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| Earth - Divine And Bright FACT-01 test pressing | |||||||
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Black vinyl, white label. A date (7-24-03) and a catalog number (FACT-01) are handwritten on the label. About 15 copies were made. Retail copies were also made in 2003, but not released before 2004. White label pressingss for the second pressing also exist, but that is not an official pressing. It was done while Josh Hunt, owner of Autofact Records was in jail. A record store owner in Los Angeles tracked down the pressing plant, pressing plates, and the original sleeves. He convinced the pressing plant to make a new batch of records, which he sold on eBay, to distributors, and other record stores. As it was done with the same plates, the matrix codes and everything else should look the same. However, these white label pressings do not have the handwritten text on the label, the vinyl isn't completely black like the official test pressings - they have some lighter streaks (image 2), and the spindle hole area is slightly different. About 25 copies were supposedly made of this unofficial second pressing white labels. There are also some yellow-green singles with white labels which were made for the third pressing. At least two copies have surfaced, both came from the Autofact owner. As these pressings were done with the same plates, test pressings should not be necessary. Most likely the white label pressings were just made to make an extra buck by selling "test pressings". Either way they are not official.
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 1. Side A  2. Unofficial second pressing, lighter streak Thanks to Alessandro Scapin (image 1), Enrico Vincenzi (info, image 2), and Rob Heron. | |||||||
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