Flexidiscs

[aoboa]

Anyone here ever found a place that presses flexidiscs?

[pete]

"Incidently, the last place to press flexi's in Europe was ORLAKE and they scrapped their machine a few years back... For flexi's, try America."

http://www.awarecords.ndo.co.uk/label/recordhow.htm

EVATONE

Only US company that does flexi records (called 'Evatone soundsheets') for typical vinyl sizes. Rought pricing for the whole package was 2500 (min order) 7" flexis for $894.


Comment "Just called the 800 # to get exact quotes...they don't do vinyl (or flexies) any more "

http://www.indiecentre.com/company.cfm?CompanyID=117

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:00:48 -0800
From: bigshot <bigshot@spumco.com>
Subject: (exotica) Fleixi-Discs

A thread on the 78 list notes that the last manufacturer of flexi
discs, (the plastic sheets that were inserted in magazines) just
discontinued manufacturing them. It's time to drink a toast to
another fun format biting the dust.

Eva-Tone Extra, Fall 2000

Soundsheet Product Line Retired

At the end of the year 2000 Eva-Tone employees and customers bade a fond
farewell to one of our oldest product lines - the Soundsheet. This farewell
comes with mixed emotions as the Soundsheet was the major springboard to
Eva-Tone's success and provided a unique contribution to education,
publishing and marketing in the last half of the 20th Century.

The Soundsheet technology was also used to bring recorded books and
magazines to the blind and visually impaired through the Library of
Congress' National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
We are proud of our association with this program that has endured for
almost 40 years, and has prolonged the life of the Soundsheet. December
2000, The Library of Congress honored our 34 year volume of work in serving
the Blind with the presentation of a special award of merit to Dick and
Luckie Evans.

Today, Eva-Tone is a thriving turnkey provider of Compact Discs, Cassettes,
Multimedia, Printing, Packaging and Fulfillment. New technologies are the
key to our continued growth.

But our company would not be here at all, if it weren't for this little thin
plastic phonograph record. Though outmoded now, Eva-Tone Soundsheets
provided a revolutionary way for people to use recorded sound 40 years ago
and allowed Eva-Tone to flourish through change.

An account of these difficulties accompanying the release of Kahn’s composition as a flexi-disc insert -- to have been manufactured by Eva-Tone Soundsheets Inc. of Florida -- were detailed in a brief editorial in Raw #4 (this account was presumably written by the Raw editors, Art Spiegelman and Francois Mouly). In short, Eva-Tone refused to manufacture the discs; the manufacturer considered the material “morally objectionable” and a company representative informed the Raw editors that the magazine “couldn’t use a performer’s voice without his written permission.” The editorial continues: “We complimented them on their political acuity in perceiving that Reagan is indeed little more than a performer, but that, nonetheless, different rules would seem to apply to a public servant... It soon seemed apparent that if Eva-Tone hadn’t used this pretext to squelch our agreement another would have been found. They thought we were being ‘unfair,’ since the president was a ‘swell guy.’ And, though they admired Doug Kahn’s engineering artistry they were afraid that most of our readers... would believe that our disc was a straightforward transcript!” In the end, a Netherlands-based firm manufactured the flexi-discs.

http://www.dragons.vg/daSpeech/article/project.htm

[Rimbaud]

Been doing some research eh?

What was the advantage of Flexi`s?Cheap or Durable compared to regular vinyl?
The flexibility?

[pete]

Been doing some research eh?

What was the advantage of Flexi`s?Cheap or Durable compared to regular vinyl?
The flexibility?

easy to distribute attached to magazines or whatnot. and cheap.

lousy sound quality, mind.

i had a flexidisk book thingy when i was a kid. You opened it up into a triangle shaped thing and the corner of one of the edges had a needle that rested on the flexi, which had a raised circle you put your finger into and turned the disk, with the triangle of cardboard acting as a speaker.

D-I-FUCKIN-Y

[Rimbaud]

Sounds deadly!
There should be albums released in that format!You could listen to them on the way to work in the bus!

A while back in Communist Russia western music used to be smuggled into the country via vinyl postcards.
They were square, sturdy "Poscards" with the usual pictures/scenery on them, but were really vinyl records - smuggling in the swinging sounds of the west!
I want one.

[thegoone]

they used to give them with rice crispies

[herv]

as far as i'm aware, gz still produce them, or did at least until very recently.

[krystal]

ah flexidiscs

I still have the one given away with select with the pixies pisstake on it
vg.

[aoboa]

Thanks for the info Pete.

There was a magazine in the late 70's - early 80's called Fleximag (I think) that gave a free flexidisc every month. I still have the adam & the antz one.
I remember going in to buy it once cos someone I liked (can't remember who) was featured that month. The woman in the news agaent couldn't find the flexidisc behind the counter but she did find a 7" of Johnny Logans 'Just Another Year' which she gave me instead.
Still have that somewhere too...

[The Ian]

ahem... Whats another year...
I have a folder in the attic with TONs of flexiedisks... even have a Cry Before Dawn one... jaysus