Category: Features

  • Zenith Records, Australia’s record presses, & how to press a record

    Zenith’s studio, with lathe cutter in centre.

    In the last 30 years Australia has generally only had one or two companies pressing vinyl across the entire country. We dropped by the Zenith Records plant in East Brunswick where co-owner Paul Rigby talked through the history of their machines.

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  • Brother Jack McDuff

    Photograph by Don Schlitten for Screamin’ (1962)

    Perhaps best known for his work with guitarist George Benson, and later being sampled on A Tribe Called Quests’ Scenario, “Brother” Jack McDuff released around 70 albums across labels such as Prestige, Atlantic, Blue Note, Chess and Concord Jazz.

    While he experimented with different styles, McDuff stuck with the organ for most of his career and continued releasing music up until his death in 2001.

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