Ep446: Handmade Vinyl Boxsets of DEAD and We Empty Rooms

The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Nate Goyer

Music, Music History, Music Interviews

4.7 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

DEAD and We Empty Rooms regularly releases extremely ambitious vinyl packages and boxsets. Today we speak with proprietor Jem on the making of these collections, the recent "Burn Us Clean" 9-7" boxset, working with Hard-Ons, Melvins and what's next for this creative label.

Topic Include:

Zoom anxiety / interview start
Jem's skills in manufacturing and music
Keeping limits of record numbers
Variations of "The Laughing Shadow"
Using various record pressing plants and materials
Manufacturing challenges
Discovering records – much cheaper than CDs
Zenith records made the "Burn Us Clean" records
Deciding to make a boxset of 9 – 7" records
Working with 9 other bands to have b-sides for each single
The Melvins and Hard-Ons split – 70g 7"
Hard-Ons 30 Years boxset
Guidance from Hard-Ons for their boxset
Recording the new album with all-analogue intentions
Announcing their new Double Album
The various versions of "Burn Us Clean" boxset
The logistics of coordinating "Burn Us Clean" boxset
Minimal guidance given to the other bands
Packaging for the "Burn Us Clean" boxset
The surprise flexi-disc
Will DEAD consider another major boxset?
Hand-silkscreened record sleeves
Upcoming new double LP set
Other projects with ambitiously underestimated complexities
The endearing qualities of hand-crafted record packaging
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.
0:12.4	And now, on with the show.
0:15.0	Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds.
0:19.8	Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer.
0:23.5	Oh, hey, everyone.
0:24.9	It's Nate.
0:26.7	Thanks for tuning in.
0:27.8	Thanks for downloading.
0:29.1	Thanks for welcoming me into your ear holes.
0:32.7	I'm back with episode 446.
0:35.3	446.
0:36.9	Jeez.
0:41.2	That's a lot of episodes. This week,
0:47.3	we have on a guest. I've been looking forward to having on for many years, and we finally made it happen. This week, we're talking to Gem of the band Dead and the record label, We Empty Rooms. Now, We Empty Rooms is an Australian
0:58.0	record label that creates and shares very heavy music. And the band Dead is their primary band.
1:06.3	Jim is a leader or co-leader of both of those, label and band.
1:21.5	And they develop this extraordinary record packaging, very ambitious box sets that are available in very limited numbers.
1:24.2	You kind of got to be in the know.
1:33.6	You've got to be in the right place and the right time to be able to grab one of these very special pressings from Dead and We Empty Rooms. To give you an example, last year,
1:42.8	Dead made a record titled The Laughing Shadow. And there was an exclusive 10 copies, 10 vinyl copies made specifically for the Vinyl Guide podcast, which were quietly
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