Own a piece of VMP History with one of our Essentials Test Pressings. You’ll receive a test pressing from any past Essentials Record of the Month. These will ship with March 2025 Club shipments.

For every project produced by VMP, our staff reviews plain black test pressings to ensure that its sonics and pressing quality are up to our high standards. Once these test pressings are approved, our partner pressing plants begin pressing our projects on whichever vinyl colorway we’ve chosen. The approved test pressings are then filed into a storage locker in Denver, Colorado, where they’ve been sitting since we got our first tests in 2016. 

Over the years, we’ve accrued over 2,000 sets of test pressings, and instead of letting them sit untouched in storage,...