The Vinyl Factory (UK) - The Vinyl Factory in 100 Records (2024)

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Massive Attack vs. Burial
Paradise Circus
One of many collaborations between The Vinyl Factory and Massive Attack, this 2011 release comprised two remixes of the band’s then-current songs by Burial: “Four Walls” and “Paradise Circus”. A limited edition of 1000 copies, with screen-printed gold glitter artwork by Robert del Naja, the release sold out within hours and has subsequently become one of the most sought-after vinyl records of the past 20 years, regularly trading hands for hundreds of pounds on the secondary market.


Massive Attack
Splitting The Atom
Released in 2009, the first of a series of collaborations between Massive Attack and The Vinyl Factory, this four-track EP–titled Splitting the Atom–consisted of the title track, plus another, “Pray for Rain”, by the Bristol-based collective. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide, individually numbered and pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl on the EMI 1400, the record is housed in a bronze-foiled and printed sleeve, with artwork by Robert del Naja.


Jamie Hewlett
Monkey
The Vinyl Factory label’s second release was a collaboration with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett to release their 2008 multimedia theatrical and musical project Monkey: Journey to the West. VF produced two vinyl box sets, including an edition of 2000 copies which contained a set of four exclusive Jamie Hewlett giclee prints, a hardback art book and two 200-gram vinyl records pressed on the EMI 1400 featuring exclusive bonus tracks, housed in a black cloth-bound box foiled on the cover and spine. The first 500 fans also received a custom-made special limited edition Monkey Om Box, with tones composed by Damon Albarn.


Die Verboten
Live in Evissa
Die Verboten is a Belgian krautrock-influenced band formed by David and Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax that also includes English-born electronic artist Riton and the artist and designer Fergadelic. In 2009, The Vinyl Factory released their debut, this five-track EP called Live in Eivissa, so-named because the recordings were made in a temporary recording studio in Ibiza. Pressed as a limited edition of just 300 copies, on a 200-gram super-heavyweight vinyl housed in a custom-made pop-up sleeve that can be assembled into a pyramid, reflecting the designer Fergadelic’s interest in both cosmic new age music and iconic 1970s sleeve design.


Pet Shop Boys
Yes
The third release on The Vinyl Factory label was a very special box set by Pet Shop Boys of their album Yes, created in collaboration with their long-time designer Mark Farrow. A limited edition of 300, the smoked Perspex outer PVC box with magnetic fastening housed 11 single Pantone colour printed sleeves with A-side tracks and B-side instrumentals from the LP, with a 12th sleeve containing a signed, numbered Giclée print and insert featuring a colour key and credits. The edition sold out within a day and was voted the most collectable vinyl item ever by Record Collector.


The xx
The xx
In January 2010, The Vinyl Factory teamed up The xx and their label Young Turks to stage A Sculpture of the Album, an audio-visual collaboration with video director Saam Farahmand at The Vinyl Factory Space in Soho to celebrate the band’s debut album. The sculpture utilised film, light and sound via three specially created audio-visual units programmed so every visitor had a unique experience. The Vinyl Factory released this special version of the album in tandem, limited to 500 copies, each containing the LP plus an exclusive pressing of a remix by Matthew Dear and an art print signed by the band.


Michael Nyman
Cine Opera
One of Britain’s most successful film composers, perhaps best known for his score to Jane Campion’s The Piano, Michael Nyman collaborated with The Vinyl Factory in 2010 to release Cine Opera, a double vinyl album pressing of his 1989 work La Traversée de Paris. Originally commissioned to mark France’s bi-centennial celebrations, this limited edition of 500 hand-signed copies, featured three exclusive bonus tracks, a cover photograph taken by Nyman in his home of Mexico City, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, and liner notes written by the artist.


Grace Jones
Hurricane
In 2010, The Vinyl Factory staged an immersive exhibition at the VF Space in Poland Street, Soho, London that showcased a remarkable creative collaboration between Grace Jones and the light artist Chris Levine. Limited to 500 copies, this special vinyl edition of Jones’ album Hurricane was released by VF in tandem, featuring screen-printed cover artwork of the iconic Jamaican singer by Levine. Pressed on two 180-gram heavyweight records, each edition also included a fine art portrait print of the singer, hand-signed and numbered by both Jones and Levine.


Roxy Music
Love is the Drug remix
In 2012, ahead of their 30th anniversary, legendary art-rock icons Roxy Music released this 12” with The Vinyl Factory, featuring contemporary club remixes of two of their classic songs: a Todd Terje remix of the band’s 1975 hit “Love is the Drug” on side A and a remix by Lindstrom and Prins Thomas of “Avalon” on side B. The release followed on from a series of collaborations between The Vinyl Factory and Bryan Ferry in 2011, including the singer’s album Olympia.




UNKLE
Heretics’ Gate
In 2010, artist Doug Foster staged The Heretics’ Gate in a church in Camden, London, a large-scale digital audio-visual installation inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Inferno comprised of a single-channel video reflected infinitely in a pool of water below. The accompanying soundtrack, created by James Lavelle of UNKLE, was released by The Vinyl Factory as this limited edition of 100 copies. Featuring sleeve artwork by Foster, screen printed with diamond dust, each copy was hand-signed and numbered by both artists.


Florence
Shake it Out
Released in 2011, with cover photography by Karl Lagerfeld, this vinyl pressing of Florence Welch’s hit single “Shake It Out” was pressed on 180-gram heavyweight white vinyl and included a remix of the original by The Weeknd. Released by The Vinyl Factory, it was the first of four such singles by Florence released on the label, each limited to 500 copies, with screen-printed cover artwork and bespoke silver inner sleeves.


Jeremy Deller
Folsom City Blues
Jeremy Deller’s first release with the Vinyl Factory featured a live recording performed by Chuck, a singer and musician who often plays along the South Bank. Deller heard him playing and liked his take on classic songs, compounding his ongoing interest in cover versions “that surprise you, and that add to songs we already know”. Deller invited Chuck to a recording studio in West London, where they recorded two tracks live, direct-to-disc. Chuck recorded two cover versions, one of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” and one of “Island in the Sun”, by Harry Belafonte. Released in 2012 as a hand-signed edition of 100 copies to coincide with Deller’s major retrospective, Joy in People, at the Hayward Gallery.


Robin Rhode
Variants
Robin Rhode, a South African artist based in Berlin, collaborated with The Vinyl Factory to release the six soundtracks for his video work Variants in 2012. The music, produced by Rhode and arranged by Arenor Anuku, accompanied five animations by the artist that take the chair designs of Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld as a starting point. A member of the De Stijl movement, Rietveld aspired to bring high design to the masses. Limited to 100 copies, each record sleeve was hand-stencilled by Rhode in his Berlin studio.


