Another edit on a 10" that always did the business:
And an Ashley Beedle meets Candi Staton bomb:
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Quadruple 10’ album, could alsil go in the soundtracks section
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Twisted Nerve were a label fond of a 10" must have at least 10.
And possibly cowboy records strangest release
Count Indigo - Unknown Love
Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/4791992-Count-Indigo-Unknown-Love
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This wonderful under-the-radar deep roller comes from a rare beast, the 10-inch double-pack:
relevant to the recent “big beat” discussion. “liberation” is probably the best thing jacques lu cont did.
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somewhat early mashups on wax. i think groove distribution sent me these as promos. some were good (clipse) some were not (black eyed peas) but the dubs were always playable.
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Another doozy. This one is on the 4 x 10” DJ Spinna Beat Suite.
88 Keys production.
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I have a shit tonne of reggae and dub and don’t have a single 10". Which is weird, cause like you say, they are pretty ubiquitous. Some great 10" releases on Pressure Sounds.
I just think I’m not a 10" fan with no rational explanation for it. My preference has always been 7" and LP - the 7" 45 is just an absolute design classic of popular music. I bought loads of 12" singles over the years, but sold/gave away most over the last decade.
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somewhat similarly to you, i’ve never really collected 7"s - it’s not that i don’t like them, i just had to draw a line somewhere. plus they were a bit of a pain to DJ with, would always fall to the bottom of the bag/box, and often the tracks were over before you know it.
i do have a few hundred of them, but they’re an odd collection - either stuff that wasn’t available on other formats, stuff on labels i collect, or indie things from the 90’s.
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It’s a funny old thing really. The first music I bought was 7" singles. I still have very clear memories of buying them from (usually) Woolworths and then the anticipation of the waiit till you could actually listen. I didn’t start buying LP’s until quite a few years later, it was always cassette albums.
I had a 7" collection of a couple of hundred from my very early teens and I still have every single one of them. I got back into them about 2007, mainly because I could but great records cheap as fuck. Of course, you didn’t get the sought after mixes most of the time, but I didn’t really care. I have around a 1000 now and don’t see selling them or giving them away anytime soon.
I also found that I do enjoying DJ’ing with them. Good slipmats and turntable weights are essential of course. I love the fact you have to be quick, and once a record is chosen, you pretty much have to stick. And beat matching becomes a luxury, rarely used.
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the Pylon 10" is an essential slice of danceable weirdo US post punk
Pylon - Cool (1980)
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these things are 10" AND coloured vinyl so they’re probably twice as triggering for some of you but c’mon, Terrence Parker and Claude Young - who doesn’t want that?
EDIT: i just remembered they also have totally blank labels too so even i’m getting triggered by them now
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