06 Nov 2008, Posted by Nathan in Uncategorized, No Comments.

The Record Machine Turns 5!

If you have followed The Record Machine for awhile you would maybe remember that our first record was the James Dean Trio- Getting Scary. It came out in the November of 2003. Anymore small indie record labels struggle to make it to 5 years and 12 release like we have done.

When it came closer to the 5 year mark we asked our good friends DJG Design and Never Sleeping to make some posters to commemorate the last 5 years. I had no idea that it would be this extensive. Below is the first of three sets of images from DJG and Never Sleeping. Every image ties back to all of our bands in some way or another. DJG’s explanation is below and you can visit the set in some more detail here. I would love to see some speculation on which illustration is for what band. Record Machine would really like to thank all of our bands, DJG, Never Sleeping, Any one that has lent a hand to us(this list is way too long and I know I would leave someone out) and you the listener to keeping us going for 5 years and hopefully another 5 too.

This is a series of 5 DJG posters made from over a hundred illustrations to celebrate the 5th birthday of Kansas City, MO independent music label The Record Machine. Illustrations are based off of ideas pulled and culled by DJG from every band or album that has been released by The Record Machine.

This is phase one of a project that will incorporate over a hundred more illustrations made into another five 5′s and then screen print over-layed on top of DJG’s 5′s by Ben Chlapek of www.neversleeping.com