billbradley
billbradley
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You want BBQ sauce? Get the fuck out of my house.
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This is a "mailbox find" and wasn't something found in the wild but for me this is the huge white whale/holy grail that I've been chasing for a long time. 13 years ago @Mondeyano shared his first Boogie Mixx on SoulStrut. This was the opening record on that mix. It had been on the top of my wants list since. I had scored the purple text pressing that has the 10 minute extended instrumental mix but the sound quality of that pressing is no where near as good as this one. I felt so deflated getting that copy and never wanting to play it out because of the pressing quality.
Last week a book dealer posted this one up for sale. I made him an offer on it as fast as possible and he kindly let me know that he wasn't accepting offers. I don't blame him as this record has been fetching close to $1,000 or more for a while and my offer was just over his initial asking price. I set my sniper up and had no counter bids so I got it way under the current going rate. I was nervous that it wasn't going to be in that great of condition because it was visually graded and not play graded. That is likely why there were no counter bids. When the record finally came in the mail I inspected it closely. It looks like it had never been played before. There were no scuffs and no spindle marks. I believe it was given as a gift and then never played. Leroy Martin is listed as the producer and it has "Love, Leroy" written on it. So maybe it was from him to a friend. Either way, I'm ecstatic to finally have this green label pressing hard filed in my collection after getting outbid multiple times over the years.
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Recent Finds
I think it's pretty good. It's a lo-fi recording of a lounge band. They had a lot of energy. They do mostly cover songs but had a couple original tracks on the album also. The Joe Tex and Otis Redding covers are good, and their original tracks sound like psych rock with an organ player. It's different but in a good way. The cover of the Bee Gees song Words surprised me also. I don't really care for the Bee Gees but they improved the song. 4 out of 5 stars.
Bonus photo of the band:
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Recent Finds
Last night I bought 9 boxes of drum and bass records. There were about 100 soul, funk, and hip hop records mixed throughout the boxes. Here are a few of the better records.
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Recent Finds
Yesterday I bought around 5700 records. 3600 45s and 2100 LPs. It's mostly old country, classic rock, and 70s pop. I haven't had a chance to dig through it all yet. I'm excited to dig through the 45s. I have a feeling I am going to find some rare rockabilly records again.
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Recent Finds
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what's crackin' soulstrut???
Jimster said:There was a boogie scene in Amsterdam/Brussels around that time, according to the mixes I downloaded.
@Blastman you have to remember that 20+ years ago, streaming wasn't practical because the hardware under the internet just wasn't up to it. Realplayer was the first attempt to get reliable streaming but it was super lofi.
I can remember it taking like a minute to pull 1MB down. I worked in Dublin in 2001 and we were then right next to the Europe pipe. They hadn't blocked the network route properly so we had blazing speed, like 100M/second.
I was therefore downloading everything I could and among all the mix sites I found, the Strut had the craziest board.The first Internet Television was broadcast using Cu-SeeMe around 1994. My friend was involved in that and helped start InterneTV.com which later moved to RealPlayer. We did a live DJ broadcast on the site in 1995 and then started broadcasting weekly. After a fallout between the two owners of InterneTV a new site Blastro.com was created and I hosted weekly DJ stream called UltraSound there from around 1996-2001. At it's peak we'd have around 5,000-6,000 viewers a week. At the time that was pretty huge. Sites like CNN and NBC for example were just started to stream some videos and our site was streaming just about as much as they were.
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DJ Shadow Cassette Culture
This one?
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multi jungle/dnb vibez of all eras (raer-r)
I bought another drum and bass collection last night. 900-ish (9 boxes) of 12". I glanced at them before buying them but really haven't had a chance to go through them properly yet.
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Classic songs that you inexplicably hate
I really dislike ABBA - Dancing Queen. If all ABBA records were tossed into a fire I'd be ok with that.
