the invaders, "spacing out"
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I haven't heard this one mentioned in a long time. I forget, are there any strutters that have an OG copy? I am listening to the reissue right now and I forget how good this sheeeeeeeit is.
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WOW...
Does the OG also sound like it was recorded in a cave?
i think im more jealous of you than of any person ive ever been jealous of.
this is one of my favorite albums EVER
is gravelheadwrap a cousin of tonearmrobbery or handcorkscrew?
Prehistoric funk. Get familiar!@#!!!
Unfortunately the reverb is how it was recorded, not the pressing.
I'm not a big fan myself (no offense ako) but loads of people dig it.
Handcorkscrew will have no gravelheadwrap!!
get familiar!
but I'm just not a fan of tepid funk covers with an overenthusiastic audio engineer who feels a need to hard pan and/or reverb and/or delay on absolutely everything for no reason.
BAN!
the 3 most talked about records on ss:
1- stark reality
2- boscoe
3- invaders
ok i told this story a 1000 times, so heres the short version...
yes i found a unplayed og copy for a buck
at the time i was mostly into JB barry white bob james meters, it had a look a py py(meters) version so i bought it
couple years later i found a second og copy, i liked the record and figured there were some cool parts for practicing cutback so i could use two so i bought the second one (also for a buck)
i did alot of cutting back then, fortunately i never got around to using the invaders live so the vinyls stayed clean
i had no idear what the shit was worth
some years later i gave my second copy to a friend as a gift
still not even knowing it was reished i sampled it for a track on a record i did for a graffiti soundtrack
after that i found out it was reissued.... and after that i found out that the og was raer and valuable
i didnt really care bout that though, for me it was just the music that mattered and this joint is f*cking amazing!!!!!!!!
holy fuk i just found this at a flea for a buck
what a shockingly perfect random amazing 90s slab
i can't hype this enough
is this like well known or coveted and i don't mean money just the sound
it reminded me of mbv's loveless yet not in a bite-full way
manzinga rules
Cool Chris been unloading grails lately.
Go Reynaldo!
Aren't you already in the superstarklub - open exclussively to SR OG owners?
Ugh yah that was a grumpy reply.
Upskiboo is the man and we have extremely similar tastes in a lot of music. SO actually it is good we differ on the key INVADERS SPACING OUT issue. Otherwise people might mistake us for the same person and we would get electronic jazz kosmigroov overlap.
It kinda escapes me how you could miss the point of the record. It definitely 'sounds' like an expensive album. I'm still baffled by people who are absolutely unconcerned about the value of a record. It's like winning the jackpot in the lottery and not picking up the money. Thinking it's cool enough that you guessed the right numbers...
It's like finding an original of the Roy Porter Inner Feelings LP and thinking that it's just another nice Jazz Funk record. I mean, you can almost hear the 300 USD it is worth...
So I know of 5 original Invaders LPs that were found in the middle of Europe for less than 20 Euros a piece...
how come i never found any good record for less than 5 bucks in my whole life?!?!?!
Grope, you have to remember that this was way back in the early 90s, before Egay internet collectro hype. Record nerds didn't have the same access to worldwide info on this or that record. And frankly, we didn't really care about value. I mean, we had some notion of rarity, but the whole dealer/investment aspect was just non-existant because there wasn't really a "market" to think of besides local record stores and the occasional fairs. And the prices just weren't the same back then.
So the market value is the "point" of the record? Well, I can understand that sentiment if it's a piece of music you don't particularly care for, but if it's something you really dig, the point should be the music itself IMO. Upskiboo gave me his Invaders double as a housewarming gift when I moved into my second apartment in '95. He even gave me the cleaner copy (the one without cutback stickers on the label,
I'm not stupid, and of course there's no reason to sell yourself short if you're in a business situation, but there's a certain beauty to that blissfully unaware state of mind. At least among friends. I can't stand when people who know each other well get all worked up over the value of physical items. It's ugly. And what if Upskiboo had cut up those two copies on the turntables, thus decreasing their state/value? In the bigger scheme of things, who cares? Easy come, easy go.
