![]() ![]() In the beginning it was very hard because its a small company. Now there is only one company selling lacquer discs and it’s MDC in Japan. Is there a problem getting lacquer discs right now? It happened in the beginning of the year and it caused a huge problem for the whole lacquer business. It’s called Apollo, there was a big fire there. The old factory had been there since 1936. Because the big company that sold lacquer discs to maybe 70 or 80 percent of all cutting studios burned down. There were only two companies in the world producing lacquers and now there is only one. When I was limited to 12 inch discs, I was thinking how can I make these handles on the record afterwards, I was into a lot of ideas. It’s because the lacquer disc needs to be processed and stamper production needs something to grip on, to hold on, so the extra 2 inches are for the handles, for the grip. Can you explain why it requires 14 inch lacquer disc for a 12 inch vinyl record? A bunch of well known records were cut on this Scully, including names like Richie Hawtin and Kool and The Gang. ![]() Scully traveled all the way from New York to Florida, to Canada and Berlin before it found its home in Copenhagen. It’s a lathe from the 70s, but has been modified with a new cutter head and variable pitch computer. ![]() So, I bought this Scully from Man Made Mastering in Berlin. When I found Scully for sale, and it’s a very rare occasion, I thought – OK this is my chance to start the full master production. It is called 100 copies and it’s still there. After some years, I transported that lathe to Cairo, Egypt, and established a Cairo Dubplate Service and studio. As you perhaps know, cutting a 12 inch master disc requires a 14 inch lacquer or master plate and we could not do that on the Kingston Dub Cutter. And it was limited to only 12 inch discs. It was running on a regular Technics turntable. It’s because the cutter was a very small one, not the same size as Scully. Back then, I was cutting a lot on plastic, PVC lathe cuts and some master cuts for 7 inches only. And then it just started out, learning to cut and all that. It was running for like 7 years or something. At that time it was slightly broken and we got some money to fix it. We bought Andreas’ small instant lathe cutter. So we got to do that with a bit of funding to start it up. I suggested that we should make a community dub-plate studio. I had a good connection with the house and I still do. And at some point, I was coming to the culture house on Blågårds Plads to play music quite often. So when I went to the real cutting studio and saw that ritual of manifesting the sound, I became very interested in it. ![]() By the way, I also went to other different studios to cut masters or dub-plates with my own tunes. He was cutting acetates on a Kingston Dub Cutter. He had an instant dub cutter and he was the only one cutting dub-plates at that time. There worked a guy, his name was Andreas. At that time there was a studio in Copenhagen called Precious Vinyl. And I had a big dream just to make my own record, so I started going to studios. I started producing my own tracks when I was 16 years old or something. I also started using records in my music production – sampling or mixing and doing turntablism a lot. So I started digging in them and I became very interested in manipulating time with records and mixing records, and started producing music from a very young age. When I was born, there were still a lot of records left. So he went around selling those records and other items. He got 1000 records for 1000 kroner or something. Because basically, when my father moved to Denmark from India, he bought around 1000 vinyl records from a record store that closed down on Nørrebrogade before I was born. Actually, I think I was like 5 years old when I started kind of scratching and stuff. I started to be interested in vinyl records from a very young age. So, Hari, what about these vinyl records? How long have you been interested in the medium, how did you come to vinyl records and cutting and all that? ![]()
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