Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

NewsFedora said:
Ooh, Medeski, Martin & Wood albums! Gonna go and add those to my shopping cart right no--

*sees $50 price for members*

Whelp, I'm done everyone. Throwing my turntable out the window and setting fire to my record collection. It was a good hobby while it lasted.
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Pass me the gasoline when you’re done. That’s madness!
 
mitchwagz said:
If I were to get one of the MMW albums Which should I get?
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I like Uninvisible better.

My MMW rankings would be:

1 - Friday Afternoon
2 - It's a Jungle...
3 - Tonic
4 - Uninvisible
5 - Shack-man
6 - Notes from the Underground
7 - End of the World
8 - Combustication
9 - Out Louder
10 - The Dropper

Love that there are finally MMW reissues, but $50? I guess I'll just listen to my CDs.
 
mitchwagz said:
If I were to get one of the MMW albums Which should I get? Ryan Smith master and pressed at RTI is really getting me to check these out.
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Uninvisible is more straight forward and serves as a good entry point for this period of MMW. The Dropper is more experimental and a more challenging (but rewarding) listen. To each their own, but definitely give both a stream to decide.
 
TCell said:
I like Uninvisible better.

My MMW rankings would be:

1 - Friday Afternoon
2 - It's a Jungle...
3 - Tonic
4 - Uninvisible
5 - Shack-man
6 - Notes from the Underground
7 - End of the World
8 - Combustication
9 - Out Louder
10 - The Dropper

Love that there are finally MMW reissues, but $50? I guess I'll just listen to my CDs.
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I was in High School when Combustication was released and it was the inclusion of DJ Logic that It piqued my interest at all. I was not into Jazz or really much instrumental music in general but was starting to get into jam bands at the time and MMW was big in those circles. The idea of a DJ made the whole thing much more palatable to me. I still have a soft spot for the DJ Logic albums because of it.
 
Mather said:
Hmmm MM&W... I've heard OF them, but never actually heard them before.

-goes to Spotify-
-plays Uninvisible-

OHHHHH, they're 1990's Steely Dan!

Cool. Coool cool coo-

-throws phone in lake-
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You may enjoy their stuff with DJ Logic…


You may not too but you wouldn’t put it in the same realm as Steely Dan. Though “Peg” and “Black Cow” have both been sampled nicely in hip-hop songs so may it is still Appropriate, who knows.

It’s not completely apt but I think MMW reminds me more of Tortoise than anything.
 
NewsFedora said:
Goddamn. And this just reinforces VMP price points. Sucks, man.
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I think the price for these Medeski, Martin & Wood exclusives and very reasonable! The 2xLP are cut from the original tapes and pressed at RTI and are remastered by Ryan Sterling on 180g coloured vinyl!

I hope Uninvisible sells out within the next few weeks! I like high quality sounding pressing and am happy paying more if we get awesome exclusives like Uninvisible!
 
NathanRicaud said:
I think the price for these Medeski, Martin & Wood exclusives and very reasonable! The 2xLP are cut from the original tapes and pressed at RTI and are remastered by Ryan Sterling on 180g coloured vinyl!

I hope Uninvisible sells out within the next few weeks! I like high quality sounding pressing and am happy paying more if we get awesome exclusives like Uninvisible!
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Nah, they are at least $10 to $15 overpriced (probably more like $20) they might sound fantastic (though given VMP recent history they could be shit too) VMP rarely puts out a product that rivals AP or MoFi but $50 are definitely Audiophile prices. The market is what it is though and as long as people keep paying crazy prices these companies are going to see how far they can push it.
 
Mather said:
Hmmm MM&W... I've heard OF them, but never actually heard them before.

-goes to Spotify-
-plays Uninvisible-

OHHHHH, they're 1990's Steely Dan!

Cool. Coool cool coo-

-throws phone in lake-
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MMW falls somewhere in the acid jazz realm and is strictly instrumental, and very experimental with lengthy improvisations in a live setting. Steely Dan is essentially a calculated studio band. Honestly, they couldn't be farther apart.
 
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MMW falls somewhere in the acid jazz realm and is strictly instrumental, and very experimental with lengthy improvisations in a live setting. Steely Dan is essentially a calculated studio band. Honestly, they couldn't be farther apart.
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Hang on a sec. isn’t acid jazz essentially club music? A type of house music that was popular in the Hacienda and the like in the late 80s?
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, if there are some Standard copies that become available for less than $30 I would consider picking em up but The Dropper was the last album of theirs I really cared about. No reason to FOMO into this.
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zdkaiser said:
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MMW falls somewhere in the acid jazz realm and is strictly instrumental, and very experimental with lengthy improvisations in a live setting. Steely Dan is essentially a calculated studio band. Honestly, they couldn't be farther apart.
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Indeed. Their earlier albums especially are really great. I saw them live a couple times and watching them interact musically and feed off each other was pretty amazing. That said, I ain't paying no 50 bucks for those reissues. Sorry VMP.
 
Joe Mac said:
Hang on a sec. isn’t acid jazz essentially club music? A type of house music that was popular in the Hacienda and the like in the late 80s?
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Not entirely sure about the origins of the genre acid jazz, but I've always associated it with more avant-garde, psychedelic, noisy, sort of groovy jazz. Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyways, MMW is definitely somewhere in the jazz realm just not sure where to place them, I suppose.
 
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