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• Soul Strut 25. This is the End.

  dizzybull

  about a year ago
  This entire website should be preserved by the Smithsonian. It’s important, dammit. 

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• Hello to the Strut

  dizzybull

  4 years ago
  Message board nostalgia is real. Welcome back. I like slowstrut better now than it used to be. People are nicer (myself included). Could be that I’m older, or it could be that now I … (more)realize how lucky I am that soulstrut is still here- a safe place away from social media that feels like home.  (less)

  

• Record Store Day 2020

  dizzybull

  5 years ago
  Nothing earth shattering but I was happy for my first trip out in a decade. In particular I was really happy to get the Howard Roberts record. And Tomita’s version of Claire de Lune is my … (more)favorite. And the Gary Burton record is mostly weirdo jazz but his version of Norwegian Wood is beautiful. And the Herbie Mann record doesn’t suck either, believe it or not. His version of “I’m coming home” is good. 

  
  

  I probably spent more than I should have and there were a few duds (not pictured). One of those Timmy Digalot RULES- just because it has the word “soul” or “funky” does not mean it will have soul or be funky. Even if there are Afros on the cover. 

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• Recent Finds

  dizzybull

  4 years ago
  
  

  Thes

  … (more)confirmed, and added that the first single from that album took the homage even further ( his words were “straight ripped it off” hahahahah)
  
  electrode you have an eagle eye, sir.  (less)

  

• Recent Finds

  dizzybull

  4 years ago
  

  Picked up another deodato because it was cheap. 

  
  

  I’m a sucker for covers of Bali Hai, and the David Carroll is loungey exotica greatness. 

  
  

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  Jack dejonette = cheap jazz breaks
  
  David Ruffin- I saw you when you met her is ill

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• Soul Strut 25. This is the End.

  dizzybull

  about a year ago

  Frank said:

  dizzybull said:

  This entire website should be preserved by the Smithsonian. It’s important, dammit. 

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  Nothing is important. The entire, regrettable story of humanity isn't more than a brief nightmare, this fucked up planet had to tumble through on its way towards the nearest black hole. Why should anybody care about what music we made? Why, of all that, the tiny fraction ever pressed on vinyl records? Why should it matter, how these records were bought, way past the official shelf life, by people who didn't have anything better to do at the time and then, gasp, posted about the experience on a message board that's been dead for more than a decade?

  If this sounds like hot shit, why doesn't anybody collect or "dig" for the most memorable threads and fill up the space in between with the basic knowledge needed for civilians to be able and follow? To be safe, better first run those "most memorable threads" by a non-biased group to see if there's really anything of interest. Maybe this doesn't leave much meat on a cancerous bone but with records drying up and procreation having turned out as a shit idea, hopefully for even the most desperate and hormonally challenged amongst the dumbest of fuckers, perhaps someone will make this their new hobby.

  *edit: hmmm... simultaneous post on the "other" forum by an alcoholic ex-record shop owner who seems like the perfect candidate. Brush that homeless beard to a shine Johnny and walk towards glory, even if it's just a hole in the wall.

  PS: Should have called me for rare Kung Fu flix, bet you didn't even have the Crippled Masters or Kung F**k in your collection, been digging for og vhs rears since 1986

  See? They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore. It takes me back, young lads. 

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• TOP 5 SOULSTRUT GRAEMLINS

  dizzybull

  7 months ago

  Electrode said:

  klezmer electro-thug beats said:

  I like

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  the story behind the salma hayek graemlin. Did it start when Monty Stark appeared on the board to join the discussion of Stark Reality? Or some other real life musician?
  

  Strutter by the screen name of Iron Monkey, who I believe was a musician other than a DJ.

  There was a trend where we would mention somebody and then they would appear on soulstrut. Monty was the first major “holy shit” moment. He did a search for his name and soulstrut came up. So the idea was if we typed Salma Hayek the same thing would happen. I don’t remember who the first was -I actually thought it was me but I was one of many Salma devotees so it could have been many people. 

  
  

  I should add that she never showed up. Somehow that plan didn’t work. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  I’m still waiting. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Salma Hayek!! Salma Hayek!!!!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  It could still happen. 

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• How to dig really deep into music genres?

  dizzybull

  2 months ago
  If it were easy to find it wouldn’t really be unknown, would it?
  
  also just scroll through the soulstrut archives. 

  

• [Looking for a Track] Zapp / Roger Troutman – Batman OST? very raer ;)

  dizzybull

  2 months ago
  I’m a federal employee. Have been for 20 years. I love my job and I’m awesome at it (which I should be after 20 years). 

  
  

  So let me have this thread where I can celebrate the

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  return of the real le toupt and zapp Batman songs that probably don’t exist. Don’t drag those other bastards into it!
  

  
  
  

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• ULTRAMAGNETIC DRUMS ID

  dizzybull

  3 months ago
  Hawkeye I’m still confused. Are you saying that Feelin’ it samples Poison? That still leaves the question of what Poison samples, right? Or did I misunderstand?
  
  either way, it’s funny to … (more)see this bumped after 17 years.  (less)