Added it to make up the postage, very good choice. The Ronnie Laws was the one, been after that since hearing it on a mixtape in c1991
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https://www.discogs.com/release/37938-Insomnia-Ill-Be-There
picked this up recently, heard on a dj sprinkles mix and couldnāt stop thinking about it. love how toy some of the sounds are, gives it so much because it doesnāt sound polished at all.
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I bought this when it came out.
Havenāt played it for years, will have to dig it out.
I remember liking the Gil Scott-Heron cover on the b-side at the time too.
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put this on X, usual posts get minimal interaction, this blew up (ish) 1.4k likes lolz.
Barnados in Truro of all places. I also met a shoegaze legend in the coffee shop next door.
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Ah nice one, I thought it mightāve been Lost in Music in Camborne. Thatās a little treasure trove if youāre ever in the area.
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Hovering on the Leng comp.
Thatās strange, found one of these a couple of weeks back, there must be a fair few lurking out there, still a real nice track.
Iām a bit behind on the hauls thread updates.
being at the cutting edge of new music I picked up Crooked Man Lady Blackbird from SOTU last week & got the QV Vanessa Daou last week
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Shit small claims; one of my pals uncles was a lighting engineer that toured all year round for bands. He was doing Lighthouse Family gig at the SECC (I think) and got us free tickets and backstage access. A couple of bumbles (those mitsubishis around the late '90ās) rolling around the place chained to the moon, and some guy in a suit got security to huckle us out for smoking as it was upsetting the lead singer.
Absolutely fuck all on that night in Glasgow and ended up roaming the streets eyes in different directions.
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You wouldnāt have thought the Lighthouse Family needed a lighting engineer.
I know the Electric Light Orchestra never bothered.
The Electric Prunes however did- the amount of light emitted from prunes is known to be minuscule, but they do give you the shits, which is why they took a plumber on tour.
So more David Dynorod than Axelrod, you might say.
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I just went through this thread as I was looking for a bit of inspiration. What an absolute treasure trove.
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Just placed my first order from imusic who run out of Denmark. I did a deep dive on reddit about the legitamacy as the pricing seemed too good to be true - all reports were favorable.
They had records Iāve not seen available here in any retail stores, and the ones I have seen locally were half the cost on this site. Postage was really cheap to Australia - 15 GBP for 5 records. Has anybody used this amazing resource?
my compulsive behavior continues unchecked. hereās some of the stuff thatās new to me and my house.
a note to any US buyers - i did an order with juno and it took slightly under a month to deliver. normally it took about a week. packages are in some sort of limbo between the UK carrier and the US carrier thanks to this administrationās utter nutfucking of global commerce. keep that in mind if youāre ordering.
anyhoo, hereās the latest:
https://www.discogs.com/release/30473438-J3Z383LL-Jezebellearic-Beats-Volume-1
as much as i didnāt want to like this, itās super charming. itās well-trodden territory, but pretty much every track shows restraint with the source material. i listened to it too many times not to own it.
https://www.discogs.com/release/34746012-Azamiah-Two-Lands
have you heard these guysā first album? itās amazing, and completely unobtainium on vinyl at this point, way too rich for my blood. this though, is more solid jazzy stuff - i really like the track āriver nativeā.
https://www.discogs.com/release/34145086-Lexx-Rhythm-Of-Love
i donāt really need to say much about this, itās just classy. one i didnāt love at first and then before i knew it, it became a default summer dog walkinā necessity. lexx will not let you down.
https://www.discogs.com/release/34806272-Sewell-The-Gong-Patron-Saint-Of-Elsewhere
another one i didnāt pay close attention to on first listen, then the second listen got me and i put it in heavy rotation. a beaut.
https://www.discogs.com/release/34571794-Ultramarine-Routine
what can i say, i just love ultramarine. i have from the beginning. nice that they let this lilā bit of tracks from the mid-to-late 90ās out.
https://www.discogs.com/release/24810722-Ultramarine-Featuring-Anna-Domino-10-Rework
speaking of, i found a copy of this for not much so why not? i love anna domino, she brings an arty cool to everything she sings on.
