S/D -- The Numero Group

review available online?

print only! it's like the dark ages or something. my column isn't huge so i have to cram in as much as i can. i don't get to really stretch out and talk about something. i have to be in and out and hope my hyperbole makes people curious about a record that i really dig. well, you've been on ilm for a while, you know how i roll.

i will seek out a print copy of decibel magazine.

someday the internet will be no more, and only those journals who know how to survive in the print-era will flourish.

are getting these on CDs or vinyl or both?

my subscription is cd-only. idk if they have a vinyl-subscription option (but it would make sense).

they've been pretty quiet for a few months; i need to check the site and see if something's up.

hm. syl johnson's Complete Mythology is apparently coming out later this month, so all must be well.

forthcoming box-set from numero group:

Boddie Breaking Out -- by Numero Group on Monday, November 8, 2010 at 11:33am.

We had hoped that Plain-Dealer writer Robert L. Smith would heed our advice and not publish this article until our massive Boddie Recording Co. 4CD/6LP box drops next year, but it looks like his editor had the final say. For those not in the know, educate yourselves.

the article

pretty much in love with the two local customs releases, want mooooore.

Has anyone else checked out the Willie Wright release? Lovely low-key music from an R&B musician turned 70s singer-songwriter. There's not much on Youtube apart from a Curtis Mayfield cover ("Right on for the darkness") and the introspective "Africa":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQmlIsLX30s

eesh, this looks cool. wish i had the $$ to buy everything this label puts out! american heroes.
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/z/zzboddierecordingcomp_101b.jpg
Boddie Recording Company – Cleveland, Ohio
rom 1958 to 1993, Thomas and Louise Boddie’s industrious Boddie Recording Company issued nearly 300 albums and 45s, recorded 10,000 hours of tape, and remained in operation longer than any other studio, pressing plant, or label group in the history of Cleveland. Long forgotten even by the standards of the chronically overlooked northeastern Ohio music scene, Boddie was a fusion of its owner’s engineering genius and his limited economic means; its DIY recording studio housed in a humble barn, churned night and day to capture the sounds emanating from Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods. The 58 tracks on these three CDs (or 65 track 5LP) represent the best of the Boddies’ in-house Soul Kitchen, Luau, and Bounty labels, which released an unspoiled treasure trove of kitchen-sink eccentric soul, fuzzbox funk, shoestring doo-wop, and haunted, eerily hook-laden spirituals. Enclosed inside is a mountain of office-styled ephemera: two massive booklets brimming with detail on the Boddies and their and their artists; extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos; a complete detailed discography folio; reproduced fliers; and a Boddie greeting card—all rendered with the handcrafted charm that was the Boddie hallmark. Call it a self-contained record industry crammed into one box.

i ordered this on the internet! i don't think i've ever done that before. um, aside from ebay.

should get mine, like, monday. if you pre-ordered on numero site you got a live soul album that boddie pressed. not available in stores!

not the actual copy that boddie pressed. there is just one acetate i think. a numero-pressed version.

that set looks great but y'all should really start getting excited about their upcoming Richard Pegue set. I know I am. "Scorpio" by the South Suburban Strings is one of my all-time fave funk 45's

yeah. i'm hoping the label continues its subscription program in 2012.

i like it when they step out of their soul-reissue comfort zone. the antena disc, for instance, was killer.

me too! i love the cult cargo series.

How does the subscription thingy work? Is it pricey/worth it? I really love this label.

$120.00 a year for the label's output (about six discs).

that's what it used to be, at least.

I hate being poor.

really wish they were UK based so that the shipping costs didn't put me off buying that Boddie set :-(

Something really surprising coming from them soon...

What, the Codiene thing?

give us the deets.

Nope. This hasn't been announced yet -- a project that was supposed to come out years ago on another label and never did. I can say no more...

tease!

i hope they do what soundways and analog africa have been doing periodically, by releasing full-length "lost" or "underappreciated" albums (like numero did with antena, i think?).

The just put up the details for the 2012 subscription on the site.

just got a flyer about it. again, $100.00 for an annual compact-disc subscription (with eight titles scheduled for 2012).

thank god they give the _option_ of LPs or CDs. really annoying when packages make you buy both formats at a time -- it's an insult. (the syl johnson was like that no?)

you're saying that numero-group forced fans to buy the disc and vinyl for the syl johnson set? if that's so, i didn't know it. i got both on my annual CD subscription, at no extra charge. i was actually going to mention this is one of the nice touches that keeps me coming back as an annual numero-group subscriber.

i think the one box had both CDs and vinyl.

yup: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Mythology-6xLP-4xCD-Johnson/dp/B0042GNDWU/

right.

PERSONAL SPACE: Electronic Soul 1974-1984

If the rest of the album holds up to the Soundcloud track ("Don't Challenge Me" by the Makers) this is gonna be pretty awesome.

Boddie set is chock full of great stuff, but there are some pops on my records and I know it's not me or my player. Has this happened to anyone else?

boddie vinyl kinda sucked. that's why there is so much surface noise.

yeah it's really distracting! disappointed b/c the songs are so good. would they offer me free downloads if i complained, do you think? i don't want a refund or to go through a big rigamarole, but...i would like to listen to these records in some form without unwelcome popping noises.

huh that's too bad. the CDs sound good, though some of it is more on the lo-fi side of things.
been really enjoying the set, first disc especially. i need to get more of these numero things, I only have a few.

LL, sent you an email...

got it, responded, thx :)

TYLER you have to get the Home Schooled one if you don't already -- it's all kiddie groups.

http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=00305

BTW ordering the site is great - they offer you the chance to get discounted CDs before checkout, and there are no tax or shipping fees. I was planning on buying one box and ended up getting two more albums for $7 each.

ordering FROM the site

oh cool, i'll check it out!

These guys DJ-ed a late-night dance party last night and O it was fun.

Yes I can confirm, Numero Group dance party was top notch highest quality -- people totally flipped when they played stuff they knew and loved, and everyone wigged out for "The Devastator". I was pleased to hear "Trust Your Child" but disappointed I didn't hear anything I recognized from the Chicago Boricua set. If you're reading this, NG, may I humbly request mas salsa.

i showed up for the chicago dance party but the hideout was filled to capacity 30 min before the start time. didn't feel like hanging around outside in 10 degree weather waiting to see if some folks left. oh well.