Gavin Turk
4 Minute Mile
This collaboration between artist Gavin Turk and designer Hussein Chalayan, titled 4 Minute Mile, was released by The Vinyl Factory in 2012 in celebration of an exhibition at the V&A called Britain Creates 2012: Fashion & Art Collusion, which documented collaborations between fashion designers and visual artists. Limited to 100 copies, each hand-signed by Turk and Chalayan, the release featured music by Turk and a conversation between the two about their interest in the mythical status and identity of artists, authorship, and authenticity.


Anna Meredith
Black Prince Fury
Long before classically-trained musician Anna Meredith was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, her beguiling electronic music and captivating soundscapes were released by The Vinyl Factory on the Black Prince Fury EP, released in 2012. Pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl, the EP contained four tracks spanning 18 minutes of original compositions, including the ever-popular “Nautilus”, voted by Pitchfork as one of their tracks of the year.


Martin Creed
Chicago
Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed released several records with The Vinyl Factory, including this four-track EP titled Chicago in 2012. Featuring songs by Creed and his band, this limited edition of 200 copies featured hand-painted cover artwork in watercolour by Creed, and hand-written label artwork, with each copy signed and numbered by the artist. Created in collaboration with MCA Chicago, Creed also gave the release its own distinct artwork title, Work No. 1370.


Tim and Sue
Nihilistic Optimistic
In 2012, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster partnered with The Vinyl Factory and acclaimed punk photographer Dennis Morris to stage an exhibition of original photography called Nihilistic Optimistic, made up of 11 iconic portrait photographs of the artists taken by Morris. As well as his celebrated work with the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley, Morris was instrumental in creating the seminal sleeves, logo and metal box for John Lydon’s band PiL. This vinyl edition consisted of a spoken word performance by the artist, recorded live and pressed on double 12” vinyl with accompanying sleeve artwork by Morris.


Kaytranada
Free Things in Life
Haitian-Canadian producer, rapper and DJ Kaytranada may now be a universally-loved Grammy-winning star of contemporary underground music, but he was little known back in 2014, when The Vinyl Factory released this 12” dancefloor-orientated vinyl single, “Free Things in Life”. The release was one of several on a sub-label called Bromance, created by The Vinyl Factory in collaboration with the French producer Brodinski to release music by his network of collaborators and friends. Pressed on heavyweight vinyl and limited to 500 copies, this release featured comic-book style artwork by Benjamin Marra.


Dinos Chapman
Luftbobler
In 2013 The Vinyl Factory produced and released Luftbobler, the debut album by British artist Dinos Chapman. Named after a Norwegian chocolate bar and consisting of 13 tracks of experimental electronic music created by Chapman in his basement studio late at night over 10 years prior, the album was widely well-received by critics. The album was released on multiple formats by VF, including this limited edition of 300 copies which included an original etching by Chapman hand-tipped onto the front of each of the bespoke hardback gatefold covers. Following a successful launch at The Vinyl Factory space in Soho, VF and Chapman created a live audio-visual show which toured around the world, debuting at festivals including Sonar, Mutek and Glastonbury.



Jeremy Deller
English Magic
In 2013, The Vinyl Factory collaborated with Jeremy Deller on the soundtrack to his new film exhibited in the British Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Recorded at Abbey Road, the English Magic soundtrack comprised three classic British songs; “Symphony in D Minor” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Voodoo Ray” by A Guy Called Gerald and “The Man Who Sold The World” by David Bowie – covered by the Melodians Steel Orchestra, an English/Trinidadian steel band, based in South London. The Melodians Steel Orchestra played live at both the Pavilion’s official inauguration and later that evening at The Vinyl Factory’s legendary party on the Isla Vignole, Venice.


Christian Marclay
Groove
The Vinyl Factory first collaborated with Christian Marclay in 2013 to release Groove, his debut professional solo recording, on vinyl for the first time. Originally recorded in New York in 1982, Groove is a mesmerising sound collage created by densely layering multiple copies of the same seven-inch single, made using an available 8-track recorder – by applying stickers directly on the groove, causing the needle to skip and repeat. The A-side is accompanied by a series of locked grooves on the B-side as bonus loops for you to mix or add to the main track.


Haroon Mirza
o/o/o/o
The Vinyl Factory partnered with British artist and musician Haroon Mirza on a series of vinyl releases which explored his interests in experimental electronic music and the synthesis between sound and art. Mirza won the Silver Lion for most promising young artist at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and his work pivots around socio-cultural systems such as a club culture, so it was fitting that his releases included this 2014 vinyl collaboration – titled o/o/o/o – with producer James Lavelle, best known for productions as UNKLE. With sleeve artwork by Mirza, the release was limited to just 500 copies.


Maurizio Cattelan
I Always Remember A Face, Especially When I’ve Sat On It
Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture, history, and organised religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound. This 14-track vinyl-only compilation, titled I Always Remember a Face, Especially When I’ve Sat On It, released by The Vinyl Factory in 2015, featured music by Malcolm McLaren, Gene Vincent, Cornelius, Judy Garland, Pierre Schaeffer and many more, pressed on a Picture Disc with artwork by Cattelan as a limited edition of 1,000 copies.


Gesaffelstein
Pursuit
The Vinyl Factory released two albums with French electronic producer Gesaffelstein aka Mike Lévy – Aleph and his soundtrack to the film Maryland – but the first collaboration was his Pursuit EP in 2013. This edition, limited to just 500 hand-numbered copies worldwide, features the techno track pressed on 180-gram clear vinyl housed in bespoke inner and outer sleeves including a 10×10″ photographic print, the image taken from the song’s accompanying video.


Richard Mosse
The Enclave
In 2014, The Vinyl Factory staged Richard Mosse’s film installation The Enclave as a critically acclaimed immersive experience at Brewer Street Car Park in Soho. With a score by Ben Frost, The Enclave is the culmination of Mosse’s work in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a place where 5.4 million people have died of war-related causes since 1998, yet which often loses visibility and receives little coverage in the mainstream media. Mosse brings to this overlooked humanitarian disaster a discontinued military reconnaissance film. This vinyl release features two extended 15-minute compositions created by Ben Frost especially for this format, based on his original multi-channel score.


Marina Abramović
512 Hours
A pioneer of performance as an art form, Marina Abramović uses her own body as subject and object to push the physical and mental limits of her being. The Vinyl Factory collaborated with Abramović to capture a unique live performance of the artist reading her work “An Artist Life Manifesto”, recorded on 6 June 2014 in the Serpentine Gallery. Released as a limited edition of 100 copies, pressed on white vinyl, each hand-signed and numbered by the artist.


Trevor Jackson
FORMAT
In 2015, The Vinyl Factory collaborated with British producer and graphic designer Trevor Jackson to release 13 of his tracks as a series of limited editions released on a variety of physical formats ranging from vinyl to cassette to reel-to-reel. Called FORMAT, in celebration of physical musical formats, the project’s tracks were also collected together for this triple LP edition, pressed on three heavyweight records housed in a bespoke clear sleeve with design and screen-printed artwork by Jackson. FORMAT was the first album from Jackson since his acclaimed Playgroup LP was released in 2001, and the closure of his seminal Output Recordings label in 2006, which released influential records from Four Tet and LCD Soundsystem.


