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AKING M 7 1 D 0 E 2 T R O I T november 6-7 2017 | the westin book cadillac | #makingvinyl #makingvinyl2017 #makingvinyldetroit SERVING INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS and RECORD LABELS since 1996 CD/ DVD/ VINYL MANUFACTURING www.COPYCATSMEDIA.com a division of The ADS Group 3 Contents 04 WELCOME FROM BRYAN AND LARRY 07 SPECIAL THANKS TO… 08 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10 - 15 KEYNOTERS: JACK WHITE, DARRYL (“DMC”) McDANIELS, MICHAEL KURTZ 16 FACTS & FIGURES 18 THINGS TO DO IN DETROIT 20 SPEAKER BIOS 33 THE ALEX AWARDS FINALISTS 34 ABOUT ALEX STEINWEISS & THE ALEX AWARDS 37 PERFORMER ARUM RAE 38 FEATURE: ANATOMY OF A DELUXE REISSUE — MURRAY HEAD’S NIGEL LIVED SERVING INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS 40 FEATURE: SUNPRESS VINYL CONTINUES REGGAE PRESSING LEGACY and RECORD LABELS since 1996 43 NOTABLE BOOK: ‘VINYL . ALBUM . COVER . ART’ CD/ DVD/ VINYL MANUFACTURING 44 GLOSSARY OF VINYL TERMS www.COPYCATSMEDIA.com a division of The ADS Group 4 MAKING VINYL DETROIT 2017 Produced by Colonial Purchasing Co-Op LLC Bryan Ekus President & Executive Producer of ‘Making Vinyl’ Larry Jaffee Conference Director Aaron Eaddy Bryan Ekus, President & Executive Producer Webmaster Steve Sheldon, Michael Kurtz Conference Advisors Anna DePagter Conference Design Bryan Ekus, Lucy Wykes Sponsorship Sales Larry Jaffee Program Guide Editor Darren Stacey Program Guide Designer Anna DePagter, David Hill Social Media Larry Jaffee, Conference Director 5 WELCOME TO MAKING VINYL By Bryan Ekus, President & Executive Producer and Larry Jaffee Conference Director You can’t make this stuff up. manufacturers to the plater/stamper makers and lathe cutters to the labels and indie retailers – Home entertainment format gets quickly replaced who perhaps didn’t have the opportunity to meet by supposed advanced technologies in fast each other in person previously. succession (i.e., Compact Disc, digital downloads, and streaming), only to re-emerge as a deluxe We’ve gathered in this great music city of Detroit – product that consumers are willing today to pay the culture that produced MOTOWN and its stellar twice as much for a newly pressed vinyl record artist roster in the 1960s, as well as everyone than they did for a CD!?! from John Lee Hooker, Bob Seger and Iggy & The Stooges to Madonna, Eminem and The White Yes, that sums up vinyl’s comeback, although it Stripes – to celebrate the rebirth of the global doesn’t acknowledge that it never really went record manufacturing. away, thanks to old-school DJs spinning dance records, purists with their thousand-dollar-plus We especially thank Day 2 Keynoter Darryl stereos catered to by a handful of audiophile (“DMC”) McDaniels and Karl Groeger’s help labels, and flea-market crate diggers looking in securing the rap legend, as well as Fellow for collectibles. One person’s trash is another’s Keynoter/Detroit Favorite Son Jack White for treasure, indeed. opening up his spanking new Third Man Pressing to all Making Vinyl delegates, and especially Nor does all the commercial activity surrounding TMP’s Ben Blackwell and Roe Peterhans for vinyl – a $1 billion global business, estimates helping us figure out the logistics, and making Deloitte – give enough credit to the dozen or available other TMP staff for the panel sessions. so pressing plants around the world that never You guys are the best! quite gave up manufacturing records with their antiquated equipment. It takes a village to mount a first-time event like this one (see thank you’s on page 38), but we’d be But Vinyl 2.0 is not your father’s record business. remiss not to acknowledge Rainbo Records and New machinery and materials suppliers have Colonial Purchasing Co-op board member Steve perfected nearly century-old processes with Sheldon for his guidance and encouragement higher yields, sustainability and better-sounding in getting the ball rolling, as well as Opening records! Keynoter Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton for It’s no wonder that for the past two months since coming up with Record Store Day. Without RSD, the conference began taking registrations, a week you probably wouldn’t be reading this Making didn’t go by that we learned of a new pressing Vinyl program guide. plant already operational or soon to be online. We’re already planning future editions of this Making Vinyl is bringing together the great event. We have no doubt this fascinating industry minds all along the vinyl value chain – from the is only getting started. pressing plants to the mastering facilities and PVC 6 cdbb-making-vinyl-ad-2017-half-page-FINAL.pdf 1 10/20/17 1:04 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K F R E E F O R I P H O N E A N D A N D R O I D On the fly or before you fly. 100,000 users have found 3,500 record stores in 45 countries with The Vinyl District Record Store Locator app—the planet’s largest database of existing record shops right in your pocket. thevinyldistrict.com 7 SPECIAL THANKS… The inaugural Making