This Vinyl record was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Tipos en su Tinta Workshop. The experimental musician Ernst Surberg visited our workshop and was inspired by the sounds and interacting movements of the ‘bodies’: machines and humans. Recordings of the activity became the fundamental resources from which the tracks derived. In a rather tedious post-production process, in which Ernst Surberg reshaped them, at times leaving them untouched, at times subjecting them to completely new ideas.

The concept for the cover design was to reflect the unique mixture of mechanical sounds from the workshop and their modulations with the synthesizer. We came up with the idea to use recently obsolete material from our short-living-modern-times like computers and other discarded objects and to print them on our restored printing press from the nineteen twenties. Bringing all these obsolete objects to type height, they became usable again for the letterpress printing technique.

Just as with the vinyl record, the letterpress technique is living a revival which shows that they are both far away from being obsolete. As a homage to the Golden Times of Vinyl and Rock 'n Roll we chose to create a kind of "Cyborg-Jagger" on the front cover.

All the texts on the cover where handset in lead type and printed manually on our Robel Proof Press in October 2023. The record was produced in a limited edition of a hundred copies and comes with a signed poster.

Letterpress on Robel Proofpress in 2 colors on Invercote, 380 gr (LP-Cover) and Natural 160 gr (Poster)

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