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Japan digging 2024
On my last time there (out of two trips in my life, no balleur) Nagasaki was cool, and we drove up the west coast to Hagi. All that shit ruled. Coastal walks, weird rest stops, not much else. A lot of totally impassible hilly terrain. Historical buildings to visit. Down in a random valley away from the coast was some museum of a petrified forest where you descend into an underground silo where they've dug out huge still-standing tree trunks and slowly resinized them so they don't rot. Hagi had an okonomiyaki joint manned by one guy, who self-styled as a samurai. I spent zero time looking for records outside Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka.Nagasaki itself was cool - Dejima, the Dutch district, was a tiny island in the city where the only foreigners allowed to land in Japan, the Dutch, were located - now it's an open-air town museum type thing. The atomic bomb museum is heart rending far beyond what you can put to words. I felt like it was better than the Hiroshima one but maybe I was just in a more receptive mood to utter downer material.Dunno, I wasn't the planner of these trips so I shouldn't say you can't find a place in Japan that is too boring to visit, but that's how it felt. -
Not only teh vinyls
dizzybull said:nzshadow said:Hi. Been a while.
P.S. Pap.That’s what’s up.
These days I mostly just try to collect memories. A bit of hiking and travel. A lot of reading and playing the piano at home.
Sounds fucked. Memories don't fill Kallaxes. Nor do they burden your relatives with a multi-year reselling ordeal when you pass. -
Collection strut 2024
Bandcamp has mixtapes! You can filter by format if you're just browsing. I have like four from Bay Area underground mainstay Luke Sick with 12 Man Rambo, series called Mobbulator. I get some of Weaponize Records' mixtape series as well, Funk Night Records' in-house mixtape series which they don't seem to be doing as much of now that they're releasing loads of LPs, along with random shit I picked up at the store (DJ Platurn's icelandic funk mix, random guys' beat tapes off bandcamp). Check bandcamp for new-release cassettes and be weirded out, like I was. Many you gotta be kind of quick though cause it's not a moneymaker for anybody - lots of runs of 50 or 100.I wish I had that Vadim though... -
Collection strut 2024
This year, along with my usual slow accrual of 45s, I am buying a lot of tiny-run DJ mixes on cassette because I am a sucker and/or mark. Perhaps even a buster. Getting a nice refurbed walkman on ebay was the gateway drug, even though I have a decent dual deck - 900 sq ft and two kids means I don't have a place to keep it permanently set up, so the walkman opened the gates back into tapes.And while I sympathize with the opinion that there's no reason to own music on tape as a format categorically, I think limited runs of weird stuff - DJ mixes and beat tapes with loads of uncleared samples, Drumetrics being Drumetrics, etc. - seem to be a sweet spot for me where I look past that. Like I still don't want to own (insert hip-hop classic here) on tape just to have it when there's 8 million ways to listen to it in better fidelity and convenience, but that kinda offbeat stuff kinda gets me. Mixes are also good for just chucking on. When I'm listening digitally I am constantly DJing for myself, switching songs and fiddling, and when I'm listening to records it's in one of two contexts only, relaxed living room listening or putting stuff on for the kids to jump around to. So tapes fit in a spot where I'm cooking or doing chores or walking where I can set and forget. If I walked around outside messing with my phone between each song like I do with digital music, that shit would get snatched anyway. A walkman would just confuse the guy on the electric bike enough for me to duck him. -
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