Making Vinyl Memphis

Maybe it's osmosis, but the co-founder of Making Vinyl is actually getting in the game. Thermal Beets Records was organically born where else but Making Vinyl? Coming back from Making Vinyl Europe in the fall of 2022, I had to switch planes in Iceland. The quality of the in-flight entertainment knocked me out. All I knew were The Sugarcubes, Björk and Sigur Ros. I thought to myself, if any place in the world might need a pressing plant it might be Iceland. I had just made a mental note of the plant-based material I heard about for the first time days earlier in Offenbach at the conference. At next year's events in Minneapolis and Haarlem, I found my co-founders. We manufactured our first record in October 2024, a sampler for Iceland Airwaves, featuring the music of nine local musicians playing at tits 25th festival. But we're not making vinyl, lol.