Monkey Box Set at The Vinyl Factory
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Every so often, you come across a vinyl boxed set that makes you realize just how lacking digital music is when it comes to packaging and experience. I came across this incredible limited-edition Monkey art box set over at The Vinyl Factory.
Here's what's included:
- Black cloth-bound box foiled on cover and spine.
- Four exclusive Jamie Hewlett giclee art prints on Somerset archival paper, each stamped and numbered, one signed and dated. Housed in a red, gold-foiled folio.
- Black cloth-bound hardback 84-page art book containing exclusive Jamie Hewlett artwork, sketches and illustrations.
- Book also houses two super-heavyweight 200-gram vinyl LPs, containing six bonus tracks not available on the commercial release. Pressed on the classic EMI 1400, with one-side especially etched.
- When you purchase the Box Set you also receive a digital version of the album.
- The first 500 customers to pre-order/order the Box Set will also receive a custom-made special limited edition Monkey Om Box, with tones composed by Damon Albarn and artwork designed by Jamie Hewlett.
- This beautifully produced collectible edition is limited to just 2,000 copies worldwide.
The kicker (as usual), the price. It is listed at £255. For more pictures, stop by here.
Here's a bit about The Vinyl Factory:
Specialists in hand-crafting the very finest music and art editions, The Vinyl Factory mark assures a stamp of quality that's often promised but rarely delivered.
All our vinyl is created using the classic EMI 1400 Press at the original EMI vinyl pressing plant at Hayes, Middlesex, a century-old landmark in British manufacturing. Our paper stocks are individually sourced and hand-chosen, while our print techniques combine tradition with modernity to create beautifully-produced collectors items.
The Vinyl Factory was established in 2003 when the company acquired EMI's vinyl pressing plant in Hayes. The plant now presses over 50% of the UK's vinyl. In addition to the high end special editions, The Vinyl Factory group also includes gallery spaces in central London, an independent music & arts magazine and website (FACT) and record shop (Phonica). The Vinyl Factory are due to open two new music and arts spaces, in London (Shoreditch) and Berlin (Mitte), in 2009.
Reader Comments (1)
I got the same feeling when I got my Deluxe Edition of Nine Inch Nails' "Ghosts I-IV"
4LP, 2CD, Blu-Ray with hi-def stereo, DVD with multitracks for remixing, 40+ page full color cloth cover artwork book signed by Trent Reznor, and 2 giclee prints, all housed within 2 great black cloth slipcases with metal NIN logos on the front. Wonderful
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