Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

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Anyone seen one of these VinylDiscs? How well do they actually work?

-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 11 February 2008 19:16 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I've seen one. It looks like it works about as well as those 'postage stamp records' from olden days.

was the in camera record the open air one, or the first one?

open air, didn't know there was a newer one.

I mean a "first" one before the open air one, duh.

Anyone know what happened to Marquis Dancehall in Brookln? I heard they closed.

sleeve: yeah, there's another one, which is the one i have. it's far from amazing (lots of creaking sounds, the odd piano gets struck), but i quite like it. i haven't heard open air.

http://www.discogs.com/release/628425

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Anyone know what happened to Marquis Dancehall in Brookln? I heard they closed.

mark dancehall is gone. before his store closed his workers told me he had bought an apartment in morocco. then after it closed i got an email from him saying he was off to mine turkey for psych records. all i know is he recently dumped 15 grand worth of john fahey/folkways/blues type stuff.

my only regret is i used to stroll eat>academy>marquise. i got skated tim leary lsd for $4 from him and other oddities/ethnic. often i would be too beat to go in, i really should have done that walk in reverse.

Found an awesome looking compilation called The Train to Disaster. Tracks by George Brigman & Split, Slickee Boys, Billy Synth & the Turn Ups, The Left, Velvet Monkeys, and a few others I don't know.

Only had a chance to listen to the track by The Left, which kicks ass. Think they had a complete recordings type reissue recently. Must track down...

Other weekend finds/arrivals...

Philip Cohran - Malcom X Memorial. (Awesome drum sounds. Almost Moondoggin' at times.)
Game Theory - Lolita Nation & Big Shot Chronicles
Jacqueline Taieb - 7AM Lusty yeye 7" with lyrics about Macca.
Merle Haggard - Tribute to Bob Wills
Asmus Tietchens VOD boxed set (WOW)
Unicorn s/t
Royal Trux - Thank You
Lavender Hill Mob LP

Also found a Peach of Immortality LP from 1987, but the guy had no idea where the record was. Shame. And interestingly, I as just reading the history of this group. Had no idea Michael Stipe and Tom Smith shared a history!!!?

The Left comp is called Jesus Loves The Left and is recommended - I only knew one track "Fuck It" from Killed By Hardcore before I got the comp, but there's a load of other great songs on it.

Just spent about two months or so in Berlin, with a slice of Stockholm on the side. Gotta love those flohmarkts, and a host of used/cheap bins full of maxis! And Stockholm gives it up nicely, too. As you'll see, I like my covers.

Some great LPs:

Jean-Yves Labat - M. Frog
Gershon Kingsley - Mister Popcorn and His Sound Machine (with the great "Crackerjack" and "Kohoutek")
B.B. and the Band - We the People
Patty Pravo - Miss Italia (with crazy Italian version of "Come Sail Away")
Lora Logic - Pedigree Charm
Monica Zetterlund - Same (with great Swedish version of "Hit the Road, Jack")
Patrick Cowley comp. with Tantra's "Katmandu"
The Zeet Band - Moogie Woogie
Nancy Sinatra - Woman
Zodiac - Disco Alliance (great Soviet space disco)
Zerrin Özer - Seni Seviyorum (a couple of great disco cuts)
Quartz - Quartz
Ganymed - Takes You Higher (costumed cosmic disco)
Bernard Estardy - La Formule du Baron (reissue, long out of print)
The Rattles - Greatest Hits (for their beaty cover of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah")

Some 12s:

Black Light Orchestra - A Man and His Harmonica (Morricone disco)
Venus Gang - Love to Fly
Hot R.S. - House of the Rising Sun
Luv You Madly Orchestra - Moon Maiden
Le Jeté - La Cage aux Folles
The Hugo & Luigi Music Machine - Love Theme from "The Godfather" (wow!)
Cosmo Wave and the Space Cadets - Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg goes disco)

And a stack of 7s:

