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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Business
Simon McCarthy

Record Store Day: The hunt for the sweetest sound in the world

Hiss and Crackle owner Mitchel Eaton makes his final preparations ahead of Record Store Day on Saturday, April 20. The annual one-day sale event has become a pilgrimage for music's faithful, on the hunt for a bargain, a rare find, or that one elusive LP. Picture by Simone De Peak

If you have a turntable in your house, you know that feeling that crinkles gently at the nape of your neck when the needle first touches down on the vinyl. It might be the sweetest sound in the world - a pop and gentle crackle and then the music comes in.

Mitchel Eaton remembers hearing his own songs coming in over that crackle for the first time after his band, The Howling Rats, made a pressing almost a year ago. It was like some kind of sorcery.

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