Speed and Sound: RPMs and Record Playback.
Sometimes More is More Music as a medium is a dense format. From composition to orchestration, many things come together to create music. Music playback is rarely the focus of the process, but vinyl...
Category: Analog Adventures
Record Store Day Drops, August 2020
Record Store Day, Part Deux. A reminder of what was supposed to be. A pandemic cannot stop the music. Originally Record Store Day 2020 set its sights for April 18th, 2020, but it turns...
King’s Quest: Holy Grail Records
For Glory The term “holy grail†used to be reserved for items that are so scarce that their existence is almost mythical. The term first appears in Arthurian mythos and legends first written in...
VinylPost – A Subscription That Delivers
Pick a Card Monthly subscription services saturate the market with everything from snacks to clothes. I gave Vnyl a try in the spring and was left unsatisfied. Music tastes are hard to quantify, despite...
Analog Adventures: Endless
Frank Ocean Endless (2016) To Infinity and Beyond I have written extensively on music that was never meant to have a physical release. The internets obsession with vaporwave manifested the gaseous into solid (link...
Analog Oddities: X-ray and Postcard Records
More Than Meets the Eye The image of a vinyl record is iconic; A black circle with a white label in the middle. There are variations to the format, as I have previously written...
Monthly Mixtape: August
Better With a Friend Every mixtape I have made so far has been for my own personal amusement, but I do make tapes for friends. This months mixtape was made for a friend had...
Five for Five: More Singles for Under a Dollar
Variety is the Spice of Life Another five Friday month, another edition of Five for Five. This week we’re looking at some 60’s classics and some catchy dance music. Keep an eye out for...
Narrative: Collecting Vinyl During a Pandemic
Vinyl in the Era of Coronavirus At the beginning of the year, I was optimistic to think that I would be spending my weekends travelling around Ohio interviewing the owners of my favorite record...
Analog Adventures: Manchild
Phum Viphurit Manchild (2018) About the Artist The term manchild is not always nice. William Faulkner first used manchild in his book The Sound and the Fury to describe the intellectually disabled 33 year...
