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Christo Cilliers – The Dead Format Survival Guide (Book)

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So, you’ve chosen the harder path. The slower, scratchier, heavier one. You’ve turned your back on algorithmic playlists and endless skips for something older, stranger… better.

Congratulations, you magnificent weirdo.

This is your field manual. Part guide, part love letter. The dead format survival guide is for those who still worship at the altar of analogue.

Inside you’ll find a lovingly obsessive, occasionally unhinged, breakdown of everything vinyl from the chronicles of crate digging to cleaning rituals. From the mysteries of dead wax to the physics of stylus drag.

It’s equal parts science, sentimentality, and sacrament.

Whether you’re a battle-hardened collector or just bought your first turntable because it looked cool on Pinterest. This book is your companion through the crackle and hiss of analogue glory. There are no skip buttons here. Only stories, static, and soul.

Long live the groove.

Grading: New & Unsealed