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.