New Sony PS-F5 website July 5, 2009
Today I launched a website dedicated to my favourite gadget, the Sony PS-F5 portable record player.
The 7 inch is 60. January 5, 2009
“Have a feel of that,” says a passing engineer, handing over a white vinyl off-cut that has just been trimmed from the edge of a newly-manufactured disc.
It is warm to the touch – literally hot off the presses.
“That’ll warm you up on a cold day,” he says. “And we can recycle that and use it again.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7750581.stm
Amazon Launch New Vinyl Shop September 19, 2008
Mike Allen, who is a former vice president of EMI says, “There’s a reaction against the commoditization of music that downloading represents- With vinyl there’s something that has innate value — a physical object.â€
Amazon Launch New Vinyl Shop :: Bodytonic
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin – Los Angeles Times June 13, 2008
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin – Los Angeles Times
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.s latest release “Accelerate” inadvertently entered the “LP” code instead. Soon boxes of vinyl discs showed up at several stores.
Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.
The Portland-based company, owned by the Kroger Co., realized the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.
Other retailers are giving vinyl a spin too.
Joe Farrell’s daughter sueing for the use of Upon This Rock. May 23, 2008
The lawsuit said all the rappers used portions of Farrells 1974 musical composition Upon This Rock in three separate songs – West in Gone, Common in Chi-City and Method Man and Redman in their song Run 4 Cover.
Firrantello is seeking punitive damages of at least $1 million 505,000 pounds and asked that no further copies of the songs be made, sold or performed, according to the lawsuit.
TeeScott – DJ and Remixer Extraordinaire April 1, 2008
Tee Scott commented on his first nights at “Better Days”: “I went into the deejay booth, and it was real, real, crude. I had to climb up onto this thing; it was unbelievable. There was no such thing as a pre-cue. What they had was a Sony amplifier with a Phono 1 and Phono 2 button, and that’s how you switched fram turntable to turntable. No fading, nothing. It was a large dancefloor; the lights were very basic at the time. They had this automatic light panel, and lights over the whole ceiling. You could change it to, like, 6 or 8 different patterns: a red ring, a blue ring, and a green ring, like a bullseye. And there was a big board on the wall inside the deejay booth, but it wasn’t working when I first started working there.
While adding a new entry for the Whodini Magic’s Wand 12″ that I found in the States into Discogs, I looked up more info on the remixer of side B’s extended mix. Turns out Tee Scott was a pretty amazing guy who was a pioneer in the dance music scene. Read to the end to find out how he gave Frankie Knuckles his first job.
Extraordinaire
Researchers find song recorded before Edison’s phonograph March 27, 2008
Researchers find song recorded before Edison’s phonograph – International Herald Tribune
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.
Instant Disco in a Box March 26, 2008
Don’t think real DJs have anything to worry about for a while, but this is still pretty interesting.
(and that looked like a good party to them?! They should get out more)
