Just mining through my record shelf, there's so much wonderful stuff there I had just stopped listening to.
Over and above Nico's Marble Index (have you herad it? if not, letters requesting tapes of it and more information to a mister Traynor, Birmingham, UK) there's also Folk Implosion - Dare To Be Surprised (on marbleb blue vinyl, yummm, Ornette Coleman's Broken Shadows, all the old Throwing Muses albums, Neil Young's After The Goldrush, and even some Warp stuff my friend gave me while moving house that I haven't even heard yet.
What seldom listened to records have you had fun rediscovering?
Which Warp have you found?
Having a record player is a very romantic gesture... pulling the vinyl out of it's sleeve, wiping it and placing stylus on groove. It takes time and is a very intimate way of listening to music.
I'm going finding a lot of 60s Blue Note recordings from flatmate's library and educating myself on the greats of the jazz soul scene.
I've also had Chris playing me shit loads of Syd Barrett outtakes and Skip Spence, of both, he is major fans and are his Mastermind subject.
A double album by someone called Jake Slazenger.
There is more but that's the one I grabbed.
I only have Funeral / Arcade Fire...
...on vinyl and listened to that for the first time in an eon yesterday. Also, I think The B-52's self-titled album needs to be played right now.
I wish I had a couple of Tom Waits albums on vinyl to rediscover. His voice and a crackle would be -I assume- quite fantastic.
In related news, I recently bought a cracking new little big old record player the other day. It plays 78s too, which is a bonus...
It looks like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/misleadtheworld/rcrdplyr.jpg
*jealous*
Mine is a weird 80's player with no arm and the needle hanging out of the underside of the lid. You close the lid and press play, and it's all automatic. Which is good if you're drunk, but bad if you want to skip to one track specifically .
And it's running through a collection of ideas into my 150w guitar amp
So it goes LOUD.
*ideas?
*adaptors.
What a weird brain typo.
john mate...
invest a small sum in this;
http://www.decks.co.uk/products/decks/vestax/handytrax
i mean, OBVIOUSLY there are hundreds of better turntables on the market... but this little fucker lets you lie around with a glass of whiskey in one hand and a pile of 7"s in the other and you don't have to keep standing up to put 'em on. plumb it into the hi-fi with long leads and you never have to leave the couch again ('cept to get more whiskey, of course).
That looks handy indeed.
Hopefully this one I've just bought will last a while, but next time I might have a look at one of these...
Get a deck - proper one
Technics SL1210. They won't lose their resale value.
No
Technics are DJ's turntables. They are robust but lack soul.
I used to have that exact record player when I was a kid! Awesome...served me in good stead for many years 'til I trod on and bent the arm...doh!
I'd be tempted by one of those Vestax portables, cos I really want something to play my 78s on...got some great old calypso and rock and roll stuff that I've never really been able to play- and an old one won't do, cos I want to be able to transfer it
Slazenger
is awesome. Its a Mike Paradinas alias, yes him of u-ziq and main man of Planet Mu recordings. He had a golden period around the mid 90's. Slazenger is really funky and playful, and remember is was made early 90's so it sounds a bit retro now.
back to the original topic of the thread (sorry)
I've been sorting through my records recently, cos I've got about 3000 (maybe more) lps and its getting silly. I decided about half of them are crap, and to get rid, but discovered an old british jazz lp that I picked up years ago cos it was engineered by Joe Meek...and its fucking tremendous- beautiful, weird atmospheric record.
Kenny Graham and his Satellites- moondog and suncat suites
That sounds great.