Vinyl would not have been possible without the help from… Steve Sheldon Jack White Ben Blackwell Roe Peterhans Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Produced By Conference Partner Hometown Sponsor Connie Comeau Anna Depater Brandon Chrzanowski Michael Kurtz Carrie Colliton Karl Groeger Michael Hosp Diamond Sponsor Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsor Gold Sponsor Frank Hartwig Pat Reagan William (Tony) Van Veen Sylvia Doolittle David Hill Silver Sponsor Silver Sponsor Silver Sponsor Lucy Wykes Lyndsey Nice Darren Stacey Aaron Eaddy Doug Coombe Bronze Sponsor Bronze Sponsor Bronze Sponsor Bronze Sponsor Adam Stanfel Patrick Ferrell FULFILLMENT SERVICES Stefan Bucher Arum Rae Association Partner Association Partner Craig Braun Nicole Pereira Spencer Drate Sean Mosher Smith Judith Salavetz Media Partner Media Partner Media Partner Media Partner Gail Marowitz Sylvia Reed [Rodrigo] Salomon Arts Gallery Diego Ponce Additional Sponsors Bill Kelly Cindy Ekus The City of Detroit The Westin Book Cadillac The MEDIA-TECH Association Members of Colonial Purchasing All of our sponsors & speakers 8 MAKING VINYL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DAY 1 – MORNING SESSION DAY 1 – AFTERNOON SESSION 8:00 am 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Registration opens LUNCH BREAK 9:00 am - 9:10 am 1:45 pm -2:45 pm Welcome: Bryan Ekus & Larry Jaffee, Program Chair Presentations: New Machinery and Materials Suppliers 9:10 am - 9:30 am No longer must vinyl manufacturers comb eBay for Opening Keynote scrap parts to get antiquated lines operating, thanks Speaker: Michael Kurtz, Record Store Day Co-Founder new suppliers of state-of-the-art, more efficient on 10 Years of Double-Digit Growth equipment. What started as a lark ended up being one of the most Moderator: Brandon Chrzanowski,Third Man Pressing / fascinating rebirths in the history of business. Speakers: Chad Brown, Viryl Technologies / Pierre-Henri 9:30 am - 9:50 am Constant, RESINOPLAST / Per-Olof Ragnerius, Pheenix The LP’s Return Is Real: By the Numbers Alpha AB / Alex Greenspan. Digital Matrix Systems Vinyl’s resurgence is much greater than what the 2:45pm - 3:45 pm mainstream media reports. Panel: The Audiophile Vinyl Workflow Market analyses by Chris Muratore, BuzzAngle/Border Audiophiles never abandoned vinyl. Trace the City Media and Chad Dahlstrom, Discogs.com production cycle of a state-of-the-art release from 9:50 am - 10:50 am the perspectives of a label, analog tape archivist, Panel: Why We Never Gave Up on Vinyl mastering engineer, and a pressing plant that Leading global vinyl manufacturers explain they specializes in audiophile cutting. never gave up hope on making records, and how the Moderator: Michael Fremer, Analog Planet / Speakers: Greg Parkin, Iron Mountain / Mark Piro, Analog Planet business has changed compared to the old days. / Ryan Smith, Sterling Sound / Don MacInnis, Record Moderator: Randy Cholewa,Third Man Pressing / Technology Inc. Speakers: Don MacInnis, Record Technology Inc. / Steve Sheldon, Rainbo Records / Peter Runge, Optimal Media / 3:45 pm - 4:05 pm Alban Pingoet, MPO / Michal Štěrba, GZ Vinyl AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK 10:50 am - 11:20 am 4:05 pm - 5:00 pm NETWORKING BREAK Panel: Packaging Makes Music Sound Better 11:20 am-12:20 pm One of the reasons vinyl returned is its 12” x 12” canvas. Art directors and packaging suppliers discuss Panel: What It Takes to Set Up a New Vinyl Plant Newly opened vinyl manufacturers trade notes on why album aesthetics, creativity and eye-catching printing they recently took the plunge of starting a pressing and paper. Moderator: Gail Marowitz, The Visual Strategist / plant from scratch and what they learned along the Speakers: Jack Stoughton, Jr , Stoughton Printing / way. Ross-Ellis Printing, Inc., Nina Palmer / Dorado Music Moderator: Donny Eastland, RecordPressingMachines. Packaging, Jennifer Freund / 344 Design, Stefan com / Speakers: Noble Musa, Microforum Vinyl Record Bucher Pressing / Gary Salstrom, Quality Record Pressings / Mark Rainey, Cascade Record Pressing / Brandon Seavers, 5:00 pm - 5:20pm Memphis Record Pressing / Patrick George, Third Man Keynote: Jack White, Founder of Third Man Records Pressing / Dan Yashiv, SunPress Vinyl / Eric Astor, Furnace and Third Man Pressing Mfg. 6:00 pm COCKTAIL NETWORKING HOUR 7:00 pm ALEX AWARDS Last presented in 2006, the “Alex Awards” are in honor of Alex Steinweiss, who commercialized the concept of album graphics in 1939 for Columbia Records. Hosted by actor Craig Braun, also a Grammy-winning album designer. Awards ceremony to 9 pm. 9 MAKING VINYL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DAY 2 – ALL SESSIONS 8:30 am - 8:50 am 11:00 am - 11:45 am Morning Keynote: Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Panel: Big & Small Labels Talk Vinyl Co-founder of the legendary 1980s rap group RUN- The resurgence of vinyl records caught major labels by DMC explains how important vinyl has been to his surprise, but now they’re behind it fully with releasing career.