Flexidiscs anyone?

[vibrationlander]

i originally posted this in buy/sell, but it may be appropriate here as well:

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does anyone know where flexidiscs (you know ... the plastic sheet records that used to be bound with magazines) can be pressed?
do they even make these things anymore?
just curious.
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[jtotheg]

EvaTone was the company & sadly they stopped making Flexidiscs a few years back.
I wish you could still get them made too, I liked them alot - cool little records.

Far as I know, no one else makes them.

I believe EvaTone's reason for stopping was there was not enough demand for them anymore.

[junkstar]

You shoulda seen the look on my 8 year old's face this morning when I explained that Super Sugar Crisps used to come with a record as part of the box. 'You see, you would cut them out and put them on the turntable...'

Bummer about EvaTone. Easy come, easy go..

[vibrationlander]

i forgot that there were the cut-out flexidiscs on cereal boxes . . .
i still have a couple of sheets of humpback whales farting or something, ripped from the pages of national geographic.
what recording artists actually released material on these flexidiscs?

[I'm Painting Again]

try here :

Henry Lavelle
Modo Productions,
11 Codrington Mews,
London W11 2EH

[wrenhunter]

what recording artists actually released material on these flexidiscs?

Some music mags (notably Bucketful of Brains, in my book) used to include a flexi of cool tunes in every issue. I guess CD's are nice, too, but not quite as secret-decoder-ring.

Some vinyl sites list flexis, too.

[DryCounty]

I had a flexi from an old issue of Forced Exposure with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds doing "Rye Whisky" -- it's an amazing version of the song too.

[Cellotron]

Guitar Player magazine was including Flexidiscs for a few issues too - I remember getting one with a track by Steve Vai from his Flexable record, and one of Robert Fripp doing a short bit of Frippertronics. Pretty cool. They definitely didn't last for many plays though.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[TapeOpLarry]

I have a ton of flexi-discs. Game Theory, Robyn Hitchcock, etc. I'm willing to sell them if the price is right! Many form the OP mag if anyone remembers that, plus the Bob, etc. The best story is that Eva-Tone were pretty hard core Christian or something like that and if you swore ("Fuck") they'd insert a beep in place of it. I always wanted to send a song with a series of bad words in a rhythmic pattern so the flexi would come back with series of beeps on the beat! Kraftwerk by way of Negativland...?