Melting plastic pellets into chunky discs then squashed flat, a worker presses records in what claims to be the first vinyl plant to open in India in decades.
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Warm music with a nostalgic crackle fills the room – a Bollywood tune from a popular Hindi movie.
“I’m like a kid in a candy shop,” grins Saji Pillai, a music publishing veteran in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai, who began pressing in August.
The revival of retro records among Indian music fans mirrors a global trend that has seen vinyl sales explode from the United States to Britain and Brazil.
Pillai, 58, entered the music industry as “vinyl was just going out”.
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He spent the last few years importing records from Europe for his music label clients.