Listening back to this in bits to get a full review in my sound system at home. Just increable. Proper slam on the drums on this pressing.
Great pressing. Dynamic rich sound on a flat white vinyl. I met Jez and Andy recently and got it signed so dead happy either way but the vinyl being a good one just adds to the awesomeness of this release . Surface noise is there but quiet.
This #TonePoet release is stunning. Super quiet background, dynamic, channel separation that really jumps out at you. It actually sounds better than my original pressing, which is no small feat.
My only quibble is that it doesn't have the typical #TonePoet gatefold sleeve with photos, etc. I don't recall seeing a Tone Poet release that wasn't a gatefold.
#NowPlaying Grant Green - Alive! (Blue Note, 1970). Recorded live at the Cliché Lounge, Newark, NJ on 8/15/1970. Jazz-funk (or is it funky jazz?) was my gateway from hip-hop to jazz. The closing track Down Here On The Ground is instantly recognizable from the sample on A Tribe Called Quest - Vibes and Stuff. Anything with Idris Muhammad on drums is worth listening to. #jazz#funk#hiphop#GrantGreen@vinylrecords
@BEK97@WilliamRobert@vinylrecords I haven’t delved too deep, but Turn This Motha Out was worth it for the Tasty Cakes alone (the whole thing was solid tho)
@BEK97@vinylrecords Maiden Voyage is a bonus track? Insane. It's one of the best things I've heard in my life. #Idris is a monster on this record--kicks the band into another realm.
So I know my #vinyl lovers are strong here. So I need to know. What’s the best & fastest way of moving a large amount of vinyl. All high quality. A large amount still sealed. #Rock, #hiphop, 50s and 60s lounge, and what looks like a pretty legendary #Beatles collection. It’s basically a school/rent money party, and the right price is invited. Maybe our first #mastodon#musicparty?
#NowPlaying - starting to understand the whole "back to mono" thing. these 1948/1949 charlie parker radio recordings by boris rose (plus a few audience tapes) feel so much more present/vivid on this suitcase turntable than they do on my stereo. perhaps psychosomatic, but sounding incredible on this very rainy sunday. #jazz#bootleg@vinylrecords
#NowPlaying - new mode of hurkle-durkle just dropped. lying in bed like a sultan listening to the jefferson airplane on my reconstituted califone. @vinylrecords
Another album that brings me back to the beginning of college. I grew up on classic rock and jazz (which I still love) so it wasn’t until my first year in the dorms that my music world quickly expanded. This is another album in that list that I discovered “late” (like 2005 late!).
@Champagne@vinylrecords Yes! It’s a carbon fiber brush with a connection to the ground post - I can’t tell you definitively if it helps or not but it was cheap and couldn’t hurt…now that we’re going into winter the weather is dry so there’s a lot more static. I’ll have to play some with and some without and see how much of a difference it makes.
@andrew@vinylrecords definitely recommend picking up OKNOTOK if you see it; the extra tracks are utterly marvellous, and the remaster is shockingly clear as someone who’s been listening since about a week before release.
@historyofpunkrock Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre-#Pogues band The Nips from 1980. Plain white cardboard cover with a stuck-on b&w insert, in typical #bootleg style. Features the legendary 'King of the Bop' on side one - perhaps the first really cracking song that Shane ever wrote. A cross between #punk and #rockabilly.
I bought this in 'Rock On' in London's Camden Town. Three quid and seventy-five pence, at the time. @vinylrecords
Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre-#Pogues band The Nips from 1980.
Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre-#Pogues band The Nips from 1980.