Press Your Ashes Into Your Favourite Vinyl Record

British Company, And Vinyly, will press your charred remains into your very own hyper-personalized spinning analog musical platter. The starter kit comes with your own generic gravestone-style cover art, 24 minutes of audio of your choosing, and 30 copies of your final release.

The company was founded by Jason Leach, who co-founded the techno group and record label Subhead in the 1990s. I’d like to have my ashes pressed into Psycho Killer. I can just picture the mourners at my funeral getting their groove on to the beat of The Talking Heads.

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World's most retro DJ mixes his records on... gramophones

A disc jockey with a difference is taking the music world by storm - using two 1930s wind-up gramophones.

Dave Guttridge, 48, is the UK's only pre-vinyl disc jockey and uses two 70-year-old Picnic gramophones to pump out 'old skool' tunes - including old favourite The Teddy Bear's Picnic - using Shellac 78 records.

Known as DJ78, he owns 3,500 of the fragile records and blasts out everything from 1920's rag time, jazz and blues, to Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Cliff Richard and Elvis. LINK

"Ye Old Deejay" LINK: Youtube


"DJ78 and Matt Santoro-Emmerson on Trumpet" LINK: Youtube


Dave said he was inspired to use the Shellac records by veteran DJ John Peel after he played one every week on his radio show .

His wife, actress Karen Hill, 47, has also started playing gigs using seven inch singles to take care of any music from the '60s and '70s.

Dave, who also counts Blur bassist Alex James as one of his friends and has played at his birthday party, said he is getting used to receiving the VIP treatment.

Best of Vinyl Records

Make a Dali-esque wall clock using a vinyl record. Link.

Even today vinyl records have a special place for those who like music. But with time they can get scratches and can also brake, then there isn't much one can do about it unless you are creative. Reshaping of vinyl is possibly one of the most amusing things, and creative designers have come up with lots of inventive ways to use these old vinyl records. LINK