My postie was busy this week, as was I, intercepting him before my wife saw each parcel appearing on the doorstep! I’d have put this in the “Hauls Found” but they all arrived in bits and bobs, so I’m putting them here.
Rings Around Saturn - Erosion Part.2
Montezumas Rache and Dominik Von Senger - EP
Laura Groves - A Private Road
The Greg Foat Group - Girl and Robot With Flowers Remix EP
It remimds me of when I went to Dekmental in 2014 and bought a copy of ‘fatima yamaha - What’s a Girl to Do’ at the festival. Obviously I got wrecked and left it in the taxi on our way back to Amsterdam (I didnt remember anything). I was pretty gutted.
Next day we get a taxi back to the festival, and we’re at some red lights. Our driver is talking across to the taxi driver in the car next to him, and my mate recognises him as our driver the night before, and quickly shouts across if we left a record in his car. He looks down in the footwell and appears with the record and passes it to our driver before we drive off. We’re all screaming with laughter and our driver is crying too. I made sure to put it in a locker when i got to the festival. Cover was covered in greasey kebab stains
was in portland for the thanksgiving holiday and ended up going to a lil’ record store my wife had been telling me about. well, a number of factors were in play here - i wasn’t really in a digging mood, i didn’t see too much that was of interest to me, and this shop was literally in a dude’s front room - i bought the above as a sort of pity-buy. it wasn’t expensive.
Propaganda had some fantastic design aesthetics - I just looked up who was responsible for the work and it was Bev Whitehead and Phil Tracy, also known as The London Design Partnership, also the icon that is Neville Brody, Paul Morley for ZTT as well as photographers Juergen Teller and Anton Corbijn.
The good old days when record labels had proper art budgets!!!
Is this normal? have a $100 record sitting in my Discogs cart even though I don’t have the money to buy it at the moment, but I like to give myself the illusion that the process of owning it has begun.
Absolutely. The population of my discogs basket starts at the beginning of the month with hard wants and overseas earworms. If by the end of the month I’m still in love with them, and the budget allows, then they get bought.
It’s become a little game, where I have to cull lesser demand titles and see what’s disappeared in the weeks since, in a vain attempt to stay within budget.
As my bank balance will testify, it doesn’t always go to plan.
Great tuneage en-route though
