Suggestions to get new stuff

[TDLT02]

Should do a Pepsi Challenge. Sounds ok to me, but obviously would be nice to have an og. Sound quality is my main interest though. Not sure why labels like Jazzman don't focus on reproducing good sounding re-issues of not-so-rare, but hard-to-find in good condition records. As well as rare stuff like Marc Moulin!

Not Jazzman who did Placebo, but Jake from Hastings, who owned and ran Counterpoint Records. He put out the Placebo compilation, along with the Marc Moulin - Sam Suffy reissue back in the mid 90s. Sam Suffy also got a nice Japanese reissue late 90s, early 2000s. A double album cut at 45rpm, so should be a nice loud pressing...

 

[Cosmo]

The Search said:


@Cosmo - with or without the grodreck whipperjenny record?

Softest one out there. Seriously though, how many James Brown records do you have and have listened to? If you've been collecting for 1 year then his catalog should have been enough to digest without getting distracted by all that "raer" drivel. How about these guys?

Sly Stone


Roy Ayers


Curtis Mayfield


EWF


P-Funk


Isley Brothers


Kool & The Gang


War


Meters


Mandrill

Not saying, just saying. I've been collecting over 20 years and have a shit-load or RAER there's a reason why records by these artists are consistently at the top of one's listening lists.

 

[TDLT02]

Cosmo said:The Search said:


@Cosmo - with or without the grodreck whipperjenny record?







Softest one out there. Seriously though, how many James Brown records do you have and have listened to? If you've been collecting for 1 year then his catalog should have been enough to digest without getting distracted by all that "raer" drivel. How about these guys?





Sly Stone


Roy Ayers


Curtis Mayfield


EWF


P-Funk


Isley Brothers


Kool & The Gang


War


Meters


Mandrill





Not saying, just saying. I've been collecting over 20 years and have a shit-load or RAER there's a reason why records by these artists are consistently at the top of one's listening lists.




Cosmo is correct....

These kind of records are the foundations for you to then build the rest of your collection on. There are many great tracks that are on $10 records, musically strong, just not rare. Always nice to have rare stuff in the collection, but a broad mix of great music (which means incoprporating cheap records) is the goal....

 

[fishmongerfunk]

so after only 1 year of collecting you already scored a "cortex", a "grodeck whipperjenny", and a nico gomez ritual og's? either you are the most prodigious digger there ever was or you're dropping serious loot for these kind of pieces. if its the former, then def. good on you but if its the latter then that is a bit weird. if its not about spending lots of money and having super-expensive records that are only impressive to other record nerds and that you only listen to once in a blue moon because they are so damn valuable, then check out that thread about cheap records that are slept on. frankly, being a beginning collector is the best. so many great things to discover for cheap. don't conflate "raer" with "good". sure, every once in a while something like a matt larkin cassell is discovered where the music is truly great and is genuinely rarer but that is the exception to the rule...

 

[fishmongerfunk]

the weird part is that at this very early stage you're spending serious loot to get raer things and bypassing stuff that is waaaay better and easier to obtain. i mean you have the raerest jb production but do you have all the best ones that can be had for much much cheaper? have you run through the godfather's complete catalogue yet?

 

[The Search]

@ Cosmo I hear what you say..

Thanks for that, appreciated. And for me it is not only about being rare, this post was just ment to get some inspiration for new stuff that is sounding like the records i mentioned.. And whit that i wasn't trying to say that i won't buy Jame Brown, Kool & the gang or Eddie Kendricks, or Mandrill of Curtis or Love Unlimited or Maxayn or Smokey Robinson etc etc...

 

[DustedDon]

if is was you i would start with the raer beatles baby cover preferably sealed with tiny kisses or grab an uncle funkenstein down at the good will.

 

[markus71]

nzshadow said:Search, go to Waxwell, browse the store, and if you can put up with Leons dirty feet, ask him the same questions.

Leon's too busy with Facebook these days to even bother with the store anymore. You can just walk into the store and take whatever you want without paying. He won't even notice.

 

[Breez]

Buy anything & everything. Weed out all the bullshit. Pay way too much for easy finds. Go out in the trenches and dig till your fingers are caked with dirt. That's my suggestion. Start by copping every Leo Sayer record you can find.

Thank me later

 

[discos_alma]

E-Digging is indeed quite soft, I might add, however effective.

