Alpha Duplication

01/11/2026

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/29/algorithms-make-everything-predictable-music-fans-opting-buy-cds?CMP=share_btn_url

Another round in the physical media rise against it's moon-on-stick promising, but possibly compromised, algorithm driven streaming nemesis.

Arguments are valid for the many sides involved, with individual opinions being surprisingly varied and often in a grey middle ground.

From independent & commercial recording artists to a humble home listener we wonder how this debate will develop with the rapidly accelerating rise of AI?

As John Lewis reports a 96% rise in searches for CD players, music fans share their reasons for ditching streaming

26/10/2026

What's that? Another machine? Yeah...we have loads and we love them dearly.

This is one of our Bronway machines and it simply puts a disc into a wallet. That's a printed or polypropylene wallet (yes, even with a flap- and it closes the flap too).

When it's at its peak it's beautiful to watch, realising a symphony of movement, similar to the old Rube Goldberg style Honda parts advert . Perhaps we should see if our machines can sing together?

16/10/2026

Hundreds of screens made every month to bring you the very best print on your discs.

Our screen frames are reused over and over again meaning this handful of frames you see here have now seen thousands of titles printed through them. Legendary releases sewn into the very fabric of our machines and their parts.

We thrive on this stuff!

15/10/2026

Now we appear to have steady power back, time to highlight some beautiful releases we've been manufacturing for .threads.label.

We think these releases are so well thought out and considered in their design as well as excellently presented in a 6 panel CD format.

Our art and print department love this genre of elegance and the aesthetics alone have even assisted in encouraging some of us to get hooked into the listening parties for the most recent "Filaments" release, comprising of various artists.

Outstanding products and an amazing community.

15/10/2026

Good morning world,

Unfortunately we are experiencing a series of power cuts on our estate today -15/10/2026.
If you can't get hold of us over telephone, please try later and if we don't reply as swiftly to your emails as we normally do, please know we will be replying as soon as we possibly can.

Hope to be back to normal very soon.

08/10/2026

CDS in WALLETS! CDS in WALLETS! CDS in WALLETS!

Can't get enough of them. Here are some we recently did for those local Bucks Rotters, All Girl Punk Rockers, Hypoxic Angels🔥

23/09/2026

In our current climate media formats race against each other for popularity... so clearly the answer is to tick ever box you can for your release. This approach can easily lead to incohesive formats across a releases when they are not managed correctly. Thankfully Night From Glasgow manage every bit of their release with precision and eligance and have just pulled out an absolute blinder of an album from the multi award winning The Anchoress.

We had the priviledge of producing:
- A beautifully presented Cassette produced from recycled plastic mixes in yellow and pastel pink tone options, encupsulated in a maltese cross fold around printed card casing
- A CD packaged in a large area digisleeve with a full colour booklet
- A stunning CD media book containing over 40 pages of images, lyrics and liner notes, the core CD album release and a bonus CD both housed in the inner sleeves.

With wondeful soft focus imagery and a warm peach and neutral off white colour scheme accompanied by whimsical photography, seeing all the parts of this release come together was something really special for us and so incredibly satisfying for a media manufacturer like oursleves that we made a quick "pre-boxing" video of them all. We are looking forward to many more.

20/09/2026

A quick glance over the fantastic looking new release from By Trees , "The Call of Home". This is a copy of the preorder variant with splatter on a clear base, coloured to compliment the gorgeous sleeve artwork. The general release is in classic black vinyl and an Orange/Blue translucent pair, housed in the same outer packaging and also available on CD.

Keep an eye on Low Port Music for purchasing options and whilst you are there have a look at their shop's catalogue - there's some real rarities for sale in there!

https://www.lowportmusic.co.uk