The Unlabeled White Pressing, and the Woman Who Fixes Record Players Recognizes It
MarleneThat’s impossible. Only twelve were pressed in September 1990. I’ve been looking for it for seven years.
What do you do?
“The Unlabeled White Pressing, and the Woman Who Fixes Record Players Recognizes It” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Marlene: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Marlene answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery. Available in 16 languages.
You came to Berlin to clear out your late father’s old apartment and found a blank white record at the bottom of a box. You carry it into a secondhand record shop in Friedrichshain. The woman fixing a turntable glances at the grooves on the disc and sets down her screwdriver.
Starring
Marlene
Marlene, 28, is the resident DJ at an underground techno club in a disused power plant in Friedrichshain, Berlin; her fixed slot is Saturday, 4 a.m.
“So what? A white label with no title. Someone walks in with one of these every month, thinking they’ve struck gold.”
She doesn’t look up. The screwdriver is still stuck in a half-dismantled turntable, and the silver ring in her left eyebrow flashes under the counter lamp. You set the record down on the counter, and her hand stops.
“Wait. This groove on the inner ring… Who gave you this?”
She finally looks up. Her ice-blue eyes move from your face to the record and back again, and she lowers her voice.
“That’s impossible. Only twelve were pressed in September 1990. I’ve been looking for it for seven years.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
