For the first time after three decades, Sony is resuming production on vinyl records to keep up with demand from nostalgic seniors and younger aficionados. The production will start in March 2018 at a plant in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, run by a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan).

Due to this, Sony Music installed record-cutting equipment at a Tokyo recording studio in February, allowing it to produce the masters from which vinyl records are copied. However, cutting is a delicate process and Sony is scrambling to bring in old record engineers to pass on their knowledge.

The album lineup includes popular older songs (mainly Japanese music to which Sony holds the rights) and latest hit albums. Orders will also be accepted from outside record labels.

Story & image source: Nikkei