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A curated hub for the people, places, and culture that shape the world of vinyl. This section brings together record stores, collector tools, blogs, communities, and general resources that sit outside the manufacturing pipeline.

Las Dunas Records

Las Dunas Records is a vinyl record store and speciality coffee shop based in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, Mexico. The shop carries a broad catalogue of new vinyl releases across genres including rock, jazz, hip-hop, electronic, blues, metal and pop. Las Dunas have recently set up a recording lathe, a TKV; it’s a […]

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ICONYC ONE

Founded in New York in 2016, ICONYC ONE is a 360° distribution and rights management platform for electronic music artists and labels. Created in partnership with Beatport, it brings royalty accounting, marketing, vinyl production, and radio access together in a single infrastructure, giving labels and artists everything they need to operate at the highest level, […]

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Making Vinyl Magazine

Making Vinyl Magazine is a free printed publication produced for the global vinyl record industry. It evolved from the Making Vinyl conference guide into a full-fledged magazine, with each issue covering the topics that matter most to the industry: trends and market insights, sustainability and materials innovation, pressing plants, packaging and supply chain, equipment, technology […]

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VRMA

The Vinyl Record Manufacturers Association (VRMA) is a non-profit trade organisation that supports independent businesses involved in vinyl manufacturing. It offers member companies a forum to discuss ongoing challenges, industry trends, and emerging technologies. The association also works to establish manufacturing standards and leads initiatives in areas such as sustainability, carbon footprint reduction, and quality […]

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Making Vinyl

Founded in 2017, Making Vinyl is the world’s leading B2B conference and industry platform for the global vinyl-record supply chain, connecting record pressing plants, labels, mastering engineers, equipment suppliers, packaging firms, retailers, and the physical-music business. Future events include Tokyo in June 2027 and a return to Haarlem, Netherlands, on 29 September–1 October 2027.

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Diggin’ It Barcelona

Diggin’ It is a music-and-vinyl Substack newsletter that focuses on discovering records through the people, places, and experiences connected to them. Karol, a Polish-born drummer and vinyl enthusiast based in Barcelona, writes it, and rather than being a conventional record-review publication or an industry newsletter, it has a personal, travel-oriented feel as he digs through […]

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Vinyl Record Manufacturing Guide

Vinyl Record Manufacturing: A Field Guide For Independent Artists, is a free, practical PDF guide from the VRMA and is a beginner-friendly overview of the process of pressing music on vinyl. It explains the main production stages, available vinyl materials, supplier options, expected timelines, and practical advice for a first pressing. The guide presents vinyl […]

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Tokyo Record Style

Tokyo Record Style is a one‑man documentary project by Brian, an American living in Tokyo, who roams the city photographing record collectors, interviewing them about their recent vinyl purchases, and building a community around Tokyo’s record‑shop culture. It’s part street photography, part micro‑journalism, part love letter to vinyl culture. Brian also runs Tokyo Record Service, […]

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Vinyl Summit

The Acoustic Sounds Vinyl Summit is a new, four‑day, analogue-culture mega‑event held in Salina, Kansas, from October 15–18, 2026, created to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Chad Kassem’s Acoustic Sounds. It’s positioned as a landmark gathering for audiophiles, collectors, mastering engineers, and industry insiders, offering behind‑the‑scenes access to one of the world’s most complete analogue […]

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All You Can Dig

All You Can Dig is a monthly Substack newsletter for people who love digging into records, stories and places around electronic music culture. Curated by Alessandra Gesualdi, it focuses on long‑form interviews with people who shape underground music culture: record‑store owners, synthpop veterans, Detroit techno artists and archivists of niche scenes, like Belgian New Beat.

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Black Screen Records

Founded in 2015 and based in Cologne, Germany, Black Screen Records (BSR) is a record label, distributor, and online retailer specialising in video-game soundtracks, anime music, and Japanese pop on vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital formats. BSR manages the full release pipeline in-house — from audio mastering and artwork through to pressing, packaging, and global […]

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Record Label Academy

Scott Orr’s Other Record Labels is dedicated to helping independent record labels start, grow, and succeed. It offers a variety of resources, including courses, coaching, books, and free tools designed to simplify the process of running a label. The Record Label Academy provides lifetime access to educational materials, templates, and expert advice. Additionally, it features a free toolkit with checklists, […]

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Kompakt Records

Founded in 1993, Kompakt is an independent electronic music record label, record store and webshop based in Cologne, Germany, known for pioneering the minimal techno and microhouse genres. Started as a small record shop specialising in dance music, Kompakt now offers global distribution of digital and physical releases alongside an ever-growing list of label services, […]

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Hard Wax Berlin

Hard Wax is a Berlin-based record store and one of the world’s leading shops for cutting-edge electronic dance music, such as techno, house, dub, and bass music, founded in December 1989 by Mark Ernestus of Basic Channel. It quickly became a communication hub for the international techno scene and is widely credited with shaping Berlin’s […]

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Record Scanner

Record Scanner is a fast, lightweight barcode‑scanning app for iOS and Android devices that pulls vinyl, CD and cassette release data directly from Discogs. You can easily identify a record by scanning its cover, barcode, or catalogue number and establish the vinyl, CDs and cassettes’ current market value. It supports large‑scale collection updates and file […]

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Gen Z & Vinyl Report

New Vinyl Alliance research surveying 2,500+ fans finds Gen Z (18–24) is now the primary driver of vinyl’s growth. 76% buy records monthly, 80% own a turntable, and 87% prioritise sound quality. Gen Z uses social media to build vinyl communities while turning to records as a mindful break from digital life, with 61% replacing […]

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Discogs

Discogs is the world’s largest crowdsourced music database and marketplace, built by a global community of collectors. Users can catalogue their collections, research detailed release data, and buy or sell vinyl, CDs, and tapes. Its database spans 18M+ releases, 2.4M artists, and 2.1M labels, offering deep metadata including tracklists, credits, formats, variants, and release histories. […]

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MINT Magazine

MINT is a German-language magazine published bi-monthly and dedicated entirely to vinyl culture. It’s a meticulously researched, collector‑oriented publication launched in 2015 and now considered the country’s most authoritative print voice on records, pressing culture, collecting, and Hi‑Fi. There are deep-dive reportages on topics like counterfeits, bootlegs, pressing plant issues, sustainability, collector psychology and forensic […]

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