batch 38 · press 12
Your playlist,
pressed in wax.
LUMORA is a tiny record-pressing shop that turns the playlists rotting in your phone into heavy, two-colour vinyl: the kind you frame, gift, and flip over slowly.
Records pressed
12,408
Wax colours
21
Identical copies
0
Loved by mixtape-makers, crate-diggers, and people who still like sleeves.
Your cover Today's presses
Six colours, heated & hissing
The Idea
Some songs
deserve to
spin.
You have three thousand songs in your pocket and none on your shelf. We think the good ones, the summer you drove too far, the album nobody else stayed up for, have earned a place on an actual turntable.
A record you can hold beats
a thousand you skip past.
June Okafor, founder, probably in earplugs
Slow pressing
One press, one puck, one record at a time. No rushing the machine.
Two colours only
Limits are the style. Two colours swirl better than sixteen million.
Never identical
Every swirl lands a little different. Yours is the only one like it.
Test pucks, batch 41
The Wax Library
Two colours.
Infinite moods.
Every record gets exactly two colours of wax. Pick a pair and we handle the swirl, or tell us the feeling and we'll pick for you.
See all 21 pairsHouse favourites
Real virgin PVC pellets, 180 grams a side. Hot pink genuinely glows under stage lights; we can't explain it either.
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.
02
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 Machine
Meet Bertha.
She is the plant.
One secondhand record press, born 1978, bought for the price of a decent used car. Every record on this site comes out of her.
1
Pellet hopper
Eats 180 grams of virgin PVC per record. Clogs on Mondays, like everyone.
2
The platen
One record per squeeze. Swapping stampers takes eleven minutes, the current plant record.
3
Control panel
Fourteen dials from 1978. We trust four of them.
4
Trim station
Up to 90 records an hour, when she's in the mood. She is rarely in the mood.
SMT-12 PRESS
TWO HOPPERS LOADED
SOUNDS LIKE A SHY STEAM TRAIN
HOT PINK WAX · DRAG TO COMPARE THE MASTER 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. These are the features:
Off-centre swirl
The two colours meet about a millimetre off, differently every press. Twins, never clones.
Surface crackle
Lean in and the silence becomes rhythm: thousands of tiny pops doing an impression of a fireplace.
The warm glow
Hot pink wax reflects more light than it receives. Physics, but make it fun.
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 
batch 41 · press 2
batch 39 · press 7
batch 42 · press 19
batch 40 · press 1
The Formats
Wax worth
keeping.
Three ways your playlist can live on a shelf, a turntable, or someone's very good mail day.
The Single
Small, mighty, mailable. The gateway record.
- Size7" · 45 rpm
- Wax42 g, two-colour swirl
- EditionOne of one
£38per record, sleeve included
The LP
Shelf-ready and loud about it. Most turntables' favourite.
- Size12" · 33⅓ rpm
- Wax180 g, heavyweight
- EditionOne of one
£74per record, printed sleeve
The Box
Two LPs of your year, gatefold, sleeved by hand.
- Size2 × 12" · gatefold
- Wax180 g + printed inner
- EditionUp to 50 copies
£160per set, from 12 sets
The Journal
Notes from
the plant floor.
Colour theory, press logs, sleeve arguments, and what June is drinking while the platen warms up. Read the journal
How to pick a colour pair for your record
A practical guide to choosing two-colour vinyl swirls that look striking on the shelf and still press cleanly, cut after cut.
Priya Vance What actually happens when we cut your lacquer
A cutting engineer explains the lathe, the levels, and the small decisions that turn a playlist into a groove you can actually track.
Theo Marsh
Sequencing a playlist for two sides of wax
Why your Spotify order rarely survives the trip to vinyl, and how to arrange tracks so both sides sound their best and fit.
June Okafor
Come Say Hi
Come smell
the wax.
The plant door is usually open, the press is usually hissing, and there's usually a reject crate you can dig through for free. Bring a playlist, leave with a plan.
The plant
14 Ledger Lane, Unit B
Open
Wed to Sat, 10 to 6
Turnaround
About six weeks