Posts by Peter Darlington
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I like this vinyl direction. And the beauty is that you can go back to crate digging to find pre-loved gems at (relatively) cheap prices. Last album I grabbed was 300% Dynamite off Trade Me. Reggae most certainly is best played 'Pon de Needle.
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to andin,
With infinite patience a friend over years of visiting flea markets in AK has lucked onto a few things. Including the turntable I use, a Rega Planar for $25.
$25?? Holy crap, paid $1000 for mine in 1989. :(
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to TracyMac,
I love Amplifier for what they do for NZ offerings, and think that's a model that could stand to be deployed more widely.
Word up. Love what Amplifier do and a key message is their interest in and devotion to NZ music. Their d/l system is actually really basic, they just leave it up to us to be adults and grab the music. All my NZ music for the last half decade or so has been from those folks.
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yes. And that goes for legitimately free content as well. With Kindle-like products (and possibly the Kindle as well) you can download thousands of out-of-copyright classics for free and a friend was just telling me the other day he had done so. Good on him, but... how is he ever going to read any one of them? The obsession for whole back-catalogues kills your actual listening or reading I suspect.
Exactly. I don't know about anyone else but I need to work some stuff out in my head before I can make a decision that I need to keep it. Just stacking up GBs of content because I can seems fairly pointless. I know people that search by the music label on the torrents and just grab the lot. Pointless.
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to Ethan Tucker,
Cool! At the risk of (justifiably) being labelled a skite, I was lucky to see him perform it on Tuesday at the recording of this week's Later with Jools Holland. You could hear a pin drop in the studio - it was great.
Thanks for that, yes I'm jealous. I reckon James Blake does silence and physicality incredibly well, would've been amazing to see him live to see if he can achieve that same quiet intensity live.
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
I've got a great pair of Wharfdales that I got ages ago for 25% of original retail. They were hopeless TV room speakers -- apart from anything else, they're rear-vented and shouldn't be placed against walls -- but they have now been liberated as our deck speakers. A bit heavy to move around, but gee they sound fine outdoors.
Ah yes, so I remember. :)
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
And that James Blake anecdote make me even more determined to replace the turntable that broke a while ago. I’ve still got quite a lot of vinyl, just nothing to play it on at the moment.
Turntable's all good but it's speakers for me, sounding loose and aged. Was embarrassed just how good Rob's setup sounded at his party.
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I deeply dislike the phenomenon of people who can damn well afford to pay for work grabbing artists' entire catalogues in one torrent. I get a bit embarrassed if people, meaning well, give me copies of contemporary albums that I could buy if I wanted to.
I also have a theory that it destroys music for the grabber. If you nabbed the 70GBs of music off one of my hard drives you'd have an instant ridiculously good (ahem) music collection but it would be a hard thing to penetrate. Gems would be lost, whole back catalogues would be rendered valueless and unlistened. Part of enjoying music is the finding, researching, the context of place and time, and always the listening.
Like Melissa Lee, I enjoy a good mixtape, so I try to create 1 CD per season of my favourite new tunes that I have collected. I give this out to a few select mates who'll hopefully enjoy some of them. I'm happy to do this and hopefully it means they go away and buy some of the CDs the music came from (most of them are still old school CD buyers). But I'd never consider burning whole GBs of tunes for people because it's not right, and they wouldn't get the same value out of it anyway.
On a side note, I was at a friends 50th party a few weeks ago. He had his decks set out and when he dropped the new James Blake single (Limit to your love) on brand new shiny vinyl and that big bass drop kicked in, we all fell about high-fiving like teenagers. Music isn't a digital commodity like blocks of cheese, it's best sampled personally and properly.
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Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to Russell Brown,
And yet loves Pendulum? You should tease him about that.
Indeed, although he's dried up a bit on that front. As have they...
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Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to Tim Darlington,
Your niece and nephew used to love It's a Long Way to the Shop and Highway to Hell when we were in Kuwait, I never had a problem with it (er, seeing as it was me playing it ahem).
Too much reggae and hefty dub in Tom's childhood meant his chances of being a metal fan were always fairly slim. He absolutely hates metal and says the only guitar music he vaguely likes is classic punk. Sam on the other hand is turning into an alt-rock nerd. Taught himself all that Beck stuff from the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack on guitar.