A small Czech village has become a centre of the global boom in retro records as antiquated vinyl-pressing machines turn out the tunes of rock stars from Madonna to the Rolling Stones. Despite the rise of CDs and digital music, a local company GZ Media decided to hold onto those old machines — which are now paying off, as they press millions of vinyl records sold each year around the world. Record collectors and music hipsters have fuelled a revival of vinyl in the West and Japan with claims that the format offers warmer sound and greater aesthetics. ‘We pressed around 14 million records last year, the most in the world,’ said Michal Nemec, sales and marketing director for GZ Media, based in the village of Lodenice outside Prague. ‘Despite the CD boom in the 1980s and 90s, someone with foresight decided to save the old vinyl record presses and store them