remembering privacy and security settings remembering account, browser, and regional preferences The Vinyl Factory Group, trading as: The Vinyl Factory, Vinyl Factory Manufacturing, Phonica Records, FACT Magazine, FACT TV, Spaces Magazine, Vinyl Space, and The Store X, uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Sampling ‘Withnail & I’ for the title refrain of ‘London Is A Country Coming Down From It’s Trip’, it’s drum n bass in the style of his Plug releases with no labels on the actual record and virtually no other info. So far, the only 11″ record I’ve found is an obscure glow in the dark vinyl single by Wagon Christ, released on German label, Electro Bunker Cologne in the late ’90s. So far, we’ve had 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8″s to add to the usual 7, 10 and 12. Another famous 9″ was made by Nine Inch Nails for a limited edition version of their ‘Sin’ single in the UK. produced both a 5″ ‘Pocket Symphony’ single and an 8″ picture disc in the mid ’90s via Sympathy For The Record Industry and a 9″ for Ochre Records. Working our way up the scale, Sonic Boom’s band E.A.R. ![]() ‘From A Rabbit’ came in a (Special Hip Pocket Edition) with a stickered cover and smaller labels on the disc itself. One wonders what difference the inch made when the cover also stated ‘Do not pay more than 60 pence’.Īnother 6″ appeared in the late ’70s, again also in 7″ form, from the band Radio Stars. If this does not work you are advised to invest in the seven inch version’. The cover bears the legend: ‘This record may not play on automatic decks. There were experiments with odd sizes in the ’80s from labels like A&M with a 5″ from the band Squeeze and Stiff, who, bizarrely, produced a 6″ version of Jona Lewie’s ‘Big Shot Momentarily’ as well as a 7″ and 12″. They spun at 33rpm, were sold at counters or from vending machines and retailed at about 50 cents. The late ’60s saw a brief fad for 4″ Pocket Discs in the States or ‘Hip Pocket Records’ as one company marketed them – 3.5 minutes of music that could be carried in your pocket or sent in an envelope without breaking. As far back as the ’50s there were 6″ and 8″ children’s stories and nursery rhymes that spun at 78rpm, sometimes on splatter or sunburst coloured vinyl. In the 1930s, before vinyl as we know it existed, some transcription discs were a whopping 16″s, cut onto aluminium and used to broadcast radio shows. Records come in three sizes: 7″, 10″ and 12″, right? Not always. ![]() Words: DJ Food / Photography: Michael Wilkin & Kevin Foakes ![]() Following from his eye-popping look at 3D covers and optical-art record sleeves, Food unpacks records of all sizes from 2 right up to 16″. To remedy this, we’ve invited Food to hold down a monthly column exploring the stranger corners of his collection, from mini-records to postcard novelties. Having let us into his peerless collection of flexi-discs we were blown away by the variety of weird and wonderful records that remained largely undocumented in his impeccably organised shelves. Keeper of one of the country’s most eclectic record collections, he’s spent the last two decades supplementing his vast archive of beats and breaks with forgotten relics from vinyl’s more obscure niches.Ī graphic designer with a passion for comic book culture and visual ephemera, his attention to record sleeves and packaging is second nature. “My criteria is… when you look at a record and go ‘WTF?’” A collector’s collector, if anyone’s got an eye for the unusual it’s DJ Food.
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