Then, in the early 2000s, most everyone started getting their music digitally, as MP3s, on their iPods. Records, which for decades had been the lingua franca of the music business, begat eight-track tapes, which begat cassettes, which begat compact discs. There was a time, not long ago, when vinyl had essentially disappeared. Salstrom and his small team will QC the product right there, and once the records are good to go, they’ll be placed in their sleeves, and the sleeves will be placed in their jackets, and the jackets will be wrapped in cellophane and stacked on pallets and shipped out to the vinyl-loving masses around the world. The grooves will be pressed into 140- or 180-gram discs, which are heavier than the flimsy platters of yore, and yes, they will almost certainly sound even better than those in your parents’ collections. The albums will be made in just about every color of the spectrum, but some will also be black, because the records we all grew up with were black.
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“It all comes full circle.”īut before any of that, Vinyl Me, Please will start by making LPs for its members, for those who buy single records on its website, and for the partners who helped finance the pressing plant project. “You can grab a coffee or a cocktail and then sit down at a listening station and hear a record that’s been pressed right there,” says Brandon Anderson, a principal at LIVstudio and an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Colorado Boulder, who designed the space. And there’ll be tours, so anyone who pops by will be able to see how a record actually gets made. Eventually-likely this fall-there will be a cafe and bar and a wall of records. There were also schematics near the front door of the building, which detailed what the so-called front of the house would look like. There were tangible things: the company’s first record press, still disassembled and wrapped in plastic over here a rotary plating tank over there a group of tubs used for cleaning and silvering sitting somewhat askew in the middle of the room. The space may have looked bare to me, but to Schaefer, Kylberg, and Salstrom, it was full of potential. Pending any last-minute hiccups, Schaefer and company were anticipating that the first records would be pressed sometime in early summer. On the north side of the building, six thick slabs of concrete constitute the floor the record presses will sit on the reinforced pads, which are designed to dampen unwanted vibration before it comes through the pressing machines. The 14,000-square-foot structure, which has high, arched ceilings, was mostly empty, and parts of the floor were still dirt and gravel. Still, though, there was much work to be done before VMP could actually start pressing records. Tom’s Starlight Still Shines After Making a Full 180 From Tom’s Diner.Why Did a Colorado Man Set Himself on Fire in Washington, D.C.?.5 Ways Coloradans Can Save Money By Going Green.A New Breed of Outfitters Is Making Denim Built for Adventuring.20 Colorado Health Startups That Will Change Your Life.The objective of opening the plant at this particular location, Schaefer says, is to help build a one-of-a-kind, mile-high music district. Down the road a few blocks: Victrola, which has been making turntables, under a variety of different names, for more than 100 years. Next to Mission Ballroom sits a three-story monolith that houses the offices of Anschutz Entertainment Group, better known as AEG-which owns the concert hall-and a Left Hand Brewing taproom. Looking out the front door, with Marley by my side, I could see Mission Ballroom, the crown jewel of Denver’s indoor concert venues, across the street. Along with Schaefer were Rich Kylberg, VMP’s chief strategy officer Gary Salstrom, a veteran of the record pressing business who will run operations and Salstrom’s dog, Marley.
I visited 4201 Brighton on a cold, clear day this past January with Cameron Schaefer, the CEO of Vinyl Me, Please (VMP), the Denver-based record-of-the-month club that purchased the RiNo structure that will become the home of its new record pressing plant.
Situated on an industrial stretch of Brighton Boulevard, roughly a football field’s distance from a cluster of train tracks on one side and the South Platte River on the other, sits an unremarkable building for which, if you are fanatical about music, there are remarkable plans in the making. The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. Celebrate The Best Restaurants at 5280 Dines This October!.The 25 Best Neighborhoods in Denver in 2023.
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