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yuichi
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Name: Yuichi
Place: West Los Angeles
How old is you? 30
How did you get here? Raj (Soulstrut) auction back in the day
Sentimental Records: Nite Liters "Analysis" and a Radioshack comp. I overpaid for through Raj's auction.
Places you DIG: LA beatswapmeet
Other interests: NBA, limited kicks, fly fishing, electro-house/dubstep
Rank: Medium dude with no clout on the board
HOLLA!
Place: West Los Angeles
How old is you? 30
How did you get here? Raj (Soulstrut) auction back in the day
Sentimental Records: Nite Liters "Analysis" and a Radioshack comp. I overpaid for through Raj's auction.
Places you DIG: LA beatswapmeet
Other interests: NBA, limited kicks, fly fishing, electro-house/dubstep
Rank: Medium dude with no clout on the board
HOLLA!
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Place: Austin
Age: 37
How did you get here?: I think I ended up here after finding the reviews section. Been coming here for 8 years so it is hard to remember now.
Sentimental Records: Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Larry Young's Fuel
Places you DIG: Thrift stores mostly
Other interests: Vintage Volkswagens
Rank: Don't really care
Place: NYC
Age: 30
How did you get here?: Man of mystery BTHAV put me on when we were in school together back in '05
Sentimental Records: Milton Wright 'Friends And Buddies", Alice Clark, Ofege. Also, Wu Tang Aint Nothing To Fuck With 12", And Yo Mtv Raps - Hits LP, the first two records I bought, to go along with the Music Factory DJ-In-A-Box set my neighbor gave me when he couldn't figure out how to hook it up.
Places you DIG: Real life moves have limited my record buying over the last couple years. You must deal.
Other interests: Music software, food, coffee, nyc history
Rank: Veteran little dude
Place: Austin, Texas
How old is you? 40
How did you get here? crates list
Sentimental Records: Wild Tchoupitoulas, Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation, The Best of Sade
Places you DIG: Half Priced Books, Breakaway Records
Other interests: parenting, sexual conquest, weed, sports, books, movies, food.
Rank: I rank Z-Ro as the greatest rapper of all-time not named 2Pac. And oh yeah, WHODAT!
Place: Stockholm, Sweden
How old is you? Turning 31
How did you get here? Not sure... Pretty sure I stumbled on the Strut googling some record
Sentimental Records: My dads copy of Sgt Pepper
Places you DIG: Mostly the 3-4 really good stores in Stockholm/Uppsala nowadays... Not good at the thrift store game these days, except for DVDs
Other interests: Movies (still on the DVDs mostly), Video games, Comics, basically focusing on sharpening my producing and actually making some finished music in 2012
Rank: Foreigner with hard-to-pronounce-name, posting at weird hours, little dude-record status
Place: The underbelly
Age: 34
How did you get here?: via the Crates list BITD?
Sentimental Records: they're all like children to me
Places you DIG: boutiques/innernets
Other interests: football (not handegg), food, books, ladies, that thigh-slapping lederhosen dancing from Bavaria
Rank: as high as any in Rome
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. And I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. Also, I don't like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.
Place: Scotland
How old is you? 30
How did you get here? seldom poasted / often lurked. can't remember back as far as 2000! maybe from big daddy magazine or the man Mark from now sadly defunct professor plastics vinyl frontier record shop in Edinburgh
Sentimental Records: archie whitewater, donald byrd places and spaces, coltrane's sound, gil scott heron it's your world, gary bartz i've known rivers, ohio players on westbound, kmd mr hood, smif n wessun, ahmad jamal awakening.....
