Photo by Maarten Hornstra I wasn’t going to do a ‘best of’ list this year. I really haven’t been paying enough attention. Of course, I’ve come across some great music, and can recommend you check some stuff out – but the attention required to put them in some sort of order is beyond me right [...]
Categories: Music
My friend Sam Coley made this brilliant audio slideshow about Birmingham record store The Diskery. I’ve been really enjoying my local Kings Heath store, Polar Bear Records, since we moved here – but it has been a long time since I popped into the Diskery – and this makes me feel like it’s time to [...]
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Finally got a chance today to listen to some of that rare 70s Hungarian jazz-funk vinyl I picked up last week in Budapest. This one’s on the state-owned record label Pepita and it’s by the Debrecen Jazz Group. Fender Rhodes, electric violin and really CTI-ish jazzy treatments of Hungarian folk songs. Awesome stuff. It’s in [...]
Photo by Beverly & Pack I’m sure you’re familiar with the term ‘public domain’. It refers to works that have come to the end of their legal copyright period, and therefore now belong to no-one and everyone. You’d be surprised how much music falls into that category. If a work is in the public domain, [...]
Tagged: Public Domain, Recordings, Records
Photo by aneye4apicture Today’s idea is based on an idea I had about three years ago – about making it easier to convert your vinyl collection to digital files, so that you can listen to them on an mp3 player. Flatbed vinyl scanner The idea is very simple. Rather than play the record on a [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Idea,Music
Tagged: Recordings, Records, Vinyl
