The title of a feature article in The Independent, a UK national newspaper, on 16 December about the Electric Recording Company based in London.
The owner and founder, Peter Hutchison, has been producing new vinyl records.The company faithfully reproduces ultra rare 1950s and 1960s LPs from the original masters using only vintage valve driven equipment.It also includes recreating album sleeves using authentic materials, typesetting the lettering and printing on a five and a half ton Heidelberg cylinder press dating from the 1950s.
A single product can take up to a year to create and to date has produced only seven classical releases priced between £300 and £2,500 and limited to 300 copies only.The last is a lavish seven disc compilation of Mozarts work in Paris originally produced by Freanch Pathe to celebrate the bicentenary of Mozarts's birth. Having struck a deal with Los Angeles based Concord Music Group Hutchison is now looking to work with the master tapes from seminal American jazz labels Prestige,Riverside and New Jazz.
He has located and had restored some of the few surviving examples of the valve equipment.
In January the label will begin releasing rare American jazz recordings from the 1950s and 1960s by artists including Tommy Flanagan, Hank Mobley, Elmo Hope, and John Coltrane, all produced by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder,
At a cost of £50,000 Hutchison set about acquiring and restoring the 1950s original valve processing tools used by the producer. They include a Gotham cutting amplifier, Ampex 300 valve tape machine and a Scully Lathe adapted for UK mains by retired Rolls Royce service engineers.The new set up enables Hutchison to cut master lacquers in true mono from the original master tapes using all valve equipment.
The reporter listened to some of the Mozart discs and said:-
"The sound leaps from the speakers (not specified) and fills the room with a remarkable vitality that is truly captivating. The detail is so sharp it feels as if the musicians are present; every nuance of Jacques Dumont violin and Robert Veyron-Lacroix harpsichord is captured beautifully. I can almost hear them breathe. I sit back in silence and marvel at the clarity."
It is the first I have heard of this company and it sounds really exciting if expensive. I now going to check them out as I assume they have a website in the company's name and I am sure other members will wish to do the same.
Christian, some vinyl truly worthy of your system!
The owner and founder, Peter Hutchison, has been producing new vinyl records.The company faithfully reproduces ultra rare 1950s and 1960s LPs from the original masters using only vintage valve driven equipment.It also includes recreating album sleeves using authentic materials, typesetting the lettering and printing on a five and a half ton Heidelberg cylinder press dating from the 1950s.
A single product can take up to a year to create and to date has produced only seven classical releases priced between £300 and £2,500 and limited to 300 copies only.The last is a lavish seven disc compilation of Mozarts work in Paris originally produced by Freanch Pathe to celebrate the bicentenary of Mozarts's birth. Having struck a deal with Los Angeles based Concord Music Group Hutchison is now looking to work with the master tapes from seminal American jazz labels Prestige,Riverside and New Jazz.
He has located and had restored some of the few surviving examples of the valve equipment.
In January the label will begin releasing rare American jazz recordings from the 1950s and 1960s by artists including Tommy Flanagan, Hank Mobley, Elmo Hope, and John Coltrane, all produced by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder,
At a cost of £50,000 Hutchison set about acquiring and restoring the 1950s original valve processing tools used by the producer. They include a Gotham cutting amplifier, Ampex 300 valve tape machine and a Scully Lathe adapted for UK mains by retired Rolls Royce service engineers.The new set up enables Hutchison to cut master lacquers in true mono from the original master tapes using all valve equipment.
The reporter listened to some of the Mozart discs and said:-
"The sound leaps from the speakers (not specified) and fills the room with a remarkable vitality that is truly captivating. The detail is so sharp it feels as if the musicians are present; every nuance of Jacques Dumont violin and Robert Veyron-Lacroix harpsichord is captured beautifully. I can almost hear them breathe. I sit back in silence and marvel at the clarity."
It is the first I have heard of this company and it sounds really exciting if expensive. I now going to check them out as I assume they have a website in the company's name and I am sure other members will wish to do the same.
Christian, some vinyl truly worthy of your system!
