Vinyl

[Incandenza]

Having finally gotten a decent set up for it, I'm starting to buy vinyl.

The top two are When I See the Sun, a complete discography of the band Codeine, and Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up, a collection of R & B and soul jams from Belize in the early 70s. Both are courtesy of the wonderful archival label Numero Group.

 

[Smues]

I had a good chance to get a copy of William Shatner's The Transformed Man on vinyl for well below the usual prices and I blew it. Sad Smues is sad.

 

[Incandenza]

I should add that Numero Group puts together beautiful packaging for their releases, but their website is ugly as fuck and difficult to navigate. All the money goes into the physical product, I guess!

EDIT: And now they've given the site a much-needed overhaul. Still don't love it, but it's easier to look at now.

 

[Incandenza]

Bought the vinyl reissue of Music Has the Right to Children—my old CD met a mysterious end—and spreading 62 minutes of music over four sides can fuck right off. Using just three sides is OK, guys! I don't mind the fourth side being blank.

 

[Incandenza]

The top two are Numero Group releases: Soul Messages from Dimona

Between 1975 and 1981, a group of American ex-pats brought the native sounds of their Detroit and Chicago homes across the Atlantic, combined them with the messages of the Black Hebrew culture, and declared Dimona, Israel, the center of the spiritual universe. What their caravan caught on tape was a deeply joyful, sometimes searing mix of jazz, spiritual soul, inspired funk, and Old Testament gospel psychedelia. Featuring the Soul Messengers, the Spirit Of Israel, Sons Of The Kingdom, and Hebrew Jackson 5 clones the Tonistics, Soul Messages From Dimona is yet another stop on our tour of the soul diaspora and the only living document of a thriving community as it teetered at both the center and edge of the world. The Exodus goes on, and from the South Side of Chicago to the bush in Liberia, from the tangled streets of Tel Aviv to the desert of Dimona, their message continues: salvation, peace, deliverance, love…and 100% parve soul.

and Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands

The second in our series of peeks into the world of regional studios hones in on Mickey Rouse's Lowland operation out of Beaumont, Texas. Long after the Bopper's plane crashed and the Winter brothers (Johnny and Edgar) and Janis Joplin split, Texas' Golden Triangle was home to a vibrant group of musicians, songwriters, and entrepreneurs just trying to make it in Houston, let alone the world. Holed up in a run-down strip mall, groups like Mourning Sun, Insight Out, Sage, Sassy, Mother Lion, Hope, Circus, and Boot Hill tracked out hundreds of demos, most of which were put on the shelf and left to bake in the southeast Texas heat. Until now.

The Numero Group has painstakingly audited every tape in the Lowland archives, selecting the best of the best (22 tracks on CD, 28 for the 2LP) for this peerless compilation. The songs themselves run the gamut: southern boogie rock, CSNY clone workups, British blues thunder, garage-psych hangovers, Morricone-tinged supper club instrumentals, yacht rock, and what can only be described as Bobby McFerrin fronting the Velvet Underground...each of them threaded to another in the way only a tightly-knit scene knits its output together. Forget bringing these treasures back to life—Lone Star Lowlands gives them the life they never had.

Then you have Leonard Cohen's underrated Various Positions, an album best known for containing the oft-covered "Hallelujah" (but don't hold that it against). And last you have School Daze, by Patrick Cowley. Tangerine Dream/Kraftwerk-style synth scores from 70s gay porn. (Link is safe for work, but, depending on the company you keep, you might want to avoid clicking on the thumbnail imagaes found therein!)

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Picked this up when I was in London a few weeks ago. It's really chaotic and tuneless, everything music should be.

 

[Incandenza]

Been a minute since I posted in this thread. Look what showed up in the mail yesterday:

The red strip at the bottom of the Hazlewood comp comes off, and there's a whole bunch of titties underneath. I'll leave interested parties to Google the uncensored version themselves.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Vinyl Albums Outsold CDs For The First Time In 30 Years

Vinyl has outsold CDs for the first time in 30 years, according to MRC Data and Billboard. That means vinyl is now the leading format for all album purchases in the U.S.

www.stereogum.com

Congratulations @Incandenza