this looks cool
maru
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From Turntablelab:
What the? Get the fungool out of here. Ridiculoso. For the designer slash music nerd (current census: just under 10 million clones out there), this book is the once a year no-wipe dookie. Enough geeky build-up, this book is features obscure 60/70s record covers from sound library collections: pop/exotica, experimental electronic, rare european jazz, and more. Chances are, you've never seen 99% of these covers, so opening this up is a definite fresh experience in the most literal sense (harder and harder to come by these days). The selections are quite spectacular, and lean on the 70s graphic/typographic style that pops Lab heads. Each page nails down the fact that we as a race, have already passed our graphic prime (cue Metallica "da-na-na-nah... sad but true.") . Full color, over 200 pages in fitting matte. Hardcover. Did I mention it comes with a CD featuring tracks from the book?
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uh oh!
Say Word.
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yall havent heard all this shit yet? Libraries have been played out for a couple years now.
The only bad words I would say about it is that it's only interesting graphicly-wise, don't buy it to know which one are good or bad: no grading about music or artists though.. it was probably not the purpose of the books anyway..
So I shut my mouth and recommend it as a brillant and rare initiative.
Paging E_Daily...
Please sonnnn me!!!
Why?
Why would people want to listen to music???
Sheesh, gropey grope..!
You're an odd one. SOME people APPRECIATE artwork/design just as much as music...
But asking to be sonned...? Cry for help perhaps... or you just don't capiche?
Hi!
In your opinion.
Yeah, in my opinion. I know some of those records. I listened to them. Did you?
Oh, so it's like a book for people being interested in those covers? I didn't know. I like record covers too. I can understand if people are buying those books in order to look at covers.
How come you always think that I try to front? I was just asking. You're really really annoying me at the moment. I keep getting into arguments with Australians. Is it you or me?
Dude, it is sooooooooooo you....
Asking to be sonned? C'mon.. Ridiculous shit.
The Library book & the Lexicon are fantastic pieces of work. Shame you can't recognise that fact.
Also sad that you have to be so negative towards so many things that others appreciate.
Didn't get enough attention as a child?
when did i say that i don't recognise those books? the people putting together that stuff are amazing. i do recognise!
I won't say more. I'm really sorry if I hurt your feelings, dudey dude.
Bye! I won't return! People like idiotproof are fucking up this place. Don't need this shit! OUT!
Why be so negative then?
And dude don't accuse me of fucking this place up because I took umbrage with your disparaging comment. Pull your head in or **** off.
Asking to be sonned, then getting sonned, then whinging about it...
Wuss!
Oh sorry, I don't use graemlins... Try this instead...
You're not the only one.
Thirded. I'm excited that some of the libraries I bought back then are paying divedends on the re-sell now.
And yes, it comes with a CD. It's a compilation put together by Trunk Records who released quite a frew library comps in the past.
Mellow out, man. Grope is a good guy and entitled to his opinions. Nothing he said is at all offensive and deserving of such vitriol.
Does it have any braeks?
Somebody had to ask
I wouldn't say I'm excited like in the beginning of the whole phenomenom, but like it was way overatted (and still be sometime by the "DRAMA STRINGS" lovers) during the golden age of mid 90s, don't underrated it now! some have incredible piece of music.
Take a Timing or IM lib, put a psyche cover instead of the generic one, say it was courtesy of an obscure UK or US psyche band (or better: the OST of an obscure movie made by an obscure band), and you can multiplicate the price by ten.
When I see the italian OG Percussion by Umiliani leaving for 200$, and just after another sound-all-the-same deep funk 45 or northen soul leave for 1000$, it almost makes me cry
Well...just a matter of taste
Some of them are just too damn cool, who cares about the music when you have some great design.
The British & Euro hip hop producers where so up on them waaay before the US producers were.
Even UK/Euro labels like Bosworth, Trunk, Irma, Plastic, Crippled Dick, Grove Attack, Schema, Black Cat, Sirocco, were putting out library comps early in the mid 90s...
I had my own store & remember the labels well. Also remember when the US djs were asking for library records compared to the UK djs. They just seemed to be up on it much earlier.
A good record is still a good record, fad or no fad.
***Trivia***
Alan Hawkshaw (The Mohawks & king of library music) used to live down here in the 90s, in an apartment not far from where i live. He was a bit of a recluse.
I hate pitching in on these things but Grope said in one breath that he didn't understand why people like these books but in the next breath said he did. Idiotproof was just picking up on that and in a fairly innocuous way. Not worth an argument either way.