Fresh Grabs

debar22 said:
So, I’ve been really good with curtailing my buying. I hadn’t bought anything off eBay since the first week of November, discogs since October, Reddit since June, online pickup at my local since July. I was gifted some gift certificates for Christmas for that local and grabbed a few things, but otherwise been really good. Really, just a few preorders & new releases (stuff I really want, much less than I’d been buying the last couple of years) over the last few months.

I done fell off the wagon this month 😂

I’ve posted a few of these in the What’s Spinning thread. But it all started a couple weeks ago when I went on vacation in Miami. Hit up a couple of record stores and dug through most of their stacks. Really missed flipping through bins. Was fairly selective.

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UGK - Ridin’ Dirty promo
Heather B - Eternal Affairs
Chief Keef - Glotoven ($5!)
Nicolay - Glaciers
The Koreatown Oddity - A Beat At The Table

All used, clean, and fairly cheap. But it scratched an itch. Day I got home, I hit up my primary local. Still good, just grabbed a couple of CDs. Then I hit up the store by my place that I hadn’t been inside in 2 years.

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Dug through most of the racks, still good with being selective. Grabbed the Kellee Patterson new for $13. Grabbed a really clean copy of one of my favorite dollar bin yacht-rock-y albums for a buck.

Then today came. Planned to go to my primary to return a defective album, and to hit up another store I hadn’t been to during the pandemic to see how much they were selling some new releases for (Kaina, Summer Walker, Robert Glasper). Ended up grabbing all these instead:

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New:
Holy Hive - S/T
Al Johnson - Peaceful
Darondo - Listen To My Song
Used:
Steve Arrington - Dancin’ In The Key Of Life
Ennio Morricone - Marco Polo OST
Loose Ends - Look How Long
Irene Reid - Two Of Us

Somehow missed that Holy Hive when it came out. The Al Johnson is a long-time modern soul want, finally reissued. I got the Luv N Haight Darondo LP way back when, but didn’t know this comp that was put out a few years later existed until a couple of years ago. The Loose Ends is probably my favorite new jack swing album - another long-time want but this one’s not usually expensive, just doesn’t pop up much in the US.

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Also grabbed some unheralded late-90s to mid-00s rap - right up my alley.

Outsidaz - The Bricks (sealed)
2nd II None - Classic 220
The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue

Oh, and also grabbed a bunch of shit from Reddit the last couple of weeks:

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Penrose Showcase
Pharoahe Monch - PTSD
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage

Regretted not grabbing that Penrose comp that one RSD, so picked it up even though the standard press is coming out soon I think.

I’m planning on hitting up a couple of other stores next weekend to see what’s sitting in their racks. One is a store I haven’t been to in probably 10 years. I’m gonna need to finally sort through my sell pile to offset this 🤦‍♂️
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how does the al Johnson sound??? im usually wary of P-Vine these days since they clearly moved their production to Taiwan...
 
bornard said:
how does the al Johnson sound??? im usually wary of P-Vine these days since they clearly moved their production to Taiwan...
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Haven't spun it yet - it's in my stack to play this week. I did give it a clean and it was completely flat, which is rare these days. I don't have much experience with P-Vine other than a few CD reissues probably 10+ years ago. I'll let you know when I play it.
 
debar22 said:
Haven't spun it yet - it's in my stack to play this week. I did give it a clean and it was completely flat, which is rare these days. I don't have much experience with P-Vine other than a few CD reissues probably 10+ years ago. I'll let you know when I play it.
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inquiring minds want to know...you can use google translate on the back side of the obi and it should tell you whether its a vinyl rip as well
 
bornard said:
inquiring minds want to know...you can use google translate on the back side of the obi and it should tell you whether its a vinyl rip as well
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It is from a vinyl rip, in English it says "Mastered from the original LP by Kenichiro Tsukasaki at Mastering Studio TEMAS". Says "due to the disappearance of the master tape" lol. I kind of expect that on a lot of these private label reissues.
 
debar22 said:
It is from a vinyl rip, in English it says "Mastered from the original LP by Kenichiro Tsukasaki at Mastering Studio TEMAS". Says "due to the disappearance of the master tape" lol. I kind of expect that on a lot of these private label reissues.
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thx...yeah, I appreciate the honesty from them these days...its all basically stuff so rare that originals are impossible, but the mastering has been pretty whack of late. I just wished they put the same care into the sleeves as they used to...
 
jfitzy said:
A few online orders and some local finds.

Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Ghost - Impera

Loving these both.

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Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Dr. Dre The Chronic

Saw Bob Dylan perform last weekend. He played a lot of songs off of his most recent record so I figured I should go ahead and add it to the collection.

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America - History (a favorite of my wife and I’s when we’re traveling.)
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Emmylou Harris - Blue Kentucky Girl
Fela Kuti - Live!
Doc Watson - Southbound

While I was shopping at one of my locals they had this live Fela record playing and I thought it was fantastic. Couldn’t not walk out with a copy.

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That’s one of my favorite Fela records! Great choice.
 
A couple of pre-orders and I was able to pop into a record store this afternoon after a specialist appointment.
Son House - Forever on my Mind
Alphonse Mouzon - By All Means (MPS reissue. Definitely recommend if you like your jazz with a side of disco)
Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock (I dropped my OG copy last year and took a chunk out of the first tracks on both sides)
Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
Roxy Music - Country Life (the censored cover, just bush)
Bryan Ferry - Bete Noire (both this and the Roxy were 5 Buck Bin finds)
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