news 8/1/08
Lots of good email support for my general
rant on the post office last blog update!!
Got a turntable up and running around
here which motivated me to pull out lots of old vinyl and buy
some new stuff.. nice to listen to the stuff again but
I’m sort of torn, I’m itchy to do some label work
in the format but I’m not overwhelmed with the audio, CD
playback is just so much more consistent.. point being every CD
pressing I get has much less variation to it then with the LP
pressings, beside the things like just how much more fragile
the stuff is from the shipping standpoint, things like surface
noise and mastering levels are just all over the place from
release to release. Here’s a playlist on stuff to hit the
table in the last few days
HARVEY MILK “the pleaser”
(nice record)
CORRUPTED “paso inferior”
ASTRO “tour LP”
CORRUPTED “Nadie”
ALASEHIR “the philosophy of living
fire”
KAORU ABE SABU TOYOZUMI “Overhang
party”
SHELLAC “terraform” (I was
expecting it to sound better a bit laid back and understated,
good tunes though)
BLACK SABBATH vol. 4
BAREBONES “ground”
EARTH “10 1990”
VOIVOD “nothingface” (pretty
amazing sounding)
ACIDEATER “virulent fuzz
punk”
FORCED FED “claustrophobia”
(Great early 90’s UK band anybody know if they have
other releases?)
KHANATE “things viral”
(12” 45rpm side is pretty crushing)
RELIGIOUS KNIVES “heavy tapes
lp” (pretty noisy I though??)
ENDLESS BOOGIE “self released
LP”
DEADSPOT “adios dude” (old
Philly band that sounds pretty dated, I used to like this LP
but I don’t think it held up good over the years)
most of the CD libary below.. Go Ikea BENNO
towers!!
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