Dance Calypso!

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Release Date: 1956

Label: Cook

Labels state "An on-the-scene recording", "Microgroove" & "New Microfusion Process".

Pressed on dark red translucent vinyl, with sporadic darker polka dots hidden in the wax - this was common to all Cook Laboratories releases at the time.

Per Wikipedia, the Cook Laboratories "Microfusion Process" utilized cold vinyl powder sprayed into a metal mold (which looked somewhat like a round waffle iron), each one of which was then placed into a hot stamping press, the heat and pressure of which would melt the particles of plastic, and fuse them together while simultaneously imprinting the surface of each side of the record them with a negative image of the positive image of the record grooves that had been molded onto each side of the metal mold (the two sides were hinged together, which increased the waffle-iron resemblance. This process produced a better "fill" of the mold, which resulted in lower surface noise compared to the hot vinyl "biscuit" process that was the method of record-pressing standard process used by other manufacturers.

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