However, the shop had to shut a few weeks following the launch due to lockdown. In the face of an impending COVID-19 lockdown (with the help of their troops) the boys prevailed and managed to open up the shop earlier this year, after a few long days and nights getting the racks and everything in the shop assembled, as well as one final push handwriting all the labels for each record the night before.
It’s clear the ones that knew, had both a passion and need for the service they offer. Beginning late last year it quickly garnered wide support with a slew of articles following in music press, reaching all the funds in half the allotted time and putting out the first release on Disc World along with it. So, to build a community and acquire the necessary funding, crowdsourcing was the obvious choice.
Mastering is only the treatment of the sum, that means in. Obviously fitting something like this into an increasingly digital scene that seems to have forgotten the process of small-run pressings presents its financial problems. For dubplates it is the treatment of the vocals, like applying dynamic compressors, equalizers and other processors to make the voice sound better and fit it in on the riddim, and the use of delay and/or reverb to put the whole thing in a room to make it sound bigger and more realistic. Late one night in a moment of madness Chris designed the logo for Disc World, soon after asking Lewis if he wanted to open up the shop with him, and the rest in Chris’s words is literally “history in the making”. Their prior relationship sharing a similar passion for cutting edge dance music coupled with their history of working within the industry made Lewis the obvious person to help actualise this dream. This ultimately lead to Disc World’s start, with its Kickstarter beginning in November. The cutting service came to life in a part-time form early in 2019 and that summer Chris found himself out of work, so the need to expand became somewhat pressing. Inspector Dubplate, Ministry Of Sound, Radio 1, XFM and many more. This saw the beginning of a long friendship, culminating in the birth of their brainchildren, 1–800-Dubplate and Disc World. Jewish community whose decades of service culminated in her founding of the Saint. Following this they stayed in touch, bonding over their shared love for music and continuing to play at each other's nights. They came together in 2012 when Lewis booked Chris for his party down on Brick Lane. Chris and Lewis both share a long career working in various corners deep in the music scene, as well as producing records for a slew of labels under the names ‘ Dexta’ and ‘ Sicknote’ respectively.
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