Róisín Murphy
Mi Senti
Released by The Vinyl Factory in 2014, this extended player consists of five covers of classic Italian pop songs by Irish singer Róisín Murphy, plus one original track titled “In Sintesi”. Limited to 1000 copies and pressed on two heavyweight white vinyl records, the music was recorded in Ibiza and London, produced by Murphy and her long-time musical collaborator Eddie Stevens. Two remix 12” vinyl releases of the album were released later in the year, also by The Vinyl Factory.


Jonas Berghert
zeit später
In 2014, The Vinyl Factory collaborated with Berlin-based painter Jonas Burgert to release a vinyl edition in celebration of his exhibition Stuck Hirn Blind in London. Connecting both the artist’s past and his present living and working in contemporary Berlin, the release–named zeit später or ‘time later’–showcases an experimental classical recording from Burgert’s late father, the composer Hans Joachim Burgert, with one of the city’s most forward-thinking electronic producers and sometime Berghain DJ rRoxymore providing a remix. An art edition of 100 copies was hand-painted by the artist, with each sleeve revealing one-hundredth of a complete large-scale Burgert painting.


Conrad Shawcross & Holly Herndon
Relations
In 2014, The Vinyl Factory produced and staged an exhibition by British artist Conrad Shawcross called The Ada Project on the top floor of the Brewer Street Car Park in Soho, London. Inspired by pioneering 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace and inventor Charles Babbage’s work on proto-computers, Shawcross built an industrial robot and invited four female musicians–Holly Herndon, Mira Calix, Beatrice Dillon and Tamara Barnett Herrin–to respond to its movements. The recordings were released on the VF label and included this one by Holly Herndon, whose combination of vocal processing, synthesis and recordings of the robot in motion attempted to emote the sentience implied in the robot’s movements.


Keaton Henson
Romantic Works
In 2014. The Vinyl Factory released six different art editions of Romantic Works, the third album from musician and visual artist Keaton Henson. The pressing included the album’s 10 original songs, plus an exclusive bonus song, “La Naissance”, and a remix of Henson’s track “Elevator Song” by Ulrich Schnauss. But what set this release apart was the fact there were six different editions, each limited to just 100 copies, and each containing a distinct art print by Henson, hand signed and numbered by the artist.


Various Artists
Cybernetic Serendipity Music
In 2015 The Vinyl Factory collaborated with London’s ICA to reissue the ground-breaking compilation Cybernetic Serendipity Music, originally released in 1968 to coincide with the exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity at the ICA, which proved to be a landmark in the history of audio-visual art, and the first exhibition of its kind in the UK devoted to the relationship between music and early computers. Both unique and extraordinarily influential, Cybernetic Serendipity Music captured a nascent scene on the cusp of a synth-led electronic revolution and was the only compilation of its kind to bring together the musicians, composers and inventors pushing the boundaries of early computer music on one record, a good six years before Kraftwerk’s Autobahn changed modern music for ever.


Jeremy Shaw
Variation FQ
Consisting of a repetitive, melancholy piano score combined with chopped vocal samples and time-stretched tape effects, the soundtrack to Jeremy Shaw’s Variation FQ (2011-13) incites a hypnotic, mantra-like mood that accompanies the virtuosic dance style of the film’s protagonist–legendary voguer, Leiomy Maldonado. Variation FQ is a study of the co-evolution of subculture, gender, dance, and special effects. No stranger to music production, Jeremy Shaw recorded under the name Circlesquare from 1999-2009, releasing multiple records on Trevor Jackson’s now defunct Output Recordings. This edition, released by The Vinyl Factory in 2015, was pressed on white vinyl, housed in screen-printed outer and inner sleeves, with artwork by Shaw, who hand-signed each copy.


Thurston Moore
live at white cube
This direct-to-disc recording of a live performance by Thurston Moore and Christian Marclay at the White Cube gallery in London in February 2015 was part of a wide-ranging collaboration between The Vinyl Factory and Christian Marclay whereby the artist invited musicians to play in his exhibition each weekend over the course of several months. The Vinyl Factory pressed these recordings in the gallery, with the public able to see the process up close, having created a specially commissioned mobile Vinyl Factory pressing plant and installed it in the space, The sleeve artwork, by Marclay, was also screen printed on-site.


Mica levi
live at white cube
In 2015, The Vinyl Factory collaborated with Christian Marclay to install a specially commissioned mobile Vinyl Factory pressing plant into the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey. Each weekend musicians would play live in the space, recorded direct-to-disc with the records pressed live on site. Sleeve artwork would be screen printed at the gallery also. This recording, by musician and composer Mica Levi and the London Sinfonietta, consisting of two tracks, was recorded on Sunday 15 February 2015 and pressed as a limited edition of 500 copies.


Okkjung lee
live at white cube
This live recording by contemporary experimental musician Okkyung Lee was part of a series of collaborations between The Vinyl Factory and the artist Christian Marclay where musicians performed at his exhibition at White Cube. Recorded direct-to-disc in March 2015, with screen-printed sleeve artwork by Marclay, this limited edition of 500 copies was hand-pressed on-site at the gallery on The Vinyl Factory Press which had been installed there especially for the show.


Ryoji Ikeda
live at white cube
This direct-to-disc recording of a live performance by Ryoji Ikeda at the White Cube gallery in London on 11 April 2015 was part of a wide-ranging collaboration between The Vinyl Factory and Christian Marclay where the artist invited musicians to play in his exhibition each weekend over the course of several months. The Vinyl Factory pressed these recordings in the gallery, with the public able to see the process up close, having created a specially commissioned mobile Vinyl Factory pressing plant that was installed in the space. The sleeve artwork, by Marclay, was also screen printed on-site.


David & Peter Adjaye
Dialogues
In 2016 The Vinyl Factory and Music for Architecture released Dialogues, a limited-edition vinyl-only album showcasing the ongoing architectural and sonic collaborations between music composer Peter Adjaye and his brother, the award winning architect David Adjaye OBE. This album explores the creative process of the two brothers’ collaborations; each track corresponds to a piece of work by David Adjaye and traverses the intersection between music and architecture. It is a series of site-specific architecture and sound collaborations that spans from Reflections of a Golden Dream, the soundscape for the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, through to Three Views of Light which forms part of the Genesis Pavilion in Miami, Florida.


Carsten Nicolai
Random Groove
In 2015, The Vinyl Factory staged the European premiere of German artist and musician Carsten Nicolai’s unicolor installation at Brewer Street Car Park in Soho. This collection of random grooves by Nicolai was released on the VF label in tandem, pressed on 180-gram fluoro pink vinyl. Nicolai’s practice investigates the boundaries between visual and audio art forms within an integrated artistic approach. Influenced by scientific reference systems, Nicolai often engages mathematical patterns such as grids and codes, as well as error, randomisation and self-organising structures.


