Library haul stories.
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I was inspired to create this topic from the the digging stories thread.
I've always been interested in how people come into the possession of large library collections, since these records weren't generally released to the public. Does anyone have a good story to share?
I've always been interested in how people come into the possession of large library collections, since these records weren't generally released to the public. Does anyone have a good story to share?
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If your objective is making a large score of unheard library-type stuff for production purposes then you can get in touch with me and we can discuss, but if what you want is to find the classic and valuable library stuff like dewolfe et al or dig out a funky late 60's type gem I wish you all the best.
This was basically my intro to library records, and I spent many, many hours going through them.
At first I thought this thread was about buying records from libraries, and I was going to share my story about recently buying the New York Public Library archive (30,000 Lps), but that will have to wait for another thread...
A seller (Mario), from who I bought records for about 7 years, said to me he had some stuff I should see. They were some moog records on Montparnasse (J.J. Perrey/Pat Prilly).
We had lunch together and I asked him from who he bought those records, he said he bought them from a guy (Marco) who had bought around 1500 records, lots of movie tapes and some gear from a film studio. Mario said he left behind about 1000 of those "sound effect records".
I asked him to give me Marco's telephone number. I called Marco and went many times to his house to look the records.
I bought lots of Montparnasse, Themes, IM, MPI, PSI, Saint Germain des Pres, April Orchestra, CREA/Mondiophone, Omicron/Sound Workshop/Liuto, Patchwork, RCA Media, KoKa Media, and other small labels.
Also, I bought around 300 10"s from the Conroy label, that are from late 50's to late 60's.
Aside this haul, I think I only found other 5 library records here in Brazil in 15 years of digging.
I still dream of finding another lot like that.
If you want you can check it here:
were waiting ;)
What he said.
double :face_melt: , plaese shur the story!
I have only ever come across one major library collection in a second hand store when i was on my honey moon in New Zealand but it had been gone through before i got to it, but a friend of mine once walked into a thrift store and asked if they had any records, the thrift store was next door to a tv station that had just dropped off thier entire library so he walked away with quite a large collection.
as an aside, there was a guy at that fair that had two don cunninghams behind his stand side by side. a grand each
Back then, I didn't know anyone who was up on these, and I remember spending hours round his going through the titles. First time he played me Brian Bennet's 'Name of the Game' was utter facemelt! The thing was, he already had a huge collection of breaks and was an aspiring hip hop producer, but rarely delved into the library crates because he felt it was almost cheating using them!
And there was the Alhambra? event that I think involved Library runs. Soulstrut lost knowledge files are growing.
exactly.
I bought a collection of DeWolfes from a production house in Virginia. I kept a few but sold most to The Sound Library in 2001-2. It seems like places that did post production in the late seventies and early eighties are the best places to make big library hauls... duh.
It's not as exciting as it sounds, but it was still a great haul. Out of the 30,000 I donated about half to Housing Works - it was mediocre classical and easy listening etc, but they were quite happy to get them. The better classical went to the Academy on 18th st and I kept the rest - tons of sealed Columbia titles (from Teo Macero's collection that he donated), hundreds of sealed Folkways, and just a ton of records you never see. These were the archives, so they weren't in those vile plastic folders and most were NM. I pulled a bunch of Warhol covers also, including my third copy of Nation's Nightmare.
I figured I'd be the only one bidding as most stores in NYC can't really deal with 30,000 records, so I made a low bid if I could pick what I wanted, or an even lower one if I took everything. They accepted the latter.
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yeah, that was me. A few month ago I found a large collection of 400 library records from a company which does apartment clearances in a total rural area of bavaria. It included the whole golden selected sound and themes catalogue. It also contained lots of KPM, Parry Music, Sonoton, Golden Ring and more. My cousin, who is a antique dealer and who travels around quite a bit to buy antiques, told me about this collection. He described it as a 80s film music collection, for the lack of better words.
It turned out, that a big share of it was actually from the 70s. It took me some time to realize what treasure I was sitting on.
As I`m not library collector I sell them slowly on discogs and until now (one third of it is gone) i made a few thousand euros out of it. I paid for the whole collection 100???. Score of my life!
I asked the guy who sold the records where he got them from. He said that he cleard the apartment of a guy in Munich, who was a composer of film music for the Bavaria Film Studios. He said that he got hold of a lot of vintage Instruments as well, but they were already gone for cheap when I arrived. There must have been big ass vintage analogue synthesizers and lot of percussion instruments...
I could take the whole box for 50 euros. Couple of interesting KPM's, Theme's, Bruton but also some good Southern electronic ones and some rare stuff on Freesound.
Nice records, but about that prediction... :D