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Music Shit / Re: Best 2016 Releases

« on: May 03, 2016, 11:55:31 AM »

To the original poster: stick to heroin, you're better off when it comes to entertaining yourself.

o shit waddup!

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 28, 2016, 09:27:58 AM »

When RSD started gaining traction back in '10/'11, they had contacts on their crummy web page about getting on the list- I know that Trav tried to do this with the Testors "Together"/"Time Is Mine" reissue, and they were like "awesome, sounds great" then they never got back to him after one or two original emails. This is why if you see any press for the release (god, when was this, 2012?) Trav listed it as a "Record Store Day" single, because we thought that was really going to happen.

We even contacted them again in 2013 because they still had a thing on their site, but no response at all that year, so I said fuck it in 2014. Back then they had something that said you had to go through URP since that is the plant that does a heavy majority of the distribution - if URP wasn't such a garbage heap I could understand trying to get the logistics down to one plant making most of the stuff to send out from a single hub ...

Licensing a release in general is a different conversation, but there's no set amount, depends on who really owns the rights and the popularity of the tracks, etc...

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 28, 2016, 09:22:45 AM »

I feel like a wizard for knowing I could click, so much YouTube goodness... And since Krapo switched from text to photos only I also feel accomplished anytime I recognize someone/something (about 1 in 15, I got Mingus!)

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: BLANK DOGS "IN HERE" 7" PREORDER

« on: April 27, 2016, 05:09:31 AM »

Second day of reading and I'm only at page 33, you guys used to say 'faggot' a lot more in 2009, glad this is a safer space now...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: April 23, 2016, 07:17:31 PM »

Hi, just finished watching Brauer as the Captain on Joanna Newsom's husbands show with the president of 24 Season 1, but

a- damn, I thought I saw that Ian MacShane was already filming for a mini-series Deadwood thing, I don't read well so maybe I envisioned that

b- indian head in a box

c- David Simon was on Marc Maron's show I think a week or two ago, he does a good recap of everything behind all these series, which are real people's stories, and how he keeps in touch with the families as well as he can, its pretty goddamn endearing.

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-698-david-simon

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: April 21, 2016, 10:25:22 AM »

It's a fun confection. Some of the best swearing ever.

SWEARENGEN

They're making a mini-series!!! My FAVORITE television show of all time - OF ALL TIME!

Also, Homicide was a wonderful series, my father and I watched it together when I was, what, 12 years old? May explain a lot. My middle school drama club teacher was the daughter of the motorcycle guy found dead in a pool in one of the episodes, I told her she was great and she was like "KEEP IT QUIET, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WATCHING THAT SHOW!?!?!?" First famous person I ever met!

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 20, 2016, 12:08:48 PM »

However, a good % of owners seem to hate it, too.

Unlike regular ordered items from distributors, I am fairly certain there no returns on RSD items. Which I would imagine is the main reason that distributors love it and stores hate it.

This is correct; it used to be that URP was the only plant that pressed official RSD releases (this may have changed), and it was either 1 or 2 years ago where they were so behind that many RSD releases didn't appear at my friends' stores until a week or two after RSD, at which point, hey, they're yours now so sell 'em without the backing of RSD!

I love every year that I still get an email or two from 'customers' asking about RSD sales for Windianrecords.com ... We aren't a record store, the hell... each email has also been from someone who's never ordered anything anyways so I don't even know what their end game is

Still, 3 months on is the best time to look up the releases you missed out on, got my Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle Mono reissue for 1/2 what it was in stores and 1/4 of what people put it up at first...

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 15, 2016, 05:01:06 PM »

OBNOX - LIVE 15.5.15 @ CAKE SHOP - http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/05/obnox-may-15-2015-cake-shop-flacmp3streaming/

Holy shit, is this how good he is live? This is a really good sounding recording too, even not considering the situation. This is REAL GOOD.

