For many, the 1950s and early 60s was the golden age for music, an era of artistic experimentation and precise analogue audio reproduction, but mint condition vinyl albums from this time are increasingly rare to find and ludicrously expensive to buy. Fortunately, this is where the Electric Recording Company steps in. Millie Walton sits down with founder, Pete Hutchinson in his premier recording suite to listen to jazz and talk about the re-mastering of the key catalogue titles, bringing back the super sounds of the seventies. Audiophiles everywhere rejoice.

Millie Walton: You have a lot of very beautiful, vintage machinery here. Where did it all come from"
Pete Hutchinson: Originally it came from Romania, but we found it rusting in a damp garage. It took us three years to restore all of the equipment, but it was completely necessary to help us achieve the sound quality we wanted. When you get a normal remake or reissue of a record from a shop, its cut on contemporary equipment with different technology. This is all valve machinery from 1950s, ?60s and ?70s. Most studios threw all this stuff into skips and then the sound changed forever. We want to bring back that lost sound by taking the original mask tapes, playing them through these machines and re-cutting the vinyl. That?s the concept.
MW: How would you say the sound differs"
PH: Well I think that transistor sound is a bit harder and glassier than valve sound, which tends to be more open and ...