How to make bootleg VINYL!

File this under cool stuff that you'd NEVER even considered trying at home.


Materials Needed: word panels, glass plate, window seal, silicone, 1 record.



Using the wooden strips, make a box around the glass plate. Seal off the edges using the window cement. Make sure everything is air tight.



Place your record inside the box making sure that the portion to be copied is facing upward. Squeeze in some window cement to mark where the hole in the record is.



Mix the silicone (Smooth On OOMOO 30 or OOMOO 25) for about 3 minutes before pouring in to the mold.



Pour in the mixture. Start from one corner and let it fill-up the mold to about half a centimeter. Make sure it’s even. Let it dry for 6 hours.



Peel off the silicone from the cast. Cut off the excess using a cutter.



Pour the liquid plastic on top of the silicone cast.



Make sure that nothing spills over the round form. You can also brush off any air bubbles that might occur.



Carefully loosen the plate from the silicone form. Using a drill press, bore a hole through the center of the plate. You can use the silicone form as a template to make more copies.

There you have it. Your very own pirated record!




Info translated this from the German site Zeit.de.

(DIGGIN' CHICAGO) WINDY CITY CRATES: THE IMPRESSIONS - I GOTTA' KEEP ON MOVIN'

Here's one that's been glued to the turntable; the late great Curtis Mayfield with The Impressions doing 'I Gotta' Keep On Movin', released in 1964 on their second album The Never Ending Impressions. Most folks know Bob Marley's version, but this is the original! I love thinking of Bob and the boys hanging out in Kingston in the early 60s, listening to the soul music coming out of the Florida radio stations. Mayfield had a HUGE influence on Marley who covered him at least twice for a couple of his biggest hits. (Don't forget 'People Get Ready'!) The original Wailers were styled after the Impressions as a vocal trio. Sweet soul music is universal. Chicago to Kingston to the world!

WINDY CITY DISCO REDUX!

"The kind of record that makes us mighty proud to live in the Windy City -- and a long-overdue look at the wealth of rare club, disco, and soul cuts bubbling in the Chicago underground at the end of the 70s! During the early part of the decade, the city was widely known for some super-huge soul acts -- and in the 80s, house would raise Chicago to international fame -- but in the space between, the city kept on putting out some really wonderful music -- wicked little cuts issued on small indie labels, most of which never got any circulation outside the midwest! The Mr Peabody crate-digging team's collected together the best of the best from these overlooked years -- and also threw in a few of their own edits too..." DUSTYGROOVE.COM