I’m spending the evening listening to records. I’ve been doing that a fair bit recently. But these records I’m listening to aren’t from my shelves. I can’t hold them in my hands. I’m actually listening to digitised records, which is an interesting thing to do – or rather, I think it’s interesting – and here’s [...]
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I bumped into my friend Roy at the Soil & “Pimp” Sessions gig at the Hare and Hounds last week. He’s a DJ and knows a thing or two about records. We were talking about the vinyl I picked up in Colombia when I was there a couple of months back. He was appropriately jealous, [...]
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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 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
