TVD Radar: The Podcast with Evan Toth, Episode 137: Dustin Blocker

It’s one factor to like vinyl records and to take pleasure in listening to them, most individuals cease there. But, you would possibly even go a step additional and really embrace vinyl tradition and develop into a critical collector, there are many these people, too. But it’s an entire different ball of wax to be taught the ins and outs of really creating discs and turning into concerned within the manufacturing course of. That’s simply what Dustin Blocker has executed.

Originally, Dustin was a musician who quickly turned his consideration to the file label trade by founding North Texas-based artist-centric file label Hand Drawn Records in 2011. Just a few years later, in 2014, he began Hand Drawn Pressing because the vinyl file manufacturing arm for the corporate. Dustin is Chief Creative Officer of Hand Drawn Records and Hand Drawn Pressing. Just earlier than the pandemic hit, Dustin grew to become occupied with what different vinyl producers had been doing to make their companies run at their peak ranges.

Instead of being suspicious of his competitors, Dustin—with a couple of different producers—created a vinyl manufacturing collective often known as The Vinyl Record Manufacturers Association (VRMA) which is knowledgeable commerce affiliation of impartial companies dedicated to the craft of vinyl file manufacturing by collaboration, advocacy, standardization, and training. Blocker presently serves because the group’s president.

So, if you happen to’d like a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes workings of the vinyl trade, maintain listening as Dustin and I speak in regards to the viability of vinyl as a long-term audio product, how manufacturing of vinyl has—and hasn’t—modified over the past century and the way the trade works collectively to make sure that the polyvinyl chloride discs that we love of are of a sustainably high-quality for years to come back.

Evan Toth is a songwriter, skilled musician, educator, radio host, avid file collector, and hi-fi aficionado. Toth hosts and produces The Evan Toth Show and TVD Radar on WFDU, 89.1 FM. Follow him on the typical social media locations and go to his web site.

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