The Old is New (No One Wants to Get Old 2012 Mix)
I am listening to this record. I might never have witnessed this landscape without it.
78 rpm Leroy Anderson - Typewriter (Played on a Garrard 4HF) (by mtorringa)
“I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing […] the emotional reaction is all that matters.
“As long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood.”
-John Coltrane
To celebrate I finally finished something (I hope), I recorded some of my favourite DJing tunes from my vinyl collection.
All sources are vinyl records. Buy vinyl; support independent artists.
If you know what this is you know what this is… Respect, JC/SR/KDJ/MM/JP
As usual, with love for the Moooooose.
The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
“Due to copyright restrictions the digital collection is only fully accessible from computers on the UCLA campus.”
Out of Fear, Institutions Lock Millions of Books and Images - Chronicle of Higher Education
“A library of 8.7 million digital volumes. A trove of 100,000 ocean-science photos. An archive of 57,000 Mexican-music recordings.”
Mr Scruff unruffled by clearing of the Technics decks
“If you face facts, vinyl still sounds a lot better than CD or digital. If you listen to a lot of modern music like dubstep many times on CD – a lot of the UK funky stuff, a lot of harsh, very bottom-heavy, very percussive, very dynamic music – it sounds quite brittle and two-dimensional. You cut the same thing on to vinyl and, when you listen to it in a club, the bass has real depth to it. It’s not like a flat wall of sound that’s beating you down, it’s almost like you can “get inside” the music a lot better. There is something magical about vinyl. I love the way music sounds on it. Part of the reason I love it is that I don’t quite know why it sounds that way. There’s alchemy to the process of putting sound on vinyl that engineers still don’t understand to this day, but somehow it works. I’ve been DJing and collecting music for about 25 years now, and it’s still my favourite way of listening to music.”
MorriSoul Guest MIx at the Fine Art Recordings Blog
The always excellent Fine Art Recordings Blog shares a lovely deep house guest mix by MorriSoul… excellent to get you back in gear a Monday morning…
WFMU - Where Records Go to Live! cc @autopsiesgroup @UCLDH #vinyl #DH #libraries #media
I found this documentary via Wire magazine (the latest issue comes with a feature on Alan Moore).
YouTube link: GOLDMINE presents: WFMU - Where Records Go To LIVE! (via GoldmineMagVideo)
More book-like in a sense: of the limited edition vinyl as beautiful object…
Two pieces of sentimental education…
April is the cruellest month: T.S. Eliot reads from The Waste Land…
Materiality in the digital age… #dayofdh
”[…]for the collector (a real one, I mean, a collector as he should be), ownership is the very deepest relationship a person can have with things: not that they live inside him; it is he who lives in them.”
-Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library” [1931], as translated by J.A. Underwood.
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Unpacking Benjamin’s library: an essay by Joseph D. Lewandowski, here. [PDF]