Gainsbourg - Sea, Sex and Sun + My Lady Heroine
Linda Law - Nights in White Satin, but the flip is the one you want "All the Night"
Caterina Caselli - Es la Juventud (Italian version of "Baby, Please Don't Go)
Silvetti - Spring Rain
Gerald Mann - Pac-Man Fieber (in German, even better!)
Preston Epps - Bongo Bongo Bongo
Tumblack - Caraïba (not the great 12", but a pretty good, if crispy, 7-inch version)
Theo Schermann - Marbles in My Head (trippy proto synth pop)
Johan Timman - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the only real passable disco version to these ears)
Les Rockets - On the Road Again (check the Youtube vid)
Les Clodettes - Chinese Kung Fu
Cozy Powell - Dance with the Devil (and the great flip, "And Then There Was Skin")
The Winstons - Amen, Brother (cheap, cheap!)
Chris Clark - Love's Gone Bad
Danyel Gerard - America (great cover French cover version)
Les Surfs - Clac Tape ("The Clapping Song" in French)
Donna Hightower - C'est Toi Mon Idole ("My Boy Lollipop" in French)
Blondie - llamame ("Call Me" in Spanish)

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and of course, our radio show is vinyl only.
My Radio Show

the past two weeks...

at flea markets + thrifts around philly, all $1 each
edith piaf - piaf
prince and the revolution - purple rain
michael jackson - off the wall
michael jackson - thriller
nancy sinatra - movin' with nancy
bruce springsteen - born in the usa
debussy - la mer/nocturnes
hyden - symphonies 101-104 (2lp, really nice Erato label edition)
v/a - 2001: a space odyssey soundtrack
v/a - american gigolo soundtrack (giorgio moroder)
v/a - rosemary's baby soundtrack (my favorite find of the day... love this soundtrack!)

philly record stores:
the left banke - walk away renee lp
teenage fanclub - I don't want control of you 12"
the free design - kites are fun lp
todd rundgren - runt lp
orange juice - flesh of my flesh 12"
pete shelley - homosapien
the go-betweens - tallulah lp
v/a it's different for domeheads lp (creation records)
v/a pop romantique lp
the dickies - stukas over disneyland lp
tv babies - jailbait 12"
the celibate rifles - s/t lp
heroin 12"
barry beam - s/t lp
angel hair/bare minimum split 7"
tickley feather/serpents of wisdom split 7"

yesterday in brooklyn:
scott joplin - piano rags vols. 1 + 2 2lp (nonesuch)
clive pig and the hopeful chinamen lp
nude ants - access 12"
the tyde - twice lp
clikitat ikatowi - august 29+30 1995 lp
elf power - a dream in sound lp
cause co-motion! - who's gonna care? 7"

if anyone can give me any info on TV BABIES, BARRY BEAM, NUDE ANTS or CLIVE PIG, i'd greatly appreciate! all records i listened to on looks alone and are awesome. tv babies and barry beam are synth-y new wave stuff, and clive pig and the hopeful chinamen are pretty strange post-punk. nude ants get pretty nervous and twitchy, playing kitschy almost talking heads-style stuff.

Artist Track Album Label

Steve Reich Come Out New Sounds in Electronic Music Odyssey
Stud Cole Black Sun Stud Cole Pacific Atlantic Tribune
Moby Grape Changes, Circles Spinning Truly Fine Citizen Columbia
Keith Christmas The Fawn Fable of the Wings Polydor
Anne Briggs Tongue in Cheek Sing A Song For You Bo' Weavil
James Darren Goodbye Cruel World 45 Colpix
Geof Morgan Homophobia It Comes With The Plumbing Nexus
Death In June Rose Clouds Of Holocaust Sun Dogs 7" NER
Cult of Youth Eye To Eye 45 Axiomata Product
Gate Opening My Arms Metric Majora
Kites Dirt Peace Trials Load
Nurse With Wound I've Plumbed This Whole Neighborhood Drastic Perversions XXX
The Shadow Ring Fish and Hog Lighthouse Swill Radio
Judee Sill The Donor Heartfood Asylum
16 Horsepower Shametown 45 Ricochet
Dinosaur Jr Hot Burrito #2 "Get Me" 12" Single Warner
Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billy Joe 45 Capitol
Maher Shalal Hash Baz Noon Recess After American Pops From A Summer To Another Summer (An Egypt To Another Egypt) Geographic
Dion Purple Haze 45 Laurie
Jim McCarthy In Search of An Audience Alien ESP
Nick Cave Into My Arms 45 Mute
Richard & Linda Thompson The Calvary Cross I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight crappy Carthage reissue
Cuddly Toys Madman 45 Fresh
The Daily Void (Surprise, Surprise) You've Lost Your Eyes 45 Hozac
The Chameleons In Shreds Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Imaginary
Bobb Trimble Take Me Home Vienna Harvest of Dreams Secretly Canadian
Bob Dylan Don't Think Twice; It's Alright Free Wheelin' Columbia
Cluster Zum Wohl Sowiesoso Sky
Dennis Wilson Friday Night Pacific Ocean Blue Caribou
Unknown Tarab Music of the Waswahili of Lamu, Kenya, Vol. 3: Secular Music Ethnic Folkways
Sibylle Baier Tonight Color Green Isota
John Fahey The Death of the Clayton Peacock Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death Riverboat