Jason Moran
Staged
A widely acknowledged jazz pioneer with a succession of acclaimed albums for Blue Note under his belt, Jason Moran is also an artist whose project for the 2015 Venice Biennale is the emotionally resonant STAGED, a powerful performative work that derives from his interest in the history of the jazz idiom. Co-commissioned by The Vinyl Factory, STAGED is two stand-alone sculptural installations that recreate architectural elements from two historic New York City jazz spaces: The Savoy Ballroom and The Three Deuces. The vinyl release consists of three recordings by Moran, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and released as an edition of 300 copies.


Kristin Anna
Howl
In 2015, The Vinyl Factory and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson formed Bel-Air Glamour Records. The first release was Howl, an album of “satanist feminine ambient music” by Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, the much celebrated, mysterious ex-singer of Mum. Recorded on a psychedelic binge in California’s Mojave Desert, the music created in the wilderness spans some 82 minutes of primal, demonic reflections of Kristín´s artistic expression – raw, emotional, dreamy and unfettered. A little bit like sinking into a Baudelaire poem.


Giorgio Moroder
Station To Station – Doug Atiken x Barbican
In the summer of 2015, The Vinyl Factory partnered with American multimedia artist Doug Aitken and the Barbican to bring his acclaimed Station to Station exhibition to the UK. The Vinyl Factory created a recording studio on-site in the gallery and installed The Vinyl Factory Press to make records. One of these was this release by legendary Italian record producer, songwriter, performer and DJ, Giorgio Moroder – the man frequently credited with being the pioneer of synth disco and electronic dance music. Moroder and Bruce Sudano recorded this edition as part of the original Station to Station, which crossed North America by train from the Atlantic to the Pacific over 24 days in 2013.


Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree
Live In London
This memorable live performance by frequent collaborators Ryuichi Sakamoto and Taylor Deupree was recorded in a church in London in 2014 as part of the St. John Sessions. Pressed and released by The Vinyl Factory on double vinyl, the edition of 1,000 also included a photographic print. One of Japan’s most innovative and best-loved musicians, Sakamoto began his career as part of the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra and later became an Oscar-winning film composer. Sakamoto’s performance with Dupree is notable for their kinetic understanding on stage, captured on this release.


Savages
What I’m Seeing in the Sun (Station To Station – Doug Atiken x Barbican)
In the summer of 2015, The Vinyl Factory partnered with American multimedia artist Doug Aitken and the Barbican to bring his acclaimed Station to Station exhibition to the UK. The Vinyl Factory created a recording studio on-site in the gallery and installed The Vinyl Factory Press to make records. One of these was this release by four-piece band Savages who were joined by A Dead Forest Index, choreographer Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and dance artist Rosalie Wahlfrid for two nights of unique performance, combining live sound, movement and immersive play between light and dark.


Rodney Graham
Good Hand, Bad Hand
One of several Vinyl Factory collaborations with the Vancouver-based artist and musician Rodney Graham, the 2016 album Good Hand, Bad Hand showcases Graham’s signature blend of rock ‘n roll, psychedelia and folk tinged country. Graham’s self-portrait provided the cover artwork. Though best known as an artist, music was a major part of Graham’s work throughout his career, from performing with the band UJ3RK5 in Vancouver in the late 1970s, through composing soundtracks for slide and film works to recordings and performances as a singer-songwriter.


Rachel Rose
Palisades
Rachel Rose’s audio-visual artworks create immersive environments through movement, sound and colour. One of the most exciting and visionary young artists working today, Rose’s collaboration with The Vinyl Factory was inspired by her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in 2014, which featured a unique site-specific installation interweaving two of her videos, “A Minute Ago” and “Palisades” in Palisades. Through the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated events, Rose’s work presents humanity’s shared current anxieties and their multi-layered interconnectivity.


Bill Viola
The Talking Drum
In 2015, The Vinyl Factory collaborated with the artist Bill Viola to restage one of his most important sonic installations, The Talking Drum, at Brewer Street Car Park, Soho. Although best known as a pioneer of video art, Viola was involved in creating multiple experimental sound installations and performances in California from the 1960s onwards that paved the way for much electronic music to follow. Featuring three early sound compositions, this vinyl release, limited to just 100 copies, each hand signed and numbered by the artist, showcases Viola’s experimental Dry Pool Sounding recordings from the late 1970s, restored from tape by the artist’s studio.


Daft Punk x Maurizio Cattelan
Da Funk: Teachers
Toilet Paper is a surrealist artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari that challenges the limits of contemporary art. To celebrate the first million copies printed, in 2016 Toilet Paper collaborated with The Vinyl Factory to create a special golden vinyl of Daft Punk’s 1995 classic track “Da Funk”. Inspired by the classic ‘golden record’’ normally used by the music industry to remark this major achievement, this 12” picture disc was pressed as a limited edition of only 1000 copies, with artwork by Cattelan.


Ragnar Kjartansson
The Visitors

UNKLE feat. Keaton Henson
Sick Lullaby
A frequent collaborator with The Vinyl Factory over a decade, producer James Lavelle released Sick Lullaby – a cinematic-sounding UNKLE collaboration with singer Keaton Henson – on the VF label in 2017. A long-time champion of vinyl culture, Lavelle started his Mo’Wax label in the early 1990s, which later spawned his UNKLE project and sparked a global musical movement. UNKLE’s iconic debut album Psyence Fiction, featuring collaborations with Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft and Kool G Rap, had been a cult classic following its 1998 release.


Stan Douglas
Luanda-Kinshasa
The Vinyl Factory have staged Stan Douglas’s installation Luanda-Kinshasa twice at 180 Studios: at The Infinite Mix in 2016 and now at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition. The film depicts a fictional 1970s jazz-funk band engaged in a seemingly endless real-time jam. The band’s music echoes the then-current confluence of American jazz, funk and Afrobeat. Recorded in Brooklyn in 2013, and featuring musicians including Jason Moran, Kahlil Kwame and Kimberley Thompson, the soundtrack was released by The Vinyl Factory in 2016 on this gatefold album, with two edits of the installation’s epic jazz-jam selected by Douglas.


Patricia Satterwhite, Jacolby Satterwhite and Nick Weiss
Patricia
In 2016, The Vinyl Factory partnered with the Berlin Biennale and the artist collective DIS Magazine, who were curating that year’s program across the city. With curation and production by Total Freedom, The Vinyl Factory released three creative alliances between leading electronic musicians and artists that took place at the Biennale, including this collaboration between musician Patricia Satterwhite, artist Jacolby Satterwhite and music producer Nick Weiss. Jacolby Satterwhite’s vibrant work weaves together performance, animation, and personal ephemera. His videos and performances build on household or cosmetic products that his schizophrenic mother imagined and sketched. Satterwhite traces these objects and incorporates them into a virtual world filled with family videos and recordings of the artist dancing and vogueing in bright, tight body suits.


