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A: The first album I ever bought was a cassette copy of In Visible Silence by The Art of Noise. I remember hearing songs off that album, including "Legs" and their cover of "Peter Gunn" on "alternative rock" radio back in the mid '80s and even though I hadn't really formed an awareness of hip-hop as a genre, I already drawn to music "with beats" and The Art of Noise certainly qualified. I probably bought the cassette around the spring of 1987, back when I was 14, and I do remember buying it at Pennylane Records in Venice, CA. I still own it; it's probably boxed up in our shed, along with most of my other cassettes. To be honest, I don't remember the first album I bought on vinyl but the first 12" I bought on vinyl was "Tired of Getting Pushed Around" by 2 Men A Trumpet and a Drum Machine (which I'm sure I still own but I have no idea where I've filed it). It's weird to realize, looking back now, how I absolutely gravitated to music influenced by hip-hop's aesthetics even though I wasn't even aware, back in 1987, that there was a style/genre called "hip-hop". At that point, I was mostly listening to new wave/modern rock but looking back, it's interesting to note that the songs that resonated with me the most were often ones that had "breaks." That includes atlantic city bus tours brooklyn New Order's "Thieves LIke Us" or even the breakdown on Huey Lewis and the News's "Heart and Soul" where they strip the song down to hand claps and guitar. I had no musical vocabulary at the time to describe or explain what it was I liked in those moments.
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A: In the very beginning, it was purely atlantic city bus tours brooklyn a matter of wanting to hear/buy certain songs that were only available on vinyl rather than cassette. I was a tape kid initially and the stuff I'd buy on vinyl, I'd just dub down to tape. But that's how I ended up buying my early 12"s, including a version atlantic city bus tours brooklyn of A Tribe Called Quest's "Bonita Applebaum" that had some UK mix I couldn't find on cassette. Of course, had I known how much vinyl I'd eventually end up buying, beginning a few years later, I would have gotten a jump start earlier! C'est la vie.
Even when I first began to DJ, in 1993, I don't think I really had caught the bug for vinyl. It was more of a tool than anything else. It wasn't until I began like many rap fans to track down "original samples" that I really began to understand the particular appeal of vinyl records as these objects atlantic city bus tours brooklyn imbued with histories and stories, not to mention cover art and everything else.
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A: Like a lot of collectors, I do have "pet" genres though I'm hardly a completionist in any single genre. For example, I do have a soft spot for soul/funk albums featuring Asian or Asian American musicians on them. My collection isn't remotely that heavy overall in that respect the amount of great psych out of countries like South Korea or soul-influenced Thai music is staggering and I only own a small handful of records in those genres. For a variety of reasons, least of all geographic distance and linguistic differences, it's not easy to come by many of those records without traveling to the source. But all that said, it does tickle me to learn about groups like Please (all-Filipino, recorded in Germany) or the Thai group, The Impossibles, who put out a kick ass album on Phillips in Sweden but also recorded locally in Thailand.
The Steps were a Malaysian rock band. This falls into both my "covers" and "Asian artist" collections since they do a great medley of The Turtles's "Buzzsaw" and Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." I did an all-international covers mix called Deep Covers 2 which that medley ended up on.
I consider this the crown jewel of the "Asian artists" albums I have: a Manila-based rock/R B band called Bits n' Pieces. I don't know this for certain but I'm convinced members of this group were traveling back and forth from the Philippines to the Bay Area; it'd explain atlantic city bus tours brooklyn some of their song
I met Asha Puthli at a music conference a few years back and since she was living in L.A. at the time, had the pleasure of interviewing her. A totally fascinating atlantic city bus tours brooklyn women with a remarkable life, in and out of music. Born in Bombay, trained in both classical Indian and Western music styles, ended up moving to the U.S. by herself in her 20s and befriended Salvador Dali amongst others.
In my opinion, her best album (self-titled on CBS, 1974): she's got some fantastic covers on here, including one of Bill Withers' "Let Me In Your Life" and a funky version of George Harrison's "I Dig Love." I put "Let Me In Your Life" on my female-soul mix, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me.
My "main" soft spot as a collector atlantic city bus tours brooklyn though: records with cover songs. There's something about that combination of the familiar with the novel that gets me, everytime. I'll pick up pretty much an album that has a decent cover song on it, even if the rest of it sucks. I often combine my interest in covers with other collecting interests most of my Asian artist albums are ones with cover songs and I especially love gospel remakes of "secular" songs where they take the basic arrangement from the original but redo the lyrics to make them into gospel themes.
A few 7"s from my covers section. From the bottom left, moving atlantic city bus tours brooklyn clockwise: The Funkees ("Breakthrough"), Brenda Holloway ("Never Can Say Goodbye," atlantic city bus tours brooklyn sung in French), Tyrone and Carr ("Take Me With You", original demo version), The Exciters ("Morning)" and buried at center, Pepper Smelter ("Let a Woman Be A Woman and Let a Man Be a Man"). I've used almost all of these on various covers mixes I've done.
Dutch steel band album with a devastating cover of "Down By the River." Heavy heavy heavy. I made it the centerpiece of my first all-covers mix I made years ago called Deep Covers . Bit the cover art too!
Mark Holder is from Guyana and this album features a slew of cool covers, including one of Clyde McPhatter's atlantic city bus tours brooklyn "Mixed Up Cup" (with break, natch) but I actually like his cover of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" even better since it gives the song a bit of a tropical swing to it. Totally works. That one made it to Deep Covers 2 as well.
I also collect boogaloo/Latin atlantic city bus tours brooklyn soul albums and while my collection isn't as completionist as it could be, I feel like I've made a good go at all the major NY titles and these days, have focused more on boogaloo records from outside the U.S. The style was huge in Colombia, Peru and Venezuela from what I can tell. I love how boogaloo traveled like that, especially as a style of music that was always about the crossroads of style between African American and Latin music traditions.
Enrique Lynch is/was a popular bandleader in Peru and in the 1970s, he put out a series of Latin dance albums, all featuring attractive women in different outfits/settings. The on in the bottom right is the best: it's on some Che Guevera/rebel tip (that's a water machine gun in her hand and a grenade in the other). Hard to go wrong with "Como Canon" though, especially if you want to discuss the potential phallic imagery there.
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