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.
