The Guardian is reporting that Matador Records has lost many of their vinyl masters due to the bankruptcy of 33 1/3 – a vinyl pressing company – in 2006.

Among them were albums by Mogwai, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Pavement, The New Pornographers and others. Matador’s director of production, Jesper Eklow, told Comcast News:

We lost everything. The doors were locked due to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [The label lost] pretty much everything up to May 2006. Some titles prove difficult to reissue unless we go back and basically remaster the albums from scratch. It’s a slow, expensive and quite an annoying process.

There shouldn’t really be any titles that we couldn’t ever bring back but the question of course would be if it’s worth spending a lot of money on remastering and reprinting components we already should have on hand on certain titles. The money lost on the 33 1/3 adventure is quite substantial.

Source The Guardian is reporting that Matador Records has lost many of their vinyl masters due to the bankruptcy of 33 1/3 – a vinyl pressing company – in 2006.

Among them were albums by Mogwai, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Pavement, The New Pornographers and others. Matador’s director of production, Jesper Eklow, told Comcast News:

We lost everything. The doors were locked due to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [The label lost] pretty much everything up to May 2006. Some titles prove difficult to reissue unless we go back and basically remaster the albums from scratch. It’s a slow, expensive and quite an annoying process.

There shouldn’t really be any titles that we couldn’t ever bring back but the question of course would be if it’s worth spending a lot of money on remastering and reprinting components we already should have on hand on certain titles. The money lost on the 33 1/3 adventure is quite substantial.

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