i was crazed today and i needed records to calm me down. cuz it's too early to start drinking. anyway, got some good records:

elvin bishop - let it flow (capricorn) (dickie betts! sly stone!)

black ivory - s/t (buddah)

eugene record - the eugene record (WB)

ricardo ray/bobby cruz - 10 anniversario (vaya)

eugene record - trying to get to you (WB)

allan toussaint - southern nights (meters!)

fajardo 76 - la raiz de la charanga (includes moulton mix of "c'mon baby, do the latin hustle"!)

charles tolliver/music inc. - music inc. (strata-east)

deaf school - 2nd honeymoon (WB test pressing)

Obsession 2lp psych comp on Bully (curated by Ian! okay, maybe not. but some dude at Academy put it together, no?)

El Numero eccentric soul 2lp comp

barbara mason & bunny sigler - locked in this position (curtom)

dexter gordon - gotham city (columbia)

billie holiday - lady in satin (columbia)

willie colon - willie (fania)

barretto - rican/struction (fania)

Obsession 2lp psych comp on Bully (curated by Ian! okay, maybe not. but some dude at Academy put it together, no?)

^^ my boss put it together. Would love to hear what you think, Scott.

All ultra rare international psych fuzz monsters.

record store bought a bunch of stuff and they had PRISTINE copies of the first two small faces albums and i couldn't stop drooling. original u.k. pressings. mono. vinyl and covers SO CLEAN. i want them, but i can't afford them. i told them to put them up on ebay. probably do all right. i kept trying to think of stuff i could trade for them. they also got a minty copy of the first frijid pink album. *sigh* can't afford that either. and i need that album. i remember when you could pick that up fairly cheaply and i never bought a copy.

How much are they asking for the Small Faces?

I got a fairly clean DJ copy of the Macondo album for a buck at an Antique Show I really had no business being at.

lol frijid pink, is that the pink cover? (no pun intended) i often come across it and its always unplayable/skated. never a decent copy to be found (if i'm thinking of the right one)

i was at academy in brooklyn on monday. great store, i've never been in there before. some folks were talking it up on another forum and it definitely lived up to the hype, but some serious nerds were hogging the listening station for way too long (FIVE RECORD LIMIT, dweebs!).

Nice find on that Dion Purple Haze. I don't know too much about that guy but it seems like he had a pretty weird career kind of like Del Shannon.

lol, i brought in my turntable to see how much i could get on a trade-in (b/c i want a new one with usb), and the dude dropped it. shit got totally smashed...i didn't expect to get much for it anyway, but still.

"How much are they asking for the Small Faces?"

they aren't asking anything yet. they just have them in boxes with all this other stuff they bought. i told them ebay was their best bet. they go for, like, 80/100 maybe? i was thinking of bringing in a ton of stuff i don't need and possibly trading. i just can't imagine finding nicer copies.

i don't REALLY need the frijid pink album. i just feel dumb for not picking up a copy years ago when it sold for peanuts. i have no idea why it sells for so much now. it's not THAT hard to find. it had a big hit single on it. good distribution.