Places you DIG: amazon
Other interests: sports, travelling, food, john coltrane
Rank: zero credibility
edited as i forgot the rank part
Place: Chicago and nearby 'burbs
Age: 31
How did you get here?: I can't remember... randomly surfed on from some Google search
Sentimental Records: My mom's Sgt. Pepper's (how awesome is it that everyone used to write their name on their albums?), Marquee Moon, a re-issue of Journey in Satchidananda (since upgraded but I bought the reissue site unseen and fell in love), Sylvers II
Places you DIG: Mostly thrifts, antique shops, Half-Priced Books, Dusty Groove, Reckless. My former neighborhood spot Mr. Peabody's Records recently shut down
Other interests: Watching old B&W in Blu-ray, women, media criticism, local sports
Rank: Cub Scout
Place: Sellersville, PA (Upper Bucks County)
How old is you? 36
How did you get here? Wanted a Place to Talk About Mos Def in 1999
Sentimental Records: Franck Dervieux - Dimension M (self indulgent Quebec Prog??? Reminds me of great times digging in Montreal in the early 00's)
Places you DIG: Quakertown Farmers Market / Double Decker in Allentown
Other interests: Guitar, Photography , Madden on PS3, Trespassing, Graphic Design
Rank: You Tell Me
HOLLA!
Place: Beaverton, Oregon
How old is you? 31
How did you get here? Someone told me I could find loose women on here, lol. Naw, for real I heard about this site from an old co worker.
Sentimental Records: I don't know about sentimental but I like listening to Sonny Rollins The Bridge album.
Places you DIG: Music Time, Everyday Music, and thrift stores
Other interests: American football, parenting, and trying to stay alive
Rank: Rookie with lots to learn
WELCOME!
Place: New York City / Mill Neck, NY
Age: 45
How did you get here?: Took wrong turn looking for SoulSeek
Sentimental Records: Sergio Mendes "Look Around" I picked it up in a thrift store, all beat up with no cover, and that started it all. Also the three Brubeck/Tjader 10"s on Fantasy.
Places you DIG: Mostly on ebay or from sellers on line, if I come across a garage sale, or out of the way thrift that doesn't look too picked over, I stop in.
Other interests: Work, family, new home. Books. 16 mm film making.
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Place: DTLA
How old is you? 33
How did you get here? Came for the mixes, Stayed for the RAERS
Sentimental Records: Free to Be Me and You. Talking Heads : Naive Melody. Klezmorim : Streets of Gold.
Places you DIG: Lake Forest Thrifts on the Daily, Records LA, and Port of Sound
Other interests: Print Design, Storage Wars, The Progressive Left
Rank: No Pop, No Style.
Place: West Philly
How old is you? 37
How did you get here? oldenstylehats aka formaformadiplo
Sentimental Records: happy sad classics like cymande, Air, Manu Chao, ol Beatles joints that my folks let me play when i was 5
Places you DIG: anywhere i go its always on the back of my mind to find some record holdings.
Other interests: playing basketball, cooking, community resiliency, bicycles, shell rehabbing, urban decay, zombies
Rank: pretty low
Place: Easton, PA by way of NYC
How old is you? 42
How did you get here? crates@oblivion.accessus.net
Sentimental Records: EWF "That's The Way Of The World", Roy Ayers "Everybody Loves The Sunshine". Moms loved those joints.
Places You Dig: Online and the occasional garage sale
Other Interests: Guitars, Sneakers, Bourbon, surviving raising my 3 children
Rank: Old fart
Place: San Francisco
How old is you? 32 today! (Actually, 8 if you count by leap years) *Ahem, ahem *
How did you get here? OG I think
Sentimental Records: Verocai, duh
Places you DIG: teh Internet
Other interests: writing code and starting companies
Rank: rising daily. Oh wait, on Soulstrut? Falling off daily.
Place: Richmond, VA
How old is you? 30
How did you get here? A local record dude told me about it, he used to be a regular but I can't remember his old user name anymore and don't want to put his real name on blast.
Sentimental Records: I don't know, all the ones I have kept are sentimental for one reason or another. My favorite records are the ones that make my daughter dance.
Places you DIG: My work is about a mile from 2 different Goodwills and we have some great stores in Richmond. I don't buy nearly as much as I used to.