Fatima Al Qadiri, Hito Steyerl and Juliana Huxtable
Nothing Forever
In 2016, The Vinyl Factory partnered with the Berlin Biennale and the artist collective DiS, who were curating that year’s program across the city. The Vinyl Factory released three creative alliances between leading electronic musicians and artists that took place at the event, including this collaboration between musician Fatima Al-Qadiri, video artist Hito Steyerl and poet-artist-musician Juliana Huxtable. Titled Nothing Forever and produced by Total Freedom, the vinyl-only release was limited to 300 copies and featured artwork by Steyerl.


Rina Sawayama
Cyber Stockholm Syndrome
Long before she was sharing Glastonbury’s main stage with Elton John, Japanese-British singer Rina Sawayama was releasing her first physical record with The Vinyl Factory. This four-track EP came out in 2017: pressed on orange vinyl, it featured an exclusive remix of her track “Cyber Stockholm Syndrome” by Los Angeles-based producer Nite Jewel. A video for the track was filmed at The Vinyl Factory Space in Poland Street, Soho.


Total Freedom & Isa Genken
Fuck Them All
In 2016, The Vinyl Factory partnered with the Berlin Biennale and the artist collective DiS Magazine, who were curating that year’s program across the city. The Vinyl Factory released three collaborations between leading electronic musicians and artists that took place at the event, including this project between LA-based producer and DJ Total Freedom (aka Ashland Mines) and one of the most influential female artists of the last 30 years, Isa Genzken. With lyrics by Genzken and music by Total Freedom, the release was limited to 300 copies with cover design by Meiré & Meiré.


Ryoji Ikeda
Code Name A-Z
In 2017, The Vinyl Factory partnered with the LUMA Foundation to present live performances and installations by artists and musicians – including Ryoji Ikeda’s test pattern – at the Elevation Arts Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. This special 12” vinyl, Code Name A-Z, which contained 26 sonic frequencies derived from military use of Morse code, was released by The Vinyl Factory to mark the occasion. Limited to only 300 copies and pressed on transparent 12″ vinyl, with 13 locked grooves on each side, the title of each was hand-etched into the grooves.


Cameron Jamie / Sonic Youth
Massage The History
This collaboration between the artist Cameron Jamie and the band Sonic Youth was released by The Vinyl Factory in 2016 in tandem with the exhibition The Infinite Mix – staged by VF and the Hayward Gallery at 180 Studios – where Jamie’s video installation Massage the History was being shown. Jamie’s surreal documentary of an experimental dance troupe was soundtracked by Sonic Youth, and this track, with vocals by Kim Gordon, was pressed by VF as a one-sided 180-gram heavyweight white vinyl with an etching on the B-side by Jamie.


John Giorno & Ugo Rondinone
Thanx 4 Nothing
Released by The Vinyl Factory in tandem with the exhibition The Infinite Mix, staged by The Vinyl Factory and Hayward Gallery at 180 Studios in 2016, this record features legendary NY beat poet John Giorno’s soundtrack to Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s acclaimed film installation Thanx 4 Nothing. In the film, Giorno looks back at his life – and the people and events that shaped it – with humour and compassion. Performing in a tuxedo and bare feet on an empty stage in the Palais des Glaces theatre in Paris, as well as in a TV studio, Giorno gives thanks to ‘everyone for everything,’ before speaking frankly on the death of friends and lovers, sex, betrayal and his frequent periods of depression.


Jeremy Deller & Cecelia Bengolea
Bom Bom’s Dream
Co-commissioned by The Vinyl Factory, Cecilia Bengolea and Jeremy Deller’s 2016 film Bom Bom’s Dream was staged as part of The Infinite Mix exhibition at 180 Studios and the soundtrack was released by the VF label the same year. Bom Bom’s Dream follows the fantastical adventures of a Japanese dancer known as Bom Bom – celebrated for her gymnastic, slapstick dance moves – as she travels to Jamaica to participate in the local dancehall music scene. With its lo-fi special effects and fantasy sequences, the video is a cross-cultural, contemporary equivalent to Alice in Wonderland. The music, produced by Sanjay Ramanand, featured legendary Jamaican dancer Shelly Belly, who also starred in the film.


William Kentridge
Second-Hand Reading
William Kentridge is one of South Africa’s pre-eminent artists; globally acclaimed for his drawings, films, lecture performances and opera and theatre productions. Second-Hand Reading is composed of hundreds of drawings superimposed on pages from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Like figures on a stage, drawings of the artist, scenes from nature, geometric shapes and phrases dance to music by Neo Muyanga. These rational sequences of words are counterpoised by the intuitive and the imaginary. The soundtrack, originally released by The Vinyl Factory in 2016, has been repressed for The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition, where Second-Hand Reading is being shown.


Moor Mother
The Motionless Present
Philadelphia-based artist and activist Camae Ayewa, who performs as Moor Mother, released The Motionless Present – a collection of her poems and soundscapes – with The Vinyl Factory in 2017. Ayewa described the release as, “a statement towards understanding the disconnect between humanity and injustice”, and it featured various new collaborations and previews of upcoming projects, including Black Quantum Futurism, Moor Jewelry, Mental Jewelry and 700 Bliss. The Motionless Present was created in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory ahead of Moor Mother’s CTM festival performance at Berghain that year.


Elysia Crampton
Spots Y Eduitato
American electronic producer and poet Elysia Crampton released this so-called ‘sample pack’ album of six full-length tracks and eight ‘spots’ in 2017. A limited edition of 300 copies, the release – titled Spots y Escupitaio – braids legacies from both American club culture and sonic miniature compositions. Crampton’s music touches upon themes of Aymara survival and Latino culture, LGBT and Aymara femme heritage, science fiction, references to Christian faith and ontology, and frequent utilisation of samples and arrangements from varying sources. For Crampton, this album honoured the legacies of the Aymara figure Chuqui Chinchay and her deceased grandparents.


Moses Boyd
Absolute Zero
This four-track EP, titled Absolute Zero, was UK jazz star Moses Boyd’s second solo offering, a thrilling fusion of cosmic mind-flight above the London grime, released by The Vinyl Factory in 2017. The EP’s title is an oblique reference to grime-father Wiley’s “Ice Rink”, and echoes of grime’s sour synth lines are submerged in his freewheeling virtuoso drum technique. Moses is one of a part of a new wave of jazz musicians from London injecting new blood into the form.


The John Giorno Band
I’m Rock Hard (1982-1989)
The Vinyl Factory released the first-ever compilation of legendary artist and beat poet John Giorno’s sound compositions in 2017, recorded as The John Giorno Band. Created in tandem with an exhibition of Giorno’s works in New York, the release consisted of nine tracks pressed on double vinyl. A limited edition of just 200 hand-signed copies, it also featured a 20-page booklet with exclusive images. By the end of the ‘70s, Giorno had expanded his sound compositions into the world of music and created his own record label, Giorno Poetry Systems Recordings; by 1981, he had formed The John Giorno Band. Comprised of a rotating cast of talented musicians, the group was invited to perform at various New York clubs including Danceteria and CBGB, where Giorno developed a new avenue to employ his poetic language – one that merged his spoken-word poetry slams into electrifying performances.


