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Black Sky Thinking Addicted To Plastic? Eco-Vinyl And The Impact Of Our Listening Habits The Quietus , April 11th, 2022 10:51 As vinyl is now set to outsell CDs in the UK serious questions have been asked about the sustainability of this environment destroying format. However, says Jono...

Node was a kinda supergroup of hyper-producers in the mid 90s doing what sounds like their version of 70s Tangerine Dream using vintage synths. They made this live EP Terminus recorded in Paddington Station and a studio album called Node and then nothing for another 19 years. The more recent...

Let's say a friend announces they got their niece/nephew a nice restored 1980s TT/amp/boxes kit for an upcoming birthday. You also know the kid and decide to give a birthday present too, a Best Of LP of your favorite Jamaican singer, which one of these three. Naturally you hope to have a chance...

I haven't posted here for a while but I figured y'all might be into this one. A relatively rare 2xLP that has arguably the most important and interesting recording of the Master Musicians of Jajouka. The famous music writer Stephen Davis explains I bought a copy via Discogs and made a digital...

Can we collect a list of good movies that feature lots of excellent Hip Hop?

On the page for the newish Jon Hassell release on Bleep there's a bundle that includes in addition to the LP Max D - Seeing Through Sound (Mixtape) - Cassette It costs $11 extra so I'm not inclined to buy it but if it includes otherwise unavailable music then I want to know about it. Any ideas?

Somebody was spinnin' Chicago in the November Challenge today and that reminded me how a long time ago a line in Hedwig and the Angry Inch suggested there might be a musical genre or general style that we could call geography because America – Sister Golden Hair Asia – Heat of the Moment Boston...

I looked up the record I put in the Nov Challenge today on Discogs and saw this Is that plausible? If 895 Discogs users went to the trouble of having themselves counted as having it, how many people who have the record didn't? It's hard to imagine so many copies in circulation.

There used to be the Internet: a network on which anyone could set up a service and build a community. That was awesome, although not without problems. So many forums, email lists, IRC channels, ... and so little time. Then twitface, ig, slack, and all those other platforms took over. Instead...