https://www.discogs.com/release/293989-One-Dove-Transient-Truth-The-Sabres-Of-Paradise-Mixes
finally scratched this long-time want off my wantlist. got it for a pretty decent price too. no idea why i didnāt have it to begin with, i bought the album and all the rest of the singles the week they came out. i love the dubby lift of the drums from āeverythingās gone greenā.
https://www.discogs.com/release/6199453-John-And-Beverley-Martyn-Stormbringer
found a really lovely copy of this, and again - it wasnāt all that expensive.
https://www.discogs.com/release/19420858-Emma-Jean-Thackray-Yellow
this was kind of an inexpensive throw-in, but it really is a great record. EJT seems like a good hang, so talented and clever.
https://www.discogs.com/release/34603642-KiF-Still-Out
finally got my hands on one of these. the clear vinyl press has also been pre-ordered. all the hype is deserved. itās great, and itās rich in the KLF dna.
https://www.discogs.com/release/32661162-Charles-Bals-Ambientale
i donāt know much about charles bals, but heās a hell of a compiler. thereās so many lovely textures and tracks on this, and the vinyl sounds great.
https://www.discogs.com/release/4942648-Dreamies-Auralgraphic-Entertainment
heard about this from the interview @Balearic_Clapton posted, sort of surprised i hadnāt run across it before. itās awesome. i love the combination of tape and media and long-form outsider guitar tunes. and of course, the design and packaging is great.
https://www.discogs.com/release/916991-St-Tropez-Morning-Music
bought a bunch of cheapies too (as youāll soon see) and this was among them. i love the rinder/lewis later productions, and this is a nice mid-tempo plodder, especially the instrumental.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1586745-Les-Negresses-Vertes-Zobi-La-Mouche
every home should have one, right? itās a lot all at once, but iām sure iāll find ways to weave it in and out of my more 80ās oriented sets.
https://www.discogs.com/release/879789-The-Colourfield-Running-Away
i have an 80ās club gig coming up and i started thinking about a few 110 bpm club classics that i used to play but didnāt own. this was one of them. the dub is great, but more of an instrumental than a dubby dub. usable.
https://www.discogs.com/release/251266-So-Are-You-Sure-Dance-Mix
very 1987 synthpop, with some big drums. i was a kid in this era, so the big club sound and earnest, heart-on-the-sleeve lyrics/vocal kind of stuck with me. one to play next to the colourfield.
https://www.discogs.com/release/183305-If-Everything-More
not excellent, but cheap and itās got all that early leftfield sound and trickery. gonna work with the dub and see what i can do.
https://www.discogs.com/release/14986116-If-If-The-Grid-Remixes
if one if? is good, than two if?'s are better? maybe. grid remixes, and thatās always a good thing. this band created absolutely no impact here in the states, which is kind of sad, maybe they were just the wrong thing at the wrong time.
https://www.discogs.com/release/4945860-Dr-Calculus-Programme-7
sort of shocked i didnāt have this already. i think i played a razormaid version of it. anyway, another cheap and good club classic.
https://www.discogs.com/release/606716-The-Weathermen-Bang-Bang
i used to do an industrial dance night and sort of hated it. that sound was starting to decline and i was tired of all the pathos and anger and frankly, i just liked different drugs than the crowd did (though in retrospect, things like acid horse and PTP were at least trying to achieve some house/rave vibes). didnāt play this at the time, but i sort of appreciate itās silliness now.
https://www.discogs.com/release/384583-Izit-Stories
long time wantlist thing, donāt remember where i first hear it but iām glad i picked it up for cheap.
https://www.discogs.com/release/50384-Frazier-Chorus-Nothing-Paul-Oakenfold-Mixes
should have put this one closer to the if? records. i think i like the vibe of this better than i like the song, but i think thatās how i feel about all the frazier chorus stuff.
https://www.discogs.com/release/9665134-Palm-Skin-Productions-In-A-Silent-Way
i like a lot of the PSP stuff, though this isnāt their strongest. and yet it should be, in a silent way is one of my all time favorite compositions and the miles version is perfect from top to bottom. might as well buy moā wax records while the market is soft.
https://www.discogs.com/release/147659-Various-Tme-0692
i was a really big t:me records fan, only missing a couple. this is not a great pressing, but the songs are terrific and the production values have aged well. there was some real magic in that studio.
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Agreed! This is my favourite BoC track. I donāt know why. It does something to me I canāt explain
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