Throwback Thursday this week takes us somewhere slightly odd. Not a record, not a club, but a machine. Every so often a piece of kit comes along that feels like it shouldn’t exist, and the Vestax VRX-2000 is one of them. A vinyl cutting lathe you could put on a sturdy table at home and actually use. Released in 1999, built in Japan, and reportedly three years in development across acoustic, mechanical and electrical engineering, it was Vestax having a proper go at something the big lathe manufacturers had kept locked away in mastering rooms for decades.
For anyone who didn’t live through the dubplate years, that’s the bit…
