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Music For Smalls Lighthouse
Plinth →1,109 listeners17,793 plays
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Available as a limited edition LP + Download code from Clay Pipe Music. Originally released in a hardbound book by Second Language Records in a limited edition of 150. For nearly a century, the physical format ruled the recording industry. A decade ago, the digital format began to intrude, and recorded music began to retreat to the ephemeral world. Now we seem to be experiencing a third wave, in which the physical format plays an essential role. In 2010, an increasing number of artists and labels offered limited edition projects, often replete with keepsakes. Most sold out immediately, to the delight of the artists and labels and the consternation of napping fans. The main champions (or culprits, depending on one's point of view): Cotton Goods, Fluid Audio and Second Language. The original releases of these labels have done much to restore the glory of the physical format. The brilliant irony: had these editions not been limited, fewer people might have noticed. Will vinyl ever again achieve the heights of the 80s, or CDs the heights of the 90s? Probably not. But for a while, the digital seemed to have had the last word, and now the winds are shifting once again. Those fortunate enough to receive the Plinth package will have plenty to peruse: a hardbound, navy-hued book, secured with a printed ribbon (a necessity, as without the ribbon the book begins to curl outward like the waterbound journal it is meant to resemble); a gorgeous black-and-white photograph of tumultuou
