Mastercut Product Details
Where craftsmanship meets sound
Tech Specs
A. Technical details
- RPM: 33 1/3
- Classic 12” format
- Cut in real-time on a lacquer disc with metal core produced by MDC, JAPAN
- Packaging dimensions LxWxH: 34cm x 36cm x 7cm
- Packaging content:
Gloves, Handprinted Cover and Sleeve,
Lacquer disc secured by special Mastercut screw,
MASTERCUT Edition hand-sewn Edition Booklet filled with all analog Memorabilia - Total weight: 1,2kg
B. Circulation
The total circulation of MASTERCUT RECORDS cut from every MASTERTAPE / TITLE is STRICTLY LIMITED to a MAXIMUM OF TOTAL 999 RECORDS. These 999 Records will be produced over time in several EDITION RELEASES, which differ in a series in design elements.
As of today, the following different editions have been released:
ARCHIVAL TAPE EDITIONS
- #24 David Oistrakh / Bach Violin Concertos
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #23 Carlos Kleiber / Beethoven No. 7
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #22 James Brown / Live At The Apollo
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #21 The Band / The Band
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #20 The Velvet Underground & Nico
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #19 The Gil Evans Orchestra / Out Of The Cool
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #18 Charles Mingus / Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #17 Sonny Rollins / On Impulse!
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
- #16 Sarah Vaughan / Sarah Vaughan
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #15 Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #14 Oscar Peterson Trio / Night Train
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #13 Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #12 Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #11 Marvin Gaye / What's Going On
Premier Cut: 01 - 99 - #10 Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker
Premier Cut: 01 - 99 - #9 Bill Evans Trio / Trio 64
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #8 Oliver Nelson / The Blues And The Abstract Truth
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #7 Ella & Louis
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #6 Nina Simone / I Put A Spell On You
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #5 William Steinberg / BSO
Premier Cut: 01 - 99 - #4 Getz / Gilberto
Premier Cut: 01-99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #3 John Coltrane / A Love Supreme
Premier Cut: 01 - 99
USA Edition: 001 - 500 - #2 Carlos Kleiber / Wiener Philharmoniker
Premier Cut: 01-99
Japan Edition: 01-99 - #1 Martha Argerich
Premier Cut: 01-99
Japan Edition: 01-99
LIVE RECORDING EDITIONS
- #3 Jack Savoretti
Premier Cut: 01-99 - #2 Guy Chambers
Premier Cut: 01-99 - #1 Gregory Porter
Premier Cut: 01-99
Palace Edition: 01-99
Production
Every single edition is handcrafted in the Viennese Supersense manufactory by a small team of experts in the fields of record cutting, traditional printing methods and packaging design. Only using high quality natural paper from selected European paper mills.
The cover is very reduced in design, printed with traditional letterpress and hot foil techniques at our all analog printshop in the heart of Vienna by our creative director Anna Tatu and her husband Ema.
For all our Archival Tape Editions, the inner sleeve celebrates a photograph of the original tape, reproduced in our print shop with screen printing techniques.
For all our Live Recording Editions, the inner sleeve features our favorite photograph of the live recording session.
A special, high density screen is used by our screen print master Giulio Paolini for highest, all-analog printing quality.
Opening the inner sleeve reveals the edition details.
Printed with lines we produce with our classic linotype machines.
Opening the "info flip", we finally see the shining Mastercut.
Carefully secured and protected by the Mastercut Screw.
Developed and exclusively produced for this edition together with Wolfgang Weber in his unique metal workshop.
In addition to the high-quality sound carrier, each edition contains valuable, partly historical accompanying documents (such as the original recording protocol of Deutsche Grammophon or historical photographs,...) - also reproduced using purely analog technologies.
All documents are carefully inserted into the special MASTERCUT booklet you will find underneath the MASTERCUT. Each end every booklet is hand produced from archival pergamin envelopes and filled with a variety of analog treasures by hand.
Including original instant photographs exposed onto our hand-made One Instant Type 100 film...
...and analog photocopies made with our all analog vintage photocopy machine.
The last round of finishing touches includes the labelling, the hand-numbering of the editions as well as the stamping of the booklet banderole.
