie Swings on 140g 2LP Collection from Tangerine Records on September 23
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 27, 2022

To slightly modify a line from “Let the Good Times Roll” . . . hey y’all, tell everybody Ray Charles is back on wax — and this time, he's got the Count Basie Orchestra with him. To wit: Tangerine Records will re-release the October 2006 album Ray Sings, Basie Swings on September 23, 2022, in a 140g 2LP collection pressed by IRP.

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Read "The Long Play" by Colette LaBouff Published in The Morning News
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 20, 2014
A reader forwarded a link to a story by Colette LaBouff published in The Morning News, "a magazine of essays, art, humor and culture" that I'm 100% certain you will enjoy reading. The publisher has generously granted us permission to provide the link.

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Reader Complains About Rainbo Pressing
Michael Fremer  |  May 05, 2011
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Reader Takes Record Cleaning to the Extremes In YouTube Video
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2012
Reader Tony Crocker emailed me with the URL for his YouTube record cleaning video. Crocker bases it in part on the one written for The Tracking Angle by Michael Wayne some years ago that you can access on this site.
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Recent Cable Test Bogus? Can't We All Get Along?
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 07, 2014
Was the recent cable test result wherein approximately 80% of the participants heard a difference and described it consistent with my original observations due to a variable other than the cables (leaving aside that we did note the junction box variable as a possible cause)?

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Record Store Day 2020 “RSD Drops” Finally Approaching!
Malachi Lui  |  Aug 20, 2020
After two COVID-19-induced delays, Record Store Day 2020 is finally (sort of) happening. Instead of the usual huge event, in an attempt to “socially distance” RSD, the releases will drop on three Saturdays over as many months. These “RSD Drops” occur August 29, September 26, and October 24, and in my opinion might fail the social distancing test. In particular, the August 29 drop has huge releases with diverse audiences; I predict that this first drop will be rather busy, leaving the latter two far emptier. I’ll be lining up early at Music Millennium on August 29 (last year’s event at Everyday Music was unsuccessful) for a large set of releases. Here are this year’s most noteworthy RSD items:

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Record Store Day April 20th 2013
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 21, 2013
The line snaked down the block outside of Music Merchant in Westwood, NJ the morning of Record Store Day April 20th 2013. It was 7:30 AM well before I got there, you can be sure. Others told me about the scene, including the store's owner.

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Record Store Day Black Friday 2016 Offerings
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 23, 2016
Here are some of the RSD Black Friday 2016 Limited Edition offerings:

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Record Store Day Postponed Until June 20th, 2020
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 13, 2020
For obvious reasons, RSD 2020 scheduled for April 18th has been postponed until June 20th.
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Record Store Day Ruined By Grumpy Old Man!
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 19, 2014
How was your RSD? Mine was ruined by a grumpy old man at my local record store, Music Merchants in Westwood, New Jersey.

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Record Store Day, Black Friday Edition, Offers a Wide Variety of RSD Exclusive and RSD First Titles on November 24
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 04, 2023

We’re always excited when the next round of Record Store Day titles is announced, and this week has already seen a flurry of notices about a slew of great Black Friday RSD Exclusive and RSD First titles that will be available at participating Record Store Day shops on November 24. Read on to find out what some of our early RSD Black Friday favorites are, what their respective limited-edition pressings are capped at, and if they’re being offered on black or color vinyl. . .

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Record Technology Incorporated (RTI) Set to Press 4 Million+ Records in 2016
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 03, 2015
Adele's 25 sold 22,000 vinyl copies in its first week. Yes, that's a fraction of the total sales of 3.8 million copies sold but it's still impressive in our niche world (photo taken during video shoot for "It's a Vinyl World After All" DVD).

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Recording Engineer, Producer Elliot Mazer, R.I.P.
Harvey Kubernik  |  Feb 11, 2021
(Copyright 2021, Harvey Kubernik) (Eliot Mazer photo courtesy Burson Audio.)

Elliot Mazer, the recording engineer and record producer who worked with Kenny Burrell, Chubby Checker, Maynard Ferguson, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Jack Nitzsche, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and The Band died this past weekend at his San Francisco home at age 79. Cause of death was a heart attack. Mazer had battled dementia for a number of years.

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Reference Recordings to Release New Doug MacLeod Album on CD and Double 45rpm LP
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 05, 2013
On March 12, 2013 Reference Recordings will release a CD version and then sometime later a double 45rpm 1/2 speed mastered 200 gram Quality Record Pressings edition of a new recording by Piedmont blues specialist Doug MacLeod.
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