February 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread - Games People Play

Day Eight - Crazy Eights
Sun Ra Quartet – The Mystery Of Being
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Surprising absolutely no one!

My collection currently sits at 52 proper Sun Ra/Arkestra releases, 19 adjacent or tribute releases, 10 Sun Ra books, 8 Sun Ra 'zines, 3 non-Sun Ra books where he features prominently, 7 CDs, 1 DVD, 1 t-shirt and 2 baby onesies.

These are the shelves where most of that lives:
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Smartiepants said:
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Black Country, New Road – For The First Time​

Label:Ninja Tune – ZEN269, Ninja Tune – ZEN269LR
Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Eco-Wax
Country:UK
Released:4 Sept 2021
Genre:Rock
Style:Experimental, Post-Punk

the new album was out Friday but not had chance to play it yet so have the debut album
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I finally decided to dive into these guys yesterday after seeing a lot of love for them here. I'm just scratching the surface but I love hearing something so new to me. So far I'm really digging the new one, I'll have to check this release out as well.
 
ranbalam said:
I finally decided to dive into these guys yesterday after seeing a lot of love for them here. I'm just scratching the surface but I love hearing something so new to me. So far I'm really digging the new one, I'll have to check this release out as well.
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You won’t be disappointed. The new one is excellent but their debut is no slouch either. If you dig this I would recommend giving Squid a go also. They come from the same UK scene and have some stylistic similarities. Dry Cleaning and Black MIDI are in this same group as well if you really wanna jump down the Windmill rabbit hole.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
You won’t be disappointed. The new one is excellent but their debut is no slouch either. If you dig this I would recommend giving Squid a go also. They come from the same UK scene and have some stylistic similarities. Dry Cleaning and Black MIDI are in this same group as well if you really wanna jump down the Windmill rabbit hole.
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I just recently checked out Dry Cleaning, I dug that too. I'll check out these others as well. I've been in a new music slump lately, this is helping.
 
ranbalam said:
I just recently checked out Dry Cleaning, I dug that too. I'll check out these others as well. I've been in a new music slump lately, this is helping.
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Yeah, I love when a new local music scene bubbles up. It has a bit of a rejuvenating effect. You start uncovering a bunch of interesting new groups that you weren’t aware of prior. It’s an excitement that’s harder to combine the more you explore music but also one that will always reappear eventually if given enough time as long as you continue looking for it.
 
Day 9: Backgammon

Joanna Newsom - Ys

This album consists of just five, sprawling, ambitious and absolutely gorgeous songs. Built around Joanna's harp, unique voice, and emotive storytelling, Van Dyke Parks (of Beach Boys fame) adds beautiful orchestral arrangement. This is one of a few records that just absolutely knocked me on my ass the first time I heard it.

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Day Nine - Backgammon - Play something complex

My point I was going to make on Donuts also applies to this album. I've gone down a rabbit hole recently on how samples are / were created. The fact that someone has the dedication and ear to listen to an album, pick out a second of music, switch it up and match it with a bunch of other samples to create a complex new piece of music is pretty amazing. The 33 1/3 books on Donuts, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and this album are good reads on the subject.

Beastie Boys ~ Paul's Boutique

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imtheocean said:
Day Nine - Backgammon - Play something complex

My point I was going to make on Donuts also applies to this album. I've gone down a rabbit hole recently on how samples are / were created. The fact that someone has the dedication and ear to listen to an album, pick out a second of music, switch it up and match it with a bunch of other samples to create a complex new piece of music is pretty amazing. The 33 1/3 books on Donuts, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and this album are good reads on the subject.

Beastie Boys ~ Paul's Boutique

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Better pick up Vol. 30 too!
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Backgammon

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Benjamin Clementine - I Tell a Fly

From the Allmusic review: “Parlaying this critical success into a license to challenge, Clementine offers his wildly ambitious and frequently baffling follow-up, I Tell a Fly. To call I Tell a Fly a difficult listen may be understating it, but within this madcap art-pop song cycle, which is purportedly about two flies in love, are some genuine payoffs for those with the patience to stick with it. Decidedly modern, though tonally experimental in a way that feels almost old-fashioned, Clementine manipulates his music through classic methods of tape looping, hard panning, and oblique arrangements that dramatically come, go, and shift within the mix.”
 
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