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The Vinyl Alliance Does Most Wanted: Music Berlin

The Vinyl Alliance team were in attendance at Berlin’s premiere music industry convention Most Wanted: Music. And we weren’t the only ones.

Objects Manufacturing were also on hand, and were lucky enough to take home a prize at the conference’s award ceremony. During the Listen to Berlin awards, the manufacturer was awarded the Preis für Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften (best sustainable business).

Objects Manufacturing were also featured on the Most Wanted: Music satellite bus tour, where attendees got to peak behind the curtain, and see how the factory functions.

We were also there to see Kim Bayley from the the digital entertainment and retail association ERA, who was speaking about the growth of vinyl across the globe, alongside Rough Trade’s Lawrence Montgomery. If you haven’t already listened to Kim Bayley on our Vinyl Futures podcast, go and listen to Episode 1: Record Store Day now.

Most Wanted: Music had great panels that addressed sustainability, artist management, AI, sync, with the overall theme for the convention focused on monetization. And of course, it wouldn’t have been a music conference without the inclusion of some great bands. At the closing live event, local acts Donata, King Josephine, and emmo (amongst others), played in the city’s legendary Kulturbrauerei venue. 

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New Podcast: Video Game Music on Vinyl


Join us for episode 3 of our podcast Vinyl Futures, as we explore the intersection of video games and vinyl. Together with leading figures from the VGM vinyl scene, we take a look at how video game music gets released on vinyl, and the phenomenon it’s become among collectors and fans.

The world of video game music (VGM) vinyl is amassing a larger community with every release. With key game titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto 5 seeing their soundtracks become collectable items in their own right, the fandom and demand for VGM vinyl has grown massively.

To delve further into this phenomenon, we spoke to leading figures in the VGM vinyl scene about the key aspects that have furthered the growth of this particular trend. Speaking to Jon Gibson from iam8bit, and Pablo Manyer from Milan Records — two of the leading labels releasing VGM vinyl — along with Frederik Lauridsen, who runs the specialist blog Blipblop, host Dan Cole leads a new conversation connecting VGM vinyl’s roots in the 1980’s to its resurgence in the 2010’s which continues in a big way today.

From exploring VGM’s origin, discussing key titles, and digging into the process of releasing on vinyl, we break down the key facts behind the VGM vinyl scene and look at where it’s headed next.

Listen to the latest edition of the podcast HERE, and don’t forget to subscribe and drop us a rating!

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