World’s First Bioplastic Record - with Michael Stipe
R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe x Beatie Wolfe release the World’s First Bioplastic record
2022
The Story
Own a piece of music history? The world’s first commercially available bioplastic 12” will feature “Future If Future” by Michael Stipe and “Oh My Heart” by Beatie Wolfe in support of EarthPercent.
This will be the first bioplastic vinyl, an environmental design solution by Evolution Music, that is a genuinely revolutionary moment for both the music industry and record collectors, offering a non-fossil fuel future for vinyl recordings that globally is c180 million LPs (or 30,000 tonnes of PVC) a year. The solution uses circular economy principles to replace the harmful production and use of single use plastics and minimise waste in the music industry. Making it easy to make the change by producing bioplastic LPs (instead of PVC) using the record pressing plants’ existing machinery and production processes.
Project’s Reception
After coverage in the global and local press this limited edition 12” sold out within 5 minutes of it going on sale.
Press highlights included Billboard, Pitchfork, CBS News, Cool Hunting, Rolling Stone, Boing Boing, NME Magazine and more
