Vinyl Session
Facts, tips and ideas about Vinyl Session — and how to find people for it.
Did you know?
A record makes you hear an album whole and flip it over — music as something you do, not just leave running in the background.
In 2022, vinyl brought in more revenue than CDs in the US for the first time since 1987 — driven not by nostalgia but by a younger generation for whom the album as a physical object is worth something no stream can be.
Source: WikipediaA 33-1/3 record holds about 22 minutes per side — any longer and the grooves get so tight that the needle loses bass energy. The typical album length of the sixties wasn't an artistic decision, it was a vinyl limit.
Source: Wikipedia
Tip
Clean the record with an anti-static brush before every play. Crackle has nothing to do with charm — clean records sound like a studio recording, dirty ones like a faucet.
Forty minutes of one album, no skipping and no talking. Afterwards each of you says one sentence.
Break the ice
“Which record do you put on when someone comes to your place for the first time?”
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