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Music Shit / Re: Early Roanoke, VA Punk

« on: March 28, 2016, 01:41:03 PM »

BTW the Raticals 7" is actually pretty cool from an archivist perspective, really cool new order-ish song on the B-side - I made a pro rip before giving the copy I got a hold of to Trav's wife, if anyone wants to hear these let me know.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 27, 2016, 05:13:45 PM »

CHURCH OF MISERY SO GOOD.

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Music Shit / Re: BLUES

« on: March 22, 2016, 02:44:04 PM »

Yazoo-specific inquiry:  what are your fave titles/editions?  Please advise and guide my current mini-obsession.
(EDIT:  J.Hurt 1928, Patton + Tampa Red already devoured)

Washington Phillips - 'Keys to the Kingdom'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Qk-d5oFNQ

Washington Phillips is some of the most haunting music that exists, musicologists still to this day have no idea what he really played, which can't be said of many musicians. There's an African instrument called the Kora that looks nothing like what he played but sounds almost exactly the same...

If anyone wants Gary Davis LPs I have one when its just him teaching a white guy how he plays guitar so its a bunch of him talking, and he's a pretty funny guy.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Punk Is Dead (again)

« on: March 22, 2016, 02:40:50 PM »

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/22/sex-pistols-house-denmark-st-london-listed-status

"The action may be freighted with irony but Posy Metz, the listings adviser who assessed the buildings, said she did not see a conflict between the Pistols’ anti-establishment stance and listing."

To be honest, who knows more than a listings adviser, am I right?

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Music Shit / Re: jazz jizz

« on: March 21, 2016, 08:24:12 AM »

Blue Note going to clog up the pressing plants

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/legendary-jazz-label-blue-note-records-to-reissue-100-albums-on-vinyl/

semi audible sibilance tracking issues in the high frequencies

That's some Albini level stuff right there that you probably don't have to worry about on a Brotzmann or Borbetomagus LP!

I'll take that as a compliment!

I blame it on the alto sax and Morgan's playing, there's some extremely high notes on this album at the same time as some extremely low ones - it's a bummer to know that these were archived from the original 3 channel Rudy Van Gelder tape to 96kHZ/24bit digital files and had a chance of scoring a 'hey, just because something is converted from Analog to digital doesnt mean it sounds like shit" point, but someone somewhere didn't hear the resonance, and even though I didn't personally hear the lacquer, I'm gonna assume that its a pressing plant issue because, well, URP. Lots of complaints around the web in regards to warpage on these reissues too, although mine was flat.

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Music Shit / Re: jazz jizz

« on: March 18, 2016, 07:40:07 AM »

Blue Note going to clog up the pressing plants

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/legendary-jazz-label-blue-note-records-to-reissue-100-albums-on-vinyl/

They use URP for those cheaper non-Music Matters/Speakers Corner reissues, so no loss there... But they've actually been doing this since August '14, not all releases at once obviously.

I was interested in sound quality of these releases and picked up Grachan Monchur III's Evolution, there were some semi audible sibilance tracking issues in the high frequencies when compared to my Music Matters 45s RPMs from 2010, but you'd have to really go out of your way to find that subtle difference. As a plus, it's nicer to not have to flip and replace the record so many times like all the 'audiophile' 45 RPM releases of a bunch of jazz albums from that era.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: The Latest Scam: HD vinyl

« on: March 17, 2016, 05:10:45 AM »

Eric is seriously the Lyle Alzado/Tombstone Jackson of this audio shit. Formidable.

LOL, thanks, its just one of the only things I actually know about, gotta cash in when I can.

And yeah, let's say this amazing hi res lacquer system comes about in the real world... Just like any early adopter technology its going to cost an arm and a leg (and standard Neumann Lathes are already insanely expensive to purchase and upkeep), so the only catalogs that are going to see any releases under this technology is going to be shit that's already been released six times in the last twenty years, your Beatles, your Fleetwood Mics, your Rolling Stoneses, etc. So I bet all of us can't wait!