Isaac Julien
Looking for Langston
Artist Isaac Julien’s award-winning film Looking For Langston, made in 1989, is a visually beautiful and lyrical exploration of Black and white gay identities set in the Harlem Renaissance in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. The film is inspired by the unexplored aspects of the life and work of the poet Langston Hughes, and the soundtrack features his poetry set to blues and jazz as well as house music, featuring the voices of Toni Morrison and Stuart Hall. Pressed onto a unique ‘Isaac Julien Blue’ vinyl at The Vinyl Factory pressing plant, this edition was released on the VF imprint in 2017.


August Engkilde & SUPERFLEX
Warum sollten wir Angst vor großen Tieren haben?
In the autumn of 1996, while working on the biogas project for Tanzania, Danish art collective SUPERFLEX met composer and sound designer August Engkilde, with whom they shared a common interest in animal acoustics and fascinating images of African animals. Together they produced a series of music based on these animals and their sounds which was released on vinyl in 2018 as Warum sollten wir Angst vor großen Tieren haben?, translates to Why should we be afraid of big animals? This limited edition of 55 copies featured a hand-painted, pop-up gatefold sleeve with original artwork by SUPERFLEX, a diverse and complex practice that challenges the role of the artist in contemporary society.


Arthur Jafa
A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Artist Arthur Jafa collaborated with The Vinyl Factory to present a Listening Session on 9 September 2017 with musicians Steve Coleman, Morgan Craft, Micah Gaugh, Melvin Gibbs, Kokayi Issa and Jason Moran to celebrate his exhibition, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, at the Serpentine Gallery. The dismembered jazz ensemble improvised simultaneously but separately at secret ‘Black Sites’ across London. The resulting music was live-streamed in the gallery, where Okwui Okpokwasili performed, devising a time-based work accompanying the discordant soundtrack. The Listening Session was recorded direct-to-disc on The Vinyl Factory Lathe and captured on this release.


Actress, Gwilym Gold, Holly Pester & Evan Ifekoya & Victoria Sin
To Corpse
In July 2017, the city of Naples and The Sicilian island of Stromboli hosted I Polpi, a festival of contemporary art presented by Fiorucci Art Trust and curated by Milovan Farronato, in partnership with The Vinyl Factory and spearheaded by Eddie Peake. Electronic producer Actress, musician Gwilym Gold, interdisciplinary artists Evan Ifekoya and Victoria Sin, poet and writer Holly Pester and the natural sound of the island of Stromboli each created unique compositions to accompany Peake’s performance in five variations, To Corpse, performed live by the composers along with the dancers Valeria D’Antonio, Kieram Corrin Mitchell, Emma Fisher, Sara Lupoli and Francesco Russo across five different locations in Naples and Stromboli.


Jeremy Shaw
Liminals
In 2017, The Vinyl Factory staged artist Jeremy Shaw’s video installation Liminals at 180 Studios. Having premiered at that year’s Venice Biennale, the 20-minute film is set against a 1970s cinema vérité aesthetic, drawing parallels between the experimental spiritual gatherings of the ’70s and the effect-laden release of contemporary hedonistic subcultures. It follows a group of eight dancers as they enact ecstatic rituals in an attempt to access a new realm of consciousness with the potential to save humanity. The soundtrack, composed by electronic music producer Konrad Black in collaboration with Shaw, was released on this 10” vinyl pressing by The Vinyl Factory.


Róisín Murphy
All My Dreams
The Vinyl Factory first collaborated with Roisin Murphy to release her Italian-inspired extended player, Mi Senti, in 2014. Four years later the partnership continued with this, the first of four dancefloor-orientated vinyl EPs by Roisin Murphy produced by Maurice Fulton and released by The Vinyl Factory. All My Dreams featured some of Murphy’s most pleasure-centre-stimulating music of her career. With graphic design and artwork from Portuguese New Yorker Braulio Amado, each 12” was pressed by VF on the iconic EMI 1400 as a limited edition of 1000 copies.


Joakim
The Venezia Sessions
In 2017, The Vinyl Factory collaborated with the French artist Xavier Veilhan to release musical recordings created on-site in the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which he had transformed into a space he called Studio Venezia. This instrumental double album by Parisian producer Joakim was one of them. The Pavilion design was inspired by the grotto-like Merzbau by Kurt Schwitters. Containing an impressive collection of rare instruments – from medieval horns to rare modular synths – Studio Venezia was an amazing creative playground for the adventurous musicians who played there during the Biennale, which included Brian Eno, Sebastian Tellier and Christian Marclay.


Various Artists
Untitled
This incredible compilation of seven collaborative recordings by some of the UK’s most exciting musicians – including Shabaka Hutchings, Kojey Radical, Wu-Lu, Nubya Garcia, Roxanne Tataei, Joe Armon-Jones, Kwake Bass and Coby Sey – was released by The Vinyl Factory in 2019. Inspired by the life and work of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who had been the subject of a major exhibition at the Barbican in 2017, the album spanned genres and eras, touching on jazz, electronic, post-punk, dub and ambient influences, painting a diverse picture of the UK’s expanding underground sound.


Emma-Jean Thackray
Ley Lines
This eight-track EP by one of the UK’s then-freshest jazz stars was released on The Vinyl Factory in 2018. A trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist, Emma-Jean Thackray recorded the mini-album single-handedly in her home studio in London. Thackray said that Ley Lines took its inspiration from Madlib, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Fela Kuti. “I wanted to step away from my work as a band leader and do something self-contained”, Thackray said at the time. “I love improvising in the moment with a band but wanted to take the chance to create at my own pace and be true to my own vision.”


Exotourisme (Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Julien Perez)
Tornado Alley
Citing Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner as an inspiration, influential contemporary artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster drew on the synthetic French new wave of Lizzy Mercier Descloux and Serge Gainsbourg to weave a seductive, neon-soaked sound evocative of Paris’ nefarious 1980s underground for her debut EP as Exotourisme, a collaboration with producer and musician Perez. Released on The Vinyl Factory in 2018, this was one of several collaborations between VF and Gonzalez-Foerster, which included several vinyl releases, live shows in London, Venice and Gstaad, and an installation of the artist’s holographic tribute to Maria Callas, Opera (QM.15), as part of The Infinite Mix exhibition, staged at 180 Studios in 2016.


Wes Anderson
Isle of Dogs
In 2018, 180 Studios staged an exhibition of film director Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs. Curated by Anderson himself, the exhibition presents the intricate sets that make up the city of Megasaki where the film is based, alongside the original puppets of the canine characters. The exhibition also featured a life-size recreation of the film’s noodle bar, serving ramen by Akira Shimizu, set against a background of the original score by Alexandre Desplat, classic Kurosawa scores and The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, who all feature on the film’s soundtrack. The Vinyl Factory released four of the film’s songs – composed by Desplat – on this limited release, pressed on red vinyl and housed in a sleeve with artwork from the film.


