28/11/2016 – 29/11/2016 Portishead – Portishead Stranger Things Soundtrack – Volume 1 – Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things Soundtrack – Volume 2 – Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein The Cult – Electric Senyawa – Brønshøj (Puncak) […]
Month: November 2016
That Special Record – November
This will be a two part review, as I have received the ‘That Special Record’ LP for this month at work and can’t actually play it until I get home. So while I have 15 […]
How to knacker your vinyl
I don’t have a particularly good opinion of Crosley, they are very much what you pay for and, while it is good that there is a budget option available for people just getting into vinyl and […]
The Listening List
Max Richter – Songs From Before Future Sound Of London – Environments 6.5 Bjork – Bastards Mike Oldfield – Platimnum Vangelis – Spiral Bob Marley – Exodus Isaac Hayes – Joy Isaac Hayes – Shaft […]
Isaac Hayes
My first introduction to Isaac Hayes was through the the ‘Theme From Shaft’, although at the time I didn’t really have any idea who it was, it was just one track on a ‘Blaxploitation’ compilation […]
Reading Festival 1982
You may recall a post a made about going to Reading Festival in 1983, I actually also went the year before, but only for the Friday, not the whole weekend. I was 15 at the time […]
Moon – Clint Mansell
A little while ago I picked up the soundtrack to the film ‘Black Swan’ by Clint Mansell and recently I picked up another of his, from the movie ‘Moon’. I watched the film a while […]
The Listening List
17/11/2016 – 22/11/2o16 A mixed bag so far this week, and they weren’t neccesarily in this order, but these are they: The Clash – Sandinista Steely Dan – The Royal Scam Carmel – The Drum […]
Roger Goula – Overview Effect
Stu at Seismic Records recommended an album to me at the weekend by an artist I’d never heard of. I do like to take a chance with albums now and again and, as Stu knows […]
The Listening List
The Cult – Love This is the only thing I’ve listened to since the weekend………..Been Busy
P.I.L – The Assembly, Leamington Spa
I saw P.I.L in June this year at the O2 in Oxford, I was underwhelmed, partly my fault as I was a bit under the weather, but it also felt like a lackluster performance to […]
The Listening List – The Weekend
Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Ennio Moriccone – The Black Belly Of The Tarantula Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend Ascend The Haxan Cloak – The Haxan Cloak Björk – Biophilia Live […]
Your F***ing Sunny Day (Episode 23)
Growing up in the late 60’s and Early 70’s I was exposed to quite a lot of popular music, mostly from the radio but, later on, through music that I bought on vinyl or cassette. […]
The Listening List
And this was tonight: Nosaj Thing – Fated Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind Boards Of Canada – Trans Canada Highway Explosions In The Sky, David Wingo – Prince Avalanche: An Original Motion […]
Well that’s annoying
About once a month I have a look at what’s on at my local music venue, this is it: Although those carpets make you feel like you are wearing velcro shoes now, they are so […]
The Listening List
Brian Eno – The Ship Tape – Luminarium Future Sound Of London – Far-Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman Björk – Vulnicura Strings Georg Holm, Orri Páll Dýrason, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Kjartan […]
The Listening List
Duke Ellington – Anatomy of a Murderer Soundtrack Grace Jones – Nightclubbing Prefuse 73 – Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives Nightmares On Wax – Feelin Good Tricky – Pre-Millenium Tension
The Listening list – Yesterday
Who really has time for records? They aren’t portable, they get damaged, they are a bugger to store and they are expensive amongst other negatives. Well I do, for all the reasons that everybody should […]
Vinyl Filing/Storage Dilemas
First things first, I need a vinyl storage solution. I’m currently using a two shelf unit that was in the garage for two years waiting for me to get around to taking it to the […]
Saåad Interview
You may have seen my post on the album ‘Verdaillon’ by ‘Saåad’ that I posted in September, if not here’s the link: https://verian.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/that-special-record-september/ Below is a link to an interview with ‘Saåad’ from ‘That Special […]