 

[nzshadow]

Search,

If you are looking to build a collection, you need to dig man, fuck only pulling peices from the wall. Amsterdam is a great city for turning up records, day jobs might be serious business but damn man, the thrill is in the hunt.

 

[tabira]

musica said:E-Digging is indeed quite soft, I might add, however effective.

Yup. As is e-selling. With the internet my "habit" began to pay for itself.

 

[nzshadow]

markus71 said:nzshadow said:Search, go to Waxwell, browse the store, and if you can put up with Leons dirty feet, ask him the same questions.


Leon's too busy with Facebook these days to even bother with the store anymore. You can just walk into the store and take whatever you want without paying. He won't even notice.

Gold. the last time i was in i stole one of his cigarettes and kept his lighter. SUCKA! Delay, where you at ouwe?

 

[bassie]

catalist said:"E-digging".

Unless I knock off a bank or eight, work a job I hate, get an amazing stock tip or marry rich, I can't afford to travel to all the places where my chances of finding a lot of the records I love are much much much better. I love record stores and looking for records, but fact is, if not for internet sales, I would never be able to have some of my most beloved music on my turntable. I am not interested in adhering to some arbitrary record-shopping code - I just want good music in my life.

 

[catalist]

bassie said:catalist said:"E-digging".




Unless I knock off a bank or eight, work a job I hate, get an amazing stock tip or marry rich, I can't afford to travel to all the places where my chances of finding a lot of the records I love are much much much better.





I love record stores and looking for records, but fact is, if not for internet sales, I would never be able to have some of my most beloved music on my turntable.





I am not interested in adhering to some arbitrary record-shopping code - I just want good music in my life.

Yea I pretty much posted that because overall Reynaldo comes off as sponge soft. I've bought shit online for sure... I just don't enjoy it nearly as much as actually digging for records. there should be a rule in the 'Weekend Finds' threads where it has to be shit you actually FOUND.. not stuff you got because eBay emailed you to tell you it was available for 99.99.

I don't care if I'm archaic... I prefer making music than collecting records anyway so I likely differ from many people on here. For the record, selling vinyl online is awesome for getting $$$$.

 

[TDLT02]

nzshadow said:Search,
If you are looking to build a collection, you need to dig man, fuck only pulling peices from the wall.
Amsterdam is a great city for turning up records, day jobs might be serious business but damn man, the thrill is in the hunt.
Can you imagine what it was like back in the 90s when most normal folk were getting rid of their record collections.

Queens Day on April 30th was always gold, picking up crazy stuff all the time. Concerto turned up heat every few days back then, as they had so many rcords coming in on a weekly basis....

 

[Duderonomy]

Sam Suffy also got a nice Japanese reissue late 90s, early 2000s.


A double album cut at 45rpm, so should be a nice loud pressing...

This is how it should be done!

 

[Duderonomy]

The Search said:So yes i did dropped serious loot to get them..

Tell me why is that weird?

You're likely to be called out as some kind of 'tourist'.

 

[staxwax]

Hey kids-

I own most of the stuff namechecked in this thread - after digging for 20 years that is - and I would still maintain you aint shit if you arent up on your ohio players, jb??s, kool and the gangs, sly??s, pfunk etc. etc. The Pain Pleasure Ecstacy trilogy is some of the hardest funk known to man. FUCK nico gomez.

Search - All the info you requested is faster and more easily available by doing google searches or going on to allmusic, discogs, etc. if you have a serious day job im assuming you have some form of intellect that would enable you to do so. Be a g about your shit and dont ask others to spell shit out for you. The game is to be sold, not told.

Unless youre an alias and just enjoy ebaiting the shit out of the pavlovian strut massive. In that case, well done!

Can't believe all these record vets are going to bite so hard and get into ebeef over e digging and reissues. THAT is some asshurt/soft shit for real. I just had to post in this thread to point that out. Can we maintain a semblance of dignity and at least keep the beef rap related?

Like yall hating on a poster for jamming the hell out of this tune?

WOOF WOOF

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[Okem]

The instant collection dudes are a increasingly common phenomena, that's why the market for common records has dropped off.

They're like a facsimile, of a facsimile, of the notion of what record collecting is meant to be about. All the detail has gone and you're just left with collecting as a status symbol.