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October last year.

“It’s such a finicky technology, they’re not selling something that you can just pull out of the box and use. There’re so many things that can go wrong, and there’s like a real art to cutting a record that sounds good, so I think part of it is also them filtering out people that they think are going to cut shit records or get upset and complain about the technology.”

Eloff obviously impressed the brothers enough to be granted permission to buy the equipment, which arrived in South Africa in January this year. INCE then he and Barrow, under their label Contour Vinyl, have been producing small runs of records for both small bands they’re interested in and bigger names who have approached them. When I