Jay Millar from United Record Pressing had a booth at the SXSW Trade Show, where he showed us how vinyl goes from handful of vinyl pellets to a trendy slab of tunes. Records start as pellets that are then melted down into a hockey puck sized disc, which is then pressed with 1,800 pounds of pressure. The excess is then cut away and melted back down to make more records.
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2009.