One can think a lot about/for a special edition. Nowadays, it often suffices to change the vinyl color to add value to the record. Artificial scarcity to generate additional demand works excellently, but it only symbolizes a petty-bourgeois mentality.
Do-it-yourself in the true sense means doing it better than the mainstream:
Developing ideas, realizing dreams, creating something whose value lies in active engagement, and above all: not letting oneself be co-opted. And that’s exactly how this record came to be. From the idea to the finished record, it was a long, arduous, and at the same time beautiful journey.
Details about the SPECIAL EDITION:
Album cover artwork as a 15-piece sliding game with negative 3D CNC-milled woodcut, inserted material, approx. 47 m² of three layers of birch multiplex with black melamine resin surface, 26,580 lines long CNC program for milling the artwork, back cover artwork as engraving milling, approx. 200 hours of manual labor, approx. 6.5 km of milling paths and 1.1 km of grooves, as well as 2,300 pieces of stainless steel screws 3x16 with I-star head.
Here’s the clip for the record: http://youtu.be/NbDsp-OzTJU
This special piece can be purchased at:
