Your manufacturing partner for iconic physical media
We make vinyl and CDs for artists, labels and agencies — and we design what goes around them. Short runs to large ones, classic black to picture discs and liquid-filled records, and the box sets and packaging that make a release a timeless collector item.
Who we are
Everything a release needs to exist in the world: vinyl, CD, and the packaging that carries them, manufactured in Europe. Our creative design studio works beside you from the first idea, architecting a vision into something you can hold — specified, engineered and made as one job rather than five.
Your one-stop partner for physical music media manufacturing in Europe.
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One partner, concept to pallet
Creative direction is part of the service, not an extra. Bring us a release, a campaign or a half-formed idea and we will shape it, specify it and manufacture it: vinyl, CD, special pressings, custom packaging and box sets.
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The best hands at every stage
Cutting, plating, pressing, printing and finishing each go to specialists we have chosen and worked with across more than twenty years in this industry. That is how a release arrives right, on the date we said — and how the price stays honest, because you are paying for the work rather than a chain of middlemen.
The studio
From first idea to mock-up and print-ready artwork.
Design here is craft and engineering at once. Our own team — people with the training and the hands-on experience — brings you creative directions to choose from, shows them as mock-ups of the finished release, checks every idea against what board, paper and vinyl can actually do, and takes the one you pick all the way to files that are ready to print.
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Special editions
Numbered runs, alternate sleeves, obi strips, die-cuts, foils and boards chosen for how they age. The kind of edition people keep rather than play.
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Campaigns
Artwork that has to hold up as a 12" sleeve, a digipak, a poster and a thumbnail. We design the whole set, not one image and five crops.
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Structure
Box sets and slipcases have to fold, glue and survive a pallet. Drawn as an object first, decorated second.
What it costs
From €990
Complete design service, per release
Included
- One call to scope the release
- Three distinct directions
- A round of revisions
- Print-ready files, checked against the die-line
Pressing with us? Advice on what is possible — formats, finishes, what artwork can and cannot survive — comes with the job. We do not charge for it. A standalone studio session, for agencies and designers who want that conversation without the production, is available on request. Prices are net of VAT.
Talk to the studioYour creative options
Picture discs, liquid-filled records, splatter, split colours, marbled effects and finishes that do not have a name yet. Multi-record box sets and custom packaging too. We would rather hear an ambitious idea than a safe one.
Solid colour
Splatter
Marbled
Picture disc
Filled record
Split colour
CD
CDs, on their own or with your vinyl
Order CDs on their own, or together with your vinyl. Combined, the whole release is packed to match and handled by one team. Either way, it is your choice.
Printed your way
Screen print for type, Pantone and metallic inks; offset for photographs and fine detail. On a white base, or straight onto the silver.
Packed to match
From a paper sleeve or card wallet to a digisleeve, digifile, digipak or jewel case with booklet, and a brilliant box for double CDs.
Quick to turn around
About three to four weeks, from 100 copies: no lacquer to cut and no test pressing to wait for. Up to 80 minutes of audio per disc.
Sustainability
Responsibility, built into every order
Every record we make starts with choices: who presses it, what it is made of, and how far it travels. We make those choices with the planet and the people involved in mind, and we keep them measurable.
The partners we choose
- We work with plants and printers selected on our own standards: working conditions, how they handle offcuts, regrind and process water, and how openly they answer.
- Our partners measure their carbon emissions across the chain, from the PVC supplier to manufacturing and shipping, so the footprint of a pressing is known, not guessed.
Short distances
- We favour plants close to where your records are going, within Europe.
- Records travel by road or sea, never by air, consolidated onto as few pallets as the run allows. Collection straight from the plant is always an option.
Less material, less waste
- We quote 140g as standard. It takes about 22% of the PVC out of every record, and it does not sound worse.
- Shrink wrap is an option, not a default, and paper inner sleeves are used wherever the record allows.
- We help you order the quantity you will actually sell: unsold stock is the biggest waste of all.
The questions we get first
Short answers. The FAQ has the long ones.
- How does an order work?
- Describe the project in the configurator, or just write to us. You get a written quote back, usually within a couple of working days. Approve it, send audio and artwork, and we cut a lacquer and press test pressings for you to sign off. Then the run goes ahead, and we tell you where it stands at each stage.
- What do you actually make?
- Records and the objects around them. Vinyl in the formats and finishes we can source, CDs, and packaging from a plain sleeve to a rigid box set — plus the design, if you want it. The studio can take a release from a rough idea to print-ready files, drawn against the real die-line rather than corrected at the plant.
- How long does it take?
- Around six to eight weeks from a confirmed order with complete, approved files. That is the standard, not the limit. If you are working to a release date, a tour or a campaign, tell us the deadline before you write the project off — we will say honestly whether it can be done, and we like being asked. Either way you get a realistic date with the quote rather than an optimistic one.
- Is there a minimum quantity?
- Yes — 200 copies. Below that the setup costs swamp the run and the per-unit price stops making sense for anyone. Above it there is no ceiling, and the per-unit price falls as the run grows, so it is often worth asking for two quantities side by side.
- Do I have to take test pressings?
- Strongly recommended, and five are included in every package. Waiving them means approving a record nobody has heard, and it limits what can be claimed if the pressing disappoints.
- What about VAT and shipping?
- The prices shown on this site are net and ex works — no VAT, no shipping. Your actual quotation arrives as a PDF by email and can differ: VAT is added where it is chargeable, which depends on where you are and whether you have a valid VAT number, and shipping is priced once we have the full delivery address. Both appear as their own lines, so nothing is folded into the unit price.