Ep350: HazeXXL Vinyl Rarities w Tom Hazelmyer
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
For over a decade Tom Hazelmyer of Amphetamine Reptile has been creating art-records in limited numbers for a community of devoted fans & collectors. Today we discuss the state of his production and dive deep into some of the most sought-after releases.
Topics include:
- How Tom spent his pandemic
- Vinyl supply chain issues
- Issues around international shipments
- AmRep releases throughout the pandemic
- Tom's bar and offices during the Minneapolis riots
- How Amrep got so many releases done during the lockdowns
- Amrep's small team is an advantage during difficult times
- Tom's work ethic for his linocut artwork
- Using digital tools to accelerate his artwork
- The typical pressing sizes for Amrep releases
- Why there are very few 45rpms from Amrep in recent years
- The 45 was the perfect format for Punk rock
- The story of Melvins wooden Endless Residency boxset
- The recent Sugar Daddy 45 misprint
- Making sleeve cutouts & colour separations for early Amrep releases
- Recent reissues of Amrep albums with new HAZE artwork
- Challenges with working with other labels for reissues
- The Melvins Houdini/Stag/Stoner Witch reissues
- Melvins "The Bride Screamed Murder" special limited cover
- Test prints and Artist Proofs of HAZEXXL releases
- The overages/slop from vinyl pressings
- Various Melvins / Mackie Osborne special limited versions
- "A Senile Animal" mispress HAZE XXL reissue
- The "War Pussy" skull sticker
- The 1st HAZE record - Melvins "Hurray For Me" record
- Revisiting the "Dope Guns & Fucking" compilation series
- Playing on the new Mr Phylzzz album "Cancel Culture Club"
- Tom likes to play guitar, write music but hates to tour
- Mr Phylzzz vinyl out mid to late October
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves for your vinyl collection. |
| 0:05.6 | Ask for the Groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com. |
| 0:09.7 | Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. |
| 0:12.3 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:16.4 | Oh, well, hot damn, everyone. |
| 0:18.3 | Welcome to episode 350 of the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:21.5 | Wow, bit of a landmark. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm not sure why that number 350 resonates so much with me, but it do. |
| 0:29.2 | And to mark this occasion, we have a very special guest, Mr. Tom Hazelmeyer, head honcho of amphetamine reptile records, |
| 0:40.1 | discussing all sorts of rare vinyl he's been involved with from the hand carving of the Hayes XXL releases the limited runs of a |
| 0:46.2 | hundred units or less the highly highly collectible art vinyl he develops for bands like |
| 0:51.6 | melvins cows unsane and more and his general thoughts on vinyl, the production, and even a glimpse into the future of amphetamine reptile. |
| 1:02.1 | Now, those of you unfamiliar with his work, Tom combines his hand-carved, lino-cut artwork, to form the covers and artwork of records of really a handful of bands he chooses to work with. |
| 1:15.1 | Tom is a no-b-s-guy, and for me, any record that Tom is involved with is worth giving some serious time to. |
| 1:23.6 | Many of the covers he makes are hand-silkscreened. |
| 1:26.8 | The vinyl is specially manufactured. |
| 1:29.3 | It's not a cheap process, quite time consuming indeed, and there are limited copies that are highly, highly sought after by an army of record nerds, myself included. |
| 1:40.8 | Now, to see Tom's work, go to shocksopop.com. S-H-O-X-O-P.com. |
| 1:48.0 | But don't expect to see much vinyl for sale. His runs generally sell out within minutes of going on sale. |
| 1:54.4 | Your best to follow Amphetamine Reptile on Facebook and Instagram. And when you see them announce a sale date and time for a record, |
| 2:03.8 | put it in your calendar immediately and show up on time. They go quick. Now, astute listeners to this show, |
| 2:11.5 | we'll note that we have had Tom on the show before, episode 220. and there we cover a lot of high-level questions |
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