Rephlex is an independent publication about British electronic music and the record label system that carried it: the machines, the imprints, the sleeves, the plants and the vans.
It is written from the object outward. A record here is a piece of manufacturing with a signal on it — cut on a lathe, plated in nickel, pressed as a biscuit of PVC, sleeved in board, and driven to a shop. Where a technical claim can be checked against a machine, a process or a printed sleeve, it is; where it cannot, it is not made.
What this site is not: a discography, a store, a reissue service, or a profile of anybody. Records are discussed as records. There are no artist portraits and no biographies, and there is no roster — we do not release anything.
How the plates are numbered
Each section has a number and each piece within it a plate number — 4.02 is the second plate in Pressing & Distribution. Reference panels inside a plate take a letter: 4.02b. Nothing here is dated, because none of it stopped being true.
Pictures
Hardware, sleeves, plants, paperwork and racks. No portraits, no crowds, nobody under eighteen. Photographs are credited in the caption.