Reposted by Steve Metz
"His one-stop shop, in a factory outside Philadelphia, provided everything a musician required, including mastering, graphic design and vinyl (and later cassette and CD) pressing, sometimes just a few hundred units at a time."
Morris Ballen, Who Helped Spread Indie Artists’ Music, Dies at 88:
nytimes.com
Morris Ballen, Who Helped Spread Indie Artists’ Music, Dies at 88 (Gift Article)
Countless independent acts in every genre — punk, hip-hop, church choir — relied on him to create small runs of high-quality records and CDs.