Wing Commander Album Production Update (July 2, 2025)

[ChrisReid]

Origin composer George Oldziey is back with a new status update on the latest vinyl album of Wing Commander music. While CD production was completed earlier this year, the larger vinyl records have been trickier to produce. George is still pushing the producer hard to deliver in a timely manner, but forces outside his control have pushed the timetable of complex modern manufacturing out a bit. In the mean time, see below for a very cool behind-the-scenes look at how Mr. Oldziey worked with the live orchestra in Budapest to craft his latest musical delight!

Greetings all. Just to let you know I'm not "slacking off" here. I'm in contact with the company making the vinyl deliverables. Vinyl is a very hot format these days. Here is the latest reply from the company making your vinyl discs...

Hi George,

I'm so sorry I did not get back your voicemail yesterday, I was unexpectedly out of the office.

I want to also apologize for how late your order is running, and our lack of communication regarding the timeline. Things are running very late across the board right now due to production delays at the 3rd party facility that handles all of our stamper plating. They have been having some technical issues with their equipment that have put them very behind and we're currently waiting on your stampers to arrive back here so we can complete your pressing. As soon as they do arrive, the pressing and packing follows quite quickly. I am pushing them for status updates and to get our highest priority orders including yours to us as fast as they possibly can, and I will let you know as soon as I have an update for you. We appreciate your continued patience as we work through this delay.

So, as soon as they arrive I will let you know! Thanks for your patience!

George

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Original update published on July 2, 2025

 

[Bob McDob]

Not surprising, I think most of the world's vinyl production comes from a single factory in Japan?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

The Wikipedia says: "About half of the world's PVC production capacity is in China, despite the closure of many Chinese PVC plants due to issues complying with environmental regulations and poor capacities of scale. The largest single producer of PVC as of 2018 is Shin-Etsu Chemical of Japan, with a global share of around 30%."

 

[Bob McDob]

Oh I meant the actual vinyl pressings for records. Apparently because the format stayed popular there longer the factories stayed open and were able to take advantage of the boom that happened fifteen years ago or so.