Anyway, I hear what you're saying, but the bottom line is that it was a different time back then.
To answer the question of 'why not keep a record of value, it's like not cashing in a lottery ticket', well I'm a fan of music. I'm not a dealer, or a person trying to make $$ because Ebay now exists. That's why record prices are through the roof. People forgot the reason to collect lp's in the first place is for the music. Ya, I know. I sound like a bitch right now, but really I've given away many rare lp's to friends and visa vera. What do I look like selling an lp my boy wants, and I dig with him? I've given away everything from Mint copies of Pacheo and the Latin Soul Brothers (Superfly, and oddly enough this person also got a copy of Invaders for free from Attic) to Power of Zues to Bill Clint to Ramp (sealed). If my boy wants it, that's was more important then some quick $$.
It comes back around too. I didn't have to pay for my 24 Karat Blacks, my Ugly Ducklings, my Strollers lp and plenty more OG's. And no, these weren't 'trades'. Whenever ____ comes to Toronto I pretty much let him take at least 1 lp (anything) from my Soul Section, and I don't expect anything in return.
Share the love man....lol
This is real talk.
I usaully just lurk but this post is
I was just clowin' around...saw that C*ad had posted right then, so I thought I would throw up my own album, as I used a shit ton of echo all over my guitar on that album. Glad you like it though!
i totally understand and agree with you, but if you like music so much, why didn't you just take the invaders lp for free?
i mean, i don't like the record thaaaat much, but no doubt, i'd take it for free!!! i even would have traded a big record for it in the early 90s. cause it's not bad music at all. those people could play. at least to some degree, it's still a superb, far from overrated record.
i agree with you. i'm telling my close friends everything about records i know. i let them buy lots of stuff. i gave away free records to my friends. but so far, kool & the gang live at the pjs was the most priciest i let go for free. honestly, i would NEVER give away an invaders copy for free. i'd trade it though. i'm not after the money, but records are definitely worth sth to me. always.
giving away an invaders copy for free (no matter when and where) is just totally crazy to me. it's a totally awesome move. really big-dude-ish. and i mean that, it's great! but it's also breathtaking, jawdropping, facemelting and heartattackproducing. it sounds so surreal to me. like giving away a picasso for free. or not cashing in a lottery ticket. LOL
but yeah, maybe it's just because i never find any good records for cheap. i was looking for records in the early 90s, but until now, i was hardly ever lucky at flea markets or record shows. i can't think of any holy grail that i found for cheap. so records are always something pricey to me. like rare books or art.
wheretf you live, mange? 2 copies in 2 yrs? you holdin it down in bermuda or barbados or wherever the ish is from? please to tell the details, cause imhmfo if you're gonna lay down beaucoup dollah for a funk LP, this is what it should sound like. maybe there isn't enough flexitone and/or shaker plunk on it for ol ashkrock but "tepid?" c'mon!
PS.. Eric's alb*m is the shit btw. Dudes should get familiarizized. I raved about it in my ISH I contributed to this site about 8 yrs ago or so.
Okay, I think the most important question here is.......
Does anyone own all three?
Co-fucking-sign!!!
It may be essentially an album of covers, but the Invaders understood how to make good funk music, and that's something you can't say about a lot of other obscure "funk" albums (e.g. 47 Times it's Own Weight, Hilton Felton, Quintessence etc.). Case in point is the title track, which has to be one of hardest original funk compositions on any album EVAR!
Depending on your taste for echoplex you may or may not be into the way the album was recorded, but there's no denying that the record sounds unlike any other on the planet.
I'm sure there are multiple people on this board.
you did put the genre in quotes but 47x and Quinterdessence ain't funk LPs and in my mind ain't even close to being in the same league. 47x might as well be prog. Don't know Hilton Felton tho :littledudealert!:
TEPID FUNK
too smoove...like a poor man's Bob James, or a dude with too much money for raers' Bob James more specifically