I am very happy with my little USB Numark turntable. I am happy with how it works. I am happy that I can easily connect it with my PC and I am very happy how convenient it is to rip shit.
I am NOT happy however with how it looks. I am not into the whole DJ thing > spaceship design > cheap silver plastic > big NUMARK logos all over > general Zoltan style and all..
Getting a new record player is far down on my shopping list. One day when I’m rich I will definitely want to upgrade to something very very heavy and with lots of wood like this

or something with lots of heavy glass and fancy chrome shite like this

or this

For now however, I thought I’d think small and get rid of the NUMARK logo hairy slipmat and replace it with something PLAIN with no logos and of better quality. The slipmat I had was like a soding dust magnet.
So I type “slipmats” in google and in one of the top of the page results I get this site: www.slikmats.org

Custom slipmats. 20 quid a pair (same or two different designs, up to you). A bargain. It took me about 3 minutes to whip up two .png images in hi res. Upload > send > order complete.
A true fucking impulse purchase.
After I ordered the damn thing I started having 2nd thoughts. I was gonna buy the PLAIN fucking slipmat to make the damn thing look simpler and not like a fucking MTV’s Pimp My Ride product.
Oh well. What’s done is done. Few days later I get the package, open it up and them mats actually look pretty cool!!
The quality is MUCH better than the OG Numark one. They are thicker and less hairy. Actually they’re not hairy at all. The print quality is also very awesome. I was expecting something between the silkscreen and the print shop iron-on type of crap but it actually looks very sharp and the printed surface has exactly the same feel as non printed surface. Very very cool.

Check it out. The NUMARK slipmat goes to the retirement box

And the first two designs that popped into my head

and what it looks like in action

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Brett Beach once had a signature on the LiveWire Msg Board that said

If you compare it to Judge it’s shit
If you compare it to shit it’s not so bad

This pretty much sums up how I feel about Judge.
All of the info below comes from either “THE FINAL WORD” Version 6.06 or from my wild guessing.
Read the story on how the recording went here.

Judge
Chung King Can Suck It LP
Revelation # -1 1989

Test press :  6 black vinyl
Both Jordan and Porcell believed that there were only 3 test presses. This however does not make a great deal of sense due to the fact that they usually come in a set of at least 4, otherwise your are not getting a true “test” of the stampers. However, it was discovered that Porcell sold one under the belief that he was selling a “Bringin’ It Down” test (since Chung King was supposed to be “Bringin’” it could get confusing). After it was thought that there were then 4 tests, a 5th was found in New York and then a 6th in Europe. There could be a few more, there’s just no way to tell. Three tests are in California, one in New Jersey, one in New York, and one in Europe. If you have one of the tests or even one of the original 110 Chung Kings, be sure to email Revelation at webmaster AT revhq.com so it can be added to the big list of where they all are.

1st press
110 on white vinyl
100 intended to be pressed, but 110 were made. 15+ still at Rev warehouse. #43 has a pseudo-gatefold sleeve for no apparent reason. At least one was mailed without a sleeve, but which number was excluded is not known.
#33/100

The extra 10 had the 100 over written with 110 and were stamped numerically.
#104/110

Judge
Bringing It Down LP
Revelation #15 1989

Test press : 8 black vinyl with Rainbo labels

1st press
712 on green marble vinyl w/ purple labels and black/yellow insert

5458 on black vinyl

Rev’s pressing info states there were only 4 presses. 1st one (above), 2nd (w/ red labels), 3rd (w/ maroon labels) and 4th final one (on orange vinyl). I found that to be inaccurate as there are at least 3 different versions that pop up with red labels, indicating that AT LEAST 3 separate pressings were done between the 1st and the 3rd one. Interestingly the pressing sheet also states that 3rd press+ came with maroon labels. I don’t know who put that there because such version doesn’t exist. All of the pressings between the 1st and the final one came with red labels. Putting these pressings in chronological order was pretty much a guessing game on my part but here is what I deduced:

2nd press
Black vinyl, red labels, black/yellow insert.

3rd press
Black vinyl, red labels, black/purple insert.

4th press
Black vinyl, red labels, black/white insert.

5th and final Press (April 2001)
There was a separate set of test presses made for this release to check whether the plates were still usable

Test press : 8 black vinyl with Erika labels

333 Orange vinyl, back to purple labels

Things that are worth noting:
The 1st press came with plastic dust sleeves while all of the other pressings had paper inner bags. Also in the 1st pressing we have PRINTED IN CANADA on the spine. In all of the subsequent pressings this was covered with an ugly pink box. See the comparison here:

Also type/quality of the cardstock used for the covers differs in few cases resulting in different colour and different type of gloss finish. It indicates that they may have been printed at a different printers over the years. One example:

And to end this here’s the poster REV printed to support this awesome release:

Related links:
JUDGE New York Crew 7″
JUDGE Storm 7″
JUDGE Bootlegs

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