The Machines
TRRRRDT's music doesn't just play — it plays through something. The label runs on four machines: three players salvaged from the analog century and rebuilt in 3D, and one lamp built from pure math to light them. Each was handed a job. Here they are.
Sony PS-F9
The turntable
In 1983 Sony built a record player that stands up. The PS-F9 plays a 12-inch LP vertically — a flat, linear-tracking deck you could prop on a shelf or hang on a wall, the arm gliding dead straight across the groove. Peak portable-hi-fi futurism, and it looks like nothing before or since.
It's the house player. Every artist and every playlist spins here — Suno-born tracks and full Apple Music songs, side by side. Drop the needle, scroll for the next song, and the liner notes lie on the desk beside it.
Юность-402
The television
The Yunost-402 — "Youth-402" — is a Soviet portable television built in Moscow in the 1980s: a small, boxy black-and-white set with a dial for a tuner and a picture that rolls if you look at it wrong. Cold-war living-room futurism, snow and all.
It's the channel deck for the label's Hörspiele, the audio dramas. AI Confessions plays on its tube — picture on the curved glass, sound in the room, static between stations. Turn the dial and tune in.
Braun TP1
The offline set
Dieter Rams designed the Braun TP1 in 1959 — a pocket radio clipped onto a tiny record player, the two halves latching into a single slab you carried by a leather strap. Weniger, aber besser. Less, but better. It's in the MoMA collection, and it's the ancestor of every clean rectangle you own.
It's the site's offline mode. Anywhere on TRRRRDT, tap Save offline and the song downloads onto your device — into the TP1's crate — where it plays with no connection at all. Add it to your home screen and the whole label rides along in your pocket.
VARMBLIXT
The light
The odd one out. Where the players are real machines — scanned, converted, rebuilt — VARMBLIXT is generated from nothing but mathematics: every curve of its glass drawn live in Three.js from a handful of equations. Off-screen it's Sabine Marcelis's amber glass lamp for IKEA, 2023 — varmblixt, Swedish for "warm flash."
It's the light. It sits on the desk beside the turntable and the television, throwing a warm amber glow across the wood — and you can tap it to switch off. Or take it to its own page and turn the glass in your hands.
Four machines, one label. Now go put something on.