Theaster Gates & The Black Monks of Mississippi
Black Madonna
In 2018, The Vinyl Factory partnered with the artist Theaster Gates to create a new joint record label called Black Madonna Press. This four-track EP by the artist’s musical collective The Black Monks was the precursor to a wide-ranging collaboration between The Vinyl Factory and Theaster Gates during the artist’s exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel in June 2018, where a series of live performances by The Monks were recorded direct-to-disc on The Vinyl Factory Lathe.


Goblin / Claudio Simonetti
Super Dario
In 2018, The Vinyl Factory partnered with luxury streetwear brand Aries to release two iconic tracks from legendary Italian musician and producer Claudio Simonetti’s progressive rock band, Goblin. The two-track release, a limited edition of 300, included “Suspiria”, from Simonetti’s soundtrack to cult director Dario Argento’s 1977 film of the same name. The cover artwork, designed by Aries’ creative director Sofia Prantera, was inspired by the 1980s gaming icon Super Mario.


Kahlil Joseph
Fly Paper
In 2017, The Vinyl Factory collaborated with artist and film-maker Kahlil Joseph to produce his film installation Fly Paper, which debuted at the New Museum in New York and was subsequently shown at 180 Studios in London as part of the group show Strange Days: Memories of the Future in 2018. Inspired by Joseph’s admiration of the work of Roy DeCarava, a photographer and artist known for his images of celebrated jazz musicians and everyday life in Harlem, Joseph’s film celebrates black culture and the black community in New York both visually and sonically, creating a rich and polyphonic portrait. The soundtrack, pressed on purple vinyl and released by The Vinyl Factory in 2018, featured many musicians Joseph calls friends and collaborators, including Kelsey Lu, Alice Smith, Flying Lotus and Thundercat.


Taryn Simon
An Occupation of Loss
This recording was made in April 2018 on the occasion of the London performance of artist Taryn Simon’s An Occupation of Loss, a work in which professional mourners simultaneously broadcast their lamentations, many of which trace their origins to pre-Islamic and pre-Christian times, enacting rituals of grief. Their sonic mourning was performed in recitations that include Northern Albanian laments, which seek to excavate “uncried words”; Wayuu laments, which safeguard the soul’s passage to the Milky Way; Greek Epirotic laments, which bind the story of a life with its afterlife; and Yazidi laments, which map a topography of displacement and exile. Released by The Vinyl Factory in 2019 as a limited edition which combined a hard-bound art book and two vinyl records, the release was commemorated with a special performance in the concrete basement of 180 Studios.


Pipilotti Rist / Soap&Skin
Sleep/Spiracle
In 2017 The Vinyl Factory collaborated with The New Museum, NY to stage a large video art exhibition at 180 Studios called Strange Days: Memories of the Future. One of the many works in the show was Pipilotti Rist’s mesmerising 4th Floor to Mildness, an installation shot largely underwater, projected onto two screens hanging from the ceiling, with visitors laying on beds underneath, offering viewers an opportunity to immerse themselves in the work while lying alongside one another. The soundtrack, consisting of two songs by Soap&Skin, was released by The Vinyl Factory in tandem. Referring to her art as a ‘glorification of the wonder of evolution,” Rist maintains a deep sense of curiosity that pervades her explorations of physical and psychological experiences.


Richie Hawtin presents F.U.S.E.
Dimensions (25th Anniversary Edition)
The Vinyl Factory collaborated with Richie Hawtin in 2019 to release a vinyl box set celebrating the 25th anniversary of the electronic producer’s original F.U.S.E. releases including the classic albums Dimension Intrusion and Train-Tracs. The set also included the unreleased album Computer Space, completing the extended range of Hawtin’s recording persona in the formative year of 1993. Original artwork was provided by visual artist Matthew Hawtin, Richie’s brother. The release was accompanied by an immersive exhibition by Richie and Matthew Hawtin at 180 Studios.


Thom Yorke
Suspiria
Released by The Vinyl Factory to celebrate the UK opening of Luca Guadagnino 2018 supernatural horror film Suspiria, inspired by Italian director Dario Argento’s 1977 film of the same name, this record featured unreleased and previously unheard material from Thom Yorke’s original score. With performances by The London Contemporary Orchestra and choir, the release featured sleeve artwork by long-time Radiohead collaborator artist Stanley Donwood.


Yussef Dayes & Alfa Mist
Love is the Message
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and released by The Vinyl Factory in 2018, jazz drummer Yussef Dayes collaborates with musicians Alfa Mist, Mansur Brown and Rocco Palladino on an epic live jam session ripping through a fiery rendition of their track “Love is the Message” in a single take. “Growing up in the big smoke, we’re used to recording in basements and bedroom studios, so to get the opportunity to elevate our sounds in the legendary Abbey Road studios was a beautiful moment,” said Dayes.


Hassan Khan
Superstructure
The Superstructure EP, artist and musician Hassan Khan’s first release with The Vinyl Factory from 2019, is comprised of two long, powerful tracks produced out of the recording sessions of his critically acclaimed video installation Jewel (2010) which The Vinyl Factory exhibited at 180 Studios in 2017 as part of the group exhibition Strange Days: Memories of the Future. Recorded live at Khan’s sold out 2012 Louvre Concert, the delicate electronica of “a short story based on a distant memory” and the heavily percussive “Superstructure (the ammunition of the nation)” were pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl with sleeve artwork by Engy Aly.


Theaster Gates & The Black Monks
Furthermore
Theaster Gates and The Black Monks’ second release on Black Madonna Press, the artist’s joint label with The Vinyl Factory, was a mesmerising live jam that fuses the jazz-orientated spiritualism of his musical collective with the groove-based metronomic beat of their native city Chicago’s house music legacy. Recorded live at the Spriegel Museum, Hannover in 2018 and pressed on heavyweight black vinyl with an etching of one of Gates’ mask artworks on one side, this 2019 release also featured images of Gates’ striking masks on the outer and inner sleeves.


Hito Steyerl / Kojey Radical / Susumu Yokota
Power Plants
The soundtrack to Hito Steyerl’s installation This is the Future, now showing as part of The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition, features a collaboration between British musician and rapper Kojey Radical and one of the world’s most influential and important visual artists and thinkers, and a beatific ambient classic by late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota. Produced by The Vinyl Factory, Steyerl questions how the future might evolve in unpredictable ways using AI. Situated between cinema and fine art, Steyerl’s work develops from research, interviews and found images, culminating in installations that interweave documentary with dream-like montage.


Soundwalk Collective & Nan Goldin
The Women’s March, 1789
Released by The Vinyl Factory in 2019, the soundtrack to artist Nan Goldin’s exhibition, The Women’s March, 1789, at the Palais de Versailles, captures one of the most pivotal moments of the French Revolution. Featuring a sound installation by Soundwalk Collective, this release uses the voices of well-known women including Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Isabelle Huppert and Charlotte Rampling to extol their rights as defended by the French Revolution.