Other interests: Hanging with my family. drinking whiskey and riding my bike. Not generally all at the same time though.
Rank: Been here a while, but don't post too much. I will say this, I have made some great friends and even started a business because of this place. Props to Raj for keeping it going.
Place: Los Angeles, CA but always reppin' West Covina (Lark Ellen steez)
How old is you? 31
How did you get here? I was stoned and wanted to read more about David Axelrod
Sentimental Records: Lou Donaldson "Hot Dog" (first LP that blew my sample hungry mind), Larry T & the Family (Heatrocks)
Places you DIG: Buena Park record show, Los Angeles suburbs
Other interests: bad tattoo's, story telling, and women
Rank: moder soul/ hair enthusiast
Place: Ireland
Age: 32
How did you get here?: Can't remember, probably by accident
Places you DIG: anywhere
Other interests: movies, NFL, football (soccer to you folks)
Rank: No idea, don't care
I befriended a friend of yours (may be one of your employees?) at a wedding I was DJing. We started talking music. When I asked him if he was on Soul Strut (I'm pretty sure) he said either he works for, or is friends with "Cousin Larry".
See man???. COMMUNITY!
Place: Oakland, CA
How old is you? 36
How did you get here? Knowing various other Strutters via the Bay Area DJ community
Sentimental Records: K. Frimpong, records I produced and released
Places you DIG: A few Bay Area stores...I'm no longer the flea market freak I was in my younger days
Other interests: Basketball, cooking, the Steelers, getting back into trout and bass fishing (including re-acquainting myself with fly fishing, which I haven't done in a good 20 years)
Rank: Extra-schmedium dude who still cares about breaks, yo.
one of these days we should hook up (ayo)
Place: Calgary
How old is you? 30
How did you get here? Stumbled onto the forum via mixes/radio in '01 and really opened my eyes to a universe of music, art, culture, and graemlins.
Sentimental Records: Herbie Hancock Headhunters will always hold a special place
Places you DIG: wherever...especially when traveling. Although the work schedule has really slowed me down.
Other interests: Food, drink, merriment
Rank: Pretty low on the totem pole. I did, however, get course credit in university for writing an ethnographic study on Soulstrut!
Ha! Definitely!
I've been hitting up Scott's location at The Last Book Store downtown. Have you been there yet?
Also - Beat Swap Meet 4 Year Anniversary is on March 11!!! :beerbang:
Place: Born NYC / Live Texas
How old is you? 54
How did you get here? Cool Chris / Coffin Joe invite
Sentimental Records: Many of the LP's I released on Rockadelic Records
Places you DIG: Everywhere/Anywhere
Other interests: Family, Basketball, Dead Presidents
Rank: Get Off My Lawn!!
Place: Many different places
How old is you? 1972 vintage
How did you get here?
Sentimental Records: BT Express, Hell Up In Harlem
Places you DIG: internets, fleas, random places
Other interests: sandwiches, typography, hip hop archeology, geek mythology, working and partying hard
Rank: Top Billin'
Place: Two Ron Toe
How old is you? 30's
How did you get here? Around 01-02 a female customer of mine told me to check it out. Made an account under a different username which I forgot and made DOR.
Sentimental Records: Alice Clark
Places you DIG: Nose
Other interests: All things tech, Football (soccer for Americans) & Photography.
Rank: A
I started a wedding DJ business with two Struters. One was Fatback who doesn't do weddings or post on here anymore, but is a Soul Strut legend.
Place: Finland
Age: 29
How did you get here?: Can't really remember, started lurking wayway back.
Sentimental Records: Third Sight - Zodiac Killer, used to scratch nonstop to that Will I Get Shop By A Dope Fiend beat.
Places you DIG: Thrift stores +local record store
Other interests: djing & promoting shows, quality tv-series, comics, graphic design, graffiti, movies & spicy food when I'm hungover
Rank: veteran lurker