Making Vinyl
28-9, PHIL.
Start your program on the Thursday by visiting Making Vinyl, the world's leading conference when it comes to vinyl industry insights. Check out the extensive Making Vinyl program to get an idea of what to expect. Tickets are available via the Making Vinyl website.
Guided Tour @ Record Industry
29-9, 12 - 4 PM, Record Industry
Want to know how a vinyl record is made? This is your chance! Record Industry offers guided tours through the factory during Haarlem Vinyl Festival on september 29th. Update: we only have the 1-2 PM and the 2-3 PM time slots left, the rest if fully booked. Hurry and book here.
Ticket info: free entrance for Vinyl Culture and Weekend Pass ticket holders, reservation is mandatory.
Check out the raw material
29-9 - 1-10, PHIL
At the festival hang-out you can get your hands on the raw material for vinyl, provided by Plastchem.
Vinyl History: The Telefunken Machine & Other Vinyl Paraphernalia
1-10, Molen De Adriaan
On a location (Mill the Adriaan 1779) older than the gramophone itself (invented in 1887) you can admire record players and other paraphernalia from back in the days. Rinus Blijleven from the association de Weergever (a group of 78-RPM collectors) will even bring his Berliner Gramophone player including Nipper. Audio Archeologist Tim de Wolf will demonstrate direct-to-disc recording on his 78-RPM Telefunken cutting machine, supported by Marco van der Hoeven, a collector of unique microphones.nFeel free to bring your instrument and your best singing voice, it might get caught in the groove!
Ticket info: free entrance.
Vinyl and Web3: The Possibilities are Endless
30-9, 10.30 - 11.30 AM, Van Beinumzaal (PHIL).
Vinyl and NFTs are much more similar than you might think. Both are direct-to-fan tools allowing artists to express themselves to their fanbase. And interestingly, NFTs offer the same sort of opportunities for artistic expression that used to be what record sleeves were for. Visit this panel talk featuring representatives of Vinylkey amongst others to get a glimpse at the future.
Ticket info: this session is accessible for Vinyl Culture, Weekend Pass and PHIL day ticket holders, available here.
Meet The Experts! Presented by Vinyl Alliance
30-9, 10 AM - 6 PM, The Loft (PHIL)
1-10, 10 AM - 3PM, The Loft (PHIL)
The Vinyl Alliance, as the leading association for the global vinyl record industry, is set to bring knowledge and insight to the festival with a unique showcase illustrating the several steps of record manufacturing. The listening sessions, Q&As and demonstrations will run throughout both festival days (Saturday and Sunday) as a walk-in experience at the LOFT 1 inside PHIL. Find the list of experts of Discogs, Green Vinyl, Record Industry, Warner Music Experience here.
Ticket info: this session is accessible for Vinyl Culture, Weekend Pass and PHIL day ticket holders, available here.
Classic Album Sunday with Colleen Murphy and Ken Scott
30-9, 4 - 6 PM, Van Beinumzaal (PHIL)
1-10, 4-6 PM, Van Beinumzaal (PHIL)
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy is the founder of Classic Album Sundays, a global event series and a multi-media content platform that tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and our lives. It is the world's most popular and respected audiophile classic album listening events and it is coming to the Haarlem Vinyl Festival. Together with Ken Scott she will discuss David Bowie's Aladdin Sane (Saturday) and The Beatles' White Album (Sunday).
Ticket info: this session is accessible for Vinyl Culture, Weekend Pass and PHIL day ticket holders, available here.
The Secret Life of a Record
1-10, 2.30 - 3.30 PM, Van Beinumzaal (PHIL)
Obsessive Beatles fans in the 1960s began to listen to their songs backward and hear things that might or might not have been put there deliberately, with Revolution 9 supposed to contain the message "Turn me on, dead man". Since then, numerous groups have supposedly added hidden messages to tracks, including Judas Priest, whose track 'Better by You, Better than Me', contains the backward message: “Do it", and ELO's Fire on High contains the advice, “The music is reversible. Time is not. Turn back, turn back.” How true is this enduring folk tale, and were they just coincidences that were enabled by the fact that vinyl can be played backward, and nothing more? And how do you engineer a voice to make sense when listened to backward as well as forwards? All this, and much more will be revealed in The Secret Life of a Record.
Ticket info: this session is accessible for Vinyl Culture, Weekend Pass and PHIL day ticket holders, available here.
Vinyl Myths busted
1-10, 4 - 4.30 PM, Van Beinumzaal (PHIL)
With the ongoing challenges especially for the independent music industry in terms of long lead times, quality uncertainties and increasing costs easy explanations and recriminations celebrate public attention. From quality issues such as warped records, pressing flaws over transport to the need of a good and dynamic vinyl mastering: great records suffer and gain from dedication of a great variety of partners and different steps having their share in the result. It's never just recording studios, cutting houses or pressing plants. It's all of them together and the challenge of them aligning in the same understanding and wish to create an outstanding product. Bring your strong opinions and throw them at Andreas Kohl, vinyl guru at Europe's leading manufacturing broker Keyproduction Ltd.
Ticket info: this session is accessible for Vinyl Culture, Weekend Pass and PHIL day ticket holders, available here.