Too much raspberry
batch 38 · press 12
Lumora Record Co. · London E8 · est. 2024
Ten songs.
Two colours.
One record.
We cut, press and sleeve one-of-one vinyl from the playlists already living in your phone. Two inks of molten wax, one 1978 press, and no two copies alike — because there is only ever one copy.
Today on the platen — Raspberry × Ultramarine
The idea
Three thousand songs in your pocket. None on your shelf.
The good ones have earned better — the summer you drove too far, the album nobody else stayed up for. We give a playlist weight: 180 grams of it, in two colours, with a sleeve worth framing.
A record you can hold beats a thousand you skip past.
June Okafor — founder
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Slow pressing
One press, one puck, one record at a time. No rushing the machine.
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Two colours only
Limits are the style. Two colours swirl better than sixteen million.
03
Never identical
Every swirl lands a little different. Yours is the only one like it.
The process
From playlist to platter.
Four steps, one hissing press, and a machine older than most of our customers.
01
Send us a playlist
Any playlist. Even the guilty ones, especially the guilty ones. Wax forgives everything.
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We cut the lacquer
Your songs become a groove, carved in real time on a spinning disc. This is where the magic physics lives.
03
The press closes
Two colours of hot wax meet in a single squeeze. Swirl: unpredictable. On purpose. Mostly.
04
It ships flat
Board-backed, never bent, with a note about which happy accidents happened to yours.
The wax library
Twenty-one pairs on the shelf.
Every record gets exactly two colours. Pull a sleeve, or tell us the feeling and we'll pick for you.
- Most pressed
The Classic
Raspberry × Ultramarine
Loud, warm, unreasonably flattering.
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Poolside
Mustard × Verdigris
Permanent summer.
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Sunset Motel
Persimmon × Violet
Dusky, cinematic, faintly nostalgic.
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Botanical
Leaf × Carbon
Serious, leafy, moody.
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Sherbet
Raspberry × Mustard
Sugary and bright.
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Night Bus
Raspberry × Carbon
Neon in the rain.
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Harbour
Ultramarine × Verdigris
Cold water, clear sky.
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Flamingo
Raspberry × Persimmon
Hot, tropical, unapologetic.
- All 21 pairs
The machine
One press. Her name is Bertha.
Secondhand, born 1978, bought for the price of a decent used car. Every record on this site comes out of her, one squeeze at a time.
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Model
SMT-12, two hoppers, one platen. Clogs on Mondays, like everyone.
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Cycle
Two pucks of PVC at 160 °C meet between stampers for 28 seconds.
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Controls
Fourteen dials from 1978. We trust four of them.
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Output
Up to 90 records an hour, when she's in the mood. She is rarely in the mood.
SMT-12
TWO HOPPERS LOADED
SOUNDS LIKE A SHY STEAM TRAIN
The groove
The hiss is the point.
Vinyl isn't trying to be perfect; that's what makes it feel alive. Up close, your music dissolves into crackle, swirl, and warmth.
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Off-centre swirl
The two colours meet about a millimetre off, differently every press. Twins, never clones.
02
Surface crackle
Lean in and the silence becomes rhythm: thousands of tiny pops doing an impression of a fireplace.
03
The warm glow
Raspberry wax reflects more light than it receives. Physics, but make it fun.
Side A, track 3 — 41 seconds before the chorus
The formats
Actual sizes, roughly actual prices.
Three ways your playlist can live on a shelf, a turntable, or someone's very good mail day.
7″ · shown to scale
The Single
Small, mighty, mailable. The gateway record.
- Speed45 rpm
- Wax42 g, two-colour swirl
- EditionOne of one
£38per record, sleeve included
12″ · shown to scale
The LP
Shelf-ready and loud about it. Most turntables' favourite.
- Speed33⅓ rpm
- Wax180 g, heavyweight
- EditionOne of one
£74per record, printed sleeve
2 × 12″ · gatefold
The Box
Two LPs of your year, gatefold, sleeved by hand.
- Wax180 g + printed inner
- EditionUp to 50 copies
- SleeveNumbered, spot-varnish
£160per set, from 12 sets
The reject bin
Our best mistakes.
Not every press makes it out the door. The nearly-rights retire to a crate by the entrance: five pounds each, honour system. No refunds, obviously.
Seconds sale · Saturdays · while the crate lasts
Skips on B2
batch 41 · press 2
Off-centre 3 mm
batch 39 · press 7
Warped flat
batch 42 · press 19
Mystery pop
batch 40 · press 1
Too much raspberry
batch 38 · press 12
Skips on B2
batch 41 · press 2
Off-centre 3 mm
batch 39 · press 7
Warped flat
batch 42 · press 19
Mystery pop
batch 40 · press 1
The journal
Notes from the plant floor.
Colour theory, press logs, sleeve arguments, and what June is drinking while the platen warms up.
The runout
Bring a playlist. Leave with a record.
The plant door is usually open, the press is usually hissing, and there's usually a reject crate you can dig through for free.
14 Ledger Lane, Unit B, London
Wed to Sat, 10 to 6
Turnaround about six weeks
12,408 pressed · 0 identical