Early MOFI vinyl formulation


From my memory, MOFI's early vinyl was sourced from JVC Japan? The most obvious trait is, you can hold one of these lps up to a light source and actually see light through it. How is this possible from a black vinyl lp? Why hasn't any other lp manufacturer tried to replicate this? One thing for sure, this vinyl was/is quiet!
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Yes I remember that was not just true of MoFi but also Nautilis and other that claimed to be using "virgin vinyl".
Now we get the 180-220gm pressing and they are not transparent and I never see the term "virgin vinyl" used in product description. I don't think that means that we are getting "nymph vinyl" it's just not a selling point, as it was years ago. Also the MoFi pressing of earlier days were not 180gm so with a lesser thickness maybe light passed through better. Just a theory anyway.