What happens when 4 guys that love music combine entrepreneurial spirit, their experience, and a love for records? A new record pressing plant opens!
With some loft space in Cleveland and some vintage record presses, the team at Gotta Groove Records announced their first successful test pressing at in late August (shown right).
They have lots of affordable options for jacket printing, color vinyl, and can even create and manage digital download cards included with each record.
Here's a bit about them from their site:
There are four of us at the company - Vince Slusarz (owner), Dan Greathouse (operations), Tyler Kremberg, and Matt Earley (sales & marketing)– and we are all music guys. But, additionally, Vince and Dan have 30+ years experience in plastics manufacturing and operations management; Tyler has 10 years experience in mathematics and applied technology development; and Matt has 9 years experience in music distribution. Together, we are able to mesh some diverse backgrounds to get some truly innovative results. We are a “one-stop-shop”— in addition to having high-quality vinyl records pressed by us, you can have your jackets printed and download cards hosted here too! We are also implementing some technology and processes which (quite possibly, although we can’t verify) have never been used on record pressing equipment anywhere in the world. Through all of this innovation, our mission is to produce the highest consistent quality records attainable, and concurrently achieve the least waste product.
We are located in Tyler Village, a former elevator factory in Downtown Cleveland– the Rock & Roll capital of the world. We have a great space, and invite any bands, customers, or just folks curious about us to come by for a tour. We also have some great friends at local recording studios– some of which have equipment to record entirely in analog (in addition to the latest recording technology, of course). So, theoretically, a band could record in complete analog here in Ohio, and then listen to their test pressings & watch their records being made from our listening room in downtown Cleveland!
Want to learn more? Check out their site, price list, and follow them on Twitter.
Keep it up guys. We'll definitely stop by when we're in town next!