Kollector's Blog

11 Nov

when a record cover becomes Art on your...

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Besides the audio loss inherent to an mp3 download, one also experiment nowadays the very sad disapperance of the record cover...Vinyl albums and twelves inches had the space to display what sometimes turned into real art...Record Covers !

UK's Andrew Heeps from Art Vinyl had a GREAT idea. As a music lover, and very good businessman, he has developped the already successful commercial venture of selling iconic albums in frames you'll put on your wall but can open to get the record out and play...Already 100.000 of these special frames have been sold. The common price for these items are about 50 UK £ and a shirtlist of iconic records and sleeves has been selected, but you can put any album sleeve, or 12" sleeve, in these astute frames...and your wall starts to be an art gallery http://www.artvinyl.com/en/gallery/index.html

Just in time for Christmas, non ? ;)

http://www.artvinyl.com/index.html

07 Nov

Is crowdfunding the way to go ?

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music business, music industry, vinyl

These days, we hear more and more about crowd-funding for music related "products": records (but also movies) are being made possible by the injection of funds from the public, charmed and interested in a specific project.
The idea of crowd-funding isn't new but it attracks more and more people and groups who relay on this social based dynamic to get running on a documentary, an album, an art project.

Vinylmania is one of these great project: an italian vinyl lover wants to make a 75 minutes documentary about how he got entangled in music and he visits 11 different cities in the world, meets many different people, all as bitten as him by the love of music and it's paramount object: the vinyl. His film embodies so well the love for music and its physical presence, something we're losing when buying an mp3: lines of codes lost among other lines of codes can't compete with a 30cm Long Playing with a cover, an artwork sometimes as important as its musical half.

see here for more infos about Paolo Campana and his documentary project: http://www....

18 Jul

Watch 10 years in 10 seconds !

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music industry, vinyl

Don't diagrams look real cool when they are shaped like a camembert waiting to be spread over une baguette ? These nice moons show well how music sales have drastically changed format these last ten years: from CD sales to more and more digital formats and subscriptions to stream radios. One is also rather satisfied to see that digital sales of albums start to slowly pick up, after a few desolate years where punters were only buying digital singles. And guess what, vinyls seems to hit back too ! this said, the music industry isn't off the hook yet: attendance at concerts are getting lower (no wonder they are as the tickets price are rocketing to absurd levels) and one recent US study found out that people were in fact only listening to 19% of the Itunes music they had on their hard disc: the simple act of digitally buying music doesn't mean people are actually listening to it. Shock ! http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/042911ten