Bernie Krause
The Great Animal Orchestra
In 2018, The Vinyl Factory partnered with the Fondation Cartier to stage the UVA: Other Spaces exhibition at 180 Studios, showing three large immersive works by the pioneering audio-visual collective. One of these was The Great Animal Orchestra, a hugely popular collaboration with the sound ecologist Bernie Krause where his bio-acoustic recordings were paired with UVA’s accompanying visuals, featuring colourful abstract spectrogram landscapes of the environments where the animals live. The soundscape was released by VF as this gatefold album, comprising the recordings, installation imagery and sleeve notes.


Lawrence Lek
Temple OST
Originally commissioned by The Vinyl Factory for the 2018 exhibition Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder at 180 Studios, the installation Temple by Lawrence Lek was a reimagined futuristic karaoke club: an elegy to nocturnal euphoria and to the memories that linger when the lights go on and the dance floor empties. The soundtrack, comprising seven original tracks by Lek, filled the neon-lit room, while screens displayed video game walkthroughs of a new subterranean tunnel that leads virtual ravers from Temple Tube Station to Diva’s club, through the burning rubbish bins of a future-wracked London.


Duval Timothy
Help
Duval Timothy is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice is centred around colour and involves the use of music, photography, textiles, painting, sculpture, design, cooking and video. Recorded in London and Los Angeles, and released by The Vinyl Factory in 2020, Duval Timothy’s album Help found him collaborating with co-producers Rodaidh McDonald and Marta Salogni with collaborations from Lil Silva, Melanie Faye, Vegyn, Desta Haile, Mr Mitch, Dave Okumo, and Twin Shadow. This vinyl edition featured an art print of Duval’s plasticine figurine from the music video to his song “Slave”.


William Kentridge, Philip Miller & Thuthuka Sibisi
Kaboom!
The soundtrack to a three-channel film installation by William Kentridge released by The Vinyl Factory in 2019, the music for Kaboom! was composed by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi and adapted from the South African artist’s critically acclaimed performance production The Head & the Load, which premiered at the Tate Modern in 2018 and subsequently toured the world. Featuring an incredible collective of over 30 vocalists and musicians, the music on Kaboom! is as expansive, rich and moving as the performance project from which it was derived. With sleeve artwork by Kentridge, the release also features additional recent compositions by his long-time musical producer Philip Miller comprising a trio of distinct recordings by some of South Africa’s finest musicians.


Julianknxx
In Praise of Still Boys
Interdisciplinary artist, poet, and 180 Studios resident, Julianknxx collaborated with The Vinyl Factory to release the soundtrack to his 2021 film, In Praise Of Still Boys, commissioned by and exhibited at 180 Studios. Featuring compositions from the film as well as additional original music by Julianknxx alongside a cast of close collaborators including Melo-Zed, Aron Kyne, Thabo, and anaïs, the record was pressed on ultra-blue vinyl in keeping with the film, told through the lives of young Sierra Leonean boys who live by the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean.


Nan Goldin, Mica Levi, Soundwalk Collective and Franz Schubert
Memory Lost / Sirens
The soundtracks to two of Nan Goldin’s most elegiac films were composed by Mica Levi, and released by The Vinyl Factory in 2021. Dedicated to Nan Goldin’s activist group P.A.I.N (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), Memory Lost recounts a life lived through a lens of drug addiction. The captivating, beautiful and haunting journey of the video unfolds through an assemblage of intimate and personal imagery to offer a poignant reflection on memory and the darkness of addiction. Sirens was the first work by Goldin made entirely from found footage. The single-channel video includes scenes from thirty of her favourite films and is accompanied by Mica Levi’s score.


Gabriel Moses
Ijó
Photographer and filmmaker Gabriel Moses’ soundtrack to his film Ijó was released by The Vinyl Factory in 2023. Commissioned by 180 Studios and featuring an original score by James William Blades, Ijó follows a group of young ballet dancers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring common themes within Moses’ work through the intersections of art, family and culture. The film premiered at 180 Studios as part of Moses’ acclaimed exhibition REGINA, which took place in April 2023.


Wes Anderson & Jarvis Cocker
Asteroid City
Curated by 180 Studios and Universal Studios, the Asteroid City exhibition took place at 180 during the summer of 2023, featuring original sets, props, costumes and artwork that capture Anderson’s style, visuals and sounds. Available exclusively from the show, this vinyl edition was released by The Vinyl Factory in celebration and includes two tracks by Jarvis Cocker from the film’s soundtrack: “Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)” and “You Can’t Wake Up If You Don’t Fall Asleep”.


Es Devlin & Polyphonia
An Atlas of Es Devlin
Artist and polymath Es Devlin’s genre-defying practice encompasses art, activism, theatre, poetry, music, dance, opera and sculpture. This LP, produced and released by The Vinyl Factory in 2023, captures 20 of her iconic works’ soundscapes, with music produced by long-time collaborators Polyphonia, mixed with her voiceovers, personal stories and poetry. The soundscapes created by Polyphonia aka composers Jade Pybus and Andy Theakstone include music from Es Devlin’s hugely popular immersive artworks A Forest of Us (2021) at Superblue, Miami, BLUESKYWHITE (2021) at 180 Studios, London, and several works shown in Devlin’s exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum of Design, New York (2023).


UVA & Daniel J Thibaut
Chromatic
Commissioned by 180 Studios as part of the UVA exhibition Synchronicity staged in 2023, Chromatic is a software-driven optical instrument that explores the harmony of form and the interaction of colour and sound. Each line, shape, and colour plays a role in constructing this generative audio-visual installation. With a dynamic score by composer Daniel J Thibaut, this vinyl release reflects the generative nature of the artwork itself – each of the 100 sleeves comprising the vinyl edition is unique, featuring a fine art print with artwork generated by UVA’s Chromatic installation.


Fred again…
Tiny Desk
A collaboration between The Vinyl Factory and IRL (In Real Life), this vinyl release is a recording of a live performance by British musician and producer Fred again.. from April 2023 when the electronic artist performed seven songs from his Actual Life album trilogy in 26 minutes for NPR’s Tiny Desk series. In real-time, Fred again.. played the piano, marimba and vibraphone while singing and looping beats throughout the showcase, which was set in the foreground of a screen displaying videos for each song. The vinyl release featured a photograph from the set, hand tipped onto each cover, with each copy of the edition of 3000 hand signed and numbered by Fred.


Ben Kelly & Scanner
Columns
In 2022, British artist Ben Kelly – famed for his industrial design of Manchester’s Hacienda and Factory Records – staged two new audio-visual works at 180 Studios as part of the exhibition Future Shock. His works, titled Falling Columns and Columns 22 were soundtracked by electronic music producer Scanner. Kelly had previously exhibited at 180 Studios in 2017 with RUIN, a collaboration with the late designer and artist Virgil Abloh that depicted the ruins of a nightclub, echoing the decline of such social spaces around the UK. The soundtrack to Falling Columns was released by The Vinyl Factory in 2024 as a limited edition of 300 copies, pressed on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl with design and artwork by Kelly.


Stan Douglas
ISDN