((PKG)) VINYL REVIVAL
((VOA Ukrainian))
((Banner: Vinyl Revival))
((Reporter: Alina Golinata))
((Camera: Konstantin Golubchik))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Alexandria, Virginia))
((Banner: Vinyl records are now more popular than in
decades, but still make less than 6% overall music sale))
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
Ive put everything I have into this to make it a success. In
about 2013, the business, the industry got so busy that we
decided, you know, for us to stay relevant and service our
customers the way we want to service them and the way
they were requesting, was we needed to add pressing here,
in the States. So, that's when we started to look for new
equipment.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
At the time, there was no one making new pressing
equipment. We sought out a company in Germany to help
us manufacture high quality vinyl and we still work with them
today.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
We got a call from a gentleman in Mexico City, who had a
bunch of presses in a storage shed. So, we said those are
the same exact model, make and model of the ones that we
use in Germany. We know that they press very good
records. So, we brokered a deal to buy those from him.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
The artists, for a long time, were told that they couldn't put
out vinyl by the labels and, you know, they started to
demand it. So, you know, when the artists are driving the
format, that helps quite a bit as well.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
It's collectable. There's a kind of, its little bit more special.
You have larger graphics, you know. So, you can actually
see what the artist is intending you to see and feel when you
look at a record. So, you have your graphics. You have
your liner notes. Its collectable. Some people collect
different colors of vinyl.
((NATS))
((Mark Reiter, Director of Manufacturing Operations,
Furnace Record Pressing))
It's very easy and is very easy to put digital music on and
walk away from it to do something else. So, in some way, it
doesn't beg for attention, and in that way, it becomes, for
me, a little less special. A record requires you to be in the
same room with it. You're tending to it. You have to flip it
over. You can't just let it spin off, you know. So, it's a more,
sort of, visceral, almost personal experience.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
Its a great time to be a music fan, you know. Theres so
many avenues to buy music and, I think, vinyl is the value
add to all that. Its just better experience, better sound.
((NATS))
((VOA Ukrainian))
((Banner: Vinyl Revival))
((Reporter: Alina Golinata))
((Camera: Konstantin Golubchik))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Alexandria, Virginia))
((Banner: Vinyl records are now more popular than in
decades, but still make less than 6% overall music sale))
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
Ive put everything I have into this to make it a success. In
about 2013, the business, the industry got so busy that we
decided, you know, for us to stay relevant and service our
customers the way we want to service them and the way
they were requesting, was we needed to add pressing here,
in the States. So, that's when we started to look for new
equipment.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
At the time, there was no one making new pressing
equipment. We sought out a company in Germany to help
us manufacture high quality vinyl and we still work with them
today.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
We got a call from a gentleman in Mexico City, who had a
bunch of presses in a storage shed. So, we said those are
the same exact model, make and model of the ones that we
use in Germany. We know that they press very good
records. So, we brokered a deal to buy those from him.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
The artists, for a long time, were told that they couldn't put
out vinyl by the labels and, you know, they started to
demand it. So, you know, when the artists are driving the
format, that helps quite a bit as well.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
It's collectable. There's a kind of, its little bit more special.
You have larger graphics, you know. So, you can actually
see what the artist is intending you to see and feel when you
look at a record. So, you have your graphics. You have
your liner notes. Its collectable. Some people collect
different colors of vinyl.
((NATS))
((Mark Reiter, Director of Manufacturing Operations,
Furnace Record Pressing))
It's very easy and is very easy to put digital music on and
walk away from it to do something else. So, in some way, it
doesn't beg for attention, and in that way, it becomes, for
me, a little less special. A record requires you to be in the
same room with it. You're tending to it. You have to flip it
over. You can't just let it spin off, you know. So, it's a more,
sort of, visceral, almost personal experience.
((NATS))
((Eric Astor, Owner, Furnace Record Pressing))
Its a great time to be a music fan, you know. Theres so
many avenues to buy music and, I think, vinyl is the value
add to all that. Its just better experience, better sound.
((NATS))
