i've known his music for a long time, but i was surprised upon watching the above to hear his very well-spoken english. i guess he must have grown up here. you don't learn an accent like that.
Local band from my neighborhood here in Toronto that I saw live in Feb. Coming up in the Canada music scene.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
Been feeling the thrash metal-rap fusion this morning.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
I've been ordering so many records off discogs over the last year. Sitting at home being bored has led to so many impulse buys. Do i really need a copy of the Big Blunts Vol 2 compilation that I listened to while getting high after school? No. Did I buy it anyway? Of course.
I've been trying to find another one ("Ragga Essentials: In a Dancehall Style") but i can't find a vinyl version. I think it was only pressed on CD. I might just get it custom pressed...I want the vinyl!
the entire world now crate digs on discogs. i spend a healthy amount of there per week. have a near-constant stream of cardboard packages turning up with records here and there. i like buying up the old 70s and 80s stuff, they were mass-produced in such quantities on the major labels that you can acquire old stuff cheap and in near-mint condition. got lots of joni mitchell and leonard cohen recently, as well as some more 'cult' stuff like talk talk, stereolab, scott walker, etc. good stuff.
so much of it is being reissued nowadays, too, sometimes remastered and pressed on 180gm vinyl blah blah blah. basically you can get a lot of the 1980s 'new wave' scene at your local target or walmart or whatever. vinyl distribution is back on the upswing (there was a huge fire at the main acetate pressing plant in cali but not sure what's going on there).
ya i've checked discogs for it and could only find it on CD.
I like ordering off discogs bc (surprise suprise!) it's very easy to find off the beaten path stuff. I try to get originals as much as possible, but for certain albums it's just not possible. I managed to score an original pressing of Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers but it costed me a pretty penny to find a good one. I might have mentioned it here before, but i actually had to give myself an allowance for record buying every month because it was becoming an unhealthy obsession. It almost reached the point where I was buying them to have them, no other reason. I like to be able to play my records...except for that Wu pressing. That's going in a frame.
I was in a record store sometime recently looking at some stuff to buy and I saw Chidlish Gambino's (DongLover) "Awaken My Love" for like $50. It just doesn't make sense to buy a new record for that much, even with some multimedia insert.
I like going to the record store and looking for hidden gems. You find so much that you don't really think about when you're sat at your browser almost quizzing yourself to come up with albums/artists/songs to query on discogs. I picked up an Art of Noise record that i would have never remembered if i didn't see it thumbing through new (old) additions at my local, now-defunct record shop.