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.
The Journal
Notes from
the plant floor.
Colour theory, press logs, sleeve arguments, and what June is drinking while the platen warms up. Written by the three people who actually make the records.
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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 
Cover art that survives a 12-inch sleeve
What looks fine on a phone screen often falls apart at 12 inches square. Here is how to design artwork that actually holds up.
Why records warp, and how we mostly stop it
The real reasons vinyl bends, from cooling times to careless storage, and the specific steps we take to keep your pressing flat.
A first pressing day at the plant
A look inside 14 Ledger Lane on the day a customer's playlist finally becomes a stack of warm, spinning, two-colour records.
The writers
Three people,
one press.
Nobody at LUMORA is a writer by trade. June runs the press, Theo cuts the lacquers, Priya picks the colours. They write things down so they stop arguing about them.