Now listening to a gorgeous UK Press of the Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.

Other listening:
Pussygutt 2LP on OESB
Frederic Rzewski - Four Pieces (1977)
Jon Appleton - World Music Theater
Bob Lucas/Bill Schwarz/Miriam Sturm - ECLECTRICITY (this is a private LP that has one of the worst songs I have ever heard: "Gerald Ford." It also has some nice fiddle-laced country and a sikey sitar/tabla cut called "Paul McCartney. 1980.)
Anne T. McBride - Islands of Mermaids (hawaiian hippie flower child junk but... you know.)

Also checked out the new Fern Knight LP on Eclipse! Very nice dark-but-not-goth folk.

anyone got any recent Shadoks LP's they wanna comment on?

listening to the Guruh Gipsy album, very cool

and THANKS for the Frijid Pink tip, didn't know them. listening to some tracks up on their myspace. which album to get first then?

first two are cool (s/t and defrosted). i've never actually heard the third album *earth omen*, but i'd love to find a copy. they put out an album in 1975 and i don't know anyone who's heard it. have no idea even what it sounds like. anyway, i can vouch for the first two.

Shadoks are... hit and miss, at best. I haven't been impressed by that many of them, though I'm bummed I spaced on getting the KAMIJO - MARTHA Shadoks issue when it was in stores here. That one's great.

do i need that mourning phase album? they still have a copy at the record store. pricey, but i could trade some dumb CDs for it.

You don't NEED it. How much do you like the Wicker Man soundtrack? It's not as good as that. And it's short IIRC. Under half an hour maybe.

I've the option of buying several Impulse-era Sun Ra LPs, not owning any of them. Any suggestions?

if i were rich i would buy all these shadoks. i want freedom's children box :(

"I've the option of buying several Impulse-era Sun Ra LPs, not owning any of them. Any suggestions?"

buy them all and then listen to them and then eventually sell them and buy some cool psych records.

i am selling my GOSPEL OAK LP. Too blues rock for me to hold onto but w/ some nice ruralsike cuts. I need to sell some other crap too, to buy krautrock and private acid folk monsters.

sometimes i think about selling some of my rare tape music/early electronic LPs on ebay and using the profits to buy a bunch of gear.

aw sweet there's a record fair nearby on sunday

let's hope they got a fix to my heavy hardrocking psychedelic needs

i need
Dust - Hard Attack
Stalker-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia
Pink Fairies - Neverneverland
KAK - KAK
Bubbly Puppy - A Gathering of Promises
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind

and more! i checked all these out tonight with a little help from my friend called soulseek

i'll probably end up with some worn out Banarama lp's and a Klaus Schulze lp i don't have yet though, at best

Kak is so good, but aren't originals prohibitively expensive these days? Bubble Puppy seem kinda marginal to me. BUT, that 2nd Dust record has really grown on me. Maybe I'll listen to it later tonight.

i have no idea. i'm afraid to search for them on ebay cos i'm totally broke and a sucker for any tag saying heavy psych

i love bubble puppy. i have a nice original copy of that. i've got the kak reissue that came out whenever. same time that they put out gandalf and head shop on vinyl. i love those kinds of reissues. sound great and they are cheap!

i still need a nice copy of the demian album but i'm cheap and don't want to spend a hundred bucks on ebay.

SCORPIO. I think we've had the "Yay Scorpio reissues!" conversation on about 10 different threads. They've been doing really nice reissues of the BYG Actuel LPs lately. And they did that first Fahey record on vinyl. I want them to repress the Gentle Soul reissue. Terry Melcher!

i'm cheap too, it pains me to more than twenty bucks for any lp. seriously

And god I love the Gandalf and Fallen Angels and Kak LPs.
Couldn't get into Mandrake Memorial or Head Shop though! Sorry Scott!

i got my bubble puppy and a ton of other stuff when i traded my perry leopold album to my friend dan. um, like a zillion years ago. but it's memorable to me. perry's album, to this day, being my best salvation army find. (i wasn't that big a fan of it, which is why